M3A overclocking

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Yep ( raised fsb from 200-220 )thats why i have been slightly confused by the results out of this m3a board Im not to sure if this the same as other boards. I also found overclocking @ 667 is a breeze compared to 800 (although I am running 4x 1 gig) 667 seems to allow higher clocks as well as the ability to actually save and cold boot with those settings. May well be that aod is reporting wrongly will recheck with cpuz.

Damn, had to reinstall windows, suddenly it allway froze after autologin.
Checked memspeed oc'ed to 220 for 667 mem. CPU-Z reported correct, did not try aod.
Could push ref HT to 235 with 11x CPU multi and ram @ 800. Far from prime95 stable but it verified and finished super pi 1m (tlb-fix disabled).
On the M2A-VM i reached ~30,03s with 5-5-5-15 timings.

Killed by "normal OCing". Stuff you can do in the bios. Or just plain dead due to manufactuering defects etc... (modding or extreme cooling abuse excluded)

I bought the MSI budget 790X board before letting others be the guinea pig. My pioneering spirit died with the mosfets.

Yeah, saw the picture u posted yesterday. Played with the idea of buying one, rethinking that now.
I added all M3A related resources to the first post, none said something about defects.
But the bios is in a very early stage and does not allow high voltage increases, that makes it hard to reach the hw's limit atm.

Also, how stable is the vcore? It doesnt appear to have as much power regulation hardware. Is it 4 stage?

*edit* found this on the asus page.
"4+1 Phase Power Design
Longer Life, & Higher Efficiency!
Unleashes ultimate memory performances with independent power to core components, while providing fast transient response and stability for the CPU under heavy loading or overclocking modes."

Sounds promising.

790FX boards use 8+2 fyi.