Supercharged

Guys, i am planning to get a am2 or C2D board over the weekends and I need some recommendations over the boards. I've shortlisted the following boards due to certain price and other criterias. AMD GA-M57SLI-S4 GA-MA69GM-S2H M2N-SLI Deluxe intel P5KC P5B-E Plus P5K-VM I've lost touch with the newer tech so need inputs here..

intending to get a set of crucial ballistix ddr500 3-4-4-8 to use in my dfi venus board using either opteron 146 or 170. does it have any compatibility issues of any sort? thanks

is tht for single dual cores or both ?

degauss it?

sometimes 12hrs isnt enough. i've had 13hr failures before.

whatever that doesnt kill yr chip makes it(and u the overclocker) stronger

man..this is interesting. i was abt to delete orthos for my 170.

i tried gabbo's method but didnt work. anyone has other tips?

for 300HTT i am using either 7/10 or (the other divider which i cant remember makes the ram run at 183mhz)

thanks man, while the street was done, i was pushing my cpu and when i hit paydirt i was waiting to post those long awaited screenies.

the HTT is set to 1:1 for the 230,240 and 250mhz

i am having probs with this mem. it works fine working with a 300mhz under a 5/6 or 7/10 divider but once i try to raise the mem mhz beyond 220mhz, all hell breaks loose. for 250mhz memtest gives me errors like totally scrambled text or things like 198% Pass 199% test pass. 199%? 230/240mhz gives me 500+ errors on each pass. i am very surprised as my old rams 2x1GB corsair VS rams using uccc chips like the above, can clock stable at 250mhz, booted to 270mhz before. DRAM Configuration Settings: HTT= 250 DRAM Frequency Set............................ - 200mhz Command Per Clock (CPC)....................... - Enable CAS Latency Control (Tcl)..................... - 3 RAS# to CAS# delay (Trcd)..................... - 4 Min RAS# active time (Tras)................... - 8 Row precharge time (Trp)...................... - 4 Row Cycle time (Trc).......................... - 12 Bus Clocks Row refresh cyc time (Trfc)................... - 15 Bus Clocks Row to Row delay (Trrd)....................... - 03 Bus Clocks Write recovery time (Twr)..................... - 03 Bus Clocks Write to Read delay (Twtr).................... - 01 Bus Clocks Read to Write delay (Trwt).................... - 03 Bus Clocks Refresh Period (Tref)......................... - 3120 Cycles DRAM Bank Interleave.......................... - Enabled DQS Skew Control.............................. - increase DQS Skew Value................................ - 0 DRAM Drive Strength........................... - 10 DRAM Data Drive Strength...................... - Level 2 Max Async Latency............................. - 10.0 DRAM Response Time............................ - normal Read Preamble Time............................ - 9.0 IdleCycle Limit............................... - 256 Cycles Dynamic Counter............................... - disable R/W Queue Bypass.............................. - 16 x Bypass Max.................................... - 07 x 32 Byte Granularity........................... - Disable(4 Bursts)

thanks for the confidence boost. actually i simply set the vcore high so i can concentrate on dram settings my idle temps are 27-28C depends on the programs in an aircon room set to 26deg. using watercooling on a sweet set up. CatharG4 block Laing D5 pump. cooltrek 2x120mm rad 2x 120mm papst fans

oops here

how come my entry isnt added to the list ?