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My P5B vanilla got shipped with a 0205 BIOS. Booted up fine with OCZ Platinum DDR2 800s. Flashed to 0908 BIOS, and things are way more stable. So far, I am able to do the tight ram timings at 4-4-4-12-4 (2.1v) and run at 400x8 = 3.2Ghz on a 1.35v Vcore. 1.325v fails for some reason in Orthos...

Well, I discovered that the RAM modules really dislike me being loose with the timings. It runs perfectly fine on both Memtest and Orthos at 4-4-4-12-4 with the same overclock.

Setup: P5B vanilla, BIOS 0908, OCZ platinum pc2 6400(800) 2x1GB. Vcore a 1.4V. At default FSB, I ran the ram at DDR2 800 and ran a Memtest. It passed. Pumping the FSB up to 400Mhz but changing the ratio to run at DDR2 800 again, it fails Memtest. Could someone explain why this happens?

I currently have the P5B vanilla and OCZ platinum pc2 6400(800) 2x1GB. If I flash to the latest bios 09XX, will I be able to POST?

I am upgrading to a PCI-e card so NF3 isn't an option. The plus point I see here is that the ASRock board allows me to use SATA2 and a rather capable ULi chipset while the Asus board is quite stable and a mature NF4 chipset with few compatibility problems.

I know that ASRock is a up-and-coming subsidiary of Asus. I have worked with both brands before but not these 2 boards. The ASRock uses ULi while Asus uses Nvidia's nForce. Which is the better chipset and why? Especially since the price points for these 2 boards are very close (at least in...