Hi
After reading the live-in review (what a great concept!) of the
DFI X38 LT, I had to register.
I was actually trying to get a hold of that board, but could only find the Maximus locally
My setup:
E8400
2GB Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500
Maximus Formula
8800Ultra
WD Raptor 74GB primary
HDD, 500GB + 325GB secondary hard disks
Danger Den WC High Flow Setup: 120mmx1 GTX radiator, Laing DDC pump, DD TDX Copper water block.
I lapped the
cpu, applied Arctic Silver on all the heatsinks and installed my water cooling kit on the weekend (today's a work day for me).
It would make my life a lot easier if any E8400 overclockers here could
post their
BIOS settings. I have no idea what voltage ranges are acceptable for the
NB,
SB and a lot of the settings are new to me. I also don't know how hot the
NB gets so yeah, I'll probably need two weeks to figure everything out on my own.
Thing is, I just want a 4Ghz
cpu overclock and a 1Ghz
ram overclock. A 500x9 1:1 overclock is pretty standard now from what I've seen in the forums, I thought I should ask instead of being redundant and going through the steps everybody else went through before.
So, anybody who got a 4Ghz
cpu overclock on the E8400 care to
post their
BIOS config and
BIOS version?
BTW I removed the motherboard heatsink before powering up and I can confirm that the thermal paste - or rather thermal tape as it appears - is very pliant and easy to remove.
Oops
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