Do NOT upgrade to X38 chipset from P35!

[OnLine]

What board are you using now? From what I have seen alot of BIOS's have added support for 45nm even as old as P5B Deluxe.

Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 (rev. 1.0) doesn't support 1333 FSB CPU's and Gigabyte will never add this support.
So I def need a new mobo, but I don't mind buying a new one as long as the purchase can be justified.
This E6600 & GA-965P-S3 couple has treated me well, I think they deserve to die togheter, don't You think?!

[Zucker2k]

Two of my least favorite components right now are my Asus P5E (X38), and my Corsair Dominator 8500Ds. Well, just this evening, after fighting the system for two days, I set the strap to 333, CPU vcore 1.300, mem to 2.34 and pushed the fsb to 410 and was greeted with this:

Edit: Everything else was set to auto

Edit: I know, my chip rocks! I think its still quite early, at least let's wait till bioses mature. I'm beginning to revere my board now.

[Zucker2k]

This is where it topped out, or rather there was a strap change here. When I get adventurous enough I will try to run a little higher manually. I haven't tried benching yet since I'm waiting for something to blow any second. I noticed, ATi control panel failed to load. But, it is good enough for MS Paint, and IE7 since I'm posting in this thread with this setting right now.

Bios settings:

vcore: 1.352 (1.375 set in bios)
vdimm: 2.4 set in bios
NB: 1.59 set in bios

Everything else auto

[NapalmV5]

Fact of the matter is this, Motherboard and quad core overclocking is a very immature concept and it will be about another year before you can get something that can handle it for long term without blowing the board up.

Now if all you want to do is blow sh*t up then theres plenty of options currently available because overall it just puts too much strain on the NB /Memory controller and the rest of the voltages across the board to compensate.

My 2cents don't kick me in the nuts!

unfortunately theres no smilie for that LOL

but its a lot better than the 975x which im upgrading from

i didnt bother with p965/p35 im sure im missing one since 975x

[cadaveca]

Well, I must say, I did the P35-to-X38 upgrade, and haven't had a second thought about it.

[mXpS]

Well, I must say, I did the P35-to-X38 upgrade, and haven't had a second thought about it.

I'm torn right now only because x48 seems to be coming shortly after x38, but i'm not sure what kind of difference we will see between the two.

[theonlybabyface]

I'd wait...

[Praz]

P35 chipset for comparision.