Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe - 530FSB 1:1 4-4-3-4

[The Stilt]

After few crappy bios versions Biostar finally managed to fix the overclockability issue(s) of TForce P965 Deluxe board.

The previous versions couldn´t run over 405FSB no matter what setting were used.

With the newest beta bios the problem pretty much... dissapears





CPU-Z validation

Tomorrow I´ll try the 32M calculation and higher frequencies.
Now it is the right time to take couple glasses of Glenfiddich 21yo

The stock MCH heatsink of the board is pretty insufficient.
IIRC the same heatsink was used on Asus A7N8X (nF2) boards, so go and figure what I mean when I say insufficient...

I replaced the original chipset heatsink with MCX-159R from Swiftech.
The MCX-159R is barely warm while the original gave me burn marks with 1.7V voltage.

The mosfets of cpu power cirquit can also run pretty hot if you are using water cooling or heatsink which have vertically mounted fan (like Tuniq Tower 120, Scythe Ninja, CNPS9500 etc) (= no airflow for the mosfets).

My Fluke IR thermometer displayed 67c temperature with 1.45V vcore while the cpu was in idle state. After adding a fan for the mosfets, their temperature dropped to 42c (loaded).

I´m sure that Biostar knows this problem since there are mounting holes for the mosfet heatsink.