Screen shots - 1st build/1st overclock - Everything look ok?

Looks perfectly fine. Good job and enjoy your new build.  

Temps seem a little high to me?

I'm running a e4300 at 29c idle 36c load at 3.15ghz.

I do have the Thermalright XP-120 Heatsink, but I think you should be able to get lower temps with Artic Silver 5 + a decent heatsink.

What are you using to take the temperature?

If you look at what my BIOS reads (i.e. the temp shown on AI booster) - i'm at 28c idle and 41c at full load using Intel TAT. Intel TAT loads both cores @ 100% so that is the highest temperature I would ever likely see (Actually, probably never see).

From what I understand Intel TAT takes the temperature from inside the cores and will typically be 15c hotter than what the BIOS shows. BTW - please correct my if I'm wrong. Like I said, I don't want to fry my new system.

My biggest questions are in regards to RAM timing...

I have 2 x 1gig Corsair TWIN2X2048-5400c4 (DDR2 667).

Stock, my system clock runs at 266mhz x 4 = 1066 FSB making 266 x 2 (dual data rate) = DDR2 533 the minimum necessary ram speed.

Since my RAM is DDR2 667, I raised my system clock to 333mhz x 4 = 1333 FSB and 333 x 9 (system multiplier) = 3ghz cpu clock speed.

So my memory 333 x 2 (dual data rate) = 667 (rated capacity of my RAM) and running 1:1 with FSB.

Now I manually set my memory timings at 4-4-4-12 to get my c4 latency. Is this correct?

Should I have gone 5-5-5-15 or do I only need to raise my latency if I exceed 333mhz @ 1:1?

Or am I totally flawed in my thinking?

Can anyone help me?

run memtest if you get no errors at 4-4-4-12 then go with it. If you do get errors raise it up to 5-5-5-15

You only need to bump up your timing if you are not running stable at the lower timings.

Dovii, your timings are correct. As per the Core 2 Duo Temperature Guide, your Tjunction temps are borderline for your clock and Vcore, but are OK. I recommend that you run Core Temp with TAT, and instead use the temps from Core Temp for reference. As Core Temp compensates ~2c higher than TAT for the Integrated Heat Spreader, this will yield a more standardized set of values.

ItzSS, your load temp is inaccurate. Please read the Guide, then post complete results and variables, and I'll be glad to help you.

Hope this helps.

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ive got an almost identical setup... i have a gigabyte DS 3 board instead, but that shouldnt play much of a factor... you are running about 10 degrees hotter than i am so im wondering what you might have done that is causing that ... i idle at about 31 and load out at like 55... at least according to core temp, im gonna download tat now and check it for ya... also, are you using the windows software to OC or the bios?

ok yup, idling at 32c and load at 55-58c

Theres no such things as 12:19 AM!!!!!

I smell photo shop

Is it stable? Have you run Orthos or Prime for at least 10 hours?