Bios

[Zick]

I tried doing a search for the best BIOS for my board but just about everything thread has a post in it that has the word BIOS so there was just way too many threads to try and read. Sorry.

 

 

Currently my board has the 2005/05/04 BIOS. I read that there was a Beta and Official one of this date but I have no idea of which one its using.

 

I see there are two newer BIOS's available and both being 2005/06/23 but one says its a Diamond Flash Image for BIOS. (no idea what that means)

 

Would there be any benefit to using these or no?

[red930]

Here download this and follow the instructions and you should be fine.

 

http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22031

[Zick]

Oh great, even more BIOS options.:eek:

 

So would Tmod's or TicTac's be better?

 

Anyone with experience with either of these?

 

 

Thanks for the link Mack.

[unleashed]

Both the 504 and the 623 are great bioses. The TicTac and Tmod bios just unhide the option for VDimm over 3.2

[Guest Blooz1]

I've used both of those bios's without any problems.

 

Just to clarify the high VDIMM mods a bit - they allow you to use a VDIMM over 3.2 provided you have a PSU with adjustable rails which can be set for higher voltages.

[Zick]

Cool, thanks guys.

 

And for the VDIMM part, when would I ever need to go that high? I've always ran mine at 2.6-2.7. How do you know how high you can take it safely?

 

Sorry for the noobish questions, I've been out of the loop on this stuff for a while now.

[Maarek_Stele]

Cool, thanks guys.

 

And for the VDIMM part, when would I ever need to go that high? I've always ran mine at 2.6-2.7. How do you know how high you can take it safely?

 

Sorry for the noobish questions, I've been out of the loop on this stuff for a while now.

 

It depends on your memory chips, most probably yours will work better from 2.5-2.7v (some uccc's acheive their higher clock at only 2.5v, not more). Follow your manufacturer specs to be safe, but understand that more voltage (even with good cooling) doesn't always equate to more performance.

If you were using very tight latency memory, high vdimm would be welcome. As an example, with sticks as mine based on winbond bh die, usually 3.3v-3.5v is needed for 250mhz 2-2-2-5-tight alphas. Old dies can withstand this kind of abuse 24/7 with proper cooling.

[Zick]

It depends on your memory chips, most probably yours will work better from 2.5-2.7v (some uccc's acheive their higher clock at only 2.5v, not more). Follow your manufacturer specs to be safe, but understand that more voltage (even with good cooling) doesn't always equate to more performance.

If you were using very tight latency memory, high vdimm would be welcome. As an example, with sticks as mine based on winbond bh die, usually 3.3v-3.5v is needed for 250mhz 2-2-2-5-tight alphas. Old dies can withstand this kind of abuse 24/7 with proper cooling.

 

Alright thanks. I just looked up my memory and it list voltage at 2.5-2.75. I don't think I'm gonna try going over that. I'd really hate to burn up some brand new memory. :cool: