aGeoM, I never use the Red mode, it gives me no boost at all. It'll give a boost to higher end GPU perf. though.

Sami said at the beginning to go up in little HT MHz and for quite obvious reasons, you have 5 PLLs being changed and a chance of system corruption if you muck up.

MEM bw, well yep, they should be if testing properly but they were just two random shots paired together for posting sake

BTW, in your log file I found all references to Griffin, but it shows internal name AMD K11h. The PLL coding is there meaning they have the tool working with it.

BrowncoatGR, sound devices work fine in the extra PCIe slots, with 4 lanes and 16. Skipped 8 lane testing because I had no time.

Oldguy932, what's your batch/stepping/week and stock Vcore? Any coldboot? What's lowest temps you've booted? Details details details ...
Also flash a better BIOS if you have the multiplier problem, our first BIOSes all also had a limit at 13.5x CPU multi.

Morais, ambients there were 23C, that's my usual room temp. Sometimes it fluctuates 22-25C but not less or more. Right now its 23C for instance.

Tony, official BIOSes are quite bad for oc... I haven't tried 1.4 yet but can you test some 2x2GB kits and what your max stable/bench/screen on this board is please? Would be very good to know.

Stability Update:-

2900MHz 1.480v / 1.456v - load stable, failed idle stability after 15 hours
2900MHz 1.512v / 1.480v - load stable and idle testing now [7 hours]

Here's the setting I am currently testing, earlier in EVEREST full load for plus 35mins showing load temps and voltage [to show this coolers efficiency, handles high heat load better than any other air cooler I've seen to date, Zalman 9700 could not keep up, plus 70C easy] => 200W TDP here



The main point is to test;
- does B3 scale with voltage
- will better cooling [water/phase] do it better for clocks/stability
- does B3 have headroom and if so, how much exactly

I am definitely thinking of a weaker core syndrome again - remember I could get 223x12.5 across 3 cores and 223x12 across one core to get my first 9600BE stable, whereas 12.5x multi on all of them would make it very unstable. Will try the same here. Toliman must have had a major financially sound reason for inception...

Core starts needing very high volts for stability past 2808 as you can see, power draw flies at such settings, but I'm not in the same position as you guys who keep it as your home system, I'm just testing it for a little while to see and show what is possible with it and can afford to make any loss since it was free. Will see how it scales with voltage, kinda shows the limit.

Looking at this, they can surely release a 140W TDP 2.8G model, mine needs stock volts for 2.784G, which is still below 140W.

Oh BTW, just remembered. Anytime now Geil will release a DDR2-1300 kit, most likely part of the Esoteria lineup.