How do I overclock memory in Gigabyte EP35-DS3R?

You are correct the Vista performance numbers have little "TECHNICAL"
value. I'll qualify your statement to mean they are not good
indicators of true performance.

However, I will have supreme bragging rights at the office to say my
home made PC has 5.9s across the board. This will be golden!

I've gotten a copy of memtest burned on a bootable CD. I want to
follow your advice and let memtest run for hours, so I'll do these
tests overnight.

Thanks again,
Julie




On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:28:36 -0400, "Phil Weldon"
<not.disclosed@example.com> wrote:
>_____
>
>While you are figuring out how to post your cpuz-id reported information
>(which must be in TEXT only, not any kind of screen capture), be aware that
>almost any middling performance desktop system made in the last 18 months or
>so will get 5.8s and 5.9s on the Vista Performance Score, and that there is
>no higher rating than 5.9. This makes the Vista Performance Score fairly
>useless.
>
>As an example, I have 32-bit Vista Home Premium system with 2 GBytes of DDR2
>800 (PC6400) memory, NOT overclocked; the Vista Performance Memory Score is
>5.8. The same system, with DDR2 1066 (PC8500 memory, overclocked to DDR2
>1200 (PC9600) gives a Vista Performance Memory Score of 5.9. More useful
>performance tools show the memory performance gained from the HUGE memory
>clock increase from DDR2 800 to DDR2 1200 to be only a few percent.
>
>On the other hand, overclocking your Q6600 from 2.4 GHz to 3.2 GHz will show
>a system performance increase of 20% or more, while your Vista Performance
>CPU score changes not at all.
>
>My recommendation is to leave everything as it is until you run into some
>REAL performance barrier and/or until you use and understand more useful
>performance analysis tools SO THAT YOU CAN ACTUALLY DETERMINE INCREASES IN
>PERFORMANCE. SySoft Sandra (the free version) would be a good tool for a
>start.
>
>
>Another example of the uselessness of the Vista Performance Scores: on a
>PCI-e system, a $200 gaming graphics card and a $800 gaming graphics card
>will both get a 5.9.


>
> Phil Weldon
>

5.9s across all performance tests by Vista x64!
WOO-HOO!!
I can brag...

Followed your advice, and let memtest run 2 passes while I was at work
today. No errors.

I also DL'd SiSoft Sandra, soon I'll look at other better performance
marks.

Thank you for your help!

Julie


On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:57:46 -0400, Paul <nospam@needed.com> wrote:

>none@mymail.com wrote:
>> Thanks,
>> I tried posting screen capture jpegs of the cpuz-id windows, but I
>> can't here for some reason. How can I get the images of the cpuz-id
>> info to you?
>>
>> Julie
>>
>
>Interesting. My AIOE server got a total of about 58 posts
>from you, with what looks like base64 encoding. On
>Motzarella, the server seems to have done the right
>thing, and turfed all those attempts at picture posting.
>And Google didn't archive them either. Good for Google :-)
>Got something right for a change.
>
>There is some info on P35 here.
>
>http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2991&p=2
>
>At FSB1066, the P35 will support DDR2-800 and DDR2-1066.
>
>Section 2.9 of your manual, shows the "MB Intelligent Tweaker".
>There is no mention in the manual, whether you need to press
><control> <F1> to gain access to that panel, or whether it is
>visible in the BIOS in a normal fashion.
>
>In the MIT BIOS screen, the CPU clock can be set to manual
>mode for tweaking. But your question was about memory, so
>we'll go straight to the memory thing.
>
>You need to adjust the memory frequency. The memory frequency
>is grayed out in the manual page, implying the System Memory
>Multiplier has to be put in a manual mode. You need to adjust
>it to DDR2-1066, which is slight higher than the memory is
>rated for. The rest of the settings, for timing, could be
>left at Auto, and the BIOS will work out the proportional
>values for CAS, tRCD and so on.
>
>Further down, there is "DDR2 Overvoltage Control". You say
>the memory is rated for DDR2-1000 at 2.0 or 2.1V. You can
>set the Overvoltage Control to +0.2V, as 1.8 + 0.2 = 2.0V.
>
>Save and exit, and see if the BIOS comes back on the next
>POST. *Don't* boot into Windows. Prepare a memtest86+
>test floppy or test CDROM, from memtest.org . You should
>run a couple full passes of memtest86+, before considering
>even booting into Windows. Another test I like, after
>running memtest86+, is to boot a Linux LiveCD, such as
>Knoppix or Ubuntu. Either of those Linux distributions,
>is capable of booting the OS, without a hard drive being
>connected or present. And that allows testing, without the
>possibility of corrupting the hard drive because the
>memory is faulty. I've even downloaded the Linux version
>of Prime95 from mersenne.org , as a means of testing the
>CPU at 100% loading. Even with the single threaded version
>of Prime95, you can create four separate directories with
>Prime95 in it, and execute a copy from each folder,
>giving four copies. Each one is set to use 1/4 of the
>total memory. That gives both the CPU and memory, a
>good workout. If no errors are reported after a
>few hours, then it is probably safe to boot to Windows.
>
>HTH,
> Paul

none@mymail.com wrote:
> I got a Gigabyte EP35-DS3R/Q6600 2.4 ghz in March, which I'm very
> happy with. Vista x64 rates a 5.9 on every measure, except a 5.6 on
> memory.
>
> Memory is G.Skill, the package is marked:
>
> F2-8000CL5D-4GBPQ
>
> DDR2-1000 PC2-8000
>
> 2048 x 2
>
> CL5-5-5-15 2.0~2.1V
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> Julie

Check here http://www.clunk.org.uk/forums/overclocking/

a smallish community of helpful hardcore overclockers that I frequent.

les...

On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:34:23 +0100, Les Matthew <lesmcdm@clara.co.uk>
wrote:

>none@mymail.com wrote:
>> I got a Gigabyte EP35-DS3R/Q6600 2.4 ghz in March, which I'm very
>> happy with. Vista x64 rates a 5.9 on every measure, except a 5.6 on
>> memory.
>>
>> Memory is G.Skill, the package is marked:
>>
>> F2-8000CL5D-4GBPQ
>>
>> DDR2-1000 PC2-8000
>>
>> 2048 x 2
>>
>> CL5-5-5-15 2.0~2.1V
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Julie
>
>Check here http://www.clunk.org.uk/forums/overclocking/
>
>a smallish community of helpful hardcore overclockers that I frequent.
>
>les...



Thank you, I will.

Julie.