Originally posted by cables
What is the highest stable FSB you can get with the NF7-S v2 ?
I'm on either 221 or 222, Using Trats bois as I mentioned earlier. This gives me DDR speed of 440! This memory is still on pretty tight timings 11, 3, 3, 2.5. Well I thinki that's thight. If I get the DDR spped up higher (and I'm sure of the CPU) its not 100% stable in prime. I'm not sure why. I think something need more juice, but I don't think it is the CPU.
Has anyone got a faster stable FSB, with the NF7? How did you do it?
You need to do a very simple pencil trick to get over 220 ~ 225 fsb on the NF7-S and be 100% rock solid stable. I could hit 230fsb and it'd be ok for simple desktop work but would fail on games / stress testing.
I can now hit 245fsb, but I'm hitting the limit on my PC3200 Twinmoss RAM at anything over that. That's 490mhz DDR from some cheap PC3200 though!
There is a drawback to this mod though and it's that you'll never really know how much voltage you're actually feeding to the northbridge as the voltage boost the pencil trick give's doesn't register in the BIOS.
So if you rub a pencil on the resistor, thus lowerering the resistance and raising the voltage, it will still only show as 1.7v in the BIOS (the maximum the BIOS allows on this board).
Though tbh, if you take your time and just apply a bit at a time you should be ok. The guide I used said to use a voltage meter, which I did, but it never showed any difference. I thought it hadn't worked and rubbed the pencil on about 7 times lol.
Yet when I booted it back up I could easily get past my previous best of 225fsb, even with just 1.6v. Before I did the mod I had to up the voltage to 1.7v just to get over 195fsb.
I'll try and find the link to the guide I used, I also think I've got some pic's somewhere in my backup folders.
