Biostar G31-M7 TE Ver.6.3

DOFpayne

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I have not been able to find out where the overclock settings are. Anyone have any ideas? I looked through the bios and nothing. I might just decide to find another motherboard for the 6420 if i can't figure out how to get it to overclock. If this happen anyone have a good/great selection.
 
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o1die

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For anyone who needs it, I got an rma back from biostar for the g41 board. It only took about 10 days from the time I shipped it to getting a new board back. Great service. Faster than msi or abit (years ago).
 

DOFpayne

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happy medium

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then what do you suggest that is a good board that i'm not going to be spending a arm and leg for?



your saying i have to alter the pins to get this to overclock? ah heck

No, just raise the fsb and put the memory divider to 400:1. Give it a slight vcore bump.
Have you ever overclocked before?
I had a e5400 and e8400 that I took to 3.6 on that board.
 

DOFpayne

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negative I have never OC'd before

I do not see the options in the bios that you are speaking of.. This is my bios version.

Brand American Megatrends Inc.
Version 080014
Date 02/01/2010

says i'm running at a 1066 FSB.

I have speccy so whatever info you need i can provide
 
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HumblePie

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I had this board and used it for about 8 months before recently selling it. I will say this. It has overclock settings, but the board itself is very unstable when overclocked.

I originally bought a combo of an e8400 with this board from Fry's. I was able to get the board to OC the chip form 3.0Ghz to 3.9Ghz. However, anything past 3.45Ghz and the board started doing weird things. Such as disabling integrated peripherals. For me, it would disable the ethernet lan, the front USB inputs, front audio inputs and then finally the sound card itself. The higher the front side bus, the more devices it would disable in the order I listed above. Also, the voltage to OC is not done in increments. You could just do +5%, +10%, and +15% voltage to the default voltage. Not really any fine tweaking that can be done.

At first I thought the board just needed a bios update so I got the latest but the problems still happened. Then I thought the board was defective so I switched it out. With a new board from Fry's, it did the same thing. So I thought maybe it was the batch. So I went back to Fry's for another replacement and tried to get a different serial number sequence as replacement. Even that did the same thing. So three different boards exhibited the same behavior when overclocking so I think it is safe to say the board does not overclock well.

That being said, I did have an extra NIC and sound card and could use those while overclocked. It seemed to behave OK, but there were sometimes odd stuff that would happen. Like access to the harddrives would all of sudden go from normal to really damn slow. Oh and when I said it disabled integrated peripherals, I mean just that. It turned them off so they weren't even shown as accessible in the bios. Nothing would show up in the windows device manager either. Soon as I brought the FSB back down to normal, the devices would turn back on. Strangest thing I ever saw for a motherboard.


So the short answer to your story is yes, but I doubt you want to OC with it. The purpose of the board is to make a basic HTPC. Get a cheap c2d or c2q and stick it in without the overclock. Put in a lightweight 5xxx radeon card and don't bother with the integrated sound, just use the ATI card. Hook it up to your receiver through HDMI and be all set with a nice HTPC running windows 7 ultimate.
 

DOFpayne

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I located the 5% - 15% and have set to manual and set it to 5,10 and 15% but on boot and in windows it still shows 2.13 ghz
 

HumblePie

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I located the 5% - 15% and have set to manual and set it to 5,10 and 15% but on boot and in windows it still shows 2.13 ghz

That is just the voltage control. To overclock you have to change the front side bus speed. I think the default is 333 if memory serves me correct. Anything over 350 starts turning off integrated peripherals though.
 

steelodon

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I have this motherboard. However, I didn't realize that there was so little room for video cards. I have an 8800GTS that I want to use but it limits any use of the PCI slots. Any video card suggestions?
 

DOFpayne

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I use a 9600 can't remember if it blocks the other slot.

found the fsb... It's not labelled how I thought it would be clocked to 2.4 but it was heating up. That's when I notced my fan on the cpu not spinning. Picked up a V1 from thermaltake for 17 bucks
 

jihe

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I had this board and used it for about 8 months before recently selling it. I will say this. It has overclock settings, but the board itself is very unstable when overclocked.

I originally bought a combo of an e8400 with this board from Fry's. I was able to get the board to OC the chip form 3.0Ghz to 3.9Ghz. However, anything past 3.45Ghz and the board started doing weird things. Such as disabling integrated peripherals. For me, it would disable the ethernet lan, the front USB inputs, front audio inputs and then finally the sound card itself. The higher the front side bus, the more devices it would disable in the order I listed above. Also, the voltage to OC is not done in increments. You could just do +5%, +10%, and +15% voltage to the default voltage. Not really any fine tweaking that can be done.

At first I thought the board just needed a bios update so I got the latest but the problems still happened. Then I thought the board was defective so I switched it out. With a new board from Fry's, it did the same thing. So I thought maybe it was the batch. So I went back to Fry's for another replacement and tried to get a different serial number sequence as replacement. Even that did the same thing. So three different boards exhibited the same behavior when overclocking so I think it is safe to say the board does not overclock well.

That being said, I did have an extra NIC and sound card and could use those while overclocked. It seemed to behave OK, but there were sometimes odd stuff that would happen. Like access to the harddrives would all of sudden go from normal to really damn slow. Oh and when I said it disabled integrated peripherals, I mean just that. It turned them off so they weren't even shown as accessible in the bios. Nothing would show up in the windows device manager either. Soon as I brought the FSB back down to normal, the devices would turn back on. Strangest thing I ever saw for a motherboard.


So the short answer to your story is yes, but I doubt you want to OC with it. The purpose of the board is to make a basic HTPC. Get a cheap c2d or c2q and stick it in without the overclock. Put in a lightweight 5xxx radeon card and don't bother with the integrated sound, just use the ATI card. Hook it up to your receiver through HDMI and be all set with a nice HTPC running windows 7 ultimate.

It is because the board's ram dividers are all screwed up so it is running your memory out of spec. That's why these budget boards work great with the cheaper c2d's since you can bsel mod fsb to 333. My E5200 is running at 12x333 = 4G with +10% vcore on the G41 version of this board.
 

DOFpayne

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I see.

With the new fan I got (old fan was dead) I got my idle temps to 21C I changed the FSB to 300(from 266) and it's been running at 2.4 all night with 23C idle.

running prime 95 it jumps to 39-41C i was using Prime95: in-place large FFTs
 
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DOFpayne

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Well I was only able to get it to 2.4 (300 fsb) before it wouldn't boot properly. I have no clue where to find this memory divider
 
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