Believe it or not Mike the Elpida is kinda mandatory for stable BCLK benching over 240 on 2:8. The older modules sporting the early 1.65V stuff don't sit well with the i7 IMC up there. I suspect interchannel clock skews and drive strengths to be the issue, but we'll never get control of those as that is not how i7 rolls on that end. Everything is done on the 'matic so BIOS engineers only have to really apply start up timing for power cycles and MRC/MSR setting. Without the Dom GT, some of these benches would not have been possible.
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Raja



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