Originally posted by: MeCalvin
Mpegv42,
great to hear you can do DDR394 with you XMS2700.
I have the exact same stick and can do only DDR350.
Did your good results came after the BIOS upgrade ?
Interested to hear if your best result before the BIOS upgrade to see if it is the same as mine.
And could you give more details about your new settings to get DDR394 (CPU speed, RAM ratio and temps...)
Cheers
Yes, they came after the bios upgrade. Previously, like many people, 3:4 with the Low setting wasn't anywhere close to stable. Now however, it is. There is a but though, I didn't get to test the RAM for that long, maybe 45 minutes, as it was in my parent's computer. Currently they're using the BG7 and I'm using a POS Soyo board as I was intending to sell the Soyo board for a Asus P4B533-V after the good things I've heard about it (actually now I'm rethinking that due to the possible problems it's having with Corsair RAM, but I digress). All I did was pop the RAM in the BG7, change the CPU to 150FSB at 3:4 and 10% voltage (note: I pintricked the board, so that's actually about 1.81v), 2.8v RAM. Proceeded to bootup and try sandra; it managed to get off one benchmark, then crashed. This was at 2.5-7-3-3. I then rebooted, changed it to 147FSB, and tried again, ran sandra again, and it got me roughly the same scores except lower about 35MB (3010/3009). I noticed, however, Sandra was reading it as 2.0-5-2-2. Whether that was right or not I don't care, as it ran for 45 minutes or so at that speed before I had to shut the computer down so I could put the RAM back in my computer for the night. I intend to switch the mobos when I get a chance, and now that the board works fine with that high RAM, I won't have to go through the hassle of selling the Soyo board (P4S Dragon Ultra, which incidently is a nice board otherwise, it's just utter crap when it comes to overclocking).