Asus P5B (vanilla) Overview

[Timbosan]

Thanks for the great answers. Here is some info from Everest. I am looking at 3 different processors:

E6300
E6320
E6600

I will be doing a little of everything (some over clocking, Games, video editing etc.)

the e6600 is probably best for you if you can afford to pay that bit more. The e6300 can hit 3GHz + but you need nice ram to go with it. e6320 are nice due to extra cache, but again the ram would probably be your limiter.
With the 6600 you may hit ~3.6GHz, (9 x 400) and with the ram at 1:1 it would be running at 800 MHz. My 2c.

PS -- Good start with system, try running the ram closer to 1:1 (lower its divider & speed) and wind up the cpu it should do much more than that

[nownot]

i just got this mb from a friend v 1.01. my ram is 2.2v so im looking to possibly doing the vdimm mod if i can on this version, so looking for diagrams etc for that. also i have a e6300 on stock cooling running at 7*400 max temp is at 58c. orthos is running now, vcore at 1.3125 wondering what is the max i should put vcore up to on this board w/ the vdroop on stock cooling, aftermarket V1, or just all around number to not go past, or is it all Dependant on temp of cores. thanks for any help.

[htredneck]

the e6600 is probably best for you if you can afford to pay that bit more. The e6300 can hit 3GHz + but you need nice ram to go with it. e6320 are nice due to extra cache, but again the ram would probably be your limiter.
With the 6600 you may hit ~3.6GHz, (9 x 400) and with the ram at 1:1 it would be running at 800 MHz. My 2c.

PS -- Good start with system, try running the ram closer to 1:1 (lower its divider & speed) and wind up the cpu it should do much more than that

Thanks for the help a few weeks back Timbosan. I have recently changed from Prescott 3.0 to E6600. What a difference! Anyway, I have been changing things around with pretty good results although I am not exactly sure what I am doing

I have a few questions:
1. What reading on Coretemp or Speedfan tells the northbridge temp? I hesitate to go farther without knowing as the heatsink on the northbridge on my P5B Vanilla is cheep.

2. I haven´t changed the voltage on ram yet because I don´t really understand it. It is set on auto. I have slowly been lowering the voltage on the CPU VCore to lower temps. What else can I try?