Abit is back in the game

[jaguarking11]

Any news?

[ty42]

Ok, I broke down and bought a new DS3. It’s "nice" now. I have my pc in my garage and need a reliable/stable PC there.

Now, I can also run FSB 330M stable (remember, my pc is the garage and it can reach 35C there easily. I don't push too high there. i was able to go higher in the house). I'm using Intel retail box heat sink for the CPU. RAM voltage is at 2v and everything else are at their default value in F4 BIOS (well, I had to set *correct* voltage for CPU manually there but...).

I have both XPSP2 and Vista going fine. One thing I noticed is that NB gets really hot. More so than AB9 (I have AB9Pro). Could that mean either heat pipe is working well or Abit is under volting NB or DS3 is over volting NB. On DS3, I have MCH at default voltage. To run my Ab9 305M stable, I had to bump MCH voltage and heat sink wasn't that hot. Could it be that NB is very much under the BIOS set voltage or heat pipe working so well???