Testing / comparing : Intel D975XBX2 / Asus P5B DX ***56K WARNING***

[GamingDaemon]

I've been thinking a lot about some of the different perspectives on overclocking in this thread, and I may have changed my original goals. I bought the parts for the rig a week and a half ago and put it together last Friday night / Saturday morning (3/10). I bought DDR2-800 memory and the E6600 and the BadAxe2 so I could overclock to 400FSB and have 1:1 on the memory.

I can, I did it, it worked. But then I backed off. The temps were high and I was not sure if I had the voltages too high.

As I read thru the posts here, I started thinking about balance between high performance, the thrill of overclocking, and what I really wanted to do with this PC. I use it mainly for work (software development) and gaming (that's why I bought the 8800GTX).

Given that, I think I like where I'm at now. Can someone (gtj?) tell me if this is a good setup? I am at 350FSB, with 1:1 on memory at 4-4-4-12 and temps at 50C under load (32C idle) at stock vcore and 2.04 voltage for memory (G.Skill 2x1GB sticks). I'm a little worried about the 50C temps, but then I don't have the big 250mm side fan for my Enermax Chakra (didn't work, RMA'ing it) so all I have is the Zalman 9700LED and 2 120mm fans.

I could probably overclock higher, but I think this is a good balance for me. So, are my core temps too high under load? Are my memory timings good? Are the voltages ok? Thanks in advance...