Supermicro H8QGi/6 and H8QGL Next Generation OC BIOS

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theGryphon said:
Oh I'm getting hard with this, I'll tell you that much! :p
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I think you should just give in and join the 4P mafia. You already have the equipment, just the wrong team # :p

The [H]ard work has already been done.
 
4DoorGTZ said:
Well I'm using 11.04 and I hope this is returning the nb speed, 6176 at 200 this says 1800mhz, all the way up to 261 it reported 2349mhz (multiples of 9x ref clock) I'm still just playing around, had a no boot at 262.... Seems my cheap cl7 1066 that did 1333 on stock bios only did 1066 at 200 and then down clocked to 800 for anything above that. Went back to my gskill eco's and they do 1333 at 200 and 1066 everything above that.
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Yeah, newer kernels report base of 1800 w/OC ROM regardless of used chips (a bit of
inconvenience, I know). One of these days we'll try to come up with universal frequency
reporting method...

Code: 
$ echo '1800*261/200' | bc -l
2349.00000000000000000000
The fact they booted that high is pretty impressive. Are these SE flavor?

What is your DIMM brand and exact model? Have you done SPD dumps of it, if so,
I would be very interested in adding them to my collection... (both: the el-cheapos
and G.Skills)

Yes, per earlier post, 262 is on the list of frequencies to avoid. This will be fixed
in the next rev.
 
Reporting: Posted at 245. Folding away right now, TPF is 13:55 on 6903! No ht retries so far :D
 
OK, Houston, we have a problem. The computer just powered-off mid-WU. I took it as a message that vcore is not sufficient at this CPU freq., so I powered on (successfully posted, phew :eek:), and supplied 1.00 vcore. Let's see how it goes :eek:
 
tear said:
The fact they booted that high is pretty impressive. Are these SE flavor?

What is your DIMM brand and exact model? Have you done SPD dumps of it, if so,
I would be very interested in adding them to my collection... (both: the el-cheapos
and G.Skills)

Yes, per earlier post, 262 is on the list of frequencies to avoid. This will be fixed
in the next rev.
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My Gskills are the 7-8-7 Eco's http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231321
The el cheapo's are Crucial 1066 CL7 that did CL7 at 1333 on the stock bios http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148147

Was sold my 6176s as SE's although TPC reports max v of 1.163, not sure if that proves otherwise. They posted with 261 but crapped out folding all the way down to 215, seem stable at 210 for now.
 
theGryphon said:
I'm not sure if RAM plays any role in "what BCLK values work" but I'm running these Crucial sticks (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148488) successfully so far. They're 1600 8-8-8, but have a 1333 7-7-7 XMP profile too. They're low profile and that's why I got them over the GSkills (I needed something to slide under my Noctua 92mm's).
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Uh oh.

I also ordered the Noctua 92mm NH-U9DO-A3, and the gskill Ripjaws X F3-10666CL7Q-16GBXH (qty 4). I didn't see anyone complaining of clearance in reviews.

Are you saying these two won't work?

Here is my mainboard:
http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron6000/SR56x0/H8QGi-F.cfm

Let me know if we should take this to PM.

Mike
 
OT!

There's general 2p/4p build thread.
And no, 92mm Noctuas will not clear Ripjaws-X.
 
theGryphon said:
OK, Houston, we have a problem. The computer just powered-off mid-WU. I took it as a message that vcore is not sufficient at this CPU freq., so I powered on (successfully posted, phew :eek:), and supplied 1.00 vcore. Let's see how it goes :eek:
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That's unusual; haven't seen that in the past
Not so certain it's related to supply voltage issue, more like overcurrent protection kicked in
somewhere (which would be odd as well).
 
My board comes tomorrow, do I need to flash to the latest bios before I start?
 
tear said:
That's unusual; haven't seen that in the past
Not so certain it's related to supply voltage issue, more like overcurrent protection kicked in
somewhere (which would be odd as well).
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Yeah, I'm puzzled too, I don't know what happened. After I supplied 1.00 vcore, it's been running nicely since morning. No ht retries at 245. I'll try 247 with stock voltages first, let's see...
 
Got the new 6166HE 4P rig folding last night. This is with the HDD I cloned from the 6128 4P rig.
Still at stock today. Will be upgrading the BIOS tonight for the OC win! :cool:
Even at stock this rig knocks off a minute from the TPF of the 2.57GHz 6128s.
 
12 extra cores will do that.... :)

If theGryphon's results are any indication, the 6166HEs may be the best budget chips out there.
 
musky said:
12 extra cores will do that.... :)

If theGryphon's results are any indication, the 6166HEs may be the best budget chips out there.
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Update: 247 has been folding for more than 12 hours now, with 1.00 vcore. Zero ht retries. Avg TPF on 6903 is 13:55 (not to compare to previous numbers), temps 45-49C.

I'll try 250 tonight :D
 
I am beginning to test the new bios with my H8QGL and i have got a first question :

Is it normal that the CPU voltages that i can check into the Bios are higher than before .

In fact the voltage is now 1.12 volts instead of 1.08 with old bios .:eek:
 
theGryphon said:
Update: 247 has been folding for more than 12 hours now, with 1.00 vcore. Zero ht retries. Avg TPF on 6903 is 13:55 (not to compare to previous numbers), temps 45-49C.

I'll try 250 tonight :D
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Awesome. What kind of watts are you pulling with OC of 247?
 
I've had a couple crapped out WU's at 210 on my 6176's, going down to 205, if theres any more problems at 205 I may go back to stock bios, at least I was stable at stock while undervolted.
 
4DoorGTZ said:
I've had a couple crapped out WU's at 210 on my 6176's, going down to 205, if theres any more problems at 205 I may go back to stock bios, at least I was stable at stock while undervolted.
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Wow. Seems like everybody else is in the 220 range. Wonder what the difference is?
 
4DoorGTZ said:
I've had a couple crapped out WU's at 210 on my 6176's, going down to 205, if theres any more problems at 205 I may go back to stock bios, at least I was stable at stock while undervolted.
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Sure you haven't accidentally carried "undervolt" settings over?
What are the symptoms of the crash?
What are CPU temps while folding?
And finally, what is your cooling?

You may be running into memory issues (OC BIOS takes advantage of XMP
profile so there is more stress on memory). 402c.i. found faulty DIMM in his setup.

You can also do a test with XMP settings disabled. To do that, run ./smocng.sh
with additional '8' at the end of command line, e.g. sudo ./smocng.sh 220 8.
 
Cant be the undervolt, those were never permanent, I applied them after every reboot with the old TPC-Mod
Crash is just a lockup, completly unresponsive.
Temps up to about 41 max, idle is around 26
Noctua 120's

I'll try the disabled xmp next WU/crash.
 
ChelseaOilman said:
Probably best to make sure you have everything running correctly before you switch to the OC BIOS. Just my $0.02.
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That didn't answer my question. After I do a shake down, do I need to update the BIOS or use what the board has?
 
4DoorGTZ said:
Cant be the undervolt, those were never permanent, I applied them after every reboot with the old TPC-Mod
Crash is just a lockup, completly unresponsive.
Temps up to about 41 max, idle is around 26
Noctua 120's

I'll try the disabled xmp next WU/crash.
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Thanks for the info.

Before you disable XMP you may wish to give memtest/IBT/whatnot a spin as well
-- a penny for your thoughts (even at 210, chips should do fine with big Noctuas no
matter how bad they are).

And one more thing, do you have a keyboard hooked up to the machine?
If so, have you observed any LED behavior after a lockup?
 
sc0tty8 said:
That didn't answer my question. After I do a shake down, do I need to update the BIOS or use what the board has?
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CO's point was to do the first boot + OS install + at least some basic testing with the stock bios to make sure you don't have any non-bios issues and that everything plays well together. Once you are sure it is stable, flash the bios and crank it up!
 
sc0tty8 said:
That didn't answer my question. After I do a shake down, do I need to update the BIOS or use what the board has?
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After you have verified operation, you will need to flash to the OC BIOS to be able to OC.
 
For those of us running Windows (not F@H boxes), can I use a live cd or dual boot debian, etc etc, and apply the custom bios and overlock --- then return to Windows and maintain the overclock?
 
Hi.

How is it possible to run ht-retries continuously ?

With one test every minute for example ?

Thanking you in advance.
 
ctrlbrk said:
For those of us running Windows (not F@H boxes), can I use a live cd or dual boot debian, etc etc, and apply the custom bios and overlock --- then return to Windows and maintain the overclock?
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Any Linux LiveCD will work fine for applying the overclock - no need for a true dual boot. Once applied, you can boot into Windows and keep the overclock - it persists across boots and is OS-agnostic once applied. Any time you want to change the overclock, just boot to the LiveCD again.
 
musky said:
Any Linux LiveCD will work fine for applying the overclock - no need for a true dual boot. Once applied, you can boot into Windows and keep the overclock - it persists across boots and is OS-agnostic once applied. Any time you want to change the overclock, just boot to the LiveCD again.
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Awesome, thank you!
 
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