if your proc suck in OCability then its no use also if you get good coolers and etc
Pray hard, my friend, may the OC force be with you

I dont think you are poor.. You got alot of high end 478 stuff. Not cheap at all when it released last time. haha.

If you have the space, dont sell your old 478 rig. Just not worth it. I dont feel good when i selling mine

This PSU is good enough for 478 but not for c2d and 8800gts. Now even with default speed, the 12v rail almost dry up already. I am so worry now. Dont know can stand till Silverstone OP650 arrive end of this month or not. haha.
478 still can support vista if you have the right spec. 1.5gig ram at least and a direct9.0c GC. can stand for another few years unless you are into high end game else a major overhaul is not needed.
yeah... 478 still rocks despite its ages.
aiya... shouldnt get the Ultra 90. it probably good enough for 478 but when u upgrade to c2d. you will need to buy a new one.

Oh I see..... Ya, if didnt use that much power, no point getting a c2d. Kind of overkill for alot of program. hehe..

Really want to see mine ar... Let's me print screen and show you. I am so worry now.

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i once have think of purchasing ultra90. after take measurement, scare cant fit into my mid tower case. end up buy xp120.

i think is the warm air from hfs spread your whole case. You really have to draw out hot air in your case. Perhaps get a better casing.

Two words for u bro: Mod It~! 

pentium 4 a junk,u can get the best p4 proc 4 under 300....its core 2 duo world!!!

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Added on March 13, 2007, 11:00 pmpentium 4 a junk,u can get the best p4 proc 4 under 300....its core 2 duo world!!!

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Added on March 13, 2007, 11:00 pmpentium 4 a junk,u can get the best p4 proc 4 under 300....its core 2 duo world!!!

haha, yea, right. i wont move to darkside so soon. Now i just see hows the technology settle down like multicore cpu, ddr2/3, dx10 gc, vista etc. ofcoz, $ is the main factor stopping me from migrating. I admit that i am not a hardcore user. i even seldom rip dvd on my system. As long as it can serve me well. I wont mind use it for another 1 year. Now slow slow kumpul $.

haha..... if kena strike 4d 1st price then i will consider migrate.

have think of upgrade my gc...hehe. think only.......

Almost 3 months i have been without a comp since my MAX3 die. Anyway got a replacement board from Raymond, ie AI7.

Eventhou it doenst stand again the MAX3, but still the board perform not bad. Still, SC478 still surviving.

@shinjite
Yeap, i have read the review and it say this board is very good.   But the lack of Silicon Image SATA Controller and Intel CSA NC is somehow a let down.
@raymond5105,kabukiawie
Well currently i dont have much time to play with the board, as my previous Patriot ram die on the same day with the board. So i got a replacement Team Xtreem. Guess it will take some time to find the sweet spot again. 

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Added on March 18, 2007, 7:43 pm

Well, maybe the E version has more features?

.. Icic.. But i heard that, the none E version does better peformance then the E version? But compare up, this 2 mobo only are almost similiar. Beside the E version got Asus HyperPath for the ram part. The rest are same..

i thought PAT only available for intel 875???

for s478, 865 and 875 perform better than other chipset.

865 & 875 perform better due to the 800FSB support, and of course matured chipset quality compared to previous 845 and below.

Thats 1 of the reasons I choose 865
Cheaper yet got PAT, can rival the 875

As i have mention early, here is the what i can achieve currently. Just that the ram timing has to be lossen to 2.5-4-4-8 in order to get to 250Mhz.

Initial testing at 250Mhz with 2.5-3-3-8 return an immediate error in SP2004 eventhou the VDimm is set ranging between 2.6-2.8V. I think im getting a bad pair of ram coz comparing my previous Partriot can hit 250Mhz flawlessly at 2.5-3-3-8 with juz 2.65V.

Aslo i notice that the board have a very bad voltage flunctuation. The 1st column is set in BIOS while the 2nd column is read in ABITEQ. Im not sure whether ABITEQ is the culprit or not.

VCore    1.525V    1.55V
VDimm    2.7V        2.76V
And one question, how to enable PAT in this board?
Haha.

most probably it is. i tried before with sandra memory bandwidth: auto=3.4k, enable=4k. Besides that i didnt see any of the setting is related to PAT. i check using cpuz. Tweak865/875 also can check.

he recently changed the stock sink to TR XP120, very nice! 

if oc the NB sink is quite hot. You also using the same mobo as mine with oc, so you should notice that. last time when using the stock hfs, the northbridge sink is quite hot as it also absorb the heat from cpu.

have you ever try to apply as5 on it? Ori stock northbridge uses the plastic/rubber type thermal paste. Last time it was hot, now just wam2 only. Before 37-40C and now 35c+- according to mbm.

i change the paste is because i take the northbridge when installing xp120, so at the same time just clean and apply as5 on it.

Maybe you can try get a fan to cool it instead of leave it passive. Just my suggestion.

Oh my sig ah....
Changed since beginning of the year loh~~~