jriker1

When you are talking about voltages, are you talking about what it is set in the BIOS or what the CPU is seeing? I found even with the F8 bios which lessened both VDrop and VDroop, the final voltage required by the CPU itself will always remain the same which means your temps will be the same at the core. Not sure if setting a lower voltage in the BIOS to obtain the same voltage you had previously to the CPU makes any difference elsewhere though.

JR

GigaByte

No it does not make a difference, same volts going to the CPU will yeild same OC and heat output. As for the new CPU loadline calibration it does do a difference, a good one. I had a very tiny vdroop of 1.280v idle to 1.264v load, now with this new feature the vcore does not budge at all, it just sits a 1.264v Shaved off 1c off idle temps.

Nothing is better than stable power, I love this feature. GIGABYTE does it again

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jriker1

Whatever makes you sleep better at night. I did notice more stable power, however it didn't change the amount of voltage the CPU needed at load. Perhaps it made a difference for you in some way, however for me, although the voltage setting is much lower in the BIOS, what was required at the actual CPU was the same. Chances are your 1C drop is ambient temp changes, however perhaps not.

JR

Mr.Bones

Just a heads up on the F9 bios.....There may be a problem?
Read.....page 73 post#1823 and on from there.I cant confirm just yet but im going to test this for myself

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...142340&page=73

GigaByte

That poster has faulty RAM and/or northbridge or even board in general. There is a few people with the same RAM and don't get any memtest errors. Since he said he tried 3 sets I would guess hes got a bad board.

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Mr.Bones

Well mine failed memtest,Have you by chance tested yours to be sure? Back to F8 for me

jriker1

I can confirm this. Use F9 bios and I was about to have OCZ replace my memory as all the tests were coming back with failures. Go back to F8 and everything is golden. Looks like F9 is a bust. Seems to have exposed settings in the BIOS for features they implemented in F8, however those features were already enabled in F8 so F9 doesn't really do anything overly useful other than introduce a major bug.

If you also have this memory problem with the F9 bios, which I think everyone will from what I have been hearing, please report your complaints to the below thread I started on the official Giga-byte forum:

http://forums.tweaktown.com/showthread.php?t=25765

JR

GigaByte

Memtest stable for 12 hours with Kingston value RAM thats dying slowly.. but its stable. They just aren't clocking as high as they once did unless I sky rocket the vdimm. I just hope my new OCZ 4GB kit works well.

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ChrisB17

Gigabyte are you using the F9 bios? How is it working out? I have it and it works well I dont no what the other guys are talking about.

GigaByte

Been using F9 since it's release, no problems so far. They could have unlucky boards, there could be a bug with F9 bios and their specific type of RAM, their RAM could be going, the northbridge may be going, or we just got lucky boards. Could also be misseated components. The list goes on.

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