Recent content by Ambress

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    lapping my Ultra-120 Extreme (pics and temp data)

    Thanks for the tip about RMClock, Graysky. I'd not heard of it. I'll probably hold off on any lapping for now, especially as I've now got everything reinstalled and running, but your results merit keeping an eye on things and considering that option if I see temps to ever be a problem...
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    lapping my Ultra-120 Extreme (pics and temp data)

    Hello all, This thread caught my attention after having just purchased and installed a Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme in my system, to replace a less efficient Zalman CNPS9500. Although the Zalman has worked fine and allowed me to stably overclock my Core 2 Extreme to 3.6GHz, that also...
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    My Experience: Core 2 Extreme X6800 and Asus P5W DH Motherboard (a step backwards with Arctic Silver 5!!!)

    Well, I don't have a wife...45 and single still. But after going nuts this year and buying a slew of pricey toys, I don't think I really need a 2nd motherboard.....yet. ;) Daryl
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    My Experience: Core 2 Extreme X6800 and Asus P5W DH Motherboard (a step backwards with Arctic Silver 5!!!)

    Hey SmokeDog, Oh, I don't take your comment as a taunt at all, but just simple truth. I can't very well return working products now, but your results do have me pretty much wishing I had at least not gone fully to the top end with the Core 2 Extreme. Frankly, it was the unlocked multiplier...
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    My Experience: Core 2 Extreme X6800 and Asus P5W DH Motherboard (a step backwards with Arctic Silver 5!!!)

    Hi Skott, Yeah, for doing nothing more than swapping out the stock Intel cooler for the better, quieter Zalman and pulling off the heatsink "skins", I'm pretty happy with a 3.65GHz operation. I'm sure that variances between boards, chips, cooling, etc., can all add up to easily explain a...
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    My Experience: Core 2 Extreme X6800 and Asus P5W DH Motherboard (a step backwards with Arctic Silver 5!!!)

    Well, I'm back to 3.65GHz, using FSB365 and all other settings unchanged. My system seems to favor that as its peak right now. At 3.7GHz I ran once again into a situation where there was simply some strange behavior in Windows...a pop-up about the wireless being connected would not clear, I...
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    My Experience: Core 2 Extreme X6800 and Asus P5W DH Motherboard (a step backwards with Arctic Silver 5!!!)

    OK, it looks like I'm now successfully at a minor bump to 3.7GHz from my prior 3.65Ghz operation. With the same settings but bumping up to FSB372, my system wouldn't boot and I wasn't sure what to tweak. So, I'm sticking with 3.7GHz for now. In the process of doing this, I found that ASUS...
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    My Experience: Core 2 Extreme X6800 and Asus P5W DH Motherboard (a step backwards with Arctic Silver 5!!!)

    Well Murph, 3.77GHz isn't such a bad place to be stuck at, and at least your wife isn't sticking you with her knitting needles! :)
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    My Experience: Core 2 Extreme X6800 and Asus P5W DH Motherboard (a step backwards with Arctic Silver 5!!!)

    Hi Oscar, Thanks for the reminder about Q-Fan...I believe I do have it enabled and will double-check that when I get home tonight. I definitely know my rear fan is on a Chassis Fan header, because the Gigabyte case has the wiring for that fan neatly routed up and split out to the front fan...
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    My Experience: Core 2 Extreme X6800 and Asus P5W DH Motherboard (a step backwards with Arctic Silver 5!!!)

    Hi Oscar, Yeah, that "gift wrap" around the heatsinks is just purely stupid in my opinion. However, I noticed in the photos of Smoke Dog's system that his Gigabyte board has received similar treatment and it shares a heat pipe design for cooling the NB akin to ASUS. I don't know anything...
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    My Experience: Core 2 Extreme X6800 and Asus P5W DH Motherboard (a step backwards with Arctic Silver 5!!!)

    I've got nothing helpful to offer you Oscar, but I thought I would note that I went ahead and peeled off the ASUS cosmetic covers from the two heatsinks. That was easy to do even with the mobo installedl since, as you said, there was nothing more than a weak adhesive used to attach them...
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    My Experience: Core 2 Extreme X6800 and Asus P5W DH Motherboard (a step backwards with Arctic Silver 5!!!)

    Hi Smoke Dog, That is definitely some impressive numbers and the one obvious thing I see here is that you're running on a Gigabyte board, so that in and of itself may explain the difference. I've seen a few posts elsewhere talking of problems on the Asus P5W DH with the Corsair DDR2-1066...
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    My Experience: Core 2 Extreme X6800 and Asus P5W DH Motherboard (a step backwards with Arctic Silver 5!!!)

    Well, after fiddling around a little more last night, I'm running my E6800 rig at 3.65GHz, with FSB365, DDR2-730, CPU Multiplier 10 and all other timings and voltages being the same as what InterMurph used...I may have 2.15v on the DDR2, I don't recall for certain. I did have the system at...
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    My Experience: Core 2 Extreme X6800 and Asus P5W DH Motherboard (a step backwards with Arctic Silver 5!!!)

    InterMurph, Thanks, but unless you want to search for the links on FSB1600, you needn't do so for me. Just your comments alone are enough to prompt me to do a bit of Googling for more info. In one such search, I came across a Dutch or German thread that led me to yet another site with what...
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    My Experience: Core 2 Extreme X6800 and Asus P5W DH Motherboard (a step backwards with Arctic Silver 5!!!)

    InterMurph, Thanks...yes, I understand that DDR2 runs at double the CPU frequency, so no problems there. I was just curious if your suggestion was a recommendation or perhaps a rule I'd missed somewhere, and I see from your reply it is just a well-advised recommendation. I just got confused...