«...he (Tony) works for OCZ - as if he hasnt got the best ram ever...»
«...exactly you have to be careful of guys like me, Tony, Rgone, Fugger, etc
guys like us have inside knowledge, and we have cream-of-the-crop hardware...not necessarily hand-picked cherry...but we have enough of it to choose the best from, and we have hardcore experience with the stuff we have to know exactly what and what it won't do...
guys like Tony, who not only work for one of the best memory mfg's in the world, but is also trained as an engineer and writes bioses in his spare time...and is close to Oskar...you need to realize that there are only a few (count on both hands or maybe hands and feet) guys that are as skilled as Tony.
now...this doesn't mean that no one could ever match Tony or any of our settings...that isn't what I am saying. I am just saying think realistically, and realize there is variation in cpu, memory, motherboard, and skills.
Then, lets be even MORE realistic
and realize
that 300FSB has been pretty simple to achieve since NF3 250Gb...as long as you had the right cpu and the right memory, just about any DFI Lanparty board has been able to hit 300FSB...
what you are not realizing is that 300FSB is not hard with the right memory and cpu memory controller...but the maxed out overclocks and the ability to be 100% stable for long periods of time, without your board breaking down or your cpu breaking down, utilizing the lowest timings and lowest voltages etc...that is what is important.
Not 300FSB. We've seen time and time again that 300x9 still gets beat by 275x10 and 280x10 etc because cpu mhz is what is important when it comes to real applications and games.
What I am hoping for though, is that Tony has the ability to creat a bios that will allow ANYONE to hit 300FSB. Because if he can create a bios and just about anyone can max their overclock with ease, then a previous poster (raju) would be correct...that the board does have a lot of polish, and with a great bios it will have a tremendous amount of SHINE.
Remember Tony's BIOS for the original Lanparty NF4?
Oskar's bioses were good, and opened up a lot of paths for us overclockers to hit our goals, but the 7/04-2BT and BTA were the ones that most of us use, and we've continued to use Tony's tweaked bioses ever since.
I've yet to even begin overclocking this board, but as you all know, overclocking is something I am good at but I always leave until last as I feel if a board cannot perform rock solid at stock speed, then it will be utterly useless at overclocked anything (because it won't be overclocking much if it can't run stable at stock).
Plus I am waiting on a nice, more mature bios...just like most of you
no one seemed to complain much when I said these very same things about Nvidia and SLI, nor about the first RDX200 ATI board...I still am wondering why such a big deal now lol...»
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