Quote Originally Posted by Aussie FX View Post
NP Dave.
I have found I have a wall at 233htt that I can't overcome, although I haven't really thrown voltage at it yet. I have given it 1.35v which makes no difference to 1.25v.
I managed to hit 240htt using AOD at stock v's (240x11x8x8), while running 4 instances of Prime95. I played with it there for awhile and it seemed stable so I slowly bumped it up 1 step at a time, it finally locked up when I hit 250. May be the limit of the cores, I never got it that high on the MSI (2.55 limit) but I was running Vista on that machine. I'm on XP now.

The wierd thing was, when I applied those settings (240htt) in BIOs Windows hung at the start screen. I've only had the board a couple of days, but one thing I noticed was CPU-z and Everest shows my CPU @ 1.28v's, while Bios and AOD show it as 1.25v's, so I'm taking it kind of slow...


I'm waiting for summer to finish here in Aus before I try 1.4-1.5v as I get insane ambient temps where I live. For example it was close to 50deg C today
Whew, thats warm!! It's winter up here ambient isn't a problem..


Sorry to hear you killed your K9A2, My 1st DQ6 died with a bios flash too. Gigabyte replaced it with no questions asked. When flashing I would advise doing it with Q Flash. If you choose this method make sure @bios is removed from your system This is really important, you will kill the board if this is installed while using Q Flash.
Glad I didn't install the @BIOS utility then. Because I did flash the F4f's using Q-Flash. Just my perliminary impression of the new Bios is that they don't play as well with AOD as the F3 version, other than that they seem pretty solid but I haven't had a chance to do much testing yet...