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Originally Posted by Titan151
... I have an Asus Deluxe E mobo. ... I want to get a high fsb
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I've read that the secret to getting higher-than-200MHz fsb working stably with these boards is putting heat sinks on the mosfets.
I'm currently using a pre-E Dlx, but, although I've put a heatsink on these (and removed/replaced the chipset heatsink, looked flat so just AS5) I'm still sticking with 200x12.5 as I want
stable - I use this machine for coding and would be
really annoyed at a bluescreen. Oh - the memory I've got won't run at 6-2-2-2 past about 203MHz - that's my excuse and I'm sticking with it
Anyway, if they haven't changed the layout for the E, the mosfets are all in a square and the tops are level with each other. If you've got an old socket 7 heatsink laying around, you could just cut it down and stick it on with "frag tape" - or I think somebody's selling mosfet-specific heatsinks.
On a different note, when I get a new CPU set up, I bluescreen-calibrate my diode temps. I essentially have
no idea what temp the CPU really is when the diode hits, say 55C - but if it bluescreens out of 200x12.5 at 100% when it's reporting that temp, I consider that to be that to be bluescreen-temp for that system at that particular overclock. I then try to make sure that this system, even with throttled-down fans (watercooling for quiet/silence) will not go above 80% of this "bluescreen-temp" at 100% load. Probably not a thing anyone else at procooling concerns themselves about as they've all got big-ass radiators and big-ass fans/blowers. Note that I'm not entirely sure that this is the right thing to do (find myself trying to get the processor hot-ish once or twice anyway, just to follow the AS5 instructions, so it's just a matter of tracking what reported temp gets a bluescreen). I am
guessing that 80% is the do-not-go-over percentage. YMMV, etc. - but it has worked for me in finding the balance between quiet and overclock while not making a system unstable..