Whichk BIOS for TCCD / A64 3200+ Venice E6?

[noxman]

Hello!

 

I'm very new to my new DFI Board (I will get it soon, as my first board was defective).

 

I've got two questions:

 

1. What BIOS is recommended for 3200+ Venice E6 with G.Skill F1-3200DSU2-1GBLC (TCCD)

 

2. What timings should I use at 200Mhz (stable and fast, which will work in any case with my memory modules)

 

 

Thanks for answers!

[Boppo]

You are probably best served putting the latest official BIOS on the board(6/23-3).

 

For RAM timings, Hynix chips tend to give people problems with DFI boards.

[noxman]

sorry - I didn't change my signature yet.

 

I now have G.Skill F1-3200DSU2-1GBLC (2x 512 Samsung TCCD)

 

 

for these memory modules, is there a different BIOS Version recommended? Which timings should I use at 200Mhz?

 

Thanks for any help!

[supershanks]

Bios 623-3 will be good using orange sockets

timings look pretty similar to other extreme series g-skill F1-3200DSU2-512LC / F1-3200DSU2-1GBLC I found TCCD DDR600+ DFI nF4 Ultra/SLI guide a good primer, my rig booted 1st time @240x11 using kakaroto's settings 4 the dfi. kakaroto is a g-skill rep.

 

luck

[belew]

I would use 704-BTA

[noxman]

I finally achieved the following stable settings:

 

BIOS: 623-3

 

RAM: 275Mhz

LDT Ratio: 3.0

CPU Ratio: 9.0

 

RAM Timings:

 

Vddr: 2.7v

Tcl: 2.5

Trcd: 3

Tras: 6

Trp: 3

Trc: 9

Trfc: 12

Trrd: 2

Twr: 2

Twrt: 2

Trwt: 2

Tref: 4708

Twcl: 1

 

Bank int.: Enable

Skew control: 255 Increase

Drive strength: 7

Data strength: 2

Max. Async: 7ns

Read Preamble: 5ns

Idle Cycle: AUTO

Dyn. Counter: Enable

R/W Bypass: 16x

Bypass Max: 7x

32Bit Gran.: Disable

 

But in Sisoft Sandra, I cannot achieve the Memory Bandwith which was achieved by kakaroto (link: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=57317)

I get something about 6900 in both cases, not 7200...

 

Is that because I've got a SLI-DR and not an ULTRA-D? Or because of the BIOS?

[EdLSmith]

You can try some more tweaking. This is a slow process, very time consuming.

Change only one item at a time. Load system and test , then make more adjustments to same until you are stable, then move to next item to tweak. I can see several that can effect bandwidth and stability. These are Skew Control,Max Async, Bypass Max,Drive Strength, R/w Bypass, twrt, trc & trfc.

 

Of course 6900 is pretty darn good. If you find it acceptable.