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Oh, yeah. I remember that one.
I think that ELFudge guy got banned.

That's what I thought.

Anyway, I think just about all of my questions were answered, so I'll update tomorrow night with my OC attempts.

Wish me luck!

Cool. I am interested in how much better that new Zalman performs. I have the older 7000 ALCU version. Works great.

Good luck.

Ok, sorry I didn't post anything last night, but I didn't get very far. I couldn't find the memory/CPU modifier to OC just the CPU and leave the RAM alone. I read some more today, and found out that it was there the whole time, I just didn't know what to look for.
So, right now I'm at 3.42 Ghz (225Mhz FSB) and the Ram is running just a little below 400Mhz at a 4:3 ratio. I got this far just on my lunch break. Last night I only got to 3.19 Ghz before things started getting fruity.

Oh, and here's a pic of the new heatsink in!

Temps seem good so far, haven't even gotten past 49c or so, but I can't see the temp while I'm running my burn in program (3d mark 2005). I thought the CBOX 3 that came with my mobo displayed the cpu temp, but it doesn't. Is there a software solution to this?
Ok, have to go back to work. I'll get more work done tonight.

There doesn't appear to be one on Chaintech's site.... Unless they have updated drivers for the CBOX that enable it?

As for 3rd party software, I remember there was a utility called motherboard monitor, but I'm not sure if that gets updated or not.

I found the site for Motherboard Monitor
http://mbm.livewiredev.com/
and it looks exactly like what I'm looking for.
Thanks for the tip.

Give the 5:4 ratio a shot and see how she fares.

I'm definitely going to. This was just a lunch-break overclock. I wanted to make sure that the crashes from last night were because I was OCing on a 1:1 ratio, and not something else.
So now that I know where to go, and what to use to monitor my temps, I'll start really testing it's limits.

Update:

Right now I'm at 3.72Ghz with 1.41V on a 245Mhz FSB. My idle temp is 53C, and I just ran the 3DMark2005 CPU benchmark #1, which maxed the temp out at 69C.
Is this getting too hot?
It started crashing when I got to 245, so I kept upping the voltage until it worked. If anyone sees this, let me know what you think before I post a couple of pictures of toast

From what I'm seeing with others, that sounds about right for a 3.0E @ 3.7GHz. It's going to run hotter than what most people are accustomed to, but let others with more Pressy experience chime in.

Nice overclock BTW! You've got it cranking

Thanks! I think that's going to be my limit. I tried going up to 250, but even with the voltage up to 1.51 it would crash in the middle of Windows booting up.
But that's ok, I think I can settle for this

Do you think that's just the limit of the CPU though? My ram only got up to 368Mhz, so I don't think that that's what's holding me back... but I dunno. I'm going to let this burn in some more just to be sure I'm stable.

It's hard to tell...keep in mind that article I linked to earlier, the northbridge cooling could be affecting your results as well. From the way I read it, they settled on a 250fsb for benchmarking, as anything above it was unstable. Even so, they could push it to 290, just couldn't benchmark it that high.

Either way, I wouldn't be disappointed with what you've accomplished

I'm definitely not disappointed. It's just one of those things where you just want it to keep getting faster forever, but then it just cuts you off.
Anyway, It feels like I've gotten tangible results. Things just seem to go faster. I hope it isn't just psychological

Here's the final count:

Thanks to everyone for their advice. I'm very happy with the results