F3-12800CL8D-4GBRM + Gigabyte X58A-UD3R BIOS Settings

[geakerson]

I've tried different settings on the forum here but the bios keeps resetting to 1066mhz. I heard that the X58 chipset is very ram sensitive. I've gone in and set the settings manually to 1.5v and 8-8-8-24 but it resets it on the next reboot. It then auto sets it to 1.5v and 1066mhz.

I read somewhere that unless you overclock an i7 920 it will not run any higher than 1066 on a Gigabyte X58 even with SPD or XMP. I don't mind overclocking it if that works.

Can you please post the recommended BIOS configuration for me?

[GSKILL TECH]

Where are you reading 1066? If it's set properly, it will either run with the proper settings, or it will not run at all.

Your BIOS should look like:

CPU Clock Ratio - 21x
QPI Link Speed - AUTO
Base Clock Control - Enabled
BCLK Frequency - 133
Performance Enhance - Standard
Extreme Memory Profile - Disabled
System Memory Multiplier - 12

Uncore & QPI Features
Uncore Frequency - 3200

DRAM Timing Selectable - Manual

CAS Latency Time - 9
tRCD - 9
tRP - 9
tRAS - 24

Enter these for the other three as well.

Channel A Timing Settings

Command Rate - 2

Advanced Voltage Control
QPI/VTT Voltage - 1.45V

DRAM Voltage - 1.640V
Rest to AUTO

Let me know how that goes.

Thank you
GSKILL SUPPORT

[geakerson]

Thank you. Seems to be working so far with the above settings. I did change a few items.

I set the timings to 8-8-8--24 since that is the spec on these dimms

CAS Latency Time - 8
tRCD - 8
tRP - 8
tRAS - 24

and I set the voltage to 1.44 since 1.45 was not available it is either 1.44 or 1.46

Advanced Voltage Control
QPI/VTT Voltage - 1.44V

I will let you know if this becomes unstable.

Thanks again

[geakerson]

QUESTIONS:

Load Line Calibration (Standard) Leave this?
CPU Vcore (Auto) Leave this as well?
QPI / Vtt Voltage (1.440v) Is this correct (anything above 1.360 is red)?
IOH Core (1.100v) Any changes to this?


I set the BIOS to this:

CPU Clock Ratio - 21x
QPI Link Speed - AUTO
Base Clock Control - Enabled
BCLK Frequency - 133
Performance Enhance - Standard
Extreme Memory Profile - Disabled
System Memory Multiplier - 12

Uncore & QPI Features
Uncore Frequency - 3200

DRAM Timing Selectable - Manual

CAS Latency Time - 8
tRCD - 8
tRP - 8
tRAS - 24

Channel A Timing Settings

Command Rate - 2

Advanced Voltage Control
QPI/VTT Voltage - 1.45V

DRAM Voltage - 1.640V
Rest to AUTO

[GSKILL TECH]

Load Line Calibration can be default
CPU VCore is fine on AUTO unless you overclock
QPI/VTT Voltage you can test for the lowest stable voltage, but yes it will need to be red (no problem)
IOH Core is fine on AUTO

Thank you
GSKILL SUPPORT

[geakerson]

Thanks for the reply. I got it working and everything is stable. I realized with this mobo you have to use slots 2 and 4 for a two dimm setup and I was using slots 1 and 2. My bad.