MCBrown.CA

So whats the consensus on LLC with 45nm quads? With LLC disabled vDroop is huge at 0.38v, so I'd have to go way over 1.4v in the BIOS to get in the 1.37-1.39v range.

With LLC enabled vDroop is less than 0.1v. Seems like a no-brainer but I'm not 100% sure...

I finally got my rig all set up and I'm busy reading this whole thread from page one, lol.

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Robilar

I'd say stay away from it (memories of a fried E8400 still haunt me). There is speculation that recent board releases provide more stable LLC but I have not seen any proof to validate that.

MCBrown.CA

Hmmm.. K actually its worse than I thought, a lot worse.... With vCore set to 1.38125v in the BIOS the idle vCore is 1.34v but when the CPU is loaded with OCCT or Prime it droops to 1.28v! Crazy.

So then is it safer to set the vCore in the BIOS higher than 1.4 as long as the software readings (HWMonitor, EasyTune) don't go above 1.4v or run LLC enabled?

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arjo_reich

My ACHI BIOS loads are under 3-5 seconds using the 7a BIOS.

I also disabled the serial, printer ports as well as disabled the PATA support... and typically there's a little zipper boot times with that as well.

Beyond that, um, seriously, grin and bear it, outside of your O/C boot-cycle how much does it really matter. Longer boot times give you more time to grab a soda and talk smack to the guy next to you at the LAN party.

Yomny

whats the ACHI bios?? I know this board is suppose to have back up bios just in case the first one fails, is it related to that.

blee1149

ok, going to flash tonight
If I flash, should i use stock clock settings just to be safe?

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N1ESE

It's actually AHCI and not related to what you are talking about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AHCI

Yomny

so this really doesn't pertain much to OC it just has to do with SATA or raid. Is it best to have it enabled or leave it as it is default.

N1ESE

If you don't have hot swappable SATA drives or anything else that needs AHCI, leave it disabled. Just note that if it is enabled, and you are running something like XP, disabling it will require you to reinstall the OS.

arjo_reich

*always* go back to your stock settings before you flash a new version of the bios. It's not unheard of for BIOS versions to have changes in how voltage regulation happens and all of a sudden what was your 1.47v is now 1.58v and ....phhfft.

This goes doubly-so for beta revisions...