WT's quad upgrade - celebrating the big 4-0

[Apache Warrior]

Those all look like nice parts there WT.

As compared to his "old parts"?
Apache

[Warhead]

did you get the board yet, if so, how is it working out?? im having some serious issues with my gigabyte board. it looks like im going to have to send it back....most likely for a refund

[WalkinTarget]

Whoa .. thats not good !! What issues are you having ???

No board here yet, should be today or tomorrow, but until I spring for the video card (gonna wait until the GTX2xx series comes out in two weeks) I won't be doing the swap. It'll save me another Vista re-activation phone call by doing it all at once.

[Warhead]

the short answer is, the bios is ignoring the manual cpu voltage settings.... and its setting it to 1.2-1.25v. the proc is heating up to 70C+. guess i shouldve expected issues from a $90 board though. hopefully when i get a new board, i wont find that cutting back doesnt cool it down...
this seems to be a common problem with the ga-ep35-dsl3, though most people can change the settings for a while, with the board losing the setting later at a cold boot. people are usually trying to increase it, im trying to turn it down