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Old February 2, 2008, 06:08 PM
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I have the latest version of CPU-Z. I think it's probably my ram holding me back. It was sale of the week stuff from Anitec.
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Old February 2, 2008, 06:41 PM
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I never oc'ed Gskill sticks - but all my sticks (DDR2-800) need 2.2 - 2.3V to run at 500MHz. Vram is set at 2.1V? May be too low for the FSB you are trying.
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Old February 2, 2008, 06:59 PM
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Yup, was using 2.1V on the last couple of attempts. I'll push into the red zone on the settings on my next try.
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Old February 2, 2008, 07:03 PM
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If you do, make sure the sticks are properly cooled.
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Old February 2, 2008, 07:18 PM
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K Gentlemen! Here's a follow up on my somewhat too premature (in Layman's terms: too quick & dumb) overview of this board! Please note that these results are still not final since I have very little time atm.....(Unfortunately my wife had to be hospitalized, she and our future baby boy are going to be fine though and I'm actually writing this post on my break from the hospital)

After editing my first post....erasing some of the negative points (because I found out that it wasn't as bad as I thought), here are some of my findings:

The BIOS is....let's say different from what I'm used to! After getting some handy tips from the guys here(THX )....I got a lot more settings done the way I wanted them.

The NB is indeed very hot but that is easily solved by adding a quiet fan on it.

The vCore droop that I mentioned, should be compensated by upping the voltages a bit, however I also noticed the RAM voltages to be off a bit. ( More on this when I grab my multimeter)

As for results: I managed to get the CPU running fully Orthos stable(8 hours) at 3.6GHz on only 1.39V(that is after compensation!!!) Very good in my opinion! My 680i required 1.43V.

My RAM is stable at 1000MHz on 5-4-4-8 timings at only 2.05V! Now that is also incredible! Stock voltage for 1066MHz is 2.2V. Once again....a few more hours of fine-tuning and I'm sure we'll get better results!

I ran 3DM06 on my old and new mobo, same clocks on CPU and GPU.

12974 3DM06 with the P35 on XP. RAM 1000MHz at 5-4-4-8-2t
SM2.0 = 5784
SM3.0 = 5815
CPU = 3252

12588 3DM06 with the 680i on Vista. RAM 900MHz at 4-4-4-12-1t
SM2.0 = 5572
SM3.0 = 5661
CPU = 3174

As you know....the only important score is the CPU score, since Vista & XP use different driver versions for the videocard. Almost a 100 points increase over the 680i! Once again...NOT BAD! Overall a 400 point increase due to the P35 and XP?? I think that's sweet!

Being a nVidia fanboy (I'll admit it okay??) I tought the P35 board was going to be outperformed, since my 680i always performed top notch! Although I haven't had this board that long, I must say, the ease of use, its stability and overclockability are already making this a better board for just one reason. I bought my P35 for $ 88 but my 680i costed me $ 220 !!! Stay tuned for more results, coming some time soon!
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Old February 2, 2008, 07:27 PM
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Awesome. Glad the board worked out for you. For $88 you can't go wrong. All this talk has convinced me to get that board again and pair with an E8400 and my Mushkin EM-6400. 4.0GHz here I come baby

You need to make one more edit now that you have found a liking to this board and that's in your sig. You should take out the next to the board IMHO. LOL
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Old February 2, 2008, 07:32 PM
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Hahahahaha THX, did that while you were writing this post! Now gotta run back to hospital! TTYL!
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Old February 2, 2008, 07:38 PM
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Told you it's a good board. Get used to the BIOS, and you'll be amazed with that board and for the price you paid. Keep us posted regarding the DMM on the Vram; I'm real curious about that.
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BTW congrats on the pregnancy . Is it your first? When is your wife due?

You have a future gamer there one that you can mold.
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YES, he's our first! We're almost seven months underway and the lady should be due April 23rd. As for the future gamer....Hmmm....We'll start out with some real sports first, before we start playing games on our computer! He's already gotten ice skates and a hockey stick for Christmas....so I'm sure he's dying to start that first....LOL!
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