Blizzie

Looking good. Keep me updated on your overclock of the Q6600. I have one right next to me.. stock on a ECS board.

Always wanted that board.

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Ravin

Well, acetone carries some risks- inhalation of the vapors can be toxic, as well as skin absorbtion. Acetone actually goes right through Latex and Nitrile, so you get skin exposure even with most gloves. As a solvent to remove TIM it's perfect- a non-polar solvent, similar to isopropyl it does not damage electronics or oxidize most metals.

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Maximus Overhaul *Updated 03/05/08*

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So far folding WIN SMP stable for about 8 hours. By far, the easisest 50% overclock I have done since the days of the original 8086 CPUs. Just set Vcore to 1.4000V, FSB/multi 400x9, and set RAM timings and go. Everything else is set to auto('cept volts). No fuss, no muss.

Temps look good- coretemp reports a steady 56C, while everest and PCprobe both report exactly 15C lower. This is with my Zalman fan on low, I get a 12-15C drop with it on high. While the NB/SB seem a tad warm @ 50/43C, this is well within the 90C max set by intel for the X38, and is not causing instability.

Voltages are interesting, I get 0.024V droop on Vcore, 0.05V over on the NB and .10V over on the DIMMs.

Final report card on the ASUS Maximus Formula for performance: A+ 11/10, an overachiever.

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Asce

Ravin, whats the options on overclocking ram on this board.

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Ravin

That took a little while for me to get used to. The BIOS has the NB strap setting for 200, 266, 333, and 400MHz. Adjusting which strap you use selects a range of dividers(you don't actually see the dividers), which you select DDR ram speed from...ie. DDR 800, DDR 1066, DDR 1125, DDR 667, DDR 850 etc. There are the usual dividers available....1:1 1:2 2:3 4:5 5:4, but not too many odd ones like 11:32 or 15:32.

Example, 400MHz strap has DDR800 and DDR1200(I think) and the 266 strap sets up for 533/667/800/1066 DDR speeds (I could not run 1000MHz RAM at either 266 or 400 FSB). So when you select your RAM setting what you set is what you get.

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Ok, so my friend needed some computer upgrading assistance, here's what I did with my old P5NE/D820/PC2-4200/PSU/HDD:
ASUS A7NBX-----> ASUS P5N-E SLI (donor part)
2x256Mb DDR 266MHz-----> 2x1Gb DDR2 533MHz (donor part)
200W POS PSU---> 465W Enermax Whisper (donor part)
1.0GHz Athlon-----> 2.8GHz D820 (donor part)
160Gb ATA 100 IDE(kept for storage)--->add 20Gb ATA133 IDE for OS/programs (donor part)
4x80mm fans---->replaced (new)
Radeon 9600LE----> nVidia 9600GT (new and I'm freakin jealous!)
Case---->dusted and cleaned

So far looking good. He's decided to run it stock for a while to see how it goes, for now he's thrilled with how much faster his upgrades are.

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I've tighetened down my RAM timings from 1:1 800MHz @ 4-4-4-12 2T to 3-3-3-8 1T, although CPUz is reporting 2Ttimings. Memtest86+ v3.4a passed 2 runs each with 1T and 2T.

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Well, the results are in. My CPU peaks 63C(cool cores)-66C(hot cores) with the Zalman fan set to low and Vcore set to 1.400, load line calibration enabled. There is very little ripple on my board- pretty much 1.400V BIOS=1.400V under load.

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