M3A overclocking

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Just got home turned off that " Microcode update" as well as the secure virtual machine,but unfortunately the AOD still came up with the green/yellow circle and everest gave memory latency of 156, so I was wrong about the Microcode=
TLB fix. My bad , for some reason I thought it was related. Anyway, switching the AOD circle to red gave the Latency of 65 which is much better.
Also the "unganged" mode let's you configure the 2 IMC separately -2CL's,2trp's
so on. Guess we can use mismatched ram sticks in "unganged" mode now.

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It seems like turning the "Microcode updating" setting to off -disables the AOD's and/or other software ability to turn the "TLB fix off" judging by the high latencies in Everest,even thou the circle goes yellow/red in AOD.
Sandra's (x11sp1 x64 Edition) mem bandwidth test got a nice bump in "unganged mode" slightly over 10k.

So the microcode update is required to apply the tlb-fix.
Tried Rightmark and I can seen an improvement using unganged now. The improvement is much higher with 1066 that with 800.

Played with memory timings to push the ref HT limit beyond 276MHz (seems to be similar if not equal in unganged mode, tried 272MHz with no problem). So far no luck to get higher with more relaxed timings.

Running with such high ref HT speeds results in no warm restart sometimes, the system works flawless after a cold start.

My mosfet's are hot to the touch @ 220 FSB, 2 120mm front and back in push pull, one 80mm blow hole blowing directly on them. It should be more of an issue at higher FSB speeds, but with phenom pushing 4 cores if they get to hot their going to cause stability problems. For that matter any cpu will tend to destabilize with the mosfet's running to hot.

Not to say that's the only problem, I'm positive lack of vcore is a big part. But it's some thing to look at.

I've been polling the high end over clockers I know and they all agree that on a value based board (especially under water) one of the top suspects in instability is excess mosfet heat.

Your friends are right. If you want to appliy more than ~1,45V 24/7 to the cpu you should buy an high end mobo. But below that voltage temps don't become an issue.
As I have to pay my elictricity bill, I'd buy an better cpu if i need higher clocks.