Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 performance issues

[cdouodle]

I just built a system with the GA-M57SLI-S4 motherboard, AMD 6000+, 2gb Corsair Twin2x2048-6400 5-5-5-12-2T memory. I've adjusted my memory timings in the bios but cpuid shows it as 5-5-5-18-2T and the memory only running at 371 Mhz, everything else shows what it should. Anyways, my buddy and I were benchmarking our systems. He has an Intel Core 2 duo E6600 /2.4 Ghz processor, which according to several benchmarking sites is almost identical in performance and his system will blow my system out of the water. Every benchmark we've ran it looks like I'm still running an amd 3000+. Can anyone provide some insight as to what might be going on here? I can post screenshots of any info you may need.

 

[cdouodle]

I could really use a hand with this here. Can anyone give me some recommendations on how to troubleshoot my system? If anyone has this motherboard I would really appreciate screen shots of your memory settings in the bios.

 

[j0j081]

hmm.

 

[cdouodle]

Could use a little more help than that... but its what I keep thinking too. Does anyone else have this mobo/processor combination?

 

[imported_Section8]

I have the same rig. CPU-Z shows the ram at 376 and not running at the settings in bios. I think I will try to change the mutiplier to 14 and set the FSB to 215 and see if that makes any difference. Have you tried easy tune 5 to adjust the settings in windows?

 

[cdouodle]

Thanks Section 8. I changed the multiplier to 14 with a FSB of 214 to get my ram up to 400mhz. So that's fixed. I haven't tried the Easy Tune utility as of yet due to the fact that I'm running Ubuntu. I don't recall being able to adjust more than just the FSB from the last time I used Easy Tune. One thing I'm wondering is the Corsair memory I bought says it needs 1.9V. I bumped up the voltage in the bios by .1, and even .2 but the voltages never show a change from 1.8V in the bios or CPU-Z.

 

[imported_Section8]

No problem cd. I went to the Corsair forums and there is a poster on there with the same mobo but with a 4600+ I believe and the same ram. He was having the same problems as you and I and his was fixed. The suggestion was to increase the vdimm by +0.2v and that stabelized his rig. I think I may have a bad stick. CPU-Z says there is only one stick installed even though the system info says there are two. I will try to run memtest on what I think is the bad stick and RMA if necessary. see here: Text