My Gigabyte X38 board

[Bohoba]

[Rayvin52]

Re: My Gigabyte X38 board

Nice setup, Bohoba--running a QX6700 on my x38 DQ6, also with 4 gigs of ram. I use the 3gb switch in the boot.ini file and have 3.5 gigs accessible to windows apps. Some don't need it but it really helps me out with intensive apps that utilize it, like After Effects, Vegas and PShop. It's a really stable board. What are you cooling your proc with? Just picked up a Monsoon 2 Tec, and my oc'd cpu is cool as the other side of the pillow...

[Bohoba]

Re: My Gigabyte X38 board

Curently I am just running the stock HS/fan but I think that will change soon will give it a week and see if CPU temps come down a bit as the tape/paste on the stock HS seats up:) am running 42C and 52 C under load

core1-4 @ 60C and stress test they hit 69C ran it for 15 min but thats as hot as it got

[Rayvin52]

Re: My Gigabyte X38 board

Even if you arent' oc'ing that fine cpu, picking up a Zalman 9700 might be a good idea for cooling. At least you've got a chip with the G0 stepping, so it runs a bit cooler than the B3 Kentsfield I have. But do yourself a favor and let XP use more of that ram...edit the boot.ini file and add /3GB to it. Reboot and windows will show you more of your ram. Mine shows 3.5 gb, but it varies depending upon your setup.
Once you get a little better cooling, you should up your mulitplier a little and oc that extreme chip of yours...

[Bohoba]

Re: My Gigabyte X38 board

Ya been eyeing that zalman 9700 have heard good things on it just like to stay stock for a week or 2 to burn it all in if something is going to fail normally it happens soon.

Oh I am on Vista 64bit unlimited the available ram was reported cause I had a game running and a few other program :)

[Bohoba]

Re: My Gigabyte X38 board

So far she is running good no problems, took my room temp down to 70 it seems to like that :)
have a second hard drive just came in will raid0 128stripe once I get home from work, also got the zalman 9700 coming in and the second video card should all be here by monday.


hehe I don't play games I play EVE online :)

[Bohoba]

Re: My Gigabyte X38 board

Not a bad score with no tweaks yet :) I think I did good ?

[ANZAC_ELITE]

Re: My Gigabyte X38 board

Nice, post your score and compare URL in the 3DMark06 thread, I think you're probably top of the heap in there with that, can't wait to see what you get with some ocing

[Bohoba]

Re: My Gigabyte X38 board

Nice, post your score and compare URL in the 3DMark06 thread, I think you're probably top of the heap in there with that, can't wait to see what you get with some ocing

seems I have to buy the product to post links to it will do that after holidays :)

[Bohoba]