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They are huge and may not fit in every case. Changing the fan is a major pain. You can get good cooling with the fan set on its lowest setting for silent overclocking.
My mobo is a Gigabyte EP35-DS4 that had the same problem of refusing to overclock even by a fsb of one form 266 to 267. The solution was to remove the cord to my usb printer and usb hub. They work just fine if I plug them in after it boots, but it will not overclock if they are in at boot...
Try unplugging all the USB devices. My EP35-DS4 will not go from a fsb of 266 to 267 with more than two usb devices, but will do a fsb 444 with a little tweaking with the usb devices removed.
This seems to be a not uncommon problem with Gigabyte boards. Some boards have been fixed with a...
The higher cpu speed will result in the higher cache speed. A program that makes good use of the cache will be much faster and not care much what the ram is running at.
You may be able to get more memory bandwith by lowering your ram to something like 2328-1T and changing the divider. You...