I didn't write anything about my tests of different multipliers, as I had promised before, because my mobo passed away 3 days ago. I was trying out some different case fans and after I plugged in a no-name 0.13A 80mm fan to one of the two fan conectors near the socket, something burnt. It's an electronic path/track (whatever) that leads form the middle pin (+12v) of those two connecotrs to a PLL chip near the CPU mosfeds.
@#$%^&* - I have plugged in and unplugged dozens of fans, hundreds of times an nothing like that has ever happened. Got a new one - rev.1.4. (some voltage tweaks, if I should believe in the USDM readings, nothing changed in the layout, the same capacitors and so on).
More news on Merlin's bios and my new G.Skill mem sticks later.
cheers guys!
The new bios - no news from Merlin - I've written something about it here :
http://www.aoaforums.com/forum/showt...095#post298095