Quote Originally Posted by Mafio View Post
I don't seem to be able to reach anything higher than 657 MHz, tried single channel, dual channel, CAS4, CAS5, Cellshock PC8000 and Crucial PC8500 (the only stick left) without any luck.
650 MHz is ok for boot and short benchmarks, 655 MHz is a no go, windows crash, 660 MHz always results in post error core 52; from my experience usually it is something memory related (incorrect GTL, incorrect CPU or PCI-E clock skew, not enough VDIMM/Drive Strength) but this time I can't find the right settings for the life of me.
I am inclined to think the RAM themselves are not the problem anyway, using memory divider 5:6 they can boot easily at 665 MHz 4-4-4-4 super tight subs and run 1M (it's 3 am, there is no time for more exaustive testing )
Hello Mafio. Was reading your posts and saw that you got exactly the same hardware setup that i also have. Few days ago got my hands on some ballistix and started to play with them but nothing hadcore yet, regarding the voltage. Saw you can't pass 657 mark no mather the cl on those rams. I got this results here in dual ch, after 10-20 mins of play with the platform, on 2,2V and this here in single chanel with no more then 2,3V on air cooling. Diden't even give the NB more then 1.3V, diden't play arround with the subs for those results. Seemed pretty easy to get there. Maybe you should try those loose timmings and see if you can get bit further with them.