Hi there, I recently bought this board second hand cause it is no longer for sale here in the Netherlands. But I have weird stability problems with it.
I use it with the following hardware:
E4400
2x512mb OCZ pc3200 VX
X1650Pro
NB is cooled with a high cmf 40mm fan
The board runs good on stock speeds, but the problems start when overclocking it. I have it running sort of, not tested for more then 1 hour, blend stable.
CPU is Orthos stable for more then 5 hours.
The system now runs 10 x 261fsb, 5/4 ram ratio, 2-2-2-6-4 timings, 3.2v via DDR booster. The problems here are that on some occations when I exit some
games, I see my desktop for a sec then screen goes black. Or the screen just goes black when I exit a game. Disableing Ati tray tools only lessens this issue.
261fsb seems the max fsb my board can run, anything from 270 to 300 results in a non bootable system. Also any fsb from 264 to 266fsb with 5/4 and 3/2
ratio also results in unstable memory like problems. Though my memory was able to run 240Mhz on this board om a 1/1 ratio.
What can causes these thing? I think I just have a bad bord/northbridge, which doesn`t like the higher fsb ranges over 264. Pity cause I would have settled
for 2800Mhz, which I can`t reach atm.