8INXP users, lend me your ears ...

[Walt]

Can someone tell me what "Top Performance" does exactly in BIOS. From my travails it just causes me to have a warm-boot issue, so I want to know exactly what is being tweaked so I can isolate a potential problem.

BTW - I've had this thing for 3 weeks now, running my 2.4B SL6EF Week 5 03 Malay @ 3.06 GHz (170FSB) at default voltage (although the board overvolts to 1.63v default). My XMS3500 is barely raising a sweat running at 340MHz 2-2-2-5. This is a very good and stable board once I figured out that enabling TP was a bad thing for my config anyway.

So can anyone shed some light pls?

[Ragnor]

There is no standard for "Top Performance" it seems each manufacturer does there own thing with no documentation of what settings are actually changing.

Thus Corsair, other ram brands and most PCI cards are not gauranteed to run under so called "Top Performance" settings.

You are best off loading the defaults / standard settings / optimal defaults etc and making your own selective changes for performance enhancement.

Similar question what asked just the other day... See this thread for further detail:
http://forums.overclockers.co.nz/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6204

[Walt]

OK the penny drops ... TP is the collective name for a group of settings. Excuse my ignorance, I have never had a mobo with "standard", "normal", "TP" or whatever. In all cases I have tweaked each and every myself setting manually myself.

As I will continue to do ... forget about TP then ...

Thanks for your help.

[Lycan]

Top performance adds 3Mhz to your FSB.

It is ignored if you are running anything but the standard bus speed.