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Asus 865/875 S478 Mobo: $90-180 avail all over including egg
Asus CT-479 adapter: mid-$40's various places
P-M '730' 1.6Ghz/533FSB at mwave.com : $199
Have yer dual channel RAM and a P-M too!
A number of these have hit 2.0GHz+ (some real close to 3) on air.
After mocking up an extremely effective cardboard test unit I have decided to port cold air directly into my cpu's hsf.
I have seen some clear & translucent 80mm kits but would like mine to use a 90mm duct all the way through since I use a 90mm fab on the heatsink. Air filter desired but no...
On my neo2 it would indeed keep th emax temps recorded for CPU & mobo/corecell chip. I think the 2.8E starts to throttle at 70c - but am not sure on that (my Northwoods never throttle or go above 55c).
Are you using the AGP/PCI lock? Set it to 66/33 if not & try it. You should only need a 5:4 divider at 221fsb if you are running really crappy RAM.
What type of PSU are you using? System specs?
Some chips just dont' OC for crap, either. Too bad if so :(
Either that or it is an Asus mobo, lol.
I ran those exact same cpu temps on my 3.2 @ 3.8 on an Asus P4C800 Dlx with a 24c system temp.
The identical setup reports 52-53c at full load on the Max3 with less Vcore. Some say Abit reports temps 8-12c high and others say Asus reports them low.
Been in a similiar boat and:
This is what I'm putting back in my machine in a few minutes, although this particular hunk of retail-boxed silicon came from mwave: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819116164
Northwood 3.2/800/512. Nice & cool running, most I've seen will...
Asus mobo by chance? The P4C800 Deluxe I used to have would put insanely high voltage to my components at stock settings - my 2.4c would do 3.4 @ stock vcore setting on that board all day long - and the 3.2 would do 3.8+. Never mind the incredibly low (and not real believable) cpu temps.
The...
FWIW:
My 2.4c m0 will do 283 fsb (3.4GHz) at 1.575vore, 1.525 is stock. Can post at up to 300fsb/3.6GHz at 1.625 but don't wanna flog this little Gallatin too hard.
The 3.2 Northie likes juice! Default in BIOS is 1.55vcore and it will run 238fsb (3.8) or so on 1.575 but quickly wants...
$60?? Yikes! I only paid $39.95 for my 'c'. My temps on the Asus are pretty much inline with some folks I know using water (standard, non-esoteric setups) in similarly clocked rigs.
And the cheap 'Mad Dog' 92mm fan I'm using from CUSA seems to be quieter than the high-dollar 92x38 'quiet'...
Very nice, you should get quite a bit more life out of the old girl now and you def need better cooling :)
FWIW: My Asus board (P4C800 Deluxe) never went over 42c CPU temp with stock (factory Cu-core) cooling and dropped to 37c at full load with good cooling (XP-90c) with a 3.2 Northwood at...