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you need to set a divider in your bios, try knocking it down to 166 or 133, and then run memtest and see what you get, you should be seeing numbers of 270+ on a decent board, on a better board you should be seeing up to 300
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103928
Works for me and it supports 24pin and 20pin w/out a dirty adapter, you just unplug the extra 4 pins and voila a 20pin, also supports PCI-e when you upgrade to it, but not SLi so far I'm very happy with it and rock solid
Your stock heatsink should come with a small tube of Thermal Paste if not it's already preapplied to the heatsink, and you would just need to put the cpu in socket and mount the heatsink on it, if it doesn't come preapplied, insert the CPU, and use a small dab of thermal paste, about the size of...
The stock HSF works fine, but if you want to get it cooler might as well opt for a better HS, and some AS5 to go with it.
Don't use GLUE...unless you want to mount your HSF to your cpu permantly...
You can use any Heatsink you want, slap on a Thermalright xp90 or a Zalman 7000 (I think is what's it's called) and your good to go for some cool temps.
As for the memory, the new Memory controller is said to be cabable of 4x512, but I haven't tested it yet so i'm not sure
I just talked to my friend about my OC and he said i was an idiot? am I that much of an idiot considering the lifespan is 8-10 years on a cpu and i'm only taking away maybe 3? for 5-7 years on a cpu now, that will be long gone come a year a half?
yeah, gonna edit my post that was my previous OC before tinkering and talking with you, I want to make sure it's 16 Hour stable before I make it official, which it should be, but just wanna be certain :)