Yeah i couldnt get Speedfan to work and I knew MBM wouldn't work, i used PC Wizard and minimized it so it would display the readings on my desktop. but again i dont know how accurate those readings are
has anyone put an E4300 on this computer and managed to overclock it well?
For reference this is as far as I could OC the celly that came with it, anything more that 168mhz fsb wouldn't load.
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Also i want to note that my cpu temperature didn't increase much at all, 33-34C idle and...
thats what im asking. maybe after the bios update it unlocked 1066 FSB on the motherboard. but noone has verified yet. someone at Slickdeals was going to but hasn't yet.
thanks for the reply, so did you keep the stock cpu fan+heatsink and the case?
i might add the C2D 6*00 if the price is right. If anyone has one that they want to test on this board feel free, hehe.
I managed to change the FSB on mine but I had to leave spread spectrum on which I heard should be disabled. I ran it to 4ghz just to see but didn't test for stability. I will wait till I move this stuff to one of my better cases and with a better psu before I OC it.
I kept Vista on there but...
There is an Emachine T6212 (recently bought by Gateway) that is also refurbished at Tigerdirect. It is on sale now at about $400 but shipping is a hefty price at about $40+.
I believe that it has a socket 939 with an AMD Athlon 64 3200 as well as a PCI-Express slot but you might need to...
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