GIGABYTE DS3 FAQ by CrazyJohn /FAQ on 1st page/

[vintage_guitar]

Anyone having problems hitting high FSBs with DS3 using an IDE hard drive?

Yes, in fact. I was, my wall was under 400. i had to use like 1.6 vcore to hit 400fsb...... no thanks so i took my conroe/mobo right back to fry's where it will stay until this conroe crap is sorted out. It was a week 24 e6400. the next im gonna try to buy is 25+ or wait for kentsfield..or just use 975 chipset

[numbers]

Yes, in fact. I was, my wall was under 400. i had to use like 1.6 vcore to hit 400fsb...... no thanks so i took my conroe/mobo right back to fry's where it will stay until this conroe crap is sorted out. It was a week 24 e6400. the next im gonna try to buy is 25+ or wait for kentsfield..or just use 975 chipset

What bios are you guys using? I'm on F3 and i'm under 350 atm. Passive cooling, and stock volts though. Dont feel like pushing it yet, so maybe tommorow >_>

[wolfman140]

Yup, just spent 3 hours re-wiring my case for better cable management, and put an 80mm fan inside shooting up towards RAM and Northbridge in a very ghetto, twisty-tie style. After all that work, I only see a drop in temps maybe 2C and still can't OC any further (so maybe its not a hot NB after all). So that was a total waste of time, not to mention there is a fan twisty-tied onto power cables in there. Can't be good news.

Well...Whatever. In a couple months I'll just get a water-cooling system and get a NB and VGA waterblock. If I can over clock more from lower temps...awesome. If I can't, well I guess I just have a cooler running system.

Final Specs:
E6400 OC to 3.0 Ghz at 1.34 Vcore
2 gig of Corsair XMS2 DDR2 6400 at 2.10v (running 5-5-5-12 @ 730Mhz)
Leadtek 7900GT 560/760
Silverstone Zeus PSU
And an additional fan twisty-tied down inside the case..woo woo.