The Official 915P Thread post your results!

[althes]

Just received the GA8I915P Duo-A board, be back in 30 minutes with a beginning of the review.

[malte]

wee!

[Crankster]

Good luck... For intels sake i truly hopes it packs a punch.

[althes]

First the bios
vdimm as usual only goes up +.3v
Cpu volts go from .8375-1.6v
pci-e goes up to +.3v(need a pci-e card to test that)
c.i.a2 there oc utility I am just using cpu host clock control.
Test system
8I915P Duo A
2.8E stock cooler
2*512 adata pc4000
jaton nvidia card just for now, prepping my 9800pro for testing.
Antec 480watt psu and about 3 case fans

[Rabbi_NZ]

does that board support DDR2?

[althes]

The board supports both ddr2 and ddr1.

[althes]

here are some tests at stock, ask what tests you want.

[althes]

sandra tests at stock

[Blaster]

sorry m8, but thats not very xtreem

[althes]

The board has 4 sata ports i can use raid 0, 1, 0+1 and jbod.
It also has 1 ide port and 2 via raid ports only.
2 gigabit ethernet ports.
alot of usb ports
1 pcie 16x slot
2 pci e x1 slots
1 agp slot
2 pci slots

[Rabbi_NZ]

throw in some Micron or Crucial PC4300 DDR2 and see how high you can get the FSB

[althes]

Never expected gigabyte to be extreme, but this is the first few tests so just hold on.
CPU runs at 45c at stock. My antec psu is really hot.hmmmmm

[althes]

Originally posted by Rabbi_NZ
throw in some Micron or Crucial PC4300 DDR2 and see how high you can get the FSB

Ok will get those sticks next week.
Right now I have the adata and some hyper x bh5 sticks 3200 sticks to use.

[althes]

just ran 3dmark, not a bad score for stock

[althes]

It seems that the higher you go in fsb the board automatically lowers the timings.

[althes]

Any ideas people. I am currently looking into the bios to see if it can be changed.

[novagamer]

Try using clockgen or something.. might be able to keep your timings then

[althes]

upped the fsb to 230 and gaing 170points in 3d01

[EmineM]

nice althes, could you send a newegg link to that board, cant find any Gigabyte board except the i865PE one with AGP!

oh and please run super pi at the max overclocked settings you can do.

[althes]

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...128-248&depa=0
Will run super pi now

[althes]

no clockgen for this board.
It definitely needs a vdimm mod. It overvolts +.1 dimm.
I just ran superrpi will put it up soon.

[althes]

Originally posted by EmineM
nice althes, could you send a newegg link to that board, cant find any Gigabyte board except the i865PE one with AGP!

oh and please run super pi at the max overclocked settings you can do.

here ya go

[Schneider]

...am i just seein things...or is that one horrible 1MB time of 1min 55 secs for a 3.2Ghz Scottie?
You should be gettin like in the 40sec zone
remember if u want to adjust ram timins or other hidden options just press ctrl+f1 in the main bios screen

[althes]

pursuing that option now.

[Kanavit]

wow, that 1mb Super Pi is horrible. what happend?


the memory bandwidth looks good and on par with Sandra scores, 3dmark looks on par too. i think it's too early to tell, but this platform isn't exactly targeted towards extreme benchmarking. more of a face lift on old technology. I think the best features from 915,925 are Intel's azalia 8-channel fidelity sound, PCIe, and Intel Matrix storage. the cpu and memory are on par and doesn't really need improvement.

Althes, maybe try testing with DDRI?? low CAS timings.