E6600/AB9 up and running

[Tarowah]

Well considering how bad the AB9 bios is I am pretty happy with this for now, I have my chip on Water and I have seen a high of 38* under load and 2.9Ghz seems to be more than enough power to play with untill Abit gets a better bios out to us.

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-3/980990/overclock2.JPG

[Evilsizer]

ok wth im using the non pro c4's and cant get my ab9 pro to oc at all. hell the uguru in windows doesnt even work.

[Tarowah]

Evilsizer I have the chip at 1066 Strap and the memory at 800, timings are set to auto, memory is at 2.1v.

I am going to play with the bios a little more and see if I can get a little more out of it, the chip seems to want more but I know little to nothing about this board and the bios settings, I was on a 478/agp system when I upgraded, so I have a lot of learning to do.

[Tarowah]

Ok it seems that the voltages are not holding for anything other than the Memory, this will be on hold untill Abit gets a better bios out I guess.

[Daleon]

Nice SuperPI for 3ghz.

[dicecca112]

board undervolts keep that in mind. But yes the bioses are crap right now

[Evilsizer]

well after a new install of windows the uguru works. which is the only way i can oc. so yay for 293mhz fsb..... hopefully the new bios will be out when i get of work tomorrow.

[dicecca112]

there is a beta one from XS, its attached

[Evilsizer]

there is a beta one from XS, its attached
well im getting a bios file size erro with flashmenu.

from looking at the other bios files at abit it should be some 480-500kb.

[Evilsizer]

well now im dling the correct file. so in a bit i will be updating my thread and hopefully using my C4's. if you want the file guys go to
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1650042#post1650042
see post #234 how to dl the real bios.

[greenmaji]

well now im dling the correct file. so in a bit i will be updating my thread and hopefully using my C4's. if you want the file guys go to
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1650042#post1650042
see post #234 how to dl the real bios.

you could add a link to your thread ;)

[Evilsizer]

you could add a link to your thread ;)
yea i will was just wanting to get this thing ocing asap. :beer:

[Tarowah]

Well wootage!!! a new Bios =), I was coming to post my results after tweaking a bit more, I will grab this file and tweak some more, thanks for posting it.

Here is a shot of my last attempt with the 11 bios.


http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-3/980990/340bus32msized.JPG

[Evilsizer]

did you use oc from bios and boot into windows at that speed? with bios 11 i could not boot into windows with a fsb of 275 or higher. with bios 13 i boot into windows with a 300fsb.

[Tarowah]

Yes I set the FSB in the bios and then booted.

[Evilsizer]

then how are you setting the bios. no matter what settings i try it does not boot past 300fsb for me. even with the pci-e speed at 100-106mhz.

[Tarowah]

I will go through my bios tomorrw and make a list of everything I have set, I dont remember the names of all the settings off the top of my head.


In a nutshell I disable all of the CPU settings, throttle, C1 etc etc, set the core voltage to 1.5v, memory 2.1, bump the chipset voltages up .1v, 1066 strap, 800 Memory and pretty much leave everything else on auto, I will have to look at it to get everything exact for you.

[Tarowah]

Ok here are the settings I have changed, other than the FSB of course.


N/B Strap 1066
DRAM 800
Core Voltage 1.5
DDR2 2.2
MCH 1.35
ICHIO 1.55


DRAM Timing Select By Spd



Limit CPUID Disable
C1E Function Disable
Execute Disable bit Disable
Virtualization tech Disable
EIST Function Disable.