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- douglasville ga
Hello fellow OcForumers!
I wanted to type up this small review of my new system, and I want to thank the members of OcForums for helping me out on this. First and foremost I want to say thank you to Moho for the Gigabyte DS3 rev1, nicely moded with mosfet heatsyncs, NB copper HS, thank SCORPIONlt1 for the AWESOME E6300 he sold me for 6$ above a new E4300 :Beer: , Id also like to thank Reefa_Madness for the 89$ deal on PC8500 ballistix, we’ll see those in action here just a bit.
Big thanks goes out to Seamadan000, Skeen, and G0dM@n for helping me out by buying some things I had for sale, fortunately right after I sold everything, I came into some good fortunes. [figures]
Gigabyte DS-3 Rev1:
Well at first look this is nothing special looking for a 965 mobo, right? Yeah just looking at it…. After taking a few minutes to find out how to use the overclocking options ctrl +f1, I went to work. After making sure it had the most current BIOS, which it did, Cheers Moho
, I looked up some overclocks others had done, and here was my first stop. Settings were 1.328 vcore, stock on NB, 2.1V on the Ballistix pc8500 [stock V]. I had gotten up to 3ghz on stock V, but anything else to be 32mb stable needed a higer jump. This motherboard just is nice. 500fsb 1:1 with just a slight voltage raise, looks like that bong cooler I am making will be coming in handy soon to get the true numbers out of this system 
And the Crucial just kept giving me bandwidth, I need to drop the fsb and make the ram do the ddr1250 its capable of, but right now I am just enjoying my new Conroe
NB +.1V, CPU 1.36V, DDR2 2.1V :
Netted a nice Super PI for a 2mb cache cpu:
http://s93.photobucket.com/albums/l75/ryandamartini/?action=view¤t=superpi.jpg
validation: http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=210010
3dmark 03 / 06 up next on the new 8800gts Some might ask about a PSU. It is a Rosewill RP550. They were briefly manufactured by a nice oem company last year and I scooped one up, has a nice big 12V rail and never dips below 11.99 full load on 3dmark which ran in circles for 5 hours. Room was getting a tad too toasty from that.
Stay tuned!
update: I didnt have the money for a new scythe cooler, so I went with this:
polished with clearkote metal polish with an abrassive foam hand pad. [Im a car detailer]
I wanted to type up this small review of my new system, and I want to thank the members of OcForums for helping me out on this. First and foremost I want to say thank you to Moho for the Gigabyte DS3 rev1, nicely moded with mosfet heatsyncs, NB copper HS, thank SCORPIONlt1 for the AWESOME E6300 he sold me for 6$ above a new E4300 :Beer: , Id also like to thank Reefa_Madness for the 89$ deal on PC8500 ballistix, we’ll see those in action here just a bit.
Big thanks goes out to Seamadan000, Skeen, and G0dM@n for helping me out by buying some things I had for sale, fortunately right after I sold everything, I came into some good fortunes. [figures]
Gigabyte DS-3 Rev1:
Well at first look this is nothing special looking for a 965 mobo, right? Yeah just looking at it…. After taking a few minutes to find out how to use the overclocking options ctrl +f1, I went to work. After making sure it had the most current BIOS, which it did, Cheers Moho
, I looked up some overclocks others had done, and here was my first stop. Settings were 1.328 vcore, stock on NB, 2.1V on the Ballistix pc8500 [stock V]. I had gotten up to 3ghz on stock V, but anything else to be 32mb stable needed a higer jump. This motherboard just is nice. 500fsb 1:1 with just a slight voltage raise, looks like that bong cooler I am making will be coming in handy soon to get the true numbers out of this system 
And the Crucial just kept giving me bandwidth, I need to drop the fsb and make the ram do the ddr1250 its capable of, but right now I am just enjoying my new Conroe
NB +.1V, CPU 1.36V, DDR2 2.1V :
Netted a nice Super PI for a 2mb cache cpu:
http://s93.photobucket.com/albums/l75/ryandamartini/?action=view¤t=superpi.jpg
validation: http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=210010
3dmark 03 / 06 up next on the new 8800gts
Some might ask about a PSU. It is a Rosewill RP550. They were briefly manufactured by a nice oem company last year and I scooped one up, has a nice big 12V rail and never dips below 11.99 full load on 3dmark which ran in circles for 5 hours. Room was getting a tad too toasty from that. Stay tuned!
update: I didnt have the money for a new scythe cooler, so I went with this:
polished with clearkote metal polish with an abrassive foam hand pad. [Im a car detailer]
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