Quote Originally Posted by Aivas47a View Post
But check out this blog post from FCG over at anandtech: 500 fsb stable on yorkfield, Asus 790i (plus 2000 mhz with 8gb of ram).

http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=419
Just had a read through... The results seem mighty impressive. However until they post their BIOS settings and I'm able to duplicate their results, I remain skeptical to the Asus S2E.

Quote Originally Posted by dinos22 View Post
what the heck
are you sure it updated properly >> try clearing cmos and battery for a few hours

OBR was ing all the way to eternity until he flashed to the latest bios and then everything improved enormously
I am using the latest BIOS I could find, version 0507, and at stock setting it is 100% stable. I am reluctant to reset the CMOS, as every time I do that I have to disassemble my watercooling, replace my QX9650 with a Core2Duo, take out a stick of ram just for the system to POST and increase the ram voltage. And trust me, I have done it enough times to streamline the whole process.

The problem I find is that everywhere people are reporting that their reference 790i are overclocking demons, and very little voltage has to be raised to achieve 450-500Mhz FSB, where most are set to AUTO.

That is VERY far from what the Asus S2E is doing... after you run hours of torture tests, are are happy with its stability, it BSOD on you launching a web browser, a game, or restarting the PC.

I am currently running the system with 333FSB, 12x Multi, and 909 Mem. 100% stable.