GA-965P-DQ6 F9 BIOS

[sruane]

http://www.station-drivers.com/page/gigabyte/ga-965p-dq6.htm

German version. According to the site:

1. Enhance FSB frequency flexibility
2. Fix OC für Allendale CPUen
3. Micron D9 1000 MHz 4-4-4-12 2.2V
3. Micron D9 1100 MHz 5-5-5-15 2.3V
3. Micron D9 1200 MHz 5-8-8-20 2.35V
4. Fix Kaltstart
5. Fix Vdrop in C1E Funktion
6. Neues Features ´High Speed DRAM DLL Setting´
7. Intel® HPET Support
8. FSB 1333 MHz support (Auto ab Rev.3.3)
9. JMicron ROM update
10. BIOS Profilspeicherung möglich
11. Q-Flash jetzt mit USB-Stick möglich

So - they fixed the FSB instability and added a feature to flash the BIOS from USB - no more floppy. I haven't tried it myself yet.

 

[sruane]

Ok - I tried it. The difference is just unbelievable. I'm running the FSB at 400MHz after adding 0.15v. Processor multiplier 8, which gives me 3.2GHz. Memory multiplier 2. Passes memtest and I'm running Orthos right now. Temperatures are good and so far its stable.

 

[sruane]

This is SO much better than any previous version I've tried (and I've tried F2, F3, F4, F5, F6, F7, and that abortion; F-eight). I took the FSB up to 429MHz before my RAM went stupid. I've tried processor multipliers 7, 8 and 9. I've tried various voltages on the FSB and vDimm. The F9 BIOS is really forgiving and usually I can recover from bad settings without having to clear the CMOS.

 

[papi4baby]

sweet i will try this once i get home. Nice find.

 

[mikeytjames]

This :twisted: BIOS :twisted: is without doubt the most unstable BIOS I have ever used. It fixes the boot issues but creates a very unstable system for me
Constant blue screens and program crashes. Sorry, but for me its a piece of crap 8O

See a more detailed explanation here about my experience with F9

 

[sruane]

Its on Gigabyte's site now:

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/BIOS_DownloadFile.aspx?FileType=BIOS&FileID=12573

 

[dwaleke]

I'm not having the greatest luck with the F9 bios either. The boot issue has been resolved, but Prime95 will fail anywhere from 8 minutes to 4 hours. I can run well over 12 hours stable with the F7 bios. The F8 bios is stable if it boots. Something definately changed with the F9 bios.

I have an E6600 with these settings:

CPU x8
FSB 400
OCZ rev 2 pc-6400 at 4-4-4-15 2.1v

MCH +.10
FSB +.15
Vcore 1.3875

 

[sruane]

I'm not having the greatest luck with the F9 bios either. The boot issue has been resolved, but Prime95 will fail anywhere from 8 minutes to 4 hours. I can run well over 12 hours stable with the F7 bios. The F8 bios is stable if it boots. Something definately changed with the F9 bios.

I have an E6600 with these settings:

CPU x8
FSB 400
OCZ rev 2 pc-6400 at 4-4-4-15 2.1v

MCH +.10
FSB +.15
Vcore 1.3875

I can't get my OCZ memory to run faster tha 5-5-5-12 (memory multipler 2) with the FSB at 400.

But for the other settings, I leave MCH alone, FSB +0.1, vDimm +0.2 and it runs just fine.

 

[lariva]

I have e6600 / week 27 and I cant push it higher then 350 fsb with 5-5-5-15 with corsair 8500c5. As someone mentioned - f8 bios was horrible, it autoset my memory to 5-8-8-23 and periodically turned my system off

BTW, do you realize that when you set memory to cas latency @4 / with fsb 400 you are asking D9 667 Mhz chip to cycle about 4 times faster then it was designed for (and about 1.7x faster then what OCZ sold you?)

Talking about latency of one tick @400Mhz vs @266....

 

[dwaleke]

BTW, do you realize that when you set memory to cas latency @4 / with fsb 400 you are asking D9 667 Mhz chip to cycle about 4 times faster then it was designed for (and about 1.7x faster then what OCZ sold you?)

Talking about latency of one tick @400Mhz vs @266....

My chips are rated from OCZ at 4-4-4-15 800Mhz @ 2.1v. So 8x400 with a 1:1 memory ratio isn't running them any faster than what OCZ sold them to me - right?