i'm not surprised. but should be much easier for you guys with higher than 8 multi's. i was playin with my x3330 (q9400) the other night and got a BSOD tryin to boot at 3.9ghz @1.4 vcore, 1.4 vNB and 1.4 fsb termination. i am on air tho, may be possible with water but all my temps were fine at 3.8ghz, cores under 40C idle along with NB and SB. after 2 minutes of orthos i was at 53C for the cores, stoped it then to try 3.9 then went out to the bar