It will be interesting to see how the DDR3 overclocks, and what effect the ram speed will have on FS performance with DDR3.RhettAMD 3700+ (@2585 mhz), eVGA 7800GT 256 (Guru3D 93.71), ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2gb Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8 (1T), WD 150 gig 10000rpm Raptor, WD 250gig 7200rpm SATA2, Seagate 120gb 5400 rpm external HD, CoolerMaster Praetorian

UPDATEFinally got the new rig up and runnning. Began to do a little overclocking tonight. Started right off a 3.6Ghz. Cores running at 44C on air 100% load on both cores. Gonna let Othos run overnight.How far do think I should try and push it on air and what temp should I stay below to be safe?

>UPDATE>>Finally got the new rig up and runnning. Began to do a little>overclocking tonight. Started right off a 3.6Ghz. Cores>running at 44C on air 100% load on both cores. Gonna let Othos>run overnight.>>How far do think I should try and push it on air and what temp>should I stay below to be safe?I don't own a Core2 so I don't know what acceptable temps are for it, but I can say that my overclocked A64 idles at 35C and the most I've seen it run is 51C on air, and that's in FS. SuperPI didn't push it that high.Probably if you keep it under 50C you are doing great. Some of the later gen P4's ran up to 60C!RhettAMD 3700+ (@2585 mhz), eVGA 7800GT 256 (Guru3D 93.71), ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2gb Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8 (1T), WD 150 gig 10000rpm Raptor, WD 250gig 7200rpm SATA2, Seagate 120gb 5400 rpm external HD, CoolerMaster Praetorian

nm you alreayd bought the parts...Let us know how it works out..a smoker system indeed!

meh...lots of the C2D guys are going near the 60C mark....apparently 60C is warm for a C2D, but not too hot, unlike the A64...when I got to 59C with mine only at 2.4GHz I was worried and backed it off...Still though, personally, I wouldn't run a CPU all out @ or around 60.... 55 would be my max....50 better hehe

>meh...lots of the C2D guys are going near the 60C>mark....apparently 60C is warm for a C2D, but not too hot,>unlike the A64...when I got to 59C with mine only at 2.4GHz I>was worried and backed it off...>When it is at stock speed my 3700+ will idle at 30C. I was impressed by that when I first got it, after coming from a P4...aka space heater.RhettAMD 3700+ (@2585 mhz), eVGA 7800GT 256 (Guru3D 93.71), ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2gb Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8 (1T), WD 150 gig 10000rpm Raptor, WD 250gig 7200rpm SATA2, Seagate 120gb 5400 rpm external HD, CoolerMaster Praetorian

>HD: The Raptor X 150 gig is what I run for my FS drive. You>may want a secondary drive for the OS and storage...I would>want to only have FS on the Raptor and put all else on a>separate drive.>No you should have the OS on the fastest drive. I once had Win on a slower IDE drive and FS on a faster SATA drive and that resulted in big performenve problem. After putting both Win and FS stuff on the SATA things improved. I would suggest use the raptor for OS and FS.

>>HD: The Raptor X 150 gig is what I run for my FS drive. >You>>may want a secondary drive for the OS and storage...I would>>want to only have FS on the Raptor and put all else on a>>separate drive.>>>No you should have the OS on the fastest drive. I once had Win>on a slower IDE drive and FS on a faster SATA drive and that>resulted in big performenve problem. After putting both Win>and FS stuff on the SATA things improved. I would suggest use>the raptor for OS and FS.All the drives are Raptors, System is set up for Dual boot with OSs on one drive FS on its own drive.Well my overclock of 3.6Ghz had issues last night after 4.5 hours one core errored in Orthos. I backed it down to 3.5Ghz and it ran stable for 11 hours.I'm using a bluetooth keyboard on this system. I ran Orthos a few times after the original error again at 3.6Ghz to see if I could get it to error again and it did. The weird thing that I noticed is every time it errored out my caps lock got turned on. Is it possible that the higher frequency is in someway interferring with the bluetooth or bluetooth drivers.I would think I should be able to get more out of the processor. All my RAM timings are stock for the modules. I have not attempted to tighten the timings at all.As always your input is greatly appreciated. :)

I'd kinda do that next....tighten the timings....what are you hoping for exactly?

I think I'm gonna just leave it where it's at. I also noticed that when I try to go to 3.6Ghz I start to hear some high frequency noise coming from the computer most likely the motherboard. Don't think I'm gonna push on it any harder.At the moment the CPU is at 3.5Ghz and the Memory is at DDR3 1556

Max performance on air? OK, we can do that.Trade the Zalman for a Thermalright Ultra. Lap both your CPU and the Thermalright flat and shiny. Apply grease CoRRectly.That'll get you to 3.7Ghz, at least. Now . . . raid 0 all 4 Raptors. Finally, SATA's 3.0 Gb limit will be fuLLy utilized, by you. This will achieve the maximum performance available with an SATA II desktop mobo. Period, that is on a ICH8R-9R southbridge. The 680i's SATA II interface was broken. Let's hope they fixed it. http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/03/the...tle/page11.htmlBut if they fixed it, you're gonna like that raid, a lOt. Back it all up on a Terabite Hitachi Deskstar. This is the fastest 7200 RPM drive available. http://www.storagereview.com/HDS721010KLA330.srSuperPi is generally used as a benchmarker. The Pi benchmark standard is time-to-Pi for 1 million digits. It'll be interesting to see the Pi performance difference between DDR 3 at DDR533 or 667, then ramped up (alone) to that stratospheric 1600mhz.Get your CPU happy, then let's do some benchies with that DDR3.BTW, here's a good E6850 thread:http://www.ocxtreme.org/forumenus/showthread.php?t=1302