Quote Originally Posted by derektm View Post
Yeah. 3836B043 is sucking now! My first impressions of it were good, but upon further testing, I believe it sucks. It wont do 3.8GHz stable at 1.296v, but my 940 will. On the other hand, the 3836B043 will boot into Vista at 4GHz with 1.296v, and the 940 won't!

So far I've tested:

3836B043 (920)
3836A394 (920)
3837A728 (920)
3838A332 (940)

None of them will do 4GHz Stable without at least 1.4V+, but all will do 3.8GHz at <1.35v. I've tested this on eVGA X58 and Asus P6T with 4 different kits of Corsair Dominator 6GB 1600.

I don't know how you guys are getting these things to do 4GHz at low volts like this. I am on a Noctua Air cooler, but my temps are only topping 74 C.

What happens is prime blend just freezes, and 10 seconds later BSOD.

Anyone know if Frys has any good steppings in right now? (Bay area).
Its funny this sucks =( rofl....my prime acts the SAME exact way on my chip.
Freezes into about 15mins of it, then BSOD's 10 seconds later with "an uncorrectable hardware error has occurred" Its that same message each time.
I have a 3836B043 chip.
I wonder if there is one or two settings for this batch that specifically need tweaked....and we just gotta find them.
Oh well, so much for B's being good chips...I went through hell to get this one with frys rofl. First I bought a 3839A chip, didnt even open it..just took it back and fought for the last B chip they had.