Quote Originally Posted by mjgr33n View Post
On my R3E it needed 1.4v, on this board at 1.4v I get BSOD. tWR does seem to effect stability though, at auto at 1600 it sets it at 10, but according to AIDA64 12 is best for the XMP profile, I put 12 in and it helped stability when I was gaming, but still need more testing )))
Quote Originally Posted by mjgr33n View Post
Oh btw Raja, my ASUS Sabertooth would crash after 15 to 20 minutes of Intel Burn Test when I had 5 or 6 SATA hard drives on the intel ports, but not when I had 4 or less, have had to move things around so am using the marvell controller and no more than 4 intel sata ports, have not tried putting more than 4 on there since I updated to the 1606 BIOS, think it is worth trying or is there a limitation on the chipset?
There should be no loading limitation on the SATA ports per se. Were you running the system at stock or overclocked?

-Raja