you definitely want to hold off on the P5N-D for now as i haven't heard of anyone able to oc an e8400 with it. so far this board has not been pleasant to oc'ers. at stock settings it's fine and very stable. i really don't want to go through the hassle of replacing it with possibly a p35 board...
were you able to achieve any sort of overclocking with the q6600 and just can't hit 3.0ghz? or no oc at all?
i'm also afraid to set the NB/SB/HT as i do not know what the default is at to go up from. i'm using a E8400 cpu and i can't even get 1400fsb to stay stable, crashes during 3dmark.
after i flashed my bios to 0803 the board no longer plays nice with my memory, even with just 1 stick in it was horribly unstable. i've gone with the p5n-d instead and still need to figure out what to do with the p5n-e sli.
yes i do, i had to go thru a very lengthy hardware swapping when my system kept freezing up and bsod'ing. and one of the things i switched was the mobo. i have the one in my sig and the p5n-e sli. thinking about switching back when i get a new cpu but that would require another reformat of my...
does the flash drive need to be formatted in some way to be read by the bios, i've tried plugging it in the front port and nothing came up under ez flash in either drive letter.
the letter says a:, but u can load a cd in there and it'll read the cd. that's how i update my bios. it may have been c:, but regardless, either one of the two letters will read off the cd and u can update ur bios with a cd.
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