Quote Originally Posted by chew* View Post
Its not OCZ.....

ES chips

Ask them to do it on retail chips with publicly available bios's.

We pulled 1800+ on samsung IC's with an ES chip. I could never tune the sticks in @ 1800 when I swappped to public bios and 955.....best i've done is 856 on retail so far...so 1700+ can be done.....

I think part of it has to due with the ES chips not having 100% bios support, on the same token I noticed ram performance is a tad sloppy with them compared to retail.....I can't clock ram higher but get better results lower on retails.........

I still have my ES chip if you would like a comparision but I already confirmed it.
I was actually hoping for this answer, so thanks .

1700MHz shouldn't be a real issue on the GD70, but may be on other boards. I tested the DFI DK and I couldn't even get the board to work at 1700 1M stable, whereas the GD70 allowed me to do even higher (for reference: http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=get...61&articID=926, sorry for url, but hotlinking pictures doesn't work).

During the tests, I noted down that this issue may have been related to the overclocking itself, so increase of HTT. Could someone test for me if the memory goes equally high using the 1:4 and 1:3.33/1:2.66 divider? I would do the tests myself, but haven't got an AM3 setup put together at the moment.