GA-P35-DS3L OC Time!

[SugarJ]

Originally Posted by BALISTX

Yes disable the CIA2 feature. I had this enabled when I had my DS3L and it was wrecking havoc on my OC.

So you are saying with the F7 BIOS the E8400 boots. Did you have any issues with using the @BIOS software?

Thanks BALISTX. Nope, no issues at all, except I had to dig out PS2 mouse and keyboard in order to log into windows on 1st pass. Then found USB KB option in BIOS and carried on from there. Installed MB drivers, installed @BIOS, followed onscreen directions, new F8a BIOS loaded in about 30 sec.

Gotta muck around with FSB/multipliers and see what memory speed multipliers are in this. I'd like to keep my memory "around" 800 for the time being, but want to see if I can hit 4 Ghz tonight. With coretemp reporting 34/35 at 3.7ghz (9x411), I think there's lots of room left.

[BALISTX]

With that board it should give you mem multiies of 2/2.5/3/3.5/4/4.5

You just want to figure out what you want to set your FSB to and your CPU multi to have thing as close to where you want it. Break out the calculator.

[BALISTX]

Running those PC2-6400 makes it more trickier if were running PC2-8000 or even PC-8500 then you could do the folllowing:

FSB: 500
CPU Multi: 8x
Mem Multi: 2 (1000MHz)

I think the closest you might get would be CPU 440x9 (3960Mhz) / Mem 440x2 (880MHz)

[SugarJ]

Originally Posted by BALISTX

Running those PC2-6400 makes it more trickier if were running PC2-8000 or even PC-8500 then you could do the folllowing:

FSB: 500
CPU Multi: 8x
Mem Multi: 2 (1000MHz)

I think the closest you might get would be CPU 440x9 (3960Mhz) / Mem 440x2 (880MHz)

You beat me to the punch. I think I gotta go to DDR21066 memory if I want to push past 4Ghz with this board. Damn. With my Asus P5N-E you could unlink the memory and FSB speeds, and set them individually(well it would set it's own multiplier to try to match what you wanted, but it had way more fractional mults like 6:5, 5:4, etc). Oh well, that was a $150 board, I paid $93 for this one. But I will try the 440x9 route, see how my memory likes it. Good thing my Spot Cool blows over my memory sticks too.

[BALISTX]

Yep. Those GSKILLS should be able to handle that OC.

[SugarJ]

Originally Posted by BALISTX

Yep. Those GSKILLS should be able to handle that OC.

I'll probably have to loosen the timing and raise the Voltage? currently 5-5-5-15 at 1.8V. I haven't done much memory OC'ing.

[3.0charlie]

5-5-5-15 at 2.0V, or even set the timings to Auto and 2.0V temporarely. Then start pushing them - 500MHz should be reachable. Once you have reach the max FSB for the CPU, it's now time to setup the Ram and tighten the timings.

[SugarJ]

Originally Posted by 3.0charlie

5-5-5-15 at 2.0V, or even set the timings to Auto and 2.0V temporarely. Then start pushing them - 500MHz should be reachable. Once you have reach the max FSB for the CPU, it's now time to setup the Ram and tighten the timings.

Thanks again for the input. Now I'm going to see if I can create the old blue screen of death. :)

[SugarJ]

Originally Posted by 3.0charlie

5-5-5-15 at 2.0V, or even set the timings to Auto and 2.0V temporarely. Then start pushing them - 500MHz should be reachable. Once you have reach the max FSB for the CPU, it's now time to setup the Ram and tighten the timings.

Set timings to Auto and 2.0V as suggested, BSOD at 445x9, random reboots at 435x9 and up. Upped FSB .1V. Currently at 430x9, been up Folding for a couple of hours. Memory reports at 5-6-6-16 to Cpu-Z. Cpu set at 1.3125V in BIOS, reported at 1.248 in Cpu-Z and 1.26 in EasyTune. Thats a lot of vDroop. I wonder if that's my problem.

Just checked my manual. :rtfm: (G)MCH is the NB voltage, I thought it was the FSB Voltage option. Back to the drawing board.

[sswilson]

What version of CPU-Z are you running?

The latest version (1.43 I think) is the first one that seems to report CPU VID properly with my DQ6.