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I have the P5E-VM DO (not the HDMI model). I went to do the pencil mod and the layout was different from all the pics e.g http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/7981/p5kvmrq0.jpg and http://67.90.82.13/forums/atta...278&stc=1&d=1214808673 On the "DO" board, the transistors (?) to...

I've had my q6600 for at least a year, runs stable at 3.0ghz. Just wanted to make sure I had all the bios settings correct/good. The parts- q6600 G0 revision Ultima 90 heatsink with scythe 120mm fan asus p5k premium OCZ DDR2 PC2-8000 4GB Platinum Edition Dual Channel...

I have the P5E-VM DO (same board minus HDMI). The vdroop is pretty significant. If I set bios to 1.3, I get 1.28 and that slumps further to 1.23 at load. That means for 1.3V you have to set the bios to about 1.37V. I'm using an e4500 with stock HSF so I'm just doing a light overclock from 2.2 to...

Wrong tjunction, wrong temps if so. Add 15C to all of those.

I don't agree. Encoding video like x264, my q6600 can do 6-8fps where my e4500 does 3-4fps. That's a huge reduction in time for the average movie (8 hours instead of 16). Pro Tools LE - all the RTAS plugins use cpu and things like reverb and convolution gobble up cpus. Having 4 cores vs 2...

The idle is fine but 72c is where my q6600@3ghz ran with the stock hsf. It was flakey and rebooted sometimes. I put an Ultima 90 with a slow 120mm fan and the temps dropped to 50c. Totally stable and very quiet.

3 sticks of ram "breaks" dual channel, so not a great idea there. That shouldn't affect stability though. I would pull the heatsink off and look at how good your contact patch is. I always do that to see if the grease spread properly/evenly. Do you have good airflow in and out of the case?

My x850 XTPE did that with an inadequate power supply (Enermax 350w). I swapped in a 430W Antec and it went away. I could also get it to stop by underclocking the card, which supports the idea that the PSU wasn't sufficient.

How about 3870 HIS + 2600XT Sapphire?

ATI 3870/3850 do this already. When idle the core clock drops from 775 to 300. Running memory lower doesn't save much I guess.

The SL graphics are so crap that a TNT 1 could probably handle it.

Then again, when you have buttery smooth, high fps, the tearing sticks out like a sore thumb. The absolute easiest way to see tearing is to press just strafe left or right in an fps game.

Tearing is not game-specific. You just never noticed it before :) I've been forcing vsync since the glquake days.

Can we get some Crysis benches at default and 850-900 o/c?

You got the wrong card so that's worth complaining about. PCI-E slots can run at various speeds, 16x being the highest. The videocard is merely a PCI-Express part, the slot it goes in determines the interface speed. So don't worry although I would do something about getting the card you paid for.