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Not bad for the price. My first concern is the .35 overvolt option on the ram giving a max 2.15 (correct?) That may limit some people. Whats the max vcore?

I like the board layout and looks (why cant everyone do a plain understated looking board?) and black cables are a bonus although it would be nice to see rounded IDE cables these days instead of ribbon type. I am happy they moved the lcd diagnostic but dissapointed they moved it to the backplate, I guess at least its accessable to everyone that way not just limited to those with a case window so all is not lost.

I hope you get more out of it WJA, is the q6600 a good clocker on a previous board - comparisons?

Nice mini review btw ;)
 
w3bbo said:
Not bad for the price. My first concern is the .35 overvolt option on the ram giving a max 2.15 (correct?) That may limit some people. Whats the max vcore?
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The Max Vcore is 1.58125 but because there is almost no Vdroop, I think that's probably enough for most people.

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The low RAM voltage might seem a bit low, but actually, there isn't much that won't run stable with 2.23V (the board defaults to 1.88V) - I've got some G.Skill 2Gb sticks coming so it'll be interesting to see how it copes with 4 of those!

w3bbo said:
I hope you get more out of it WJA, is the q6600 a good clocker on a previous board - comparisons?
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It's not as good as a Gigabyte P35-DS4 or DQ6. The CPU is totally stable at 3.8Ghz on those, and will run SuperPi at 4Ghz on the DQ6. The really good thing for me is how it recovers from a failed overclock - no messing about, it just comes back again at stock.
 
OK - This is the latest stable overclock - it's still well short of the sorts of figures I was seeing on my Gigabyte and Abit P35 boards, but were almost twice the price, so...

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I think I need much more chipset voltage, but if I use the 1.65V setting, the Northbridge heatsink heats up like crazy, so I think that's going to be the limiting factor as I'm not prepared to mess about with the heatsinks at this time - especially until the resolve the issue with SATA II.
 
WJA96 said:
I think I need much more chipset voltage, but if I use the 1.65V setting, the Northbridge heatsink heats up like crazy, so I think that's going to be the limiting factor as I'm not prepared to mess about with the heatsinks at this time - especially until the resolve the issue with SATA II.
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hi, WJA, for overclocking under 530FSB, I strongly suggest you to add only the "CPUFSB voltage" for 1-2 step max., and keeping the "Chipset voltage" @ default. and locked the FSB:RAM @ 5:6. and make sure you've checked the DRAM page is Manual but not By SPD, because sometimes after failed this page reset to "By SPD" and override your manual settings.

for Duo which easily get over 530FSB, may start to add the more @ "Chipset voltage". and recommend FSB:RAM @ 1:1 before advancing to 5:6.

please let me know the results with the above settings. this were my experience of running the Quad @ 445*9 (posted before), the same multiplier 9 I've tried. Good Luck dude.;)

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above: quad settings for 400*9 taken with camera...my 24/7 settings...
my old v1.0 bios doesn't show vcore correctly, please ignore it. PCI-E @ 110 is just my own preference...someone said 118 is the best.... :O
 
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not sure what the point is of increaseing PCI-e speeds, other than working around the odd bug on some boards... increasing the bus from 100 to 110 make for about 0.5% increase in framerate and even 130MHz barely hits 1% increase... just not worth it for the potential instability issues.
 
I have tried to manually key in the default timings but the menu options don't allow numbers high enough - the tRAS Precharge Delay only goes as high as 15 and my Crucial Ballistix needs 18 to stable at over 1000MHz.

Again - this seems to be a BIOS issue as the board correctly detects the SPD timing of 5-5-5-18 and sets it, but I can't set it manually.

This is also the case for some other numbers eg. Refresh Cycle Time only goes to 31 but my RAM isn'ts table at that.

The other thing I have noticed is that since I have started adjusting the RAM the machine no longer auto-recovers from a failed boot - I now have to use the BIOS reset jumper.
 
kenofstephen said:
above: quad settings for 400*9 taken with camera...my 24/7 settings...
my old v1.0 bios doesn't show vcore correctly, please ignore it. PCI-E @ 110 is just my own preference...someone said 118 is the best.... :O
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Is there any reason why you haven't upgraded to the shipping BIOS - v1.2?

I've tried messing about with the PCIe clock as well, but it doesn't seem to make any real difference.

One thing I have noticed is that I seem to get very inconsistent overclock speeds every time I boot. It's almost like the CPU clock generator isn't consistent.
 
WJA96 said:
Is there any reason why you haven't upgraded to the shipping BIOS - v1.2?

I've tried messing about with the PCIe clock as well, but it doesn't seem to make any real difference.

One thing I have noticed is that I seem to get very inconsistent overclock speeds every time I boot. It's almost like the CPU clock generator isn't consistent.
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because I don't need to, no special bugs annoying me...

edit: doesn't mean no bug(s), just nothing annoying me, they have to be found out.
 
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WJA96 said:
I have tried to manually key in the default timings but the menu options don't allow numbers high enough - the tRAS Precharge Delay only goes as high as 15 and my Crucial Ballistix needs 18 to stable at over 1000MHz.

Again - this seems to be a BIOS issue as the board correctly detects the SPD timing of 5-5-5-18 and sets it, but I can't set it manually.

This is also the case for some other numbers eg. Refresh Cycle Time only goes to 31 but my RAM isn'ts table at that.

The other thing I have noticed is that since I have started adjusting the RAM the machine no longer auto-recovers from a failed boot - I now have to use the BIOS reset jumper.
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:eek: I still haven't use the jumper till now.
 
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