E4300 in a Asrock Dual VSTA

[BigToe]

@BigToe : Nice 1 mate

But what ram are you using and did you raise the pci-e frequency or was is async ?

VERY nice to hear!

I have the Vsata myself and have been waiting for some results. Cheers guys.

May have to look at ordering one of these myself.

Out of curiosity what ram are you running?!

It's just bog standard PC3200 value. One stick is some old TwinMOS CAS2.5 I was running (not the fast BH-5 stuff) and the other stick is is Corsair PC3200 Value CAS2.5. I have it set to 200MHz (*2) in the BIOS, but the divider sets to 2:1 when the FSB is 290, so it's actually running at 145MHz (*2).

One thing to be wary of is make sure the sticks you use are of similar configuration or they won't work in dual channel mode. At first I was running one double-sided stick and one single-sided - it was forced to run in single channel until I swapped the single-sided for double. If that makes any sense

I'm running the PCI-E bus asynch @ 100MHz, but I'm using an AGP card anyway.

 

[Subliminal Aura]

@BigToe : Thanks for that mate : I'll go and check what ram I have in my dualvsta machine - it must be some real nasty stuff or I am doing something wrong

I'll have a play with it later on

 

[Subliminal Aura]

Heh thought I'd give it a try and it appears that I've only got 333Mhz memory in that machine (PC2700) no wonder I hadn't been able to overclock and have had some under par benchmarks.

Mind you locking the ram and agp I did get to 290 for a slight overclock of 9~10% on an E6400 but it didnt like 295

I'll swap some nice PC3200 ram over from another machine later on tonight