I saw that it is still in beta, so I wanted to wait for it to become official (601 was passed over). I wasnt able to run the windows utility to backflash in Vista 64, so I didnt want to risk it. But it seems that the new bios are now backflashable...Originally Posted by mk-ultra
Thank you for the reply. I am still quite impressed with the Ballistix as they are running at tighter timings clock for clock (so far).
Special thanks to Karl eller for the post on vdimm points. I used my Fluke 177 digital meter and read the yellow and one of te blue marked readout point from his post.
When I set the vdimm in bios to 2.16v, I get a reading of 2.21v from the multi meter. However, when I set the vdimm to 2.18v in bios, I get a reading of 2.238v on the meter. And finally, when I set vdimm to 2.2v in bios, I get a reading of 2.25v on the meter. This makes it very hard for those without a multimeter to know the true vdimm.
I did find that my 1.40v vcore set in bios, which loads into windows at 1.38v as shown in CPU-Z, actually is 1.376v when metered while running Orthos.
Let me just add that this is a great board. With a dual core, it is able to push 515 FSB with just 1.43v to the NB:
E6600 with 4x1Gb Lanfest Ballistix
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