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[Alien Grey]

This is my first post on these forums but I have been following this thread for probably 2 years. I just want to say a huge thank you to Alien Grey for all of your insights into this board. I'm still using it and probably will be for a while longer.

I remember a few weeks ago reading that you guys needed someone with a 65nm chip for some tests. I'm still running a q6600 so if I can be of assistance let me know.

Yes, you can. I would like to see the results from the MSR test with a 65nm CPU.

Hi DrTeal
Yeah Alien Grey rocks the socks off. He posts a lot of useful information, not only on here, but on the ASUS forums too.
Alien Grey, you Rock

I think the test Alien was talking about was the BIOS BITS tool (A BIOS Implementation Test Suite released by intel to test the BIOS for any faults or programming inconsistencies).
You can download BITS here

Particular interest is the MSR test suite and the SMI Latency test.

We have found so far that us with Quad Core 45nm CPU's have 5 fails, those with Dual Core 45nm CPU's have 4 fails. I am curious (and I think Alien is too), to see if a 65nm fairs better, if so it may suggest that ASUS have been quite lazy with their BIOS programming and have not specifically programmed their BIOS for the 45nm CPU's, they have simply patched compatibility, but not gracefully.

John

I was thinking the same thing and I also wonder why the hell ASUS didn't already run the BIOS Implementation Test Suite and released a BIOS to fix the fails.

Apparently the problem is on CPU - degradation happened. Need to lower my overclock.

Hmm... It could be room temperature. At around 10° Celsius or lower my Q9650 can run stable at 4.22GHz with DDR 1250MHz. The failure starts at around 15° Celsius. I also know that around 25-30° Celsius it's going to fail Prime95 Blend at 4.05GHz.

The reason could be the MSR inconsistency and that's why I would like to see BIOS 0001 without the MSR fails.