Quote Originally Posted by sesdave View Post
Not too much of a problem as they are only releasing a new BIOS about every 3 months-lol!
How you getting on with your E6600/E6850 overclocking? If the E6850 is a good chip it should be good for 4.0Ghz plus on this board with the right settings - especially if its an ES. This is a good test example with an E6600 http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=155116
Ya its crazy with them bios releases. We are all being used for R&D and should be on the Asus payroll They love to just put the products out and leave the testing to to us. But it's really better that way, I am sure,there's nobody there that has a clue anyway. Not at least if the tech support team is any indicator of the brain power over there.

Well the E6850 ended up in my wifes MSI P35 Platinium, I just bumped the FSB had it Running in her rig @ 3.3 but had it at 3.6 testing. I took your advise and picked Up a new Yorkfield quad core 2.33 ES 2 X 6 cache 45nm. Seen some other test samples out there doing some nice numbers. I got it for the same guy I that had my last e6850.

Right now I my rig running e6600 running at 3.15 and prime stable had it up to 3.4 for a bit and ran prime for a few hours. I did not like the temps I was seeing so, I am back on the hunt for a new water cool sys. I have been delayed getting wife's rig back so have not had much time for mine. (Remember) *lol* I thought I would let stay right where its at for now and do the new LCS and the Yorky at the same time

Oh BTW that little Program you told me about to make a boot drive. STAY FAR AWAY !!!!! If you hit the wrong button it will eat your c: drive instantly (and it did eat mine on a spare rig I have) and it did not work for me. I got a program like it from HP Works in Vista X64 just fine you just need to set your folder views to show hidden sys files so it can copy the bootsector right from a floppy and that worked great.

I would think it will be a week of so now for me to get back to testing on the Yorky. I think this will get some interest here for real, not many care about clocking up and old E6600 but now a chip that not even released that should be fun!! I got the thing for $100 to boot. I saw the CPUZ shots at 3.2 running cool and pretty low voltage but off the top of my head don't remember to numbers, just the fact that I was impressed with its numbers and 15000+ with a 8800gs it did 15000+ 3Dmark 6, So stay tuned. I will post the results and let you all know how that works out.ASAP