Originally posted by: nj
Originally posted by: Beachboy
Originally posted by: Psym
runs 4.3.3.8 2t with cellshock 2gb ddr2 pc6400 at 533. 667 is horrible setting bandwidth wise. Got 5.4 gb bandwidth with 533 and 3.1 with 667.
pc wizard are bad at readings.. says that both my cores are 58 degree though everything else says 42.
on another note. Im sitting here trying to oc this mobo and tops ived oced at is 290 fsb but when im in windows the whole thing freeze.
asynced,ram volt high,ide strength highest,v-link fast,auto spread off. Only thing ived haven`t messed with when ocing is the ram timing..and wondering if it`s the ram or something else that makes the whole thing freeze. 300 fsb makes my system fail and reboot in bootguard failure. Im using the P2.10 bios.
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It's not your RAM.
This motherboard just plain no good for overclocking. I don't overclock it at all anymore. I had it up to 300FSB but then I went from an AGP videocard to PCI-E and now it doesn't want to overclock even a little. I've wasted enough time trying to get an overclock out of this board.
Again, this motherboard is solid and great at stock Core 2 Duo speeds and it's very inexpensive which is nice.
Overclock it, even a little, and you are asking for heartache. If you want to overclock, look at boards by ASUS and Gigabyte with the P965 Intel chipset because overclocking the 775Dual-VSTA is an exercise in futility.
I'm starting to agree with you.
Although when I moved to a PCI-E card, upping the PCI-E to 117 stabilized my OC back to 299.
The biggest problem is just random reboots. I was playing a flash game and the computer just reboot itself. This is the same computer that can play the newest greatest games for hours and hours and nothing happens. OC'ing just seems to make these boards wonky and there's no rhyme or reason because I played that same flash game later that night and nothing happened.
Considering the price I paid, I have no problem with its performance. However, since I was working on a pretty important document at the time, I realized the $100 I saved on this board would be better spent on a system that at least OC'ed consistently and doesn't lose my data. It's just far too random for my liking and it's going back down to stock speeds soon (and into another system for a family member too).