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Originally Posted by tanshen  hey guys, u all have such nice numbers with the ds3l board. But my q6600 G0 hits the fsb wall at 430 x 9. I have 4 sticks of ocz gold pc 6400. and my system is water cooled. I have my nb to +.3, fsb +.3, ram +.5 and pci locked to 100mhz. and my vcore is 1.57 in bios before the vdroop. anybody has any idea what's wrong with the board? How come I can't go over the 430? |
I wouldn't say there's anything
wrong with the board. Several suggestions: You might want to try upping the PCIe frequency.. start at 101MHz.. and try some variations(usually 117-120 is the upper safe limit). Also, try taking out 2 sticks of RAM..some boards don't clock as well with all 4 DIMMs populated, and since these boards only have 4 phase power-circuitry vs. some of the higher-end boards(6 and 8 phase)...it may be struggling a little. You didn't tell us what frequency you're running your RAM at,
and the timings...as well as the vDIMM. You should drop to a lower divider if you can(1:1...
2.0 in DS3L BIOS)... and loosen the timings to 5-5-5-18..and 2.1v or 2.2v(2.3..+5 is getting high). Another possible issue is the water-cooling. When you have a water-black on the CPU, there isn't any residual(spillover) airflow that will help cool the NB/SB... so if you haven't already, try some active cooling on the NB and SB... as well as your RAM(if it's getting warm). Lastly, you have to realize that not all CPU's are great overclockers... it could very-well be your CPU... quads(the best ones) top out ~470-480FSB, so i wouldn't count on getting that. If you want to find out if the chip will run a decent FSB, drop the multi to 6 or 7, and try 470ish(this will only work if your RAM will run at that speed). Oh, and if you're getting 430 with the stock multi(9)...that's 3870 MHz... not too shabby really. GL, and let us know how you make out.. and if anything helps.
Edit: I didn't see your post, Biff... i guess i was typing my novel when you posted.
