I am curious about this. Now I have two of these CPUs and one gives me 2.26 GHz while another 2.27 GHz. This is all on K8V Deluxe and Prime95/Memtest86/Shredder704 stable. According to HardOCP, I am doing mighty fine since they were not successful geting their Abit K8 Max to go anywhere above 2.15.
I am using Winbond BH-5 memory but the settings are relaxed. It is a bit complicated in K8V but the main idea is CAS 2.5, TRP 6, TRC 11, TRAS 7, TRCD 3, and if you have DRAM idle timer that one to 16. TRC and TRP can go a little lower but I am not so sure I get anything out of it. Lowering TRCD or CAS is a no go at 226-227, you gotta seriously decrease the bus which is not an option for performance.
It seems that my CPU on 2.26 is a limitation, or perhaps motherboard.
In either case I get 91-92 seconds for SuperPI at 2 MB, which is better than 96 seconds I get from Barton 2500 at 2.35 GHz on NF7-S.
Post your results. I am curious about Abit boards, are they really that bad this time around?
It seems NF3 boards are no go for any decent overclock but I might be wrong.
By the way, I am using retail heatsink, there is just no better choice for now.
I am using Asus AMI Bios revision 3, I've seen revision 4 came out but didn't try it. Revision 2 that my first board came with will not give you anything over 2.2 if at all. So you gotta flash it.
I am using Winbond BH-5 memory but the settings are relaxed. It is a bit complicated in K8V but the main idea is CAS 2.5, TRP 6, TRC 11, TRAS 7, TRCD 3, and if you have DRAM idle timer that one to 16. TRC and TRP can go a little lower but I am not so sure I get anything out of it. Lowering TRCD or CAS is a no go at 226-227, you gotta seriously decrease the bus which is not an option for performance.
It seems that my CPU on 2.26 is a limitation, or perhaps motherboard.
In either case I get 91-92 seconds for SuperPI at 2 MB, which is better than 96 seconds I get from Barton 2500 at 2.35 GHz on NF7-S.
Post your results. I am curious about Abit boards, are they really that bad this time around?
It seems NF3 boards are no go for any decent overclock but I might be wrong.
By the way, I am using retail heatsink, there is just no better choice for now.
I am using Asus AMI Bios revision 3, I've seen revision 4 came out but didn't try it. Revision 2 that my first board came with will not give you anything over 2.2 if at all. So you gotta flash it.