Ping_Phil W. Striker Extreme OC

Finally got around to OC'ing this thing. I notice one thing right away,
and that is the cooler MB/NB temps. The board comes with a small fan for
cooling the NB HS that clips right on. It is silent so no noise problems.
The manual says you only need it for water cooling, but I would use it
anyway just to help keep the NB as cool as possible. My first attempt to
boot failed and I checked the small LCD on the back panel and it said "CPU
INIT". I immediately removed and cleaned the contacts on the bottom of the
E6600, reinstalled it and voila.......good post and boot into XP. I didn't
even do a repair install since it has the same basic chipset as the P5N32E.
I even managed to save my two raid arrays and data that I had already backed
up just in case. So, other than me 'most likely' getting a fingerprint on my
CPU..... (I would never, ever do such a thing), everything went pretty
much flawlessly as far as the changeover. That little LCD could be a
lifesaver for troubleshooting post issues.
As far as overclocking, I went directly from 2.4ghz to 3.0ghz since I
knew my CPU would do that easily. It was completely stable there and I was
surprized That my memory speed, set auto, was at 1000......and very stable.
On the other board, my memory would not run at all over about 833. I
eventually got the CPU up to 3.2ghz and memory up to 1066 and that is where
I am now. I ran Memtest and Orthos with no issues and CPU temps stayed under
50c and MB at 39-41c. The MB comes with 3 thermistors that you can place
anywhere so I put one in the center of the case, one between memory HS and
module and the third I taped to a HDD in the center of the rack. Case temp
was 26c, memory under stress was 45c and HDD at 40c.
The new bios from a week or so ago supports all 1333 processors and
added better memory support and overclocking improvements for 1333
processors, so it claims. I flashed it and saw no difference for my system
at all. That is where I am now and I may try higher after I run at this
speed for awhile just to see if I have any issues.

Ed

'Ed Medlin' wrote:
| Finally got around to OC'ing this thing. I notice one thing right away,
| and that is the cooler MB/NB temps. The board comes with a small fan for
| cooling the NB HS that clips right on. It is silent so no noise problems.
| The manual says you only need it for water cooling, but I would use it
| anyway just to help keep the NB as cool as possible. My first attempt to
| boot failed and I checked the small LCD on the back panel and it said "CPU
| INIT". I immediately removed and cleaned the contacts on the bottom of the
| E6600, reinstalled it and voila.......good post and boot into XP. I didn't
| even do a repair install since it has the same basic chipset as the
P5N32E.
| I even managed to save my two raid arrays and data that I had already
backed
| up just in case. So, other than me 'most likely' getting a fingerprint on
my
| CPU..... (I would never, ever do such a thing), everything went pretty
| much flawlessly as far as the changeover. That little LCD could be a
| lifesaver for troubleshooting post issues.
| As far as overclocking, I went directly from 2.4ghz to 3.0ghz since I
| knew my CPU would do that easily. It was completely stable there and I was
| surprized That my memory speed, set auto, was at 1000......and very
stable.
| On the other board, my memory would not run at all over about 833. I
| eventually got the CPU up to 3.2ghz and memory up to 1066 and that is
where
| I am now. I ran Memtest and Orthos with no issues and CPU temps stayed
under
| 50c and MB at 39-41c. The MB comes with 3 thermistors that you can place
| anywhere so I put one in the center of the case, one between memory HS
and
| module and the third I taped to a HDD in the center of the rack. Case temp
| was 26c, memory under stress was 45c and HDD at 40c.
| The new bios from a week or so ago supports all 1333 processors and
| added better memory support and overclocking improvements for 1333
| processors, so it claims. I flashed it and saw no difference for my system
| at all. That is where I am now and I may try higher after I run at this
| speed for awhile just to see if I have any issues.
_____

I'm jealous. I suppose your new motherboard reports on a lot of other
things more that two fan speeds and more than CPU and motherboard
temperature B^) I still can't find a reliable system monitor application
that will work with my EVA 680i even though the some of the system monitor
applications claim to recognize the Winbond chip used. I have had the best
results so far with 'Sensor View Pro 3.1 as it reports a temperature that
may from be the Northbridge chip. Of course I have to use a pretty hefty
temperature offset, but the results do track a different pattern of system
usage (as shown by Orthos) than the CPU or motherboard temperature.

I've flashed my BIOS three times with successive updates - never noticed a
change. At the moment I'm overclocking my E4300 / EVGA 680i / ThermalTake
i1 at 2.84 GHz (1420 MHz FSB, 8X multiplier) and stock CPU core voltage.
nVidia Control Panel (1.4.100.56) reports 3197.656 MHz with a 1598.828 MHz
FSB! However in 'Adjust Motherboard Settings' the CPU speed and FSB speed
is reported correctly.

I guess I'm going to be sticking with this for a while. Later this week,
when the Georgia sales tax holiday (8% where I live) kicks in, I will order
a Dell notebook with an nVidia 8600M GT. I need a notebook and it will give
me a look at Vista and DX10.

Phil Weldon



"Ed Medlin" <ed.TakeThisOut@edmedlin.com> wrote in message
news:Xdmri.53720$5j1.43528@newssvr21.news.prodigy.net...
| Finally got around to OC'ing this thing. I notice one thing right away,
| and that is the cooler MB/NB temps. The board comes with a small fan for
| cooling the NB HS that clips right on. It is silent so no noise problems.
| The manual says you only need it for water cooling, but I would use it
| anyway just to help keep the NB as cool as possible. My first attempt to
| boot failed and I checked the small LCD on the back panel and it said "CPU
| INIT". I immediately removed and cleaned the contacts on the bottom of the
| E6600, reinstalled it and voila.......good post and boot into XP. I didn't
| even do a repair install since it has the same basic chipset as the
P5N32E.
| I even managed to save my two raid arrays and data that I had already
backed
| up just in case. So, other than me 'most likely' getting a fingerprint on
my
| CPU..... (I would never, ever do such a thing), everything went pretty
| much flawlessly as far as the changeover. That little LCD could be a
| lifesaver for troubleshooting post issues.
| As far as overclocking, I went directly from 2.4ghz to 3.0ghz since I
| knew my CPU would do that easily. It was completely stable there and I was
| surprized That my memory speed, set auto, was at 1000......and very
stable.
| On the other board, my memory would not run at all over about 833. I
| eventually got the CPU up to 3.2ghz and memory up to 1066 and that is
where
| I am now. I ran Memtest and Orthos with no issues and CPU temps stayed
under
| 50c and MB at 39-41c. The MB comes with 3 thermistors that you can place
| anywhere so I put one in the center of the case, one between memory HS
and
| module and the third I taped to a HDD in the center of the rack. Case temp
| was 26c, memory under stress was 45c and HDD at 40c.
| The new bios from a week or so ago supports all 1333 processors and
| added better memory support and overclocking improvements for 1333
| processors, so it claims. I flashed it and saw no difference for my system
| at all. That is where I am now and I may try higher after I run at this
| speed for awhile just to see if I have any issues.
|
| Ed
|
|