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1600 MHz Ram
« on: May 27, 2011, 04:12:40 pm »
I actually have several questions in reguards to the new Mobo (G1.Guerrila), but I would like some basic info in reguards to ram..

In reguards to the ram, I have entered BIOS and selected an XMP profile (1600 MHz).  Now Ive read that I need to OC just to use this speed, but it appears that this OC is done automatically maintaining AUTO settings? 

fyi ram is 8 8 8 24 (1.5 v.)  CPU 920 CO

Thanx Zip

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Re: 1600 MHz Ram
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2011, 08:28:31 pm »
Hi

Basically the only overclock is that of the memory speed and that is done under the XMP setting. There is no reason to touch anything other than this unless you have any problems.
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Re: 1600 MHz Ram
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2011, 06:17:16 pm »
thank you for the responce Dark,

I already did have some issues with certain programs like extreme hard drive, that I believe are corrected.

For now I really just want to eliminate any possible issues like QPI linkspeed being incorrect (sorry for poor terimnolgy if incorrect)  I might be incorrect, but shouldnt I be setting linkspeed to 36x for instance, and disabling C1E.   I do have pretty good cooling and would not mind a slight OC, but more for gamning performance (tighter timings etc. would be nice)

by chance do you have a link for me or could suggest a few settings?

p.s. this is my first mobo that allows making these type of changes, about all I know to do is write down my settings!




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Re: 1600 MHz Ram
« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2011, 07:23:50 pm »
Hi

If you are not worried about being "green" and having a higher electricity bill doesn't phase you then yes you can kill all the power saving modes and make the system run at full speed all the time. This will obviously also impact on the life of the CPU especially. Whiole I could just tell you a bunch of settings to make you are not going to learn anything from them. So I would advise you to do some reading up on the subject so that you understand not only what you are doing but why you are doing it.

Start here for info: http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/board,21.0.html
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Re: 1600 MHz Ram
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2011, 07:54:07 pm »
Thank you Dark!

I actually have some things to do,so I wont be ablke to respond back soon.  Basically I have seen a couple spontaneous reboots, and Im curious if I might have too many sound programs enabled/started.  Im running Win 7 and basically went about enabling EAX 5.0 etc, and now Im considering that this could in fact be causing the issue?  It appears from your responce that I should have little to no issue running the ram at said speed...

I just tried running BC2 again today and system bluecreened!  I really havnt done much but been surfing the net for about the last week (giving the tim time to set)  I did have an issue w/ punkbuster, but manually updated it.

This problem may be my own fault downloading and using some of the updated downloads as opposed too just installing everything from disc.  The reason I say this is that if its not sound related, it could be the killer nic driver (I dunno)

Zip

Re: 1600 MHz Ram
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2011, 08:03:25 pm »
Hey Dark

I just clicked Sound Blaster panel and "select audio device"  It had AMD HD Device selected, that may be my issue right there.  So anyway thanx for your help and I hope to look at this again tomorrow...

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Re: 1600 MHz Ram
« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2011, 11:13:23 pm »
I don't know what hardware you have but I expect that your graphics card is a AMD Radeon. If so the audio driver was probably the HD Audio on the GPU.
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Re: 1600 MHz Ram
« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2011, 03:32:57 am »
Hey Dark

yeah its AMD, but wasnt the problem...

Zip

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Re: 1600 MHz Ram
« Reply #8 on: May 30, 2011, 02:01:44 pm »
So did you find the problem then ?
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i7 3770K
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Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
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Re: 1600 MHz Ram
« Reply #9 on: May 30, 2011, 05:53:28 pm »
No Sir  not a clue really  I spent a few hours this morning going thru my router (figuring maybe it was stopping the game)  I had to do a reset and reinstall the software...

I uninstalled the AMD Audio, which was promptly replaced by MS drivers ( so I disabled them).

 I also disabled the feature to turn the monitor off, because it seems like the system will run the game for a specific time before the blue screen.

My video card has a factory OC in the bios, and AMD Overdrive shows the clocks but its locked.  Im gonna unlock and test/check the clock.

I also changed the setting to auto-reboot disabled, but really didnt see anything meaningful on the bluescreen.  Im probably going to try a clean boot and or reinstall the game.  I also emailed Antec asking what setting the CPU fan control should be set at, but no responce yet.  I have it set on auto, but really all it controls is the pump.  (havnt tried it with fans at max, because the chill software ramps em up as needed)

Do you have any suggestions to try?  I imagine it would be wise to try running straight from the modem to eliminate the router causing issues.

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Re: 1600 MHz Ram
« Reply #10 on: May 30, 2011, 06:19:11 pm »
Yes it is always a good idea to try and remove anything unnecessary from the equation.

Have you turned off all the Windows power savings features as well as the ones in the BIOS ?

You are not running a "Green" disk drive are you ?

You said you had BSODs. What was the stop code on them and was it always the same one ?
« Last Edit: May 30, 2011, 06:22:25 pm by Dark Mantis »
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy

Re: 1600 MHz Ram
« Reply #11 on: May 30, 2011, 06:25:01 pm »
No I havnt turned off anything except the Monitor shutdown after 20 mins inactivity ( I set it to never)

I believe it was just numbers, can I check event viewer and find the exact number or?  But yeah think its the same one each time

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Re: 1600 MHz Ram
« Reply #12 on: May 30, 2011, 06:32:37 pm »
I would advise you to turn off all the Windows power saving modes.

The code will be  a number. It will look something like STOP: 0x00000101
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy

Re: 1600 MHz Ram
« Reply #13 on: May 30, 2011, 06:51:05 pm »
Im going to have to write it down or something (if/when happens again) because I cant really find it..  Im going to disable Power saving modes in windows as suggested..

I did find this under administrative events" critical event 41 (system rebooted without shutting down) which I believe is more the result not cause, but has the number 0x8000000000000002 "

Im off tomorrow so can probably spend some more time challenging this issue.

Zip

Re: 1600 MHz Ram
« Reply #14 on: May 30, 2011, 07:37:45 pm »
Doh, I missed the part about disabling power saving features in bios.  Actually I have a WD black (sata 2), I actually was considering a raid 10 w/ 4 scorpios and a small SSD for my game...

Im actually trying to follow your guidance verbatim, just an fyi.  I guess Im a little tired, because I thought you was referrin to major changes in bios.  Everything is stock as can be except Im gonna change the power saving as advised...

btw I believe I recall seeing an error like ATI driver has stopped responding on my old system (but I didnt get a blue screen)  The game shut down and the driver reset.  This didnt happen like clockwork as Im seeing now though.  I guess I should probably uninstall /reinstall the video card drivers too, because I already uninstalled the game, planning to reinstall tomorrow.

Once again thank you for all the help so far Dark!