Hey,
I honestly don't know what you mean with bios' alpha timings. But if it's the same thing as the bios' romsip table then ignore the following. What i did hear was the this.
If you set your fsb to 166 mhz, the bios implements a more agressive romsip table. Try to overclock from that setting in Windows. I know of at least one user gaining performance that way.
At any rate, i did the same test you did in super_pi. However I do get better results than you while my fsb and cpu speed are a bit lower. I am running dual channel so that might explain it.
these are my results. Don't be fooled by the other results, they are at 215x12 which i don't get a 100% stable in dual channel mode.
I was in the meantime typing the stuff above, using Opera.
I'm using 2 Western Digital 160gb 8mb cache in RAID 0 on the nvraid interface. I also have 2 other disks, one on the pata and one on the silicon image.
Btw, do you get the same
OC results with the same cpu in all nforce2 boards you used? I assume you use at least once the same cpu when you switched mobos.
Also, if the bios' alpha timings are not the same as the romsip, could you give a short explanation and a link?
My previous rig was an abit kr7a-raid with a mobile 2400 so that won't be much of a fair comparison.
I don't know if you tried the integrated firewall? My findings with it are a bit on the negative side. While browsing with Opera it can slow down any loading website for even 30 seconds.
The rest of my system is in my sig, i'm using winxp pro sp1.
I also may have more info, but then ask because nothing really pops in mind.
Cheers dude
Oh and I too am happy with the board. It's brought me the performance I wanted without spending too much. Of course any performance gained is gladly taken