Quote Originally Posted by sesdave View Post
This utility to make you USB bootable for future flashes should help ease the pain http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport...X-UNITY-I23839
I also noticed that my CPU temp reported 10c higher than 0402 did with 0404 but I am only concerned with Copretemps which were reported the same - running 33c on my Q6600 idle air 60c load. Using PC Wizard to report temps. My old E6600 on a P5W DH used to need BIOS settings of vcore 1.5v (vdroop was higher than premium) FSB =1.3, NB=1.55,SB=1.2 to run 400x9. That idled 46c load 60c lapped with an Arctic Freezer Pro with AS5. I now use MX-2 as no cure time. Check your HS seating - if 65c is the Core load temp that seems high for water cooling at the speed your running at. A lot of the E6600 weren't capable of 3.6 whatever the volts - from what I remember they did run pretty hot as you pumped the volts up!. I would also run T2 until you get your o/c stable .

Thanks For the link (Sesdave) I installed coretemp now also as I am using vista 64 I did not really want to deal with that F8 option boot to disable driver signing thing, but I did it anyway so I could prime test last night. WAAHHH HOOO ! STABLE!! My temp with core temp fully loaded was about 60C and Idle temp is at about 32C.

Oh ya PCmark 6 did 10900 I am not reall sure yet if thats good and I have not done softside sandra bandwith test yet but when I get all the test in and finish up tweaking I will post them.

The one thing is I am sure, the TT tribe unit is a childs toy not a real water system the pump is one of the slowest units TT ever made and the rad is no great thing either the only reason I bought it was I got it last year when I was OC,ing my AMD sandy core and it was on closeout for $40 after a rebate. Since the unit served me well but its days are numbered and the water block is OK but again 1/4 lines? Yuck !

I am using Zalman grease and did reset the water block on the cpu once and did see that helped. I think the grease had somehow settled over the year since I used it, so I gave it a stir with a toothpick, re-applyed and it seemed to work much better after that. I want to try The liqiud metal stuff next when I set up my new cooling and lap the CPU.

I have not been using T1 timings yet in this bios and have added no voltage and feel sure with good cooling and some added voltage here and there I should see some great results with this chip revision B2 Stepping 6 . I believe B2 chips have done pretty well. My CPU Voltage seems right dead @1.3 on auto. I am sure that a 1 GHZ overclock is sure with nothing more to do but a bump more in FSB but I will withhold from that untill better cooling is installed.

P5K p Vdroop whats that? *lol* the best thing about this board is thats all but history it may be a pain in the arse to work the bugs out on this thing but its the king of Vcore damping.


Again Thanks big time for your help!!!
This Forum Rocks I mostly sandbagged here in the past because my last system was not so Extreme.