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ahhhhhhhh.... Yep, you should be using a PSU with a 12v rated at 28A minimum. The higher the overhead current rating (over what your system needs) for the PSU, the cooler a CPU will run and a higher stable overclock is much more possible to achieve.

As for 1T.... As an electrical engineer I disagree with that site in that conclusion. Although I understand the logic being applied, the real world performance is not the same as the benchmark and 1TCMD will always provide better performance IF the memory can run it. I would say from your posted timings/settings and being the memory you are using is PC4000 rated, that PC4000 rating comes from 2T, loose (high) timing, not from a true high performance curve... and in that you are correct that if you were to purchase TRUE PC4000 memory designed for overclocking, 1TCMD would smoke the memory you are using at lower FSB with tighter memory timing.

As I posted earlier... the memory purchase is the key to the entire overclock and system stability

What you achieved was the best with the quality of memory purchased and that may be why someone told you your 7000 memory benchmarks were considered low, which could be true because you cannot run 1T-2.5 or 1T-2.0 to test. If my 2x1gig PC32000 sticks can hit close to 7000 I would think your system would provide a 7500-8000 score or better with the right memory product, but I am not experienced with your motherboard so what I am saying here is based strictly on education and not specifics.

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What you are describing sounds very much like over-voltage damage. Progressive reduction of performance usually indicates damaged components from heat and/or voltage spikes. It may be the memory itself and not the memory controller or CPU.

PC3200 running @ true DDR600 (300FSB) sounds a bit far fetched to me. Assuming the motherboard would be stable for that speed, the memory would need to be run at very high timing with high voltage and very high efficency heat transfer in place.

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I guess I'd better clear up what I tried to say about the 7000mbs/sec memory bandwidth I achieved.

What I meant was, here I am testing after a few minutes with my new stuff, and I reached that amazingly high memory score with my inexperience, using the default 2T Command Rate and loose ram timings. I wasn't complaining about the score, I was questioning why someone commented on how I should go about it when I probably have a considerably faster system than they do, despite their professed superior settings.

Now, what I really wanted, was for them to justify to me, in evidence or anecdote, the reason why I should change to 1T and dividers and blah blah when I clearly provided graphic descriptions of my success complete with screenshots showing my various settings and achievements.

I want to know what's wrong with doing it my way if it provides results.

As it turned out, I think I've found the answers since then. For one thing, there is a different concept applied with the type of RAM I bought, it runs at lower voltages on the overclock, loose timings and a very high speed as standard.

I did manage to run and test the RAM at CAS 2 and 1T (as I flew dogfights online for 4 hrs tonight straight, the PC locked up as I left the game!) This was at 2.9Vram 2-3-3-6 1T , memory set to 5:6 divider, memory 220mhz (DDR440), 2886mhz on the CPU and HTT at 272mhz x 10.5

I managed to get a tiny improvement in my 3D MArk '05 score, a matter of a few dozen points. I'll retest using the other settings soon.

What does seem apparent, is that the CPU speed has a lot more influence than the memory bandwidth on performance in these new systems. I theorise that system bandwidth is more than adequate on this type of rig, so the only thing slowing it down is the CPU. This was reflected tonight in my 3D Mark score, slightly up and in proportion to the slightly higher overclock I managed to get stable on my CPU with lower memory speeds. I doubt very much that the 1T command rate and tighter timings at a lower memory speed had anything to do with it.

Well yes but at least on the NF4 where I am very familiar. I have yet to see a system on tight timings low fsp outperform high fspand loose tmings(on NF4) can't speak for any other systems. I cant belive the xbox360 is water cooled, wow I wonder how they pulled that off.