Quote Originally Posted by sdumper View Post
Wow im shocked....
I thought it was my Quad holding me back but if Im not mistaken you are using an e6850 which usually has no FSB wall below 500+.
well, not all E6850s can do 500FSB, have tested more than i care for around 470-490FSB walls.

as for this motherboard doing 500FSB, it isn't a problem...on the 1:2 ratio with pretty much any strap. once you start using other ratios which 99% of people are going to have to, 500FSB+ becomes an issue.

i also found last night that there is an internal timing change when booting somewhere after 507FSB...not a strap change like the 400FSB change on Asus P965 boards but likely just a memory timing change that can't be seen. memory bandwidth drops and so does SPi times so something is definitely changing that can't be seen in the BIOS timings or Memset. why can't Asus just let us control what happens and when dammit...this kind of thing frustrates me to no end.