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More info?)
Paul wrote:
> In article <1152sleedm2rueb@corp.supernews.com>, Matias Silva
> <matt@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>
>>On Tom's hardware they mention that the board
>>supports DDR500. Is this true?
>>
>>http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20050323/index-02.html
>>
>>Also does anybodyhave any idea when the premium
>>board will be released?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Matt
>
>
> "Supports DDR500" means the setting is in the BIOS. The
> memory controller is inside the processor, so whether
> it works or not, is a function of the stepping of processor
> that you buy. Some processors work better than others,
> when it comes to overclocking memory. (JEDEC only
> officially recognizes DDR400, so AMD doesn't have to
> design the circuit to run faster than that. DDR500
> is considered overclocking, and overclocking
> comes with no guarantees.)
>
> On the A8N-SLI, Wesley at Anandtech got the FSB to
> run at 255MHz, and ran 2 sticks of memory in dual
> channel mode at 1:1. That is just slightly more than DDR500.
>
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2358&p=5
>
> You should read that whole review, and see which company
> makes the best overclocking boards. The DFI board seems
> to do well, but reading accounts of that board in the
> overclocking forums, you have to be very patient with
> the BIOS, in order to remain in control of the board.
> If you change too many settings in the DFI, it apparently
> takes a lot of fiddling to get back to the level of
> overclock you used to have. (If you wrote all the settings
> on a scrap of paper, and just reentered all of them, it
> likely would not POST.)
>
> For more info, try private forums like:
> xtremesystems.org, abxzone.com, forums.pcper.com
>
> Paul
Thanks paul that was very informative. No chance on knowing
release date?
Matt
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