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I think you're going to be disappointed, but look forward to your results. The quads tend not to clock well past 450 FSB. I had to pick up an E6850 to get to 500+ FSB. LMK what settings work for you and I'll offer some input after having screwed with mine for so long.
One thing, your NB will need at least 1.6v
Considering I'm going from a 680i where I could barely get to 3.2ghz, getting above 3.6ghz will make me very happy.
Thanks for the tip on the NB.
Of course my "nice board curse" has kicked in. It won't boot. No signal to the monitor. Powers up and down using the switches, but with one stick of ram, video card and CPU it still doesn't do anything.
Do you regret buying this board? I regret mine (p5kr) and in future, i will go with abit/gigabyte.
Seams mine have problems getting high mhz on RAM (above 900) with the old BIOS and not going above 450 mhz for the CPU no matter what I did.
Good god's luck.
What CPU....that may not be the boards fault. I thought mine wouldn't go past 450 with a Q6600 but this 6850 does 500 easily. I also had to upgrade the bios....wouldn't boot with the 6850 until I did. But hey....it's fresh out of the factory, may have been boxed up a few months.
Last SAS card I bought from newegg I had to flash it to the latest BIOS before it saw ANY drives. Not really the mfgrs fault.....the price of technology
I've noticed no one seems to be able to pass a 450 fsb(x9) with a q6600.. Whats up with that? I couldnt make it into Windows at 450fsb, even after increasing the voltage substantially. But, I dropped the FSB to 445, vwala. Also work fine at or above 450 if I drop the multi. Seems like they are engineered not to exceed 4ghz.
Torin, is the proc a q6600 Slacr? And 2x2gig(PC-8000 5-5-5-15) GSkill was $115 on Newegg, Ive gotten 3 sets of it so far but havnt pushed any of them beyong 1ghz.
I've noticed no one seems to be able to pass a 450 fsb(x9) with a q6600.. Whats up with that? I couldnt make it into Windows at 450fsb, even after increasing the voltage substantially. But, I dropped the FSB to 445, vwala. Also work fine at or above 450 if I drop the multi. Seems like they are engineered not to exceed 4ghz.
Torin, is the proc a q6600 Slacr? And 2x2gig(PC-8000 5-5-5-15) GSkill was $115 on Newegg, Ive gotten 3 sets of it so far but havnt pushed any of them beyong 1ghz.
As to the 450fsb, I'm wondering if maybe there is a strap that you have to jump to get it to work. Like maybe between 450 an 480 is an unstable zone, but above 480 it might work again. Just thinking... Probably not though, because I'm sure somebody hast tried it at least once.
Yes it is a SLACR (GO) q6600. Thanks for the Newegg comment. If I can't get my 2 'known good' sticks of Ballistix (as in when they are in another computer it boots) to work in it, I'll probably go for that.
Seems like that is just an issue with quads. I had to get that 6850 just to prove my board could do higher (which it can). Maybe has something to do with the 2x2 core structure? Who knows.
I'm stuck right now trying to decide if I want a 6850 @ 3.8-4.0ghz or a Q6600 @ 3.3-3.5.
I don't regret it yet. I've gotten used to high end boards not working for me out of the box.
However, I've just about gotten everything installed again, and working well. I think I'll pick up some 2x2gb sticks to go with this.
I still haven't gotten to overclocking it yet though...
If my somewhat uneducated sugegstion counts Id go with the q6600. It was pretty easy to get it to 3.8ghz for me. My goal is to make 4.0 completely stable. So far its looking good. And though Ive set the voltage to 1.6 everything reporting like 1.55. My friend just got the e6850 and he is running at 4.0ghz on air with a Zalman 9500 and a P35 Gigabyte board. Proc is at 1.5v though I cant gaurantee its entirely stable.
We are both playing FFoW Beta and the game has locked both of my systems and his at times. Before I got this new setup I had a phenom 9500 and had the same problem, it locks hard sometimes. Crazy too, even with no OC. Vista shouldnt do that, even XP was good about at least rebooting if it crashed. But its the only game Ive experienced problems with other games and it is in beta, I dont know how it manages to do it but Im not so programming elite to have a real oppinion on that side of the wall.