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ds3+e6400 questions/concerns

hnugz

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Aug 13, 2006
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I bought the gigabyte ds3, the e6400, and 2 gb of the patriot ram found here.

My first question, I have been reading a lot about overclocking and while I was messing with it, I noticed the pc will just start rebooting over and over until it becomes stable again. I know this is a feature of gigabyte but my question is, am I doing something wrong? Or should this be disabled? I assume it would try and use the "safest" settings rather than the fastest but I don't want to disable this if OCing is safer and do-able with this on (assuming I can disable it, haven't looked)

Second, my temps. In the bios the cpu temp is somewhere around 42. However, in windows when using core-temp, the temps are around 52. Is this normal? That seems like a huge difference. Which one should I trust? I am using just the stock fan.

Finally and maybe least importantly, I downloaded easytune5, installed it, rebooted, but when I double click on it, I get the hourglass for a second then nothing. It never loads. Any ideas?


And lastly I will throw this out here, if there are any OCing gurus who have the same board I do that wouldn't mind helping me through pms with some step by step help that would be great. I've read a lot about OCing but there are always differences which confuse me between boards.

Thanks.
 

mayest

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Jun 30, 2006
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I keep reading that CoreTemp reads temps from a slightly different place and is usually about 10C higher than BIOS reports. I don't think you've got a problem there.

I loaded EasyTune 5 from the driver CD, but I have the same problem. Sometimes it just doesn't load. Usually, if I try again it loads fine. Be aware that it loads directly to the system tray, so you have to open it from the icon. A few times I thought it didn't load, but then remembered to look in the tray.

I'm no OC'ing my E6600, so I can't answer those questions.