NosBoost300
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ya that was 1.65v... lol
Did you seriously try to compare an extreme edition chip to a q6600? You should know better than that nos. Of course you are going to get a higher overclock with less voltage than someone on a q6600. Theres a reason those chips cost 1500 bucks when they came out. It wont matter when i get my i7 rig and walk all over your dinky little 65nm quad >< Also, i have never bothered finding what voltage i actually need for stability, i always go higher than needed just to get my clocks.
too early for that crap. Board revisions,bios updates sounds like a headache. I'll wait for it to mature and the new steppers to come out
i doubt its your RAM... most DIMMs can do 5-5-5-15 at 1066MHz (so long as its not like valueram or something)... loadline calibration is so annoying, and a likely source of issues (probable because you only get 10 seconds at load and your temps are well within operating range)... it strains the pulse width modulation circuit and screws with the corrective feedback loop, which in turn causes jitter in the differential amplifier circuit, distorting the clock signal... you can correct this jitter using clock skew, but it'll be very difficult to get accurate enough to achieve good stability at high voltages... instead, just disable LLC and put a bit more voltage through (you might need 50-150ps on the MCH and 50-100ps on the cpu... start high and decrease until unstable), it'll increase your idle temps a bit, but load temps shouldn't vary too much, as this is where the droop occurs