Abit IX38 Quad GT - Living Review II - Page 6

System48 · #51 21-11-2007, 15:42

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Originally Posted by supershanks

May have spoken too soon about the Raid.
Have had two incidents where the raid verify was triggered, on both occasions results were:_

I had no errors at all on the gigabyte, so i'm wondering if it's connected to
Have deleted raid 5 stripe & going with raid0 will see how that fares. I just don't want these false alarms cutting in.

Would you mind trying something for me?

Disable the RAID setup and run HD Tune on each of the 80GB drives. I was recently a victim of the Asus P5K Premium motherboard and it's SATA issues, which still haven't been fixed. Let me know if there are any sudden drops in the transfer speed or if there is a sustained slow transfer rate. This was a supposedly isolated issue although Intel did get involved in trying to fix it, some people reported success with the 7.8 drivers but many other didn't. My ix38 will be delivered tuesday next week and I'm still a little nervous about the board although I'm only looking for a mild 3.0GHz overclock of the Q6600.

supershanks · #52 21-11-2007, 16:07

Hi System, thanks for that , may try it later. Welcome to the forum

Have just had to launch the lifeboat

Had been tuning my 491x8 biosd settings, had been in xp & run a great 32M Pi when it crashed. got into bios loaded defaults & there was nowt. No fanss, nothing.

So got the gigabyte out & have tested cpu & memory which are ok. Haver left Abit board with battery out while i did this.

Will retest abit again now.

supershanks · #53 21-11-2007, 18:49

Backup again pulling battery seems to have cleared whatever it was, that was a major dump

olliewbnn · #54 21-11-2007, 19:47

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Originally Posted by supershanks

Backup again pulling battery seems to have cleared whatever it was, that was a major dump

Having problems for the first time. Picked up a Kingston PC2-9600 kit today. D9GKX......
Cant run DDR600 @ 5-5-5-15. No matter what voltage !? Production date week 33 2007.

Now testing DDR550 @ 5-4-4-18 @ 2.45v, stable so far. They should do DDR600 @ 5-5-5-15 @ 2.35v

Anybody a suggestion ?
Voltages

vmch 1.60v
vdimm 2.45v
vichio 1.60
vcore 1.3875 to 1.4375
8*440 @ 3525

I can do DDR500 @ 4-4-4-15 @ 2.35v

Ive seen lots of people getting DDR600 with this mobo

supershanks · #55 21-11-2007, 21:19

Hi mate,
is it any easier on x9 multi, my 1200 was @9x400 1:1.5
I know what you mean though, I was just playing with 8x450 & couldn't hit 1:1.25 1125 which i expected but managed 1:1.20 1080 it seems very patchy.

supershanks · #56 21-11-2007, 22:19

CPU-Z Vaildation

Like olliewbnn found this seems to be the masx at the moment.
Though it does best the Gigabyte X38

Code:

ABIT IX38 QuadGT

OC GURU:
 
CPU OPERATING SPEED................ - USER DEFINE
EXTERNAL CLOCK..................... -   491  MHz 
MULTIPLIER FACTOR.................. - x 8 
# ESTIMATED NEW CPU CLOCK.......... - 3928    MHz 
DRAM SPEED (CPU:DRAM) ........... - 1:1 DDR2- 982
PCI EXPRESS CLOCK.................. - 105MHz 
 
VOLTAGE CONTROL:
 
CPU CORE VOLTAGE................... - 1.4875V 
CPU Core Voltage Offset............ - 0.0100V
Target CPU Core Voltage............ - 1.4975V
DDR2 VOLTAGE....................... - 2.175V 
CPU VTT VOLTAGE.................... - 1.5V 
MCH 1.25V VOLTAGE.................. - 1.55V 
ICH 1.05V VOLTAGE.................. - 1.12V 
ICHIO 1.5V VOLTAGE................. - 1.5V 
DDR2 REFERENCE VOLTAGE............. - Default 
CPU GTLREF 0+2..................... - 67%
CPU GTLREF 1+4..................... - 68%
 
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).......... -  30
WRITE RECOVERY TIME (TWR).......... -  3
WRITE TO READ DELAY (TWTR)......... - 3
ACT TO ACT TIME (TRRD)............. -  3
READ TO PRECHARGE (TRTP)........... -  12
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................ - ENABLED 
 VIRTUALISATION TECHNOLOGY.......... - DISABLED
 EIST FUNCTION...................... - DISABLED

Just tried 495x8 which posts but XP doesn't like. Upped MCH to 1.60 but the same.

supershanks · #57 21-11-2007, 23:15

Glowball this may help ??

VTT & FSB

The Graph gives you the approximate VCC / FSB lSo for 400 = 1.3v

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2) GTLs set to 66%-70% of VTT seem to be at the most effective point for "stable overclocking" of quad-core CPUs.

So try the above ranges. I started at 68% which is the middle of the optimum range specified.

Use Prime & Guru to test GTLRef.

Make a careful not of which core fails 1st. change the GTLREF for the failing +/1 1 unit.

Restart prime & repeat.

Hopefully you should get longer prime runs.