Abit IX38 Quad GT - Living Review II - Page 13

System48 · #**121** 30-11-2007, 20:35

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Originally Posted by Optimus

Heya fellow IX38 owners!

I'm new to the whole manual voltage/overclocking thing (and new to the enthusiast-class hardware really too)

I'm not sure where to start on my RAM voltage settings, different programs are throwing all sorts of numbers at me and what I put in BIOS doesn't seem to reflect what some of these programs are telling me.

All I know it that I can't run memtest for more than 1-5 minutes before I get errors and it BSOD/shuts down. Funny enough, the computer is perflectly stable running everything else, including playing some heavy games like bioshock and I don't normally have any other problems except when running these testing programs. Also a few voltage readouts in EVEREST are a concern to me. So, I would like an expert to look over some things please.

I'm running 4x1GB PC6400C4 GEiL DDR2-800 with "on sticker" specs of 4-4-4-12 & 2.1V with a Q6600 G0.

First small problem. I enter 4-4-4-12 in BIOS and EVEREST and CPU-Z tells me it's actually in 4-4-4-18. So, I put 4-4-4-6 in BIOS and then CPU-Z and EVEREST tell me it's in 4-4-4-12 - Is that a BIOS error, which is telling me the truth, software or hardware? - I wasn't sure so I set it manually back to 12.

Anyway onto the voltages;

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CPU OPERATING SPEED................ - USER DEFINE
EXTERNAL CLOCK..................... - 340 MHz
MULTIPLIER FACTOR.................. - x 9
ESTIMATED NEW CPU CLOCK.......... - 3064 MHz
DRAM SPEED (CPU/DRAM)........... - 1:1.20 DDR2- 816 
PCI EXPRESS CLOCK.................. - 100MHz

VOLTAGE CONTROL:

CPU CORE VOLTAGE................... - 1.2625V
CPU Core Voltage Offset............ -0.00 V
Target CPU Core Voltage............ - 1.2625V
DDR2 VOLTAGE....................... - 2.10V
CPU VTT VOLTAGE.................... - 1.20V
MCH 1.25V VOLTAGE.................. - 1.25V 
ICH 1.05V VOLTAGE.................. - 1.05V 
ICHIO 1.5V VOLTAGE................. - 1.50V
DDR2 REFERENCE VOLTAGE............. +10mV
CPU GTLREF 0+2..................... -67 % 
CPU GTLREF 1+4..................... - 67%

ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES:

DRAM TIMING SELECTABLE............. - Manual 
CAS LATENCY TIME (TCL)............... - 4
RAS TO CAS DELAY (TRCD)............. - 4
RAS PRECHARGE (TRP)......... .......... - 4
PRECHARGE DELAY (TRAS).............. - 12
REFRESH CYCLE TIME (TRFC)........... - Auto
WRITE RECOVERY TIME (TWR)......... - Auto
WRITE TO READ DELAY (TWTR)........ - Auto
ACT TO ACT TIME (TRRD)............... - Auto
READ TO PRECHARGE (TRTP)............ - Auto
COMMAND RATE....................... - 2T 
PCIE Root Port Function............ - V1.0A
PEG FORCE X1....................... - DISABLED
INIT DISPLAY FIRST................. - PCIEX

ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES / CPU FEATURES:
C1E FUNCTION....................... - DISABLED
EXECUTE DISABLE BIT................ - DISABLED
VIRTUALISATION TECHNOLOGY.......... - DISABLED
EIST FUNCTION...................... - ENABLED

That tREF value of 3120T is not a typeo

Try setting your DRAM divider a little lower to get it under 800. I know 16 over isn't much but quad kits seem to be very picky.

Clunk · #**122** 30-11-2007, 20:49

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Originally Posted by supershanks

Hard choice

supershanks · #**123** 30-11-2007, 21:57

@Ademcg

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Time to remove the additional two sticks and see if it can get there with the first two.

Yep i think it's easier to stabilise on 2.

SuperPi v1.5Mod

Best spill it down yer throat it is Friday night

@Optimus - Welcome to the forum

I'd folllow System48's advise. Looking over your settings you might try :-

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CPU VTT VOLTAGE.................... - 1.20V ---> 1.30v

luck

Ademcg · #**124** 30-11-2007, 22:48

OMG....managed to burn an ISO of latest memtest86.
Booted up and immediately it hung and rebooted on the first stick.

I thought I was doing something wrong, so I let it reboot into memtest86 and it did the same again, lots of error messages, followed by system reboot.

Sorry they are so blurry...beer and needing fast reflexes don't go together

The third [of the 4] is testing on test 5 as I type...so far almost 30 mins passed, no errors....then will try test 8 for 30 minutes and try the final stick...jeeez no wonder I am getting nowhere fast, duff PSU and Duff RAM...I sure know how to pick 'em !!

supershanks · #**125** 30-11-2007, 23:25

Beginning to think you've something in common with clunk, thought he was the unluckiest guy I knew.

Hope you've got enough drink for the night, looks like it may be a long one

Ademcg · #**126** 30-11-2007, 23:38

aaahhhh, its wierd though, my second stick, passes test 5 and 8 in memtest, but if you try to do the whole bunch of tests to start, it freaks out just like the sticks pictured above.

I guess I will have to try the other "bad" sticks again just on tests 5 & 8 too....I wonder what is wrong ?