so looks like I am yet another who fell into the trap on new egg. My thought was hell the extra few bux for integrated video is great as a backup. Sure enough its come in handy as my pci-x xfx 6600gt card doesnt seem to be working. I just ordered an rma on newegg though and I gotta ship back the e6300 and 965g as a combo since thats how I got it.
My motherboard with f5 bios booted 350 fsb once and I had to reset the cmos to get back into it. Now I even have a hard time getting it to go near 300 and stay there. Seems if I want to do anything I have to leave the ram on auto as well and cant change the multiplier... even manually to what it automatically selected. Stable board at stock settings or a fsb of 275 (whoopie) but otherwhise im very disappointed as far as ANY overclocking goes. I'm amazed at how hot that northbridge gets, shame on gigabyte on their part because if I held my finger on that for a few seconds I'd surely blister... and thats with an idling system with no real load! I ordered a thermaltake silent heatpipe northbridge cooler today- no way id leave that terrible passive heatsink on.
Ram is ocz platinum 2x1gb ddr 800 4-4-4-15 @2.2v... Highly doubt that should be limiting me.
I picked up a P instead of G and an e6400 instead of an e6300 for the extra multiplier from newegg, gonna be shipping this one back on RMA. Took alot of talking to get them to waive the 15% but I managed to get them to.
*edit* so it looks like I managed to get this thing up more last night. FSB hit its wall at 312mhz... whoopdee doo. 312mhz is rock stable, 313 crashes instantly. 1.4v fed to cpu, after I hit the wall I also managed to drop the ram down from 5-5-5- to 4-4-4... +.1fsb, +.1 mch on stock northbridge cooler. looks like thats the best I can do till I get the next board in.