Quote Originally Posted by cadaveca View Post
Yeah nealh, your new board is working. It might need some spanking to get in line, but then it really sounds as if your ram is starting to die. I'm sure you've seen the other threads here on those sticks...your probably came form teh same batch...ordered when the "huzzah" was going around. I did too...those sticks are toast.
UGH....are you saying this becasue it will not run at 500mhz anymore..or did you note something else in my posts

I was impressed last night when I was able to do 451 4-4-4-4-18 at 2.1v, when I was only on my old board to 500 with 2.2v 5-6-5-5-18
I should note if I give the ram 2.23v=bios 2.25v reading(vs 2.2v bios setting on old=2.22v) ..I was able to run a few passes at 500 5-6-5-5-18 with 3115mb/sec with cpu at 3500...but I really want to keep the ram from max voltage as I saw so many sets die

my biggest concern is going to be chipset temps....Ambient temps are going up...my room last night 76F/24c...idle chipset temps are now 54/55..by summer in florida I will have 25/26C ambients

I am serious looking at WCing block but I really hate the idea of rd600 specific block and while I like a MCW30..I am not sure the clip menchanism will keep a good tight fit with my tube routing

I could not get my Microcool Whisper XE to fit correctly with shim in place and was concerned I would damge the core without it

Considering a Swiftech MCX 159CU..now

And yes, this board is a bit disappointing. But it's an old chipset hanging with the top guns, and not doing all that shabby, so i don't mind much. But 975x is much faster, in everything, it seems.
I realize the chipset is older technology..though realy did not understand this until after buying...only 975x board I like was the Badaxe2....but reports did not seem to show consistent 400+ fsb(though for me in the end it does not matter as I cant run 3600) and the lack of lower multiplier

There are large holes is performance...if you check back to some of Tony's posts from when this board first came out, as well as eva2000's, you'll find that there are 3-4mhz holes where performance falls behind, due to the offset of the cpu bus and memory bus on the chipset.
this seems to be a bug a boo for all intel boards....

you must pick numbers that divide evenly, or performance suffers.
are you referring I assume to fsb and ram speed? do they need to divide evenly as a given number ie cpu speed 384 vs 385..or cpu vs memory speeds ..384 vs 451(cant do 450 in bios)