WhoBeDaPlaya, I graduated in the mid 80s, worked for several years after HS so I was mid 20's at ISU and was why I got stuck in Buchanan (25% Americans, 75% Internationals, almost all grad students) and loved it there. Long story short, I took math/science of an Engineer, but ended up with a BS in Psych. All I have ever done is SAS programming on every system imaginable and system work for 20 years. I am literally a JOAT, Jack of all trades. I can't bitch, it pays very well.
renethx, I looked at the specs on that Sapphire too, might even get one for HTPC if it pans out and use this for my daily work box. It seemed some of their other boards had problems from very limited reading. The Biostar also overclocks very nicely, stable too, but has many unfamilar settings and I need to know what is happening to the onboard video timings while I am OCing it. Again from the other thread I wrote, I was skeptical because I read that reviews said this board didn't overclock more than 205.
I first just set the CPU clock to 210, left everything else default and it ran fine as I expected, and I broke the dreaded 205 barrier!!
2nd run - I set the CPU clock to 230 left everything else default and it booted fine & ran 8M Super PI. CPU-Z reports CPU 2184.9Mhz, HT=1149 9.5 multi. I tested a few changes with HT etc, since the setting on this board are very different than the other boards I have.
3rd run - I set the HT to 800, CPU Clock to 250, all others default and it ran ok. CPU-Z reports CPU CLock=2374.9, HT=1000, Mem=395.9 @ 5-5-5-13-19 2T (auto), temps in coretemp are 23/24, Microfly case display with probe on the edge of the CPU read 33.1C.
End of testing last night, it was 1am and I had other stuff to do. I suspect in the hands of a hard core overclocker this will hit 300 too. I had 4GB Supertalent 667 installed and just left the memory on Auto the entire time.