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EnJoY
08-11-2005, 10:27 AM
As the title says, I just received my new DFI NF4 Ultra-D. I'll be using a 3200+ Venice and 2x512MB Corsair BH6 in the board. On my DFI NF3, these sticks did 265 2-2-2-3 with 3.5v completely stable. I'm expecting atleast this. Here are my questions:

1. I have a fairly good idea on timings, but if you have BH5 or BH6 and can share your entire list of timings with me (drive strengths/skews/tref/etc) that'd be greatly appreciated.

2. I don't know what bios my board shipped with but I plan to flash to the 510-2 FIX bios, should I flash to a different one after or what? What is the best bios for BH5/BH6?

3. Any other tips/tricks I should know before diving into this? I have it set up on a table and played a around a little last night. What's is errata performance in the chipset options?

Thanks guys.
ic3m4n2005
08-11-2005, 10:52 AM
I'am running bh5 too you should try the 510-2 Bios from Merlin and maybe the one from bigtoe. For tref i use 3120, i've tested a few other but htis is the most stable for me so far. Drive strenght 3-1 works best for me, but you should try 5-x and 6-x first :)
Hope this helps a little bit,
best of luck ;)
HiJon89
08-11-2005, 12:19 PM
Here are the settings I use with my 2x512MB Corsair BH-6 3200C2v1.1:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v629/HiJon89/275mhz.jpg
EnJoY
08-11-2005, 04:16 PM
HiJon: drive strength, skew?
EnJoY
08-11-2005, 05:51 PM
Oh, what slots for high voltage/low latency mem guys? Orange or yellow? I'm in orange now.
Vapor
08-11-2005, 05:53 PM
Orange.
HiJon89
08-11-2005, 06:57 PM
HiJon: drive strength, skew?
Tref 4708, Decrease Skew 255, Drive Strength 8 IIRC, Data Drive Strength 2 and orange slots.
Aleman
08-12-2005, 08:15 AM
Read my signature, there´s plenty of information ;).
EnJoY
08-13-2005, 07:08 PM
My sticks are overclocking a lot worse in this motherboard than they did on my DFI NF3. I've played with nearly every drive strength and seen slight help from 3+2. I wonder if it's this memory controller.
celemine1Gig
08-13-2005, 07:58 PM
What I would really like to know is: Is Dual vs. Single channel really such a huge difference concerning the overclocking results, or is it something else?
EnJoY
08-14-2005, 12:17 AM
Ahh...now this is better. Nothing a little 5.0v jumper and the 510-2FIX bios can't handle. ;)
Aleman
08-14-2005, 03:52 AM
What I would really like to know is: Is Dual vs. Single channel really such a huge difference concerning the overclocking results, or is it something else?
I have not seen any disadvantage by Overclocking with or without Dual Channel. If there is any, its because of some sucky MC´s!.