Safe settings for DFI NF4 Expert?

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Hi, running an opty 170, with 2gig of gskill zx, x1900 xt and a x-fi fatality on a dfi nf4 expert.

Basically installed it all today, but i don't really have time for tweaking and messing about at the moment (let alone reading the billions of pages of threads on this board). So i'm after some pretty basic settings, mainly for the RAM, since there seem to be a lot of issues with the board and gskill zx at the moment. I'm running the CPU stock for now, and probably will do for a month or so until i have time (and a new waterblock - im running on Air atm tho - the stock cooler, although i put artic silver under it instead of the grey goop they use).

So if someone could take the time to give me some nice settings for a stable system, that would be awesome!

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Is it unstable now?

Surely if you go into the bios and just load optimized defaults that'll be the best option until you start clocking the cpu?

Personally I'd stick the ram at 2-3-2-5 with stock volts on the 166 divider, drop the htt multi to 4 and then edge up the fsb in steps of 5 and go into windows and run a bit of prime95 until itgets unstable but thats overclocking, dunno if you already know all this so I'll stop ;)

A stock opteron 170 is a wasted opportunity even with air cooling. 2.6 should be pretty straightforward.
 
Yeah its unstable, im getting machine check exception errors - which i think is due to the memory. also when i tried upping the htt to 210 it failed to boot, kinda just wanted some safe settings for the RAM timing (as those set by spd are out of spec - known problem afaik)
 
I'd go for 2.66v 2-3-2-5 with the rest of the machine at stock.

Do that then enable memtest in the bios (its at the bottom of the overclocking options) and run test 5 and see if it gives any errors at 200mhz.

That'll tell you if its faulty.

I have some HZ I use in an expert and with my old X2 4400 it wouldn't do dual channel unless I put 3v into it, with my new X2 3800 it operate exactly as it should so if it fails to run at spd settings it might not necessarily be your memory. It might just be your cpus memory controller.
 
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Got it all at stock but changed the drive strength to 4 and data drive strength to 1 and its passing test 5, just trying test 8 now. Will whack the htt up now too ;)
 
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