mkorpal said:
Thanks. I didn't even see the fan they included. Another question. I have yet to see any results with Teamgroup ddr2667 3-3-3-8 memory. Have you seen anything regarding how the board and this memory like eachother. What are you runing anyway. And have you tried to oc it yet.
I use the G Skill DDR2-800 (HZ),
this stuff here. I have not seen anything about teamgroup but I am sure there are results out there somewhere. The G Skill works pretty nice, I also used it in a P5W DH before the board died.
For me, what works best right now is the
0502 bios but the mem timings will not be right once you get into Windows. If you set 3-3-3-8 in bios you will get 3-7-7-23 in Windows. So I use Memset 2.2 to adjust the timings once in Windows. Read about Memset
here and download Memset 2.2
here.
I used Memset and SuperPI to find my best settings which seem to be;
1. Set 3-4-4-10 in bios
2. Set timings at 4-4-4-10 with Memset in Windows.
At the same clockspeed and FSB this gave me SupePI times comparable to my P5W DH at 3-3-3-8. Using tighter timings on the P5B DLX seems to slow things down a bit for some reason but I am sure this will be fixed at some point.
Other bioses are available but they seem to limit what parts of the FSB range are useable, like 360-399 are not useable. 0502 Allows all the FSB to be used but you have to adjust memory timings.
Hopefully the quirks will be fixed soon but this is all part of the experience, the experience of early adoption and immature parts.