Quote Originally Posted by hokiealumnus View Post
Ok, loaded the beta BIOS today at lunch. I was in a hurry and totally forgot to look at whether there are finer voltage increments. I'm very pleased to verify you can turn off the PATA controller and the stupid Marvell RAID message is gone. Additionally, I did note there are now five DDR2 Rcomp configurations. Anyway, here's a hastily cropped CPUz SS; build date is apparently 11/3/08, which is what it shows in the BIOS boot screen as well.

Ok, after a couple days' folding, it appears they made some unfortunate changes in this version. My 24/7 folding OC @ 4.25GHz isn't stable anymore. Testing at the 4GHz point now to see if that one works like it used to.

With the 7/10 BIOS, this was stable at 4.25GHz (8.5 x 500):

Vcore: +.125
Vdimm: +.150
Chipset: +.225
FSB: Auto (mentioned before; haven't had time to play with it and see what's actually required)
GTL1: 63%
GTL2: 67%
MCH GTL: Auto
PLL: 1.5v

CPU Clock Skew: 200ps
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After it crashed while folding, I tried bumping chipset to +.250 and it was stable for over 48 hours, but it just crashed again this evening. Didn't have time to play with it, so I dropped it back to my previous 24/7 settings for 4GHz (Changes to above: (9 x 445), Vcore: +.75, Chipset +.025 & CPU Clock Skew: Auto).

One other change I noticed is that they have split the RAM timings into two groups. There is one group with the main timings (first five or six, can't remember exactly where they split it) and another with the rest. You can leave either of them by SPD and put the other one on Manual if you so choose.

Still playing with it, but I'll probably be headed back to 7/10 since 4.25GHz isn't stable as it was.