Quote Originally Posted by sierra_bound
That's interesting. I don't run 3DMark anymore. I mainly test with Pi and occasionally run Orthos, just to satisfy the stability freaks.

I just tried 400X9 linked & unlinked with memory at 533. They were virtually even again in 8M.

I tried booting in linked mode with memory at DDR2-1200. Got the infamous long beep. I switched to unlinked mode and booted at DDR2-1280 with no problems.

I'm testing with Corsair 6400C3 at the moment.
I think your 400x9 testing is similar is because you are not in SYNC so that in effect you are running a 3:2 FSB:RAM divider which impacts performance. If you ran at 400x9 linked and in Sync although your memory would only be running at 400 the superpi time would not be too badly affected. Can you test that and see what you get ?

Regards

Andy