Here's where we're at
Put the new chip in, fired up the rig and everything seemed a-ok. now to bump up the fsb starting at:
240FSB- Wouldn't boot into windows-I almost had a stroke. Then I realized that this board undervolts quite a bit. USDM reads 1.47v so I bumped it to 1.6v in bios (now reads 1.55 in usdm) booted no problem.
250FSB- Wouldn't boot into windows, raised Vcore to 1.72 in bios (reads 1.68 in USDM) booted no problem. Ran sandra no problem, failed prime first test.
Cooling (as monitored in usdm) fluctuates between 30c and 35c idle. I really don't want to run a high Vcore (afraind of snds) so what would you guys do? I could prolly back down a few mhz till I pass prime and maybe even run at 1/1.
As a side note, I'm thinking about getting prometia for christmas (trying to figure out to pull this one off with the wife) then I can really test away