Just want to round up my Z503 Ballistix info in this mobo in one spot, might be useful to someone else:

From Ben805:

"the TREF only has 3 options so I didn't have much to try there, from experience TREF play a major role in overclocking these Ballistix so it would be helpful if I could get more values to play with. I'd also noticed if the timing and overclock speed was instable then the BIOS would either automatically relax the TREF, TWR, MAL and READ Preamble, or it would not work at all."

" set 11ns for Async Latency, 9.5ns for Read Preamble, and 24clk for TRFC,TRC in Auto, once you dial in those values then leave them for now, there is only three settings for TREF so play with it one at a time and see what happen."

Also, use 1T always.

OC on a Venice 3000+ E6, sweet at this frequency, note async latency and read preamble which need Ben805's settings to OC the CPU more, also Tref:



Don't know if this has any great meaning. Data rates are 6500MB/s according to Sandra:



It's a nice box to use set up like this. CoD 2 runs very nice indeed.