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Simon:
BTW,

I recently stumbled across the Noctua NH-U12F CPU HSF (and some reviews). Would make a nice combination with the above board and CPU for a low-cost, high-OC rig. TT Big Typhoon is good, this is quite a bit better.

Apart from the fact that it's made in Austria (where I'm from), it's consistently outperformed other air-cooling solutions. In fact, it can cool a mid-range Core 2 chip without a fan and still be cooler than the stock heatsink/fan that comes with the CPU.

That said, it has a 16 dbA fan (next to inaudible), which obviously can be replaced by something more potent.

So anyway, check it out for your next air-OC'd rigs :)

Regards,
Simon.

msattler:
I just switched my quaddy from a Commando to the P5K-Deluxe WIFI.  Can't say I gained much, my max OC seems to be limited by my CPU.
The P35 chipset can suffer from the same RAM related no-boot lockup problems that the 965/975s do.
I will admit that the P35 is capable of higher FSB settings, depending on your CPU and RAM.  I was able to get my quaddy to run at 470 x 8, but it would not stay stable.  The P5W, P5B, and Commando would never even try to boot at that FSB speed.
Right now I am running 420 x 9, the Commando had trouble with that, and I had to settle for 378 x 10.  We'll see if I can keep it stable at 420 x 9, the new chipset and new batch of bios setting has had me screwing up a few days worth of crunching.

Azzitude:
Ijust got the Abit AB9 QuadGT and I'm very impressed with it for the C2D .... as it happened I thought I fried my aw9d Max so I ordered this board and found that my corsiar ram bit the dust ... anyway I moved my C2D 6600 to it and it flies ...OC'ing is a breeze and I have not even updated the bios yet ... thinking about a Q6600 for this as it was designed for the Quads.

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