So much for 1:1 fsb:dram ratio being the best - Page 2

PangingJr · Mar 16, 2008, 03:22 AM

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Originally Posted by ChaosMinionX

Get a maximus formula, and flash it to a rampage formula....you will like what you see.

well i just changed my mind again i have a good relationship with Gigabyte board for now.
i actually thought about not buying another Gigabyte board around this time, 3 of its BIOS's came out no good in the last few months.

i think i know about the Asus board, its overclockability, and the rest of their good ones, and all. i am not blind, i just don't like to pay too much into something that i won't use it long (i've to pay quite a bit more than you for Asus boards).
i will want to play with a new board again when P45/ICH10R chipset is out. right now Gigabyte is cheaper, the Intel ICH RAID on Gigabyte board never fails me at all, this is another thing that makes me like using Gigabyte's, and the rest still gives what i need and it is a quite exceptional.

**ChaosMinionX** · Mar 16, 2008, 04:00 AM

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Originally Posted by kris23

should i flash mine?

well....it voids your 3year warranty should you kill your board. So if your feeling daring sure, or if you can afford to replace it.

If none of the above, dont do it

**kris23** · Mar 16, 2008, 10:10 AM

cant i flash it back?

dipstick · Mar 16, 2008, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Neshi

A little free time is all I need before I push my cpu to a 3.6ghz

But as this thread is about memory, I just want to put in a little question.
what is better, pushing latencies as low as possible on, lets say 800mhz sticks, or getting as high Mhz as possible without loosening the latencies too much?

and what about the "secondary" latencies? How do you know how low they can go or is it so negligible (only important for synthetic benchmarks) that it is best left on "auto" and you just mess with the five normal ones. (like the 4-4-4-12-2T)

i would go for the faster ram but I would also try to keep them at a 5-5-5 at the most. Out of all the timings I would say that tRD is the most important but that comes down to the board itself and the ram. of course the best is fast and low latency ram but that is the worst for the wallet.

@Kris. I say its worth the flash. There is tons of info here and there is now even a way to go flash back in case you have to rma(though depending on the reason to rma it will be tough if the board is dead lol). You can also find the 0219 bios in there which is very nice and not available from asus yet.

PangingJr · Mar 16, 2008, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by ChaosMinionX

@ Pangingjr

You could probably get more performance out of your RAM by lowering the FSB and tuning the TRD more.

is this one better? well i think my board is still working okay.

PL7 at 526 FSB

**ChaosMinionX** · Mar 16, 2008, 02:18 PM

Much better

**kris23** · Mar 16, 2008, 02:36 PM

thats alot of MBs a second.... so CMX, cant i flash the BIOS back to Maximus if i find something isnt right with the board? as long as it isnt completely dead?

PangingJr · Mar 16, 2008, 02:52 PM

i could hardly get a PL8 last week, as you can see the Copy results on the far above one were not so good, and i don't add FSB voltage at all this time, just add MCH +0.3 (1.55V).
this board is like 2 years now i can't remember, lol, but it has been booting with different CPU's and RAM's clock speeds, with 4 or 5 CPU's now, many memory kits, all kind of clock speeds for like 1000's of time booting this board. i guess or i know i just get tired of using it and want a fresh chipset board.

**ChaosMinionX** · Mar 16, 2008, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by kris23

thats alot of MBs a second.... so CMX, cant i flash the BIOS back to Maximus if i find something isnt right with the board? as long as it isnt completely dead?

There is a way to flash back to Maximus, but it causes your windows install to go bad

PangingJr · Mar 17, 2008, 05:09 PM

i found the Everest results (the last pic) a few days ago, the result is from an Intel X48 DDR3 based board and the system is configured using a high memory clock speed, and i just want to compare it. then i thought about this thread.

my system CPU's runs at same clock speed (same CPU FSB and CPU multi. 516x8) with the DDR3 system, and configured with different memory multi/memory ratio.
all of the memory timings were set in BIOS, the Performance levels were auto assigned by motherboard's chipset.

CPU FSB : DRAM
1:1 vs. 5:6 (1:1.20) vs. 4:5 (1:1.25) vs. 1:2.00 (DDR3)

1:1

5:6

4:5

DDR3 - Foxconn X48 BlackOps, DDR3-2000+ CL7,