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Hey guys,
I've finally been able to get my FSB booting into Windows at 500MHz - the key for me was to change the RAM from Auto to Manual. I had figured since it was running on Auto, it was setting up the timings at 5-5-5-18 like I had been seeing it doing, but I suppose with increasing the FSB it was then attempting to tighten the timings on its own as I noticed it then eventually tried on Auto 4-5-5-18. After manually changing the RAM to use 5-5-5-18 it would then boot to 500MHz (along with some minor voltage changes that would never seem to have much rhyme or reason to them).
My issue at this point is that when I try to complete a 3dmark06 run with 500 FSB, there will be a minor, very quick frame stutter... then it'll increase to more stutters, and then BSOD or hang. There were other options in the RAM settings beyond the first four that I had to leave at Auto... does anybody know what defaults they should read for 5-5-5-18 2T?
Would anything else help with stabilizing the FSB? Is "mch" the only voltage involved with hitting a high FSB? I tried tweaking GTLRef between 60 to 70%. While doing this I'm leaving the CPU at 6x, so it's at 3GHz, and running the RAM 1:1
Thanks in advance![]()
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