Originally posted by: chess9
Pixelsurgeon:
Have you had any cooling issues with that board? I assume you are overclocking a bit? Did you have any other issues? No problem with the floppy drive if you installed one? Did you try installing an old ide drive? (I have some older ones I might install for backups.) Is the sound solid? What are you memory timings and memory bus speed like?
Thanks,
Robert
It runs 24/7 and I chose not to overclock it much for now. My Q6600 is running at 3.0 Ghz.
I didn't install any floppy drive, but I had good experiences with connecting 3 old IDE discs just to copy my old backups to the 2 new SATA discs.
I'm using a ASUS Silent Square EVO with my Q6600 and the temperatures have always been great. I don't know about the north bridge temperatures because the chipset is at its stock voltage. The whole system looks pretty cool.
The HD sound is very good. I watch a lot of movies and played some of the latest games and the sound that came out of my 5.1 system was great. Now I'm using an old Audigy 2 ZS I already had in the older system, because I think it might help to reduce the motherboard tasks. I'm not seeing any gains in this, but I'm still using the sound board.
I didn't change the memory timings. They're running at 1.5v / CL 9 / 1333Mhz. It's not great, but they are fast enough for all the tasks I need. When the DDR3 2000 modules became cheaper and with better latencys, I'll think of an upgrade.
The only issue I had with this board was in the first week after I build the system, when I tried to overclock it. The BIOS didn't allow any change. If I tried to change the simpler setting, the board would refuse to reboot. If I tried to save the new settings the system powered off, and could only be powered back on manually, than would ask me to undo the BIOS changes. This problem was solved by a simple BIOS update.
I don't know if you could understand all I wrote, because my English is very poor. I tried my best.
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