Quote Originally Posted by minsc_tdp View Post
What's VRM?

I did not pull the power when changing the voltage, I see it does the double-boot thing, and IDCC in Windows shows the voltages where I set them. 1.5 for the CPU.

Is it lying?

I think something is seriously wrong to not be able to push 1 MHz past 279 MHz exactly, with bios 2333 and the latest bios from a few days ago, at any strap, with voltages higher than what most people use for 400 FSB.

This is all on a brand new CPU, board, and RAM that hasn't been used too much. Maybe a week of on and off usage, and the high voltages only got maybe an hour or so of time in Orthos to make sure they were stable.
VRM is Voltage Regulator Module. IDCC is NOT your friend. Do all your changes from the BIOS and do the complete power cycle after changing voltages.

Don't try to overclock your memory and cpu at the same time. Use the memory calculator in my sig keep your memory underclocked while you raise the FSB.