I own a P5N32E-SLI motherboard, like countles OC'ers. IMO this kick butt MoBo for Duos, however it is now also know to have a relatively low FSB ceiling for Quads (possibly as low as 320!).
I have a pre-order for a Q6600 G0-stepping coming some time late August so I am looking for a way to raise this limit...
With the Q6600 G0's 72C tCase and using only 95W, the temperature wall should be high enough to allow people to go higher than this FSB x the locked 9 multi will allow, maybe even up to 3.4 on air!?!
EVGA's 680i boards are on the same boat since it seems this is a 680i related issue, and recently EVGA themselves said the following:
"It was found that the GTL Reference Voltage, derived from CPU VTT/FSB Voltage, on the 680i SLI Motherboard, needed a little boost for better FSB overclocks on Kentsfield Processors. About a 0.03v-0.05v boost should yield better FSB overclocks on a Kentsfield Processor. Current boards do not have this implementation, but newer boards should be tuned with a little more GTL Ref Voltage with Kentsfields."
So I ask... would there be a place on the P5N32-E SLI board to pencil/solder/what-not that would allow us to feed the extra voltage needed..?
...please forgive my noobness when it comes to modding if I made any mistakes in my statements.


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