Yeah I think when I upgrade my Ram I'm gonna go with some Crucial Ballistix, either this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820148183
This:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820144120
or maybe 4 of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820148092
I'm waiting to install 8.3 until the new 3870 arrives, don't see much point in using them with the 2600xt right now.
AHCI will have close to the same performance as IDE mode, but it will have less cpu usage. Hopefully with B3 they'll at least manage to ramp up the IMC to close to core clock. Otherwise it looks like Shanghai/Deneb will have to be the savior for k10.
I'd got up to 2.4ghz NB/IMC completely stable at stock VID. Only issue I had was the Vid card thing. Works just fine with the 2600xt in. Was running 2.0ghz at 1.1v VID stable. But I do like the OC stability with P0J, 2.6ghz core with auto voltage, and it's showing the cpu VID as 1.250, before to do the same speed I was having to use 1.2625 VID. Which means I'm running .008v lower than before, on the actual voltage. And thats just the voltage the bios auto detected for it. Note I've also got C&Q turned on at the moment as well, another thing, the temp calibration seems to be a lot better now. At idle with my Nirvana at 2.6ghz I'm having just around ambient, and with full load under everest stress test it tops out at 53c after 5 mins, thats with full stress test except for HDD. I may be able to get that lower if I reseat the HSF again, didn't do as good of a job this time as I did the first time with the paste. Granted I don't know if thats 1316beta of Everest detecting more accurately or if it's improved with the bios.
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