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I've found it useful the way caffeinejunkie suggests, by having the internet go from your computer to another computer. I would think in a LAN it might come in handy, most of the time I just have the 2nd connection disabled until I need it.

I always thought that as long as the sticks were identical you didn't have to buy them in sets. I bought 2x sticks of the ram in my sig (similar or same ram if i'm not mistaken) and run in dual channel with no problems. Guess I just got lucky. Not saying I'd recommend the RAM for an OCer, but it has been good solid ram and I've gotten it to ~240mhz w/o problems (dont run that daily so not in sig). The OP said he would only do moderate OCing, but I agree the G.skill is better and only a few bucks more for the 2gig kit. I bought mine before I found the street, otherwise I would have definitely gotten one of the recommended rams, since I like to OC stuff. Also that Power supply IS on the recommended list sticky, so I'm not sure the problem with it? My room mate has it powering his LanParty DR SLi, an X2 Toledo, & 7800GTX and has no problems. NOT trying to go against what others (who are probably smarter than I am about this stuff) have said, just sharing my experiances.

I saw them last night and now I went and downloaded them and realised I got the 11/14s, the 4/6s must have been pulled? I was using the 6/23/05 BIOS, and when I upgraded to the 11/14/05 BIOS (thought i was getting 4/6/06 b/c i re-dled the file to try out winflash and just chose the first one that wasnt Diamond Flash) my MAC address changed, which I found strange.

the 30min test of OCCT makes my processor hotter than 96 hrs 40min of prime95 did, so I think its a bit more intensive as well. I have managed to find overclocks that superpi mod and OCCT are fine with, that prime95 has problems with though, so I like to use everything.

No it should not be on, yes it will effect overclocking in a negative way.

I've always used EVEREST home edition, however they stopped offering it free. I think many use SmartGaurdian that comes with the mobo drivers in addition to MBM5 which edboradz mentioned.

After over 4 days now of prime95 my cpu hasnt gotten above 42C, at 2650mhz and 1.50vcore. I do see higher temps during OCCT or other apps though. Seems a bit high for you to be at 41C using stock voltages and clock. JMO

What version of CPU-Z do you have? When I first got my Sandy it showed as a claw hammer (i think?) until I got a newer version. I was using something in the high 20s, when i got the inncorrect reading, they have version 1.32.1 out now.

My board wont be fully stable using load optimised defaults either, but when I up the VDIMM I'm good to go, so hopefully that will help you also.

I'm not sure about the comments they made, and i'm not sure if the memory will just run at whatever the motherboard/cpu controller can handle, or if you'll run into problems. So you'll have to wait until someone that knows more than me can chime in. However I'd wait until the powerstream PSU u have on the list gets there, and see where you are, before going on a witch hunt with your memory? Maybe someone that knows more about it will chime in and give some better advice.

Someone else that has more time might be able to get closer, but I could only get 225mhz or 245.45mhz for the ram to come out with the cpu @ 2700mhz. I used 9x300 and the 3:04 divider for the 225mhz, and the 5:06 divider for the 245. I was just messing around with the equation from the OC guide, and in trying to find stuff ended up trying the 9x300 route, i think those same mem speeds can be gotten using different dividers with 10x270 also. If you dont feel like using the math, u could always start with your 10x270 and use the 5:6 divider. This would put your ram at 225Mhz. Then enable memtest, and it will show you exactly what the ram is running.

Yeah I didn't mean to start anything by linking that, I just knew those numbers (the voltages, not the whole thing) sounded familiar from somewhere. As you say, Rgone, time flies, I didnt realize (should have looked at what I was linking to better!) that was quite that old.

To shed some light on how he may have gotten those voltage numbers you cited, in Other - NF4 - Some Help Getting Up & Running (Or Faster?) RGONE does suggest: LTD voltage = 1.4v Chipset voltage= 1.8v Dram voltage=2.9v [Granted the DRAM @ 3.0v is still higher than suggested in link] so whoever gave him those figures could have gotten them from there thinking it would help him post better. Dunno if it's overkill to run those voltages all the time, and if they are intended just to get up and running if you are having trouble, or what exactly, so I'm not trying to contradict you, just saying maybe that's where they were from?

After fully clearing as the above link suggests, if possible you should try using the newer BIOS, since you seem to be having some problems with those. I know switching to the ones I'm using now helped some intermitant stability issues I had. OT; Roadie, the guide you linked to mentions to depress the Insert key, I was just wondering what this does out of curiosity? I hadn't seen it mentioned before (although since I havent had trouble clearing CMOS it might be that I just havent read enough about it) and don't recall it being a command at startup (like chosing boot order and entering bios are displayed).

The motherboard/bios has the ability to save bios settings. From the main BIOS screen go into CMOS Reloaded, and you will see four banks that you can save settings to, and load from. I usually save my default stock speeds on one of them, since I tweak a few things (turn off things i'm not using etc.) from the "optimised default" setting that the board has on the main screen. Hope you understood that lol.