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Well I got my E6600 stable at 3.7 which is not bad, left it overnight on orthos. Actually got it up to 3.93 but bombed out after a few mins.

Now, if I could get 4gb ram running it would be sweet. :) Don't really want to buy some more ram right now. I think I'll hold out for a future bios that might fix it. But as you said Cotti, these latest Asus boards do seem to have trouble with ocz ram. My P5N32 also refused to run 4x1gb
 
Cotti said:
No mine wont run OCZ ram at all now it ran 2 sticks fine at first 1066 but wouldent run 4 at any speed. The exact same thing happened with my P5KC as well (I actually RMA'd it but it came back ok) and I know the ram is fine because Ive tested in a friends setup. Both boards in the end refused to boot at all with OCZ in them stopping before the monitor initiated in the boot cycle. So in the end I got the ballistix 6400 and Im now running 4gb rock solid no probs at 800 4-4-4-12. The only conclusion I draw from that is the new ASUS's simply dont like PC8500 OCZ. I hope this helps you both.
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Asus boards generally prefer 6400 ram to 8500. This issue also affected the commando and striker extreme boards
 
hardc0re_tid said:
right so whats happening with this board, you guys are putting me off getting it more and more, its the board i had my heart set on :(

good to go, or stay clear?
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Personally, apart from my ram probs I think its a great board. Tons of features and been having great fun tweaking stuff. Also clocks my ram/cpu better than I could achieve on the P5N.
 
The waterblock seems to be working well my NB is at 37c well into a four core stress test at 3ghz not to much vdroop either 0.04v. This board is by far the most stable of my recent MB's (DS3P,P5KC and this one).

Very happy with it!:D
 
The GTL settings are too limited atm for finer tuning at higher fsb's on the current bios releases, I don't know yet if this is set to change or if Asus will further the Auto manipulation.

We are working on an article for Anandtech and perhaps a bios guide on how to overclock the board. It will take a couple of weeks minimum to get anyting up but we will try..

For anyone interested the DFI P35 article was the first I worked on with Gary, you can check it out over at the site. In the future a more standard set of tests will be run to compare like for like on performance boards (as much as is possible)..

regards
Raja
 
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auto settings for overclocking quads seem to fare better than trying to set them manually. Just found the correct Vdimm point, seems the PC probe is not far out after all..

So far it needs more maturity to match the DFI p35 board, but I think it can come with time. We have noticed the same weakness on the X38 with D9gkx based modules that we experienced on the P35..

regards
Raja
 
Well I have mine now and have removed all the heatsinks. I wasn't prepared for how well the NB was stuck down! 30 secs with a hairdryer and it popped right off though. Glad I still have a maze 4 chipset block floating around as with a few bolts made up it will fit right on :).
 
Well Im gona settle on 3.3ghz from this BO stepping Q6600 as any more needs a major volt increase to become stable but Im still playing with the ram to get the best from it.

The board have behaved impecably throughout Ive not gone near the clear cmos button once, very happy with this just hope the new CPU's are good when they get here and Ill be away again :)
 
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Wahaaay ! I am finally up and running.....received a replacement BFG 8800GTX OC and all is well !

So, first things first, I upped FSB to 333 and nothing else changed - booted fine :)
Next, went for FSB 356 and again booted fine (these were tried and tested on my P5WDH)......then went for 8x multiplier and 400 FSB and.....worked fine :D - never got such a high FSB on my P5WDH !

And that is where I am so far.....happily on 3.2GHz and nothing else changed ! Easy ! Will go for more tomorrow etc., but - for now- just happy with a working PC :D
 
I just got this board along with E6600 G0 and 4GB (4*1GB) Crucial Ballistix and no matter what I do I can't seem to get it stable with the memory at the stock 1066MHz.

What I've done is underclocked the memory a bit and am running tighter timings instead, awesome board otherwise though.
 
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