arjo_reich

I think you misunderstood, I wasn't looking for a list of possible values... I was interesting in technical reading material (manuals, articles, etc.) that explains the entire concept of DDR RAM and how the timings and clock cycles work. Even if that means spending a couple hundred on a stupid EE course book on the topic - if there is one, lol.

holtzboy

It looks like we have a lot of the same components. I have the Cooler Master 690 case, UD3P, Q6600, 8GB of G Skill PC800 BPQ, TRUE 120 Extreme, Corsair HX620, WD6400AAKS, HD4850. I have 120mm Petras Yate Loon High speed fans on the TRUE doing push n pull, and 4 total 120mm Petras low speed fans for the case (2 top, 1 back, 1 front.) I cut out all of the stock fan grills and the plastic honeycomb crap in the case.

I am currently at 3.6Ghz and it idles at 28 and at load in Prime95 it gets up to 62. Would you mind sharing your settings at 3.8 and does lapping really help that much? I will post some screens and my settings in a bit.

Munchkinpuncher

Im psyched just got mine tonight, what an amazing price too.

By-Tor

This MB helped me hit 5.0 ghz on my e8500....

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Super PI: 9.297 sec.

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blee1149

I.648!!!! what is it without Vdroop?

By-Tor

I think I had it at 1.66v or the one just above it in bios...

Had the NB @ 1.48v

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Wife's 300d & 28-135mm
3D Mark 06: 23397
Super PI: 9.297 sec.

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Ledge68

I got my board installed last night and I have to say the layout is fantastic! I modded my case and did some real cable management for a change.

I am still getting use to the BIOS at this point but, I got a feeling that this board hates my Crucial Ballistic ram?? The best I can clock them to is 5-5-5-15@900Mhz. These same sticks did 5-5-5-15@1150Mhz in my Abit IP35 Pro?? These are the old D9's and they are 4x1gb sticks. Does anyone know of a good MCH voltage to get them to go higher? Or any other settings I should be trying? They boot fine and run in Windows on default voltage of 1.8v 4-4-4-12@800Mhz.

I have tried them at 5-5-5-15@1000Mhz with 2.220v, MCH@ 1.34v without any luck.

Thanks for any help.

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Ledge68

Another issue I have with this board is the Dolby digital sound control center does not work. I believe it's a Vista 64 bit conflict but, I am not 100% sure on that.

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godto

set your static read to 9 .. and even 10 .. that will help stable it

Ledge68

I am not seeing a option in the BIOS to adjust static read?

Edit: I found the settings and it helped a little bit but, not enough. I can run them at 4-4-4-15@890hz. Still nowhere near what they can do. Maybe I mixed up my sets of ram when changing board? I will test them one by one to see if maybe one set is lower binned?

+Rep

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