Quote Originally Posted by Daveburt714 View Post
I raised the VID to 1.40 (@ 13x), it just continually ran the Windows boot screen but it didn't crash. It seemed like progress, so I slowly inched it up to 1.45 VID same result each time even after a couple minutes of waiting (HD activity stopped).
I finally gave it one shot @ 1.475 Vid... That resulted in a Blue Screen "Interupt Not Received on Secondary Core"
Yeah, that's a typical sign of the core not being able to physically do the MHz. All of mine will show the same at their limit and the limit comes instantly. My 2nd 9600 had a similar limit, 2602 was max boot but stability was around 2495 max.
Yeah, NB VID was @ 1.35, and it was stable enough to bench as long as it was at the same multi as the cores it was good up to 2409Mhz. The latency times on the L3 cache actually didn't improve from 2000 though, strange.
In which application?
Real-life improves pretty well you know.
Doesn't POH have the TLB patch?
Can disable it in the BIOS.
Actually AOD doesn't seem to work too bad with Vista64, some of the voltage adjustments get squirley, but if you make sure they change and only do 1 at a time it's liveable...
Are you sure the voltages are "squirely" even at 1.25VID?

When you increase the VID, the voltages won't be what they read in AOD/BIOS. The voltages are mapped according to the VID, so 1.25VID gets minimum 1.232V but 1.3VID may show up as 1.232/1.24 selectable, but it will be much higher up by design.

Bad luck landing a bad chip I guess.

OC using 10x, 11x and 12x multi.. see how far you get.

BTW Newegg is expensive for me too...