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Originally Posted by Pillo-kun

just saw that ya are using the 8500 sticks, how are they on the abit quad board? What volt are ya using for going over 500 mhz on the mems on this board? stock?

They run quite well. I am 100% stable all the way up to 508x7 and from 508-512 I can run orthos blend but it craps out after about 3 hours. Over 502 FSB I have to ramp up the voltage from 1.465Vcore to 1.49 to remain stable so I prefer to stay at 500.

My mem voltage is 2.2V and anything over 502 I have to ramp it up to 2.25V. At 508 and up I need 2.3V and Mch of 1.70 so again, I prefer to stay at 500 which seems to be my sweetspot

As to timings I can set 5-5-5-12 instead of 5-5-5-15 but thats it @ 500FSB+. It won't hold any lower timings and I have tried, but at this high a FSB its not really needed. All in all very good memory imo. I ran mbench and got some decent numbers

Abit QuadGT 500 1:1 500 5-5-5-12-(no subtimigs)

Intel P6 processor (CPUID = 6f6) @ 5000.0MHz
Instruction set support : MMX SSE SSE2

Access latency 51.2 ns (256 clocks)

Read datarate (INT) 7614 Mb/s
Write datarate (INT) 2811 Mb/s

Read datarate (MMX) 8286 Mb/s
Write datarate (MMX) 2799 Mb/s

Read datarate (SSE) 8630 Mb/s
Write datarate (SSE) 9044 Mb/s

Thats not too shabby for $170 memory