I plugged in all my equipement and it started up without any issues! Now upon entering the BIOS(version F7) I begin to ask myself...where are all the options???
Press Ctrl+F1 at the main BIOS page. This will give you all the memory options.
No memory tweaking options? Stupid memory divider system? Voltages are hard to read, besides the fact that they have a HUGE droop!!!
If I set my vCore to 1.45...I end up getting 1.41....and that will go down to 1.39 under load! So lets not
You may have the PC Health stuff enabled. You will want to go in a disable the following:
- Disable the CPU Smart Fan Control so your fan is running at max.
even discuss the other voltages setting options! And hot....no I must say
HOT that the NB gets....I burned myself! And that was on standard settings....nothing OC'ed yet!
This is normal. Get yourself either a aftermarket NB heatsink or a 40mm fan.
So then the overclocking part starts... The E6850 I have is not a real good one...it will run up to 3.850GHz on this board but is not real stable at that point. On my old 680i it did the same...but that boards is now on its way for a RMA session. 3.6GHz so far is stable but what I don't understand is, my temps remain nice and low...28C idle and 48C under Orthos load, so how come if it gets any higher than that it will not remain stable?
And what should I do to make my RAM run as fast as possible eg. 1150MHz under 5-4-4-8 timings without taking away from the CPU overclock?
If you want to run your memory above the rated speed of 1066 then if you set the memory multiplier to 2.5 which wiould give you 1125MHz with a 450 FSB or drop your FSB down to 400 set your CPU multi back to 9 and set your Memory multiplier to 3 which would give you 1200MHz for your memory.
Here are the rest of the settings.
Robust Graphics Booster: Turbo
CPU Clock Ratio: Default setting
CPU Host Clock Control: Enabled
CPU Host Clock Frequency (Mhz): Set to your desired FSB
PCI Express Frequency (Mhz): 100
C.I.A.2: Disable
System Memormy Multiplier (SPD) 2.5 or 3 depending if you have your FSB at 450 or 400.
High Speed DRAM DLL Settings - Option 2
DRAM Timing Selectable (SPD): Manual.
************** Standard Timing Control ******************
CAS Latency Time: 5
DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay: 4
DRAM RAS# Precharge: 4
Precharge delay (tras) 8
Keep in mind you may have to loosen your timings if it is not stable since you plan on OCing your memory.
The rest of the memory settings leave on Auto.
DDR2 Overvoltage Control
- This works on +0.1 for 1.9v, +0.2 for 2.0v, +0.3 for 2.2v, etc....