Powering up tomorrow.... Anything I should know?

kirkster · 3 Oct 2007 at 20:43

Hi,
I have been building my system this evening but have had enough for the day - it was a very early start this morning. I intend on finsihing building tomorrow and will power up.

I have Gigabyte DS4, Q6600 G0, 4 Gig OCZ 6400XTC memory and GTS 8800/640. Anyone give me any guidance up front? I don't want to do any overclocking at all for a month or so but will I need to tinker with memory voltages/settngs etc? I am hoping I can leave it all on default but is there anything I should know?

I will be insatllng Vista Ultimate 64 bit. Any up fronters here guys?

Thanks

P.S. nervous.....

Cob · 3 Oct 2007 at 20:59

You might need to install Vista with just 2gb of memory. 4gb sometimes knocks the installer, and if it does, you'll need to install this hotfix once you get vista installed. It should be fine with 4gb, but bear that in mind just incase you get blue screens when installing Vista.

Whilst your memory should run fine on its default settings, you'll need to manually change the speed, timings and voltage to get it to run at its advertised settings.

You *may* also need to bump the MCH voltage to get 4 sticks to run.

kirkster · 3 Oct 2007 at 21:06

Thanks for the reply,

Yeah,I know about the Vista 4 Gig problem.

What speed, timings and voltage and whats a MCH? I set thes to hats on the box, overiding the M/B defaults?

Cob · 3 Oct 2007 at 21:15

The MCH is the northbridge and it sometimes needs a boost to run 4 sticks of memory.

If you're keeping the CPU at 2.4ghz, then you can set the Memory Multiplier to x3.0 to get the memory running at 800mhz, the DRAM Overvoltage to +.3v to get 2.1v, and the first four timings to 4-4-4-15 respectively. You'll need to hit Ctrl and F1 together on the main BIOS screen to unlock the timings in the overclocking menu.