nah it wasnt useless.
each ram kit is different, what i see, as you pointed out in your second post is that it needs more voltage then my P5N-E SLI. and i test that baord with the DMM constantly to measure voltages cuz the read points were easy to get to.
they arent so easy on this board. infact i dont even know where they are, and havent found them yet either thru poking around with the dmm.
the P5N-E SLI also had booting issue with the same 2 kits of gskill but nothing as bad as this baord is. but it also all,owed me to clock much higher, easier, w/ less voltage.
i said long ago that the unlocked ram and cpu divider was a god send, and why intel didnt follow nvidia's lead is beyond me.
what i am noticing is that the longer i leave it running the more chance i have the next reboot, the system will fail to boot.
wierd its like the ram or the mobo is holding a hcarge somewhere and upon reboot it jacks with the way the ram needs to boot.
i constantly get the "DET RAM" message and the no post. so much that i have grown sick of this baord.
and frankly its quad core clocking is no better than any other board i have tried.
475-ish with out some massive tweaking. 475 can be done easy. but above that i have yet to get it to post. its not a cpu limit either i do not believe. it could be but i am not so sure since 475mhz FSB is pretty much the average of most boards without some pretty heavy voltages or volt mods or extreme cooling.
atleast on average. some may see different results though.
i am also finding that these new X35/38 boards are becoming harder to overclock because of all the extra voltage options and ram timings.
i mean lets be honest, 95% of those stupid ram options are redundant and should never have been made visible in the bios.
i think the auto settings are very poor but very few people out there even understand what those settings do and how to alter them to make your ram run properly at higher freq.
i like this board but it does have some serious ram booting issue that need to be addressed in the latest bios.
i mean seriously WTF is cpu and dram reference voltage anyways wtf is it and what effect does it have on defualt and overclocking options. ?
reference voltage, logically speaking, dictates what the voltage is for default or auto matic settings, or atleast the settings laid down by the spd or jedec.
i have yet to see any difference in auto, ddr2 ref or +10mv not to mention all the other garbage settings.
what i do think is that far too many people are just cranking those voltages because they think they need to.
there is a marriage of sorts with those voltages and cranking the nb voltages isnt going to help, you need to buddy that voltage with the other voltages as they work together.
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