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Crap, I was facing the same choice and took Z97M OCF :) found a low VID G3258, 1.012, batch 3418B968. Will put it under SS and see how it flies.

If only there was a winter in this part of Europe... I missed the "great" cold in January. I definitely plan to try again with cold.

What about 768 Mhz DDR2 CL6 on P35? I made it with Ballistix PC5300 - valid.

Thought I was able to push it beyond 440, but I stopped halfway from 424 to 440 :) not much more to be done on air.

I've been holding it for too long - I also have 431 in my pocket (valid, hwbot). Still 10 MHz short of Christian Ney's result, though :)

Thanks a lot, I still got to work towards #1. :)

Sam, thanks for the hint. Unfortunately CPU does not like 200 multi over 380 HTT. Anyway I have an update:

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Hey XS. Long time no post. I've been watching forums for quite some time, but last five years were my vacation from overclocking, I took it after I got tired after three years of running everything...

Edit - I want to apologize for my previous opinions, expressed to early. Cores unlocked successfully, it is stable now. Thanks! I will work on overclocking the beast now. :D

I tried to flash this morning, but EZ Flash told me "not an EFI BIOS". Will retry in the evening.
Your news is saddening, I hoped for stable unlock.

Any chance for BIOS update for M5A97 PRO? I'm yearning for core unlock stability....

Mine is 0924 CPMW, so it's not a new one. I hope it will be fixed in the future.

Got myself M5A97 PRO and I have an issue with it - can't fully unlock 3rd core of my PII 550. It works fine as tri-core with cores 1, 2 and 4 enabled. Strange thing is that I used ASRock A780GXH/128M...

I am considering purchasing M5A97 EVO, but the thing is - does it support core unlocking? I would like to use my X2 550 @ X4 B50 for some time before I order a Bulldozer. :)

try lowering the voltage and multiplier - start from 200x11.5 1.6V and work your way with volts

total ownage, man, congrats!

tiborr, more voltage doesn't help to go higher with the duron? :)

bleee TWKR died, but 955's don't :P
AMD is bad at picking CPUs? :P

go sub10! go sub10! :D

Did he do anything special to poor TWKR or it just died?

nice, really nice... makes me want to get back my XP-M 2400+ from the guy who bought it :D

You mentioned earlier using LN2 for the stuff - seems like you will need a lot of it, you have so many interesting CPUs. :)

cooled with your cascade?

I know, just started my search :)

EDIT - got that 3700+, hope it works :D

EDIT #2 - threw some ice to water tank - temp drop about 20C (water @13C) - gain some 100 Mhz - 3050 valid

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Not yet, 17 hours left. Didn't know that was Toledo, though. :)

Gonna freeze some ice now, maybe dropping temp will help the Venice reach 3G.

EDIT - the best I could do with Venice with just...