Quote Originally Posted by SimonD View Post
Well some feedback from me on the 1203 bios.

I have been running it for a few days now (I think I made the change last Friday\Saturday) and the great thing is that I am now running 8gb of ram without apparent issue. Admittedly I needed to reduce the memory down to 1066 rather than 1333 but it's been stable ever since. I did have one issue where the memory timings didn't stay on reboot (it went back down to 1times rather than 2times in the bios) but since that initial error I haven't had a problem.

Temperature wise, the cpu is running a tad warm atm (42 - 44 at idle) but that's more to do with warm ambiant temps (muggy nights) and the fact that I hadn't run Precision to increase the 295's fan speed up from default to 65%.

Gaming has been smooth (no BSOD's) and over all usage of the pc hasn't resulted in anything unusual. I did this on a fresh install of Vista64 SP2 (for some reason Win7 was really syrupy.. very sluggish and unresponsive).

With regards to monitors, I use a BenQ FP241WS which is really very good, I purchased the Samsung 2233 120hz monitor and the Nvidia glasses, both of which lasted a week before I sold them on, I really missed 1920x1200 too much (and was actually getting a headache playing with 3d enabled).

Interesting feedback...you should be able to get your 8GB up past 1333, trick is you need plently on NB volts and mem volts. That was my experience with 8GB anyways.

Try starting NB at 1.4 and work upto 1.6 if nessessary. For mem I'd start at 2.0v and go as high as 2.08 but make sure you have a mem fan to keep them cool. All 4 slots filled causes the ram to get pretty hot hot