Quote Originally Posted by Tony View Post
Added some points I have found with this board, for me this is the benchmark board for all others to follow but you have to know the limits abd be aware different memory loads and the use of quad core CPU's makes a huge difference.
Excellent, we can pick your brains then

Firstly, I'm running the Corsair recommended RAM - not that I knew it was recommended before I bought it, so that worked out rather well. I believe it's Micron based, but I'm not 100% sure. I'm finding as I said that delay skew over what I've listed means the board doesn't boot, but I tested this by starting at normal and working out. Is there a sort of FSB-black-hole type effect here such that some settings will not post but other, higher settings will?

Interesting that our Memtest experiences differ so much. As I said, if the skew is such that the RAM will post Memtest can do three or four consecutive passes of the entire test schedule without any errors, and then SuperPI will crash within seconds on these same settings. Possibly I'm not running the right skew here? As I said, maybe there's a black-hole type effect where the board will not boot those skew settings while the RAM needs higher - but it still doesn't explain why Memtest is stable yet SuperPI is not.

I'm afraid you've lost me in terminology here This is my first Intel board, and my first on DDR3. Are you saying that tRD is the same as PL (performance level)? What rules for tRD? I've seen the phase pull-in settings, but had no idea what they were for, so I just left them alone.

xN =! xT? I assumed they were the same thing, seeing as they were under RAM settings and the options were either one or two. If it's not the T setting, what is it?

Thanks for the PLL advice

NB GTL? Do you mean the setting that has only 1.63 or 1.67?