It can be tough to get components that will work on a 300 watter though.Ĭeleron D 331, 2.66Ghz overclocked to 3.4Ghz & undervolted from 1.40 to 1.2875Volts. Unlike some here, I kind of like the Aria styling. Components run surprisingly cool, especially the RAM, which is still running default 1.814Volts (haven't bothered to overvolt anything) I'm sure it will work fine with a duallie, the quality of the mobo tends to make me think that is what is allowing a 30 percent overclock and an 8 percent undervolt. Just pasted this from another thread, I don't like putting it in the signature. Thing with this board is that it automatically tends to underclock the PCIE to 90mhz when it reaches a certain FSB overclock, which causes more instability than overclocking it (strangely enough, it *only* happens on Asus mobos) In this particular case, when running 224Mhz FSB, the PCIE runs 112Mhz - At 225Mhz FSB, the PCIE runs 90Mhz if you leave it at 'auto', which I have found to be mostly unstable in every configuration regardless of any other components. Same thing happened to me on this motherboard at with a Celeron D at 149Mhz no memtest errors at all overnight worked fine, at 150 Mhz would not boot (Using OCZ gold) until I raised the PCIE to 118, at which point it went to 175Mhz FSB without problems. It doesn't sound like thats the problem as it runs fine at 224. If it was a weak ram issue, he would be getting errors at 224 (say after a few hours memtest) and then a no boot situation at 225. You can run the DDR2 at whatever speed you like from 400 to 1066Mhz, the Asus board gives you three variable options (mine were 3.5, 4x, and 4.5x FSB) that change based on your FSB and memory capability.

The Asus should use conservative SPD timings for ram, even when overclocked.

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