Quote Originally Posted by Expat GriZ View Post
Wow, looks like everybody is enjoying there board. Thread is slowing down. Anyway, recieved the Cellshock ram and woo hoo!!!! Yikes, this is an entirely new level of performance. One problem though. I can run the ram 2 x 1 but 4 x 1 is not stable. Have tried skews, command rates, etc but just can't get it to mesh. Both kits of memory are stable by themselves at numerous levels. So if anybody has figured out 4 x 1 could you please pass on your findings. Here is some playing around last night with the ram, sure was fun!!
I'm stabily running my 4x1GB Cellshocks at 1800 7-6-5-18-60, 1T. 0403 BIOS.

This board shows some strange behavior when using 4 dimms, as with the above settings I need 1.97V to be 100% stable. As I go higher, stability is fine, until I go over 2.01, BSODs occor randomly during windows startup and while in windows. Continually raising the VDimm stability slowly returns after 2.06V. pretty strange behavior. I've tried using 0403 and 0601 but both has the same symptome. So try the VDimm one at the time, and don't assume stability increases linearly with increasing voltages when using 4 DIMMs.

My 8600 settings:
FSB 450
CPU skew 200
NB skew Normal
Strap 266
DRAM Freq 1803
CR 1N
DRAM Timing
7-6-5-18 tREF 60
Twister Moderate (somehow it gives better perf then all other options.)
Booster Manual PL 6
LLC Disabled
PLL 1.511
FSBT 1.100
CPU GTL ALL -35
NB GTL Auto
VMCH 1.53
VDimm 1.974
SB 1.5