Quote Originally Posted by Grnfinger View Post
You have many issue...
266 strap will be hard to get stable
tref at 42 or whatever it was will not work for 8GBs of ram, 55 or higher will be rquired for stability.
your NB temp is kinda high imo, you should look at trying to lower the temp.

425x8 850MHz ram PL7 (6 with phase pullins) would be a better option, you can tweak the ram timing to get your bandwidth down
Your suggestion is very good. There might be one problem. A PL 7 isn't possible with CL 5 at 850MHz. If he can get his memory at 850MHz and CL 4 stable, he should go for that configuration.