[Brewster144]

Ok I'll start by saying that I am verrrrry new to all this. I I have read all the guides I could find on this site and many of the links posted to help me along this journey. I have learned a few things already. One being I should have come here first BEFORE I bought this mobo. LOL. I will need to upgrade from stock cooling. Turn OFF the cool and quiet.
I have been bouncing back and forth from bios to wimxp (printer is out of ink,printing out guides) to attempt to figure out what settings are what in the bios.
I have only changed the HTT (I believe?) to the max that the bios will allow. And I'm running prime95. I took some captures to post and since starting this post the cpu temp is jumping from 52 to 53.
I have read (from doing a search) some of the suggested settings but like a few other noobs here I am still alittle confussed. Any next setting changes suggested would be appreciated. Keeping in mind I need to take baby steps while I get a handle on this.

 

[Brewster144]

Cuople more screen shots and still 52-53 cou temp running prime95

 

[YiffyGriffy]

Well, if your temps are already in the upper 50s you need better cooling, and if the max HTT setting you have is 215, you've got other problems

 

[Brewster144]

Hey thanx for responding. If it helps I have made no other changes in the bios. I did fool around with settings and did see that some settings opened up more options. Thats why I mentioned about the htt thing. I thought that maybe I needed to change a setting to get this to expand further

 

[YiffyGriffy]

not sure about that board, it's pretty new, but it does seem highly unlikely 215 is the max HTT cause most boards have 300+ There's not much you should do in terms of overclocking until you can get those temps down, so you should start looking at heatsinks. I have a Thermalright XP-120 but it's a little on the big side and may not fit on your board, so you might also want to look at a Thermalright XP-90
On my board I had to turn Cool 'n' Quiet on to access voltage and multiplier adjustments on the first couple of BIOS revisions, so the best I can tell you is to try some different things, just don't turn the voltage up more than .025volts without a new heatsink yet
And just incase you'll be in the market for a new board any time soon, the DFI LANParty UT nf3-250GB is the single best Athlon 64 overclock board on the market

 

[Brewster144]

Thanx I'll keep on plugin at it but not untill I upgrade the cooling. There is a local shop that sells the hest sink you suggested .