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  1. 24-10-2006, 09:32 PM #1
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    Here's a neat little trick I just found..

    Okay, so I was having an issue with my Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-9 motherboard only running my Corsair XMS3200XL at 166Mhz.. Why?, because I'm using 4 sticks of DDR (yeah, I know, but it was bought over a period of time, and I can't justify the expense to re-buy 2*1024MB sticks)

    I had the ram set to auto speed in the bios to start with, but it was stubbornly stuck at 166Mhz (160Mhz according to cpu-Z), even after I changed the speed over to 200Mhz manually..

    What I didn't realise is that you need to press CTRL + F1 while in the main bios screen, and it opens up all the advanced memory settings, allowing you to manually set the 2-2-2-10 timings, which actually stuck this time!

    Hurrah, now I'm chewing through seti units much faster, and games are running a *lot* smoother now as well

    Just a chance skim-read of an old review, and my only problems with this rig are sorted
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  2. 24-10-2006, 09:36 PM #2
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    Always good when you find a little trick like that when messing around. get to play with my new board tomorrow I take it that is only wiht yor board or does that work wiht others?
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    I dunno, it might be any NF4 based award bios board, or it might just be the Gigabyte boards?
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    Im getting the DFI lAN party NF4 tommorow. Ill try it with that. either way good little trick to know.
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    Just Gigabyte who like holding out their RAM options
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    It wouldn't have been so bad if the bios just worked properly - I'm still running everything at stock!

    I'm sure an F10 bios would have fixed it, but they stopped releasing any bios updates for the board at the end of 2005..
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    Quote Originally Posted by HoldenBurn1000 View Post
    Im getting the DFI lAN party NF4 tommorow. Ill try it with that. either way good little trick to know.
    Haha, you don't need advanced settings with a Lanparty, it'll all be there in the standard BIOS. And let me know how noisy the chipset fan is pretty please.

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    Agh thanks alot im probly going to get a gigabyte board so this will come in handy as im not sure if i can get 2*1gb sets straight off
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    It is a gigabyte thing, that horrible ds3 that i had was the same.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NightshadowUK View Post
    Haha, you don't need advanced settings with a Lanparty, it'll all be there in the standard BIOS. And let me know how noisy the chipset fan is pretty please.
    i took my chipset fan off and put some arctic silver on it and now its a lot quieter cant really hear it at all now!
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    Quote Originally Posted by NightshadowUK View Post
    Haha, you don't need advanced settings with a Lanparty, it'll all be there in the standard BIOS. And let me know how noisy the chipset fan is pretty please.
    lol will do. hopefully it shouldnt be to bad. *fingers crossed.
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    This has been the same for a long time, my Gigabyte P4 Northwood board (ghastly model number, can't remember it at all) was the same. Not that it clocked well anyway


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