Modded ASUS P5Q/Pro/Deluxe/Premium BIOS

[Pants-Of-Fire]

*smug look* On 703m I could run PL6 @ 1216MHz, nana

Heck, I'm just glad right now that Asus have figured out how to update BIOSes without causing every program you run to crash and burn. I couldn't even consider any overclocking until I could get stable at stock speeds.

Having said that, I did try bumping down to PL5, and it was nasty. I could just about reboot to the BIOS (which wanted to recover itself off the backup because it kept insisting it was corrupt), and on the one occasion I got into Windows it bailed out as being unable to find pci.sys.

I ended up reflashing 1406 and it's okay again. My system really doesn't like lower PL levels than those chosen under "auto". It tries to hurt me when I go to PL5.

[Dee]

Heck, I'm just glad right now that Asus have figured out how to update BIOSes without causing every program you run to crash and burn. I couldn't even consider any overclocking until I could get stable at stock speeds.

Having said that, I did try bumping down to PL5, and it was nasty. I could just about reboot to the BIOS (which wanted to recover itself off the backup because it kept insisting it was corrupt), and on the one occasion I got into Windows it bailed out as being unable to find pci.sys.

I ended up reflashing 1406 and it's okay again. My system really doesn't like lower PL levels than those chosen under "auto". It tries to hurt me when I go to PL5.

You can adjust PL inside Windows using MemSet. Download, install, then decrease the PL number until Windows freezes, then reboot and set PL to the last number that worked before the freeze.

[Dee]

*smug look* On 703m I could run PL6 @ 1216MHz, nana

*even more smug look*

I can run PL6 at 1302+ MHz

Did you both have Pull-Ins enabled? Also, what voltage?

[CryptiK]

Did you both have Pull-Ins enabled? Also, what voltage?

No, pull-ins were disabled, I have found them to have no effect on my board.
vDimm = 2.2v real
vNB = ~1.26v real (1.27v bios set) IIRC

I'm sure I could do 1320+ on PL6.

[Dee]

No, pull-ins were disabled, I have found them to have no effect on my board.
vDimm = 2.2v real
vNB = ~1.26v real (1.27v bios set) IIRC

I'm sure I could do 1320+ on PL6.

I was wrong. I can actually PL7 up to about DDR1220, and that's with drive strength set to Strong.

Currently I'm at 1200 with vDIMM @ 2.02v (in BIOS). MemTest (Windows version) stable. This might become my 24/7 clock, actually. 4.00GHz CPU, 1200 RAM. I can't tell any difference in general use with these lowered settings and I'd rather not push everything to the max all the time anyway. Something tells me 1.4v for 24/7 use isn't the best idea. My CPU can do 4Ghz on much lower voltage (1.26v, approx), so that'll do fine for me. vNB = 1.14, CPU PLL Voltage = 1.52, FSB Termination Voltage = 1.14.