The Official NosBoost300 Overclocking Thread

[veg1992]

soooo i just dropped the bomb on one of these here...

Newegg.com - ASUS P5E3 Deluxe/WiFi-AP LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX Intel Motherboard - Intel Motherboards

ddr3 anyone???

volt modded board anyway?!?! board runs .3v (northbridge) higher than what bios says...

time to water cool the chipset and bring out some great numbers

step 1 complete...

step 2: buy g.skill hz's ddr3 1600
Newegg.com - G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Desktop Memory

step 3: danger den torture rack

i might be able to do step 2 soon... just needa figure out my financial status

step 4: buy another radiator for dual rads...

step 5: buy 4870x2 on release

step 6: buy 2 120.1 rads

step 7: buy vid card waterblock

and well.. thats pretty much it

Did you buy Shamino's or did you buy it from the 'Egg?

 

[NosBoost300]

I bought it for 175 from Fugger at XS

 

[veg1992]

Ya fugger..

 

[NosBoost300]

 

[thirdshiftdj]

good deal.

 

[NosBoost300]

was hoping to do a review on my dayoff tomorrow.. but FUGGER and newegg have both failed to ship out today....

neweggs NEVER taken me 2 days to get a package... today is a sad day

this will be a nice extensive review... full of memory bandwidth tests and all that good stuff gonna be a long night when i get my hardware

 

[thirdshiftdj]

stupid motherfuggers

 

[NosBoost300]

that one almost made me laugh.. and i'm at work.. lol

 

[thirdshiftdj]

nos which Viper's did you get? The green heatsinks or silver

 

[NosBoost300]

green heatsinks... hopefully they arent stinkers... imma be replacing them later on anyway