nForce 790i SLI/Ultra chipset mobos - Reviews/OC/Guides

[slim142]

When 1 or 2 inexperienced people are reporting data corruption after overclocking, suspecting those people are at fault with their settings may be reasonable. However when 5 - 6+ experienced overclockers are encountering this issue, and only limited to the ASUS motherboard, an undeniable trend is starting to form, that points squarely at the hardware/BIOS that the issue arise form.

Speaking from my own experience;
- Corruption starts to occur when I move away from stock FSB
- Leaving the FSB at stock but upping the multipliers does not cause data corruption
- Leaving the FSB at stock but upping the memory frequency (within reason) does not cause data corruption
- Memory timing and frequency at any (resonable) level on stock FSB does not cause data corruption
- Memory timing and frequency at any level does not alleviate the data corruption when the FSB is raised away from stock settings

Memtest or not, why should EVGA at 400FSB works at same settings while ASUS s up my system files?

Well I didnt clarify my statement. Sorry for that. If you take a look around at all the SIIE owners, some of them are getting nice OC results. I have seen people with 500mhz FSB and some others going higher than 4Ghz. For a moment I thought people in here were like OC without testing their hardware, or that they had faulty drives. I guess we will have to see what future owners say...
Last time I checked the SIIE forums, all I found was people asking for availability, guess is time to go around there again to check whats up with the board.

[eternal_fantasy]

Well I didnt clarify my statement. Sorry for that. If you take a look around at all the SIIE owners, some of them are getting nice OC results. I have seen people with 500mhz FSB and some others going higher than 4Ghz. For a moment I thought people in here were like OC without testing their hardware, or that they had faulty drives. I guess we will have to see what future owners say...
Last time I checked the SIIE forums, all I found was people asking for availability, guess is time to go around there again to check whats up with the board.

No probs

Have a look at my link a few posts above, 2-3 people experienced system file corruption just by raising their FSB slightly, and have had to make do with stock FSBs and only raising multipliers and memory frequencies...

I can run ORTHOS/OCCT for hours with FSB 450+ @ 4Ghz+, but that dosen't stop the random BSOD upon starting up programs due to the inevitable data corruption.