Quote Originally Posted by Hoss331 View Post
What settings have you been using to try getting above 1600? I not sure if its the ddr3 or just this board but its hungry for mch voltage, well compared to my ddr2 board, especially at high clocks. So far it doesnt seem to like or need any cpu or mch skew, ive played a little with v-dimm skew but it doesnt seem to help any. It does seem to be rather picky or less forgiving with the references so make sure you get them right on.
First go around at some higher speed runs and broke into the 9:20s. Ill try for some more higher speed stuff tonight for a better template.
Thanks for the info Hoss, yes I tried everything problem is this board DOESN'T like ram volts at all, so you have to undervolt the vdimm to get it stable and D9GTR's need voltage to run properly. So the problem lies there.

I see your ram is rated 2.0v but your feeding them 1.66vdimm?

Superb superpi32m run those ddr3 at 800+ Mhz are much more faster then good old ddr2 for those runs. Thanks for the heads up on the templates


Quote Originally Posted by In-Fluence View Post
What performance level are you running? If set too low, it can limit fsb considerably.

BTW hoss, a superb SPi time there. Just a couple of MHz more, and Jor3lbr's top place will be under threat!

I will get back to work on my attempts soon enough, but after having a little scare, I'm gonna play a lot more carefully now! It seems for 495fsbx9, 1:1 (333 strap) PL10, the NB only needs 1.24v, and so I would assume a notch or two more is all that's really needed for 500fsb, and the board probably needed a lot less all-round volts than I was giving it for benching, so I hope to have better success in the not too distant future. I think a good SPi32M runs is my next target, as I'm not happy being over 10mins on that!
Actually In-Fluence his score with DDR3 is already way further below of mine with DDR2.

The problem with benching is temperatures, if you use volts and for a milisecond your processor peaks the max temperature during all those benches it will get a little scratched.

So if you don't have the cooling for it just play safe.

It's always good to now the equipment before benching, that way you keep the voltages real, you chose the right path