Quote Originally Posted by Cecil View Post
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Electr.../dp/B00592002W

Try and find those?
So a Low Voltage 1600 kit should get me a fair bit of headroom memory OC wise on Llano then ? as trying to find a 1866+ kit with low profile head spreaders is next to impossible I think.

Quote Originally Posted by veblen View Post
First off, my setup:

Asus F1A75-V Pro with A8-3870K (XSPC Rasa), GSkill RipjawsX, HDD set to IDE

Initial thoughts:

1. Flashed the latest 2001 BIOS for the F1A75-V Pro and the CPU frequency at POST is always off. It keeps changing with each reset; however, once it boots into Windows, the correct frequency is displayed. I have the same issue with Stilt's modified 1102 BIOS - if this is already known, do disregard.
2. I seem to be able OC better with the 2001 BIOS, i.e. at the same settings, I get POST with 2001 but not 1102.
3. There still doesn't seem to be any monitoring software that reads temps accurately; not even AI Suite's sensors.
4. To boot at 38 multi seems to require a lot of vcore, a lot more than 37.
5. I get BIOS freezes after a bad OC; not sure why. Didn't happen with the Gigabyte board. Also, tried different BCLKs (133MHz, 140MHz, 161MHz, 166MHz) with no success at getting a higher OC with lower multi.

So far (been playing around for about two hours), the best I can do is 103x37=3.811GHz at 1.57vcore/1.3NB (LLC at high), mem at 961.5MHz. It is 2D but not 3D stable.

I'd welcome any suggestions! TheStilt? (I got the Asus board because of your excellent modified BIOS and expertise!)

Might move over to the Gigabyte A75M-UD2H next.
Interested to hear more on this as I was looking at the Asus F1A75 EVO but if there are issues with that and A8-3870K I may go Gigabyte A75 UD2/UD4 or Asrock A75 Extreme6 instead..