Quote Originally Posted by thehinge1 View Post
The saga:
I liked bios 1201 until I accidentally set the NBv too low at around 665fsb and did not have one single instance of needing to clear CMOS jumper or any bios corruption until that one boot. 1201 became crap for me after that, and I had to reflash 1201 followed by 1103 (at stock clocks using afudos-I'm extra paranoid). After that 1201 was no-go period, and I finally had fairly normal behavior after that where I could properly power off/reboot & use F1 to reset bios again when re-clocking in 1103. This thing does not like to go over 533fsb ever since the 'great kaboom', but I've switched RAM so no biggie now as the new stuff won't go ape-crap speeds like my 1150's did on this board.

Anybody think swapping the bios chips and flashing the backup would change anything to get me back to 'easy 550'? My shipping/backup bios 0605 is utter crap on this rev1.01g mobo anyhow so I was thinking of making it v1003 or 1103.

I tried ASUS official 1306 - same inconsistencies from boot to boot as 1201 did & went back to 1103. I tried my current 4GB (2x2) Reaper1066 kit, a 2x1GB Reaper1150 kit, and a 2x1GB Platinum1066 kit.

However: Ket's modded 1306 seems fine so far with the 4GB kit to at least DDR1120 at decent timings and PL-8 with all pull-ins enabled - will do DDR1140 but timings too loose for my tastes. I may even get brave and try to see if I can get the 1150's over 1220 again on 5:6 divider, The 1066 Platinums did 500fsb/DDR1200 fwiw (but did get warm at only 2.04v setting.

If it helps anyone - I use tRFC of 50 with the 2x1Gb kits up to DDR1200 and 55 with the 4GB kit up to DDR1140. My board doesn't like PL-7 but runs PL-8 on anything except 1:1 where I usually have to go to PL-10 or PL-9

I'm thinking a nice E0 8400/8500 might do really sell on this board - the E7200 runs 3800 fairly easily but I gotta pour on the Vcore to get 4GHz+ with high bandwidth settings.
What NB GTL are you running?