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Well the main disk (os partition) is a seperate drive, the raid array is a second "drive" used for games (slow loaders like fear, far cry, doom3 etc..) so i'm not worried about losing it, just don't want to do it before a weekend if I have to rebuild. Thanks for the info. BTW have you...

BTW I also have a 3700+ i'll be trying to overclock soon, i wanna finsih the clocking on this opty first tho...

Right now i'm using the 1.0 bios (ugh) but i'm gonna flash it, just wary of flashing because the system is running great and has most of my stuff loading already. This is with the default cooler that comes with the opteron, it never got above 50C at full load (both cpus pegged) which i don't...

This is what I got so far.. I am happy with it, I might go higher just to see what kind of headroom I have but 600MHZ overclock for free makes me smile :D Might be hard to see inthe pic but that's 270HTT, 2430mhz, DDR is set at 2.5CAS 266 but running at 175 (with the HTT increase). Ran all...

So if the memory is clocked at 200mhz (400MHZ ddr effective) and the HTT is at 200 that would be a 1:1 divider? if so, would 150 (300MHZ ddr effective) be 1:2 of a 300 HTT?

So I am working with an Abit AN8 32X motherboard and an Opteron 165. My memory can run 400MHZ at CAS2 and 1T timings. I have been reading overclocking dicussions and guides pertaining to this board and a lot of time they talk about memory bus dividers but I'm not sure what they are referring...

thanks for the detailed breakdown killin...

what cooling? I'm just gonna use the stock cooler but my ram runs right now at CAS 2 with 1t timings at 400MHZ so I have good feelings about being able to use a high divider. I'm gonna shoot for 250x9 first, then go for 9x275. If I can hit dead stable at 275 i'll be happy as I don't need an...

Got my opty 165 and Abit A8N 32x in yesterday, loaded up windows, patches, and drivers and everything looks good.. nice and fast already (compared to my last rig) so now i'm ready to overclock.. Wish me luck...

Bingo ;) Saves me about 250 per box (upgrading 2 systems), although looking at the Egg and fry's the pricess seemed evenly set (currently). O RLY? so when you bend a pin and it breaks off you get to remove the whole motherboard and replace it as opposed to returning the CPU? Screw that...

I prefer AMD, having the motherboard socket provide the cpu Pins is rediculous. 939 is stable, and cheap and offers the same performance as an AM2 right now without the added cost of DDR2 (which the intel also requires). I paid 700 bucks and will be upgrading 2 systems to 939 pin CPUs and be...

Because the 4400 is clocked higher, you're paying more for a guaranteed clock speed.

cool thanks to everyone for the info (which im sure was posted before long ago but i'm not an "early" adopter ;)) i'm going with a combo deal ABIT AN8 32X Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI X16 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail and an opty 165. Heard this is a good overclocker, although abit is...