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Originally Posted by chessmyantidrug 
Thanks. I found most of them using Google, it was just time-consuming. I couldn't find anything extensive on the memory timings, though. I'd really like to have every last value manually inputted into my BIOS.
And I'd still like to know the safe limits for the voltages. I find a different value everywhere I look. The most common value I see flying around here is 1.3625 on the CPU. I've seen people at other forums claim anything up to 1.5 is safe.
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Don't bother yourself with the timings (like I said, aside from the main 4), it'll take you years to find the right values and the most you'll gain if you filled all of them to your memory's most optimal and optimized settings are a couple megahertz more, really.
I'm not sure if your CPU is 65 or 45nm, the general max safe voltage on top end air for 65nm is ~1.5. Personally with my Tuniq, which was last years top end, I can't go over 1.45 without climbing over 80C, which isn't safe at all.
Don't bother with CPU PLL voltage, much like the rest of the RAM timings, it won't help your OC, and anything higher over the default 1.5 (for 65nm at least) will severly hurt your CPU (from what I read). 1.6 should be the very max for that one.
DRAM voltage=RAM voltages, it will vary depending on your RAM, but for the most part, with DDR2 the stock voltages are plenty even for your highest CPU OC (2.1 in my case), don't go over 2.3V with this one unless you want to hurt your RAM.
Leave the two SB voltages alone, they won't do anything for your OC either, they manage the SATA drives and other peripherals.
NB and FSB termination voltage are both very important if you OC past ~430 FSB. Don't bump NB over 1.6 unless you have water, and don't do over 1.55 with the top most air. FSB term varies but usually 1.45V is overkill.
Loadline Calibration is a very nice feature as a replacement for the pencil mod. It eliminates vdroop (your CPU voltages will be constant regardless of idle/load) this is my best friend when overclocking and simplifies your CPU voltages by a lot. This is safe for 65nm but I read that it can kill 45nm chips, but I think that's bull****.
Make sure you disable the spread spectrums, I'm not positive on what they're for but they hinder overclocking and I believe they're legacy features.
Again, I'd ignore all the RAM stuff and leave them on auto unless you've been overclocking RAM since computers came out, otherwise you wouldn't know the first thing of what they do, and I doubt anyone here as much of a clue, either