ASUS Striker II Extreme

[Roger_D25]

Yes, you're right. At 2028FSB the memory can be set to 2000MHz, but everything freezes at the post screen, so I can't test!

Yeah I know just what you mean! I feel hopeful that I'll at least be able to get into Windows and run a CPU-Z validation at FSB2000Mhz but only once I get GTL's sorted. At the moment I'm testing at FSB1800Mhz and still have not had to resort to GTL tuning to get stable (although I haven't tried running Prime for any longer than about an hour, will try running overnight).

At the moment Tyke have you started messing around the GTL settings and if so what settings are you using and what are you main BIOS settings (VCORE, FSB, Multi, RAM clockspeed, and Linked/Unlinked)? I'm fairly confident about tuning the GTL's once I need to as I've been trying to research as much as possible about it! O-yeah, I meant to ask earlier, what BIOS are you currenlty using?

[Tyke]

Yeah I know just what you mean! I feel hopeful that I'll at least be able to get into Windows and run a CPU-Z validation at FSB2000Mhz but only once I get GTL's sorted. At the moment I'm testing at FSB1800Mhz and still have not had to resort to GTL tuning to get stable (although I haven't tried running Prime for any longer than about an hour, will try running overnight).

At the moment Tyke have you started messing around the GTL settings and if so what settings are you using and what are you main BIOS settings (VCORE, FSB, Multi, RAM clockspeed, and Linked/Unlinked)? I'm fairly confident about tuning the GTL's once I need to as I've been trying to research as much as possible about it! O-yeah, I meant to ask earlier, what BIOS are you currenlty using?

Currently I am running FSB 475 linked on a 8.5 multiplier and synced to memory at 1900MHz, which is stable. VCore is 1.4125 with Loadline Calibration disabled, VLL at 1.7, VTT at 1.28, NB 1.54, SB 1.6. I have played about with GTL values with no great success. If you look in different places you will see people recommending anything from 0.589 to 0.70 as the right ratio for Quad Cores, so it is is bit hit and miss. Interestingly on both my QX9650 and now the QX9770 it was the same core that failed during Prime. When I have been making adjustments I have only been adjusting the lane with the failing core, GTL0, maybe I should adjust both!

I am disappointed that I can't get into Windows with 500FSB, also any of the values below 500 do not even boot until I drop down to 475FSB.

I am currently using bios 0603, but I have also tried 0512.