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New Tweaks part 21 CORRECTED

Hello, everybody. This is tweaks part 21 and this is the first illogical and strange thing that I promised. Initially it was intended as a tail-end to part 20 but with the possibilities it had opened, I thought I should post it before, especially as it is large and significant enough to be an independent tweaks part. Also I feel that some inmates are becoming restless and possibly bored with part after part of just removing files without a “BIG” advance. Really, inmates, you are wrong because removing those files you are cleaning the ground for future tweaks (17-20). Yes, I know that from part 12 it may sound sometimes slightly grainy. Also I know that some instruments are shifting places – this is because processor and memory are getting less and less things to do and there is less and less electrical phase shift (you may laugh at this explanation, but remember that Cics implemented the phase shift button in the player. He is a far-sighted person and he knew what he was doing), but again I want to reassure that all grain will settle down with the soundscape becoming very clean and smooth.
Now the tweaks part 21. It’s all about BIOS. Not very dangerous, but be attentive and prepare a small screwdriver or the white jumper to shorten the cmos pins if the things go suddenly wrong.
They won’t IF YOU ARE CAREFULL!
Switch off your CMP machine if it is working. Reboot and enter the BIOS setup. If you have GAG31ms2l or, like me, have GA-H55M-UD2H mobo you have a wonderful capability to save bios profiles and load them without any trouble. F11 and F12 buttons serve to do it. So you have entered bios from the state of cmos that you usually listen to your music at. It works rock solid, I presume, so SAVE it now pressing button F11 an name it CMP 001. Exit Save utility and enter PC HEALTH STATUS, find there CPU SMART FAN CONTROL. Enable it and enter CPU smart fan mode. Set the mode to VOLTAGE. Get back to CPU SMART FAN CONTROL and disable it. Below, blued out should remain voltage. Exit PC Health Status.
Next Go to MOBO Intelligent tweaking M.I.T. (on the top). Enter and enter Advanced Frequency Settings (second from the top). Find third from the top Advanced CPU Core settings. Enter it and change all AUTO values to DISABLED
The values and parameters to DISABLE are:
Enhanced halt (C1E)
C3/C6 State Support
Thermal Monitor
EIST Function
Bi-directional PROCHOT.
This will look like core 1, Multithreading - enabled, all other 5 settings DISABLED, not Auto. Mark for yourself C3/C6 state support and CPU Enhanced halt. You will possibly play with them later. Now exit Advanced CPU Core settings, exit Advanced Frequency settings and go to Advanced Voltage settings. My cpu (540) has an in-built graphics core. Hope yours has also. Enter Graphics Core menu and set voltage to 0,650. Press F10, Save, exit Bios, the system will start to reboot, enter bios again set graphics core voltage to 0,625. Save, exit bios and after that let the system completely reboot, but don’t listen to the music. Tell windows to shutdown-restart and enter bios setup again. Enter MOBO Intelligent tweaking M.I.T. - Advanced Voltage settings. With graphics core voltage reduced to 0,625, enter CPU Vcore end set the voltage to 0,68125. Save and exit and enter bios again and so on, set vcore voltage to 0,66875. Save, exit (I hope your system starts, mine does.) enter bios and press F11. Save current settings as cmp super (or cmp 002), exit save utility and back to M.I.T.. Set Graphics Core voltage (don’t mix things) to 0,612, Save and exit, enter bios, set Vcore voltage to 0,65625. Don't change the order of lowering down the voltages! Don’t attempt to go lower with voltages of both Vcore and Graphics Core. DURING ALL THESE TWEAKS YOU SHOULD NOT ALLOW THE SYSTEM TO SHUTDOWN!!! Save the bios values as CMP extreme or cmp003 and now go to M.I.T. Advanced Memory Settings. Set DRAM Timing Selectable (SPD) to Expert. And now go to Channel A Timings. Here we tweak timings of our memory as follows:
This is the table of timings and how I changed them (a dash instead of a value means that I didn’t change the value in this time. Dash between values serves to separate restarts (about 8 steps) but not complete reboots) Save by pressing F11 to cmp extreme 2 (cmp003) often and restart but enter bios and go on.
I have a recommended DDR3 Kingston Value Ram in 1GB module. If You have a DDR2 (for previous MS 2l mobo and e7200 processor), your timings are probably tighter.
Especially, if you are lucky to have a LL or even ULL HyperX memory!!! So, use your common sense. Smaller values in timings can be reduced by half and bigger values 3 or even 4 times. But Be carefull.
TRAS 11 - 10 – 8- - - 7
TRRD 2
TWTP 14 – 12 – 10 – 9 – 8 – 7
TRFC 34 – 30 – 29 – 25 – 20 - 20 – 17 – 14
Static TRD - - - - - - - 5
TFAW - - - -7
TRC- - 11 - - - 8
TWR - - 9 - -6 - - 3
You Don’t need to follow this table exactly, but I recommend to follow it more or less.
This is not all. After You have achieved final values, saved as cmp extreme 2 (cmp003), you should know, that the system won't reboot from the “cold start” with these values. So reboot and listen to the music. Let the system burn in for 24 hours. Before attempting to shut down ALWAYS RESTART and ENTER BIOS SETUP. Switching the machine on should start with rock solid settings and only after 5 minutes of playback reboot to cmp extreme and after 15 minutes more to extreme 2. Otherwise the system will fail to start. Press F12 and load CMP001 (your rock solid values). Reboot and then shutdown completely. I Know it is a lot of trouble, but it is worth it. Technically it is like a soft on and soft off with big power amplifiers.
Serge.
P.S. It is best to do this tweak after part 20, but you can do it anytime. The first result will be the soundstage too close and even crowded and in your face, but it will settle to a bliss with boundless depth. The ease and fluency, liquidity and natural tone of reproduction is astonishing. Give the system time to burn in.
Also, You start the system with rock solid bios settings, proceed to cmp002, and after 5-7 minutes restart with cmp003 (use F11 and then F10 buttons). You Switch off in the opposite manner. From cmp003 (extreem) restart from windows, enter bios, load cmp001, boot to windows and ONLY after that shut down.

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