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Your choice, of course, but why only 3.5GHz when more than likely it will go quite a bit higher with no effort? You might be sitting on a diamond of a chip and not even know it unless you start digging. I say crank that sucker up to 4GHz if you can reach it.

Nah, me neither. :( Damn Q820's... 1.40v for 4.33GHz. Booo!

It was changed to 100. You are referring to Core Temp 0.99.3, right? If so, it's 100.

I'd say save yourself some money and get an E8400 or E8500. This is coming from an E8600 owner.

Blimey! Less than half an hour? :eek: Well, I hope your next one is a golden one. Good luck mate.

It is a great chip, no doubt. The thing is it's easy for some people to get caught up in all the hype, and when they find out certain week #'s are not even as good as the older E8400 non-E0's, they get disappointed, knowing they have just paid a high price for a chip that doesn't clock as good...

I just saw it. It sold, congrats. BTW, if Devious got 4.5GHz with that Q22 batch under water cooling, what do you think your chances of getting anything faster than your current (just sold) chip are under air? Just out of interest, how long was the auction running before it sold?

You'll need an extractor tool. You pull the old chip out and put the new one in, and that's pretty much all there is to it. It's not difficult. Just be sure that the new chip's legs are straight and perfectly in line. There will be a notch in the chip which you must align with the notch in the...

Get an E8500, but make sure it's the E0 version. If you want my honest opinion, the E8600 is a nice chip but it's overpriced. If you get an E8500 that doesn't hit 4GHz I'll eat my own footwear. Currently there's a few E8600's floating around that are not too impressive.

Download everything from the Asus site. Don't even think about the included drivers CD! I had loads of problems with Asus drivers when using them from a CD on a Q6600 system I built for a friend. They would take ages to install, then I couldn't boot into Windows afterwards. Awful drivers.

I'm interested to see what the E5200 can do. Should be a good chip. I would go for the P5Q-E board, though. It's only about £10 more.

Aw man, that's not fair. How about returning it for RMA?

Willhub, is that 1.424 actual, as read from CPU-Z, or 1.424 set in BIOS? Mine is doing quite well with the Ultima 90. Still testing, though. I don't want to go over 1.4V.

We mean raise the numbers. Higher numbers = looser timings. It will also run slightly slower, but you won't really notice a difference in the real world. Looser timings = higher overclock. You can tighten RAM timings later on, one step at a time. Congrats on your first proper OC!

Ah, well there's no way I get my information from guys at the pub. For starters, I don't drink or go to pubs! The reason I do it was because it's something we did at the official AMD forums many years ago when most boards at the time didn't have PCI locks. I figured there's no harm in doing it...

It started with this: And this:

I didn't. I was gonna give Azza my email address, actually. What we do outside the forums is nobody else's business. It's OK because I already found and emailed the competitor who said yes, they will be stocking it, but price is yet to be announced. I want this thing, it's amazing. Only thing...

You know, I think you're correct about this. And still I do it "to be on the safe side". Old habits die hard. :)

Well, this is the best I can do. It's for the P5Q Pro, but most options are the same. Just be careful going over 500 FSB. Some people trashed Windows doing it. P5Q Pro BIOS explanation Some of the options in this guide may differ slightly depending on the CPU you are using and BIOS revision...

Ah yes. Good choice. ;) Lower the CPU multiplier by a couple of numbers to take it out of the equation. Set the max DRAM voltage your RAM can take. Loosen timings or maybe leave them on Auto. Set Performance Level / Ai Transaction Booster to a high-ish number (maybe 10 or something). Crank...