X48 Rampage Formula Preview.

[mikeyakame]

I did some testing today with BIOS 0802. I managed to pass test 5 in MemTest86+ V2.11 without errors with my OCZ Reapers HPC PC2-8500@1140MHz 5-5-5-15... and 1.96V in the BIOS, 8 X 475MHz 3.8GHz.

I used CPU Clock Skew -200 and NB Clock Skew -100.

I couldn't do that with previous BIOSes. The Clock Skews are doing their job.

Lovely mate!

I officially knight this bios:

best non-official most functional and stable alpha-beta release that almost never existed and only exists because some crazy owners asked for over 10 extra bios options and it was easier to steal code from other bios source trees than write new source tree code for features which have never apparently been questioned don't exist.

By the way I got a new toy to play with for the time my RF is sightseeing over the Asus garage.

DFI X48-LT T2R!

This is my "backup" board heh, bios looks fun though hope my RF needs an RMA so I got an excuse to keep playin with this a while heh. Gonna pull my RF out tonight and throw this board in! Being X48 with similar onboard components shouldn't have to do much at all. Wasn't too expensive and seemed like a good excuse to play intricately with a solid DFI board!

First thing I did was look at the bios settings in the manual and I thought I was imagining things. There wasn't a bios option listed there that didn't mean something to me, the option naming from DFI reflects the options actual function.

http://img.lanparty.tw/Upload/Catalo...LTX48_BIOS.pdf

Check that out and tell me how much sense the option naming actually makes, and seems like Jimmy from DFI took the time to explain how they work briefly in such a way that you don't need a PHD in engineering to understand what roles they each play to stabilize a high FSB frequency.

Just thought it was pretty cool thats all, don't think any other DDR2 board will ever touch the way the RF gives amazing feedback when you change settings blindly, I'll throw some screenshots up with the usual everest blah blah once I get some time into it overclocking, mostly I want to see how it compares to the RF that's what interests me.