- Jul 17, 2003
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In case anyone else was on the fence about this board, I just put my Newegg order in, so hopefully I'll have it in time for my "weekend" Tuesday and Wednesday. I'll be overclocking a Q6600, so wish me luck.
I've got the board installed and so far my thoughts are:
The bundle is almost nonexistant. Two SATA, floppy and IDE cables along with Molex to SATA power adapters. Other than that it's the standard backplate, manual and driver CD.
The northbridge gets HOT. Like burn your finger hot. I'm thinking of a way to rig up an 80mm fan somewhere in my case to point it at the NB\PWM area.
Overclocking to 3GHz was the easiest thing I've ever done, literally. Set bus speed to 334 and go. No sweat at all. Higher bus speeds required more voltage to the northbridge though, compounding the heat issue.
I've got the board installed and so far my thoughts are:
The bundle is almost nonexistant. Two SATA, floppy and IDE cables along with Molex to SATA power adapters. Other than that it's the standard backplate, manual and driver CD.
The northbridge gets HOT. Like burn your finger hot. I'm thinking of a way to rig up an 80mm fan somewhere in my case to point it at the NB\PWM area.
Overclocking to 3GHz was the easiest thing I've ever done, literally. Set bus speed to 334 and go. No sweat at all. Higher bus speeds required more voltage to the northbridge though, compounding the heat issue.