hi there,
I found some DDR DIMMs, willing to give them away (+shipping, probably ~$3) for anyone who has an old (and i mean old) system...
1 x 512MB Corsair ValueSelect DDR
1 x 256MB Micron DDR
Please PM if interested.
I'd prefer to sell as a set for $150 shipped, but i'd be okay with parting out, prices below:
Asus P5B Deluxe rev 1.10G - $60 shipped (SOLD)
comes with original box, I/O shield, SATA cables, manual
G.Skill 2x2GB DDR2 PC2-8500 5-5-5-15 - $50 shipped (SOLD)
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 C0 - $80...
this is most certainly true... i have the same setup (e8400 + p5b deluxe) and it was impossible to achieve stability at 380-400FSB but i'm running at 445 no problems...
I remember seeing this about the EP45 series boards... perhaps it'll be of some help:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=3491906&postcount=666
He means the SMDs on the bottom edge of the card, near the PCI-E x16 connector.
Those are caps, not resistors, based on the PCB screen printing, C7-C38.
This should explain things a bit:
http://www.thetechrepository.com/showthread.php?t=30
On my P5B I ran into stability issues with FSB around 360-400... I set FSB at 401 and it's fine and dandy, running now at 445. I think the 965 chipset just has issues with that FSB range (high 300s).
Xigmatek HDT-S1283 with retention bracket for ~$45 is what I would recommend, Thermalright 120 for ~$60 works well too... search around the forums
The Xigmatek comes with pushpins but it works much better (temps lower by a few degrees) with the backplate, not to mention much less of a PITA to...
What games are you playing? If it happens to be TF2... you'll see performance gains all the way up to 4.0GHz (and probably beyond) because it's not multithreaded at all (at least I did).