Quote Originally Posted by CryptiK View Post

I realized my ram and possibly NB were giving me errors in linpack (I'm yet to isolate which), so after getting the system stable by bumping them both up 2 notches, I found I was able to lower my vcore to 1.240v @ 4.23GHz. The LCD poster reports the load vcore as 1.237v although cpuz reports 1.240v, I'm not sure which s correct. Although I doubt I'll be able to lower it more, I will do some more testing later.
CPU-Z is not accurate to 0.001v...only to 0.008v. Has to do w/ the number of bits used to represent the number. 1.237v is closer to 1.240 than 1.232, so CPU-Z has to round up.

Quote Originally Posted by Gunnz Akimbo View Post
the last time i tried esata, it just ruined my windows install.
do you have to plug it all in, then turn the power on?

also, will the speedinghdd ports handle 2 seperate drives not in any raid mode?
i wanna swap back to single drives instead of raid-0, but like the fact that its on a pcie lane rather than the useless pci bottlenecked bus.
The 'speedinghdd' is not a fast method to connect. Use Intel's own ICH10R for the best performance. It will also speed up boot process if you can turn off the Marvel controller. The speedinghdd is limited to ~120MB/s. Intel's ICH10R can go up to 750MB/s+. The ICH10R is not on the PCI bus.

Only use the Marvel if you need more ports, need esata, or need IDE. Otherwise its useless and just slows you down.


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I've had my M2F for a couple weeks now. Currently I have the multi at 6 and RAM 1:1 so I can focus on the FSB. Managed to get 490FSB large-fft stable for over an hour on my Q9550. Then I gave up and went back to 485 where I'm over 12hrs large-fft stable. Finally got to the last several pages of this thread and found Simps guide (Man, this is a long thread!!!). With new GTL info in hand and new confidence I'm trying to work on 490 again. I've literally tried almost 100 different CPU GTL setting combinations, but after reading Simps guide it seems a bit clearer to me, and I have a plan of attack now where before everything felt so random despite me trying to adjust things in a logical (what I thought was logical, anyway) manner.

I'll update as more progress is made.

Thanks goes out to all those people that have contributed! This community is what makes this a fun and enjoyable hobby.