Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R - Question - Cob?? :)

Pneumonic · 27 Jan 2008 at 14:57

Can someone confirm if these boards have options to control Static Read Control Delay on the RAM?

Cob · 27 Jan 2008 at 15:23

It'll be the Preformance Enhance option or summit (options are standard, Turbo and Extreme).

Rroff · 27 Jan 2008 at 15:48

It doesn't seem to make any odds to performance for me whatever I set that to.

Cob · 27 Jan 2008 at 15:49

Rroff said:
It doesn't seem to make any odds to performance for me whatever I set that to.

Which BIOS?

It should boost memory performance by anything upto 20%.

Rroff · 27 Jan 2008 at 16:04

Using F11 here - I read in earlier BIOSes the actual setting did nothing, tho was supposed to be active from F6 onwards...

My latency, read and write speeds as shown in everest are unchanged using the normal and extreme settings - not tried the middle setting.

Cob · 27 Jan 2008 at 16:06

Yeah it was activated during last summer.

Have you tested your memory bandwidth with it enabled and disabled? Both Memtest86+ and Everest show considerable gains for me with it on Extreme.

Rroff · 27 Jan 2008 at 16:08

Tho it might be due to the strap I'm on? (8x400) as I backed the memory timings to 4-3-3-8 (from 4-4-4-12) and it showed absolutely no difference whereas on my other PC doing the same gives a 2000+MB/s increase in read bandwidth and 10+ns drop in latency.

Pneumonic · 27 Jan 2008 at 16:25

ok thanks guys good to know its there

Also any ideas on the best BIOS to overclock with on this board?

Pneumonic · 28 Jan 2008 at 00:33

^^ anyone?

have read over 10 pages of the offical thread and all I can get is dont use F10

Rroff · 28 Jan 2008 at 00:54

Doesn't make much odds from my experience - I hit more than 500MHz FSB with F3 that the board came with and only edged up a couple more MHz or so since... just go for F11 if you have to update but theres not really much difference from F6 onwards.

Pneumonic · 28 Jan 2008 at 01:04

kk thanks very much for the reply

havent clocked with one of the P35 gigabytes yet.. but the P35 Asus boards are very much BIOS dependant

Faffer · 28 Jan 2008 at 09:48

I'm using F7 BIOS on mine and managed to get 470MHz FSB before my RAM started playing up. Knocked it back down to 450MHz and it's rock solid. Can probably get higher if I used less sticks of RAM or slackened the timings, but happy with the current settings.