Quote Originally Posted by SiGfever View Post
Is 2333 still the prefered bios?
Pretty much.

Quote Originally Posted by Zucker2k View Post
I switched to the AW9D-Max. I think I'll stay there for a while till I get some multi adjustment in a new BX2 bios. Performance is amazing too. gtj, is your board with the blue chokers from RMA too?
Nope. Retail purchases.

Quote Originally Posted by minsc_tdp View Post
Well everything was stable for a while but now my RAM is acting up. G.Skill F2-8000PHU1-1GBHZ, I'm now at 2.4v hoping it will help. It's at 266/533 and I was stable all the way up to 400 MHz FSB. I've since pared it back to 375 or so, and it runs all day and after sitting idle for several hours, gets unstable. I went all the way down to 310 FSB for a while and it was still unstable so I started suspecting the RAM. PFN_LIST_CORRUPT or other bluescreens. If I orthos after a long idle period, the CPU-only test is stable but blend bluescreens immediately, it's definitely RAM. Timings are at 5-5-5-12 (was 5-5-5-8 and stable for a while) and there's lots of air blowing around. This RAM is rated 2.2-2.4 and since it is at 266/533 it's not overclocked really, so I'm surprised there's a problem. I thought I might have pushed the volts too far and dropped it to 2.0v but that was nearly fatal - got 3 beeps trying to start with the CMOS Recovery jumper set! After a cooldown period it seemed to boot long enough for me to increase the voltage.

I'm in a bit of a panic since 2.4v and 5-5-5-12 is about as far as I can go. I'm afraid the higher voltage is slowly damaging it and it's going to hit the wall if I try to push any more. What can I do to loosen the burden on the RAM???
I'm not sure you can loosen the burden any further considering that they're running below spec now. Have you run memtest yet? Tried 1 stick at a time? Swapped the sticks in their slots? Moved from the blue to the black slots?

Quote Originally Posted by hotchoc View Post
how do u noe when the OC has reached its max? Are erratic behaviors in XP considered as one of the signs? I tested my OC via Orthos - 8hrs, SUper Pi and OCCT and everything is ok. However, i can feel like there's a delay i.e. opening folders, etc. Is there sumthing wrong ?


Btw, after my orthos tests or OCCT has ended why does my cpu usage at > 50% ? I left everything as idle after the tests.

My current settings are as below:
ref mem timings vdimm vcore vfsb vmch/ich FSB Multi CPU speed
266 533 5-5-5-13 1.84 1.325 1.25 1.525 333 9 2997

orthos1hr 8hr super pi (32M) occt
stable stable 18m 52.907s stable

what should i experiment next if say, my fsb at 340 fails at the stock vcore of 1.325?
1. Increase the vcore or
2. Loosen the memory timings or
3. Increase vdimm or
4. Increase vfsb or
5. Increase vmch/ich

edit: OCCT failed/crashed when i set my fsb to 340X9. Super Pi was ok. OS hangs 15 while gaming. Have yet to try Orthos at 1hr and 8hrs.Tried to run to latency tests via Everest but it hang after passign thru the level 1 cache test. Do you guys reckon i should increase vdimm from 1.84 to say 2.0v?
If you can pass an 8 hour orthos then problems with XP are likely not related to the overclock. Have you looked at Task manager to see what's causing the CPU to stay above 50%?

You're memory is still underclocked so giving it more voltage isn't going to help. Increasing Vcore will probably help most but it's not clear that it's the overclock that's causing the problem with XP.