Right now I'm running at the specs in sig. I was having many memory errors in memtest which were entirely alleviated by increasing the voltage of the MCH and FSB both by +1. After that at 5-5-5-15 (haven't messed with lowered timings) it passes 2 instances of memtest at 800mb/each and at least 10 min of single instance P95 (0 errors I just stopped the test.) I don't do anything IMO that is more stressful than 10 min of uninterrupted P95 so if it passes that point I'm usually satisfied.
My goal is at least 3.5ghz on this DS-3, right now I'm just happy to have it stable and will stick with this for awhile. The system is massively fast, and I'm quite pleased.
BTW, my temps in CoreTemp on 1 instance P95 are 44c for both cores with an ambient of about 85F. (Hot day.) In Smartguardian however my CPU temp idles at 23 right now, and loads w/ P95 in the 31-33 range.
The DS-3, Big Typhoon and Antec P180 compliment each other well. The cpu is right next to both vents on my case, the BTHSF is literally tucked a quarter inch away from both fans which are running at high speed, along with a 120mm fan on top of the HSF also at high speed. In colder weather Smartguardian actually shows temps in the high teens at idle. I also think the mounting went well
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