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anyway, 680i support fsb 1333 <---future upgrade and blah...blah...blah.performance just better than 965 in difference of seconds.not really important.unless you r a die hard overclocker.

p/s:-most people use asus p5b deluxe for c2d OC.they got higher clock.
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Core Temp 0.95 is released. Download.

compared to TAT, i found that this version of Core Temp report lower temp. good news?

but then again, when it is out of the idle mode...let say from idle, u fire up the orthos...possibly the multiplier jumps back to its previous state as well as the vcore, but the question is who jumps first: the multiplier or the vcore...if the multiplier first, then followed by vcore - bad, bad situation --> orthos sure fails.

anyway, if u OCing, i dun think u gonna mind paying the extra watts; and most (every OC) will disable this to eliminate any factors that might distrup the OC...so, shave them all...got parallel port, serial port but not using it...disable them...
just my 2 rupees

if u do that, be prepared for condensation as it might short curcuitout ur board.
the conroe overclocks much better with cooler temps, however if there is water, u know what will happen la

errr i think nobody cares if mobo fry.. scare the water drips to ure graphic cards and rams... thats going to cost a bomb..

a minute...u gotta be kidding...passed the orthos with flying colors...for 10 sec that is  

irenic, good to see theres more fellow QX6X00 users around.

letme know the result of ur OC man, very interested. so far my orthos has been unsuccessful on clocks beyond 3ghz... im currently settling with 3ghz (340x9) and manage to orthos for 12 hours...

even then, the core temps of all 4 cores are on ~110-120 celcius avg... the moment turn off orthos the temp instantly drop to ~80ish, like really instantly lol

if i go higher fsb/clock speeds, it'll shoot up 120-130celcius and eventually around 30mins-1hour++ it'll auto shutdown, prolly to prevent it from frying out.

does the gemII better than TTBTVX???