Okay, couldn't sleep and thought I'd just mess with some overclocking just for fun to see what I could do with stock settings all around.
Wow this board is so simple. Coming from a DFI Ultra-D board I am totally shocked.
All I did was leave EVERYTHING on auto and just bumped up the FSB.
Tried for 3000MHz cpu speed, so 375MHz FSB on my E6400.
Voila, no problemo. Ran just a short 20mins stress test using that GUI version of prime95 that everyone knows so well. 2 of course.
I tried for 3400MHz as well. Same thing, but noticed that the voltage was being bumped up automatically just like previously posted by members here.
Voltage was kinda high, 1.52v in speedfan, and 1.213 showing in cpuz, so I went with the higher number. These are idle numbers.
Loads hit 1.440, so droop is in effect quite a bit. Both cores hit 72C.
Ran no problemo though. Of course this isn't official, just some short tests to keep me entertained until I really try for some good numbers using a good cooler.
So far I'm really pleased. What a great bunch of hardware I got this time.
Oh yeah, kept my ram timings at 4-4-4-15, 1T @ 800MHz DDR2 of course.
I haven't seen huge benefits from overclocking 800MHz ram any higher, so just leaving it be, since it is pretty fast as it is.
I also read an article/review/test online where this tester compared ram at 800MHz and the other at 1000+MHz with similar timings and the gains in real world performance in applications and games within windows weren't that awe inspiring to go through the trouble of testing out stable settings.
Soooooooo, in short, I've decided to leave the ram.
Oh yeah, I tried 3.6GHz and core0 was okay, but core1 failed pretty quickly. I tried again with the stress test and the system rebooted, but that was only when I ran the stress tester.
Hoping to get 3.6 stable once I get my cooler on there and mess with some manual voltage settings for the NB.
I'm once again shocked at how easy this setup overclocks. This is a freakin' WIN WIN combination we have here fellas, I'm sorry for those who are having issues with this motherboard.
Cheers,
Mike