Old Q6600 G0 on a new Asus P5Q Pro Turbo

[Redbeaver]

so my lovely second-wif....errr..... machine had died

It was a Q6600 G0 on DFI Blood Iron P35-T2RL, plus 2 kits of 2x1Gb OCZ PC-6400 DDR800 Platinum XTC for a total of 4Gb of RAM. Plus 8800GTS 640MB. The G0 was running at 3.6Ghz (400x9, 1:1 w/RAM, +225mhz on Vcore, 1.4 on NB, 2.0 on RAM, etc...)

Then one day the board just died (long story short, it was popping BSOD on Win7 - i know...weird, eh? - then it just won't even POST), and yes, it was the mobo since I swapped the RAM and VGA and PSU, and its just dead.... (i read somewhere that high polymer caps has 5,000hrs life expectancy at 100C, and running it at 3.6ghz constantly for the last 3.5 years probably took its toll)

So I went and grab a new board... the one on sale and has MIR nonetheless.... the Asus P5Q Pro Turbo. I thought, hey, nice copper heatsink, 2x PCIex, why not...


Couple hours later... and voila. stock 2.4Ghz running solid under prime with the followings set manually...
CPU ratio = 9
FSB freq = 266
PCIE = 105 (why? i dunno.... a habit i guess lol)
DRAM freq = 800
DRAM timing = manual (set CAS to 4, others to auto)(coz the manual said so)
DRAM Static Read Control = Disabled
DRAM Read Training = Disabled
CPU volt = 1.4 (preparing for overclock I suppose. i got a Thermalright 120extreme anyway so temp is no a problem)
DRAM volt = 2.0 (thats what it was on the old system. default 1.8 doesnt seem to gettin jiggy with 4 sticks...)
NB volt = 1.2
CPU Spread = Disabled
PCIE Spread = Disabled

and thats it! the rest is Default.


So far so good......................

So, I thought, maybe it's time to up the challenge.....
400x9 = 3.6Ghz
DRAM = 801
NB volt = 1.4
post, boots, primed, oh wow this is awesome!!
reboot = no post
actually, now it wont even post at all lol.....

OC failed. go into BIOS.

333x9 = 3Ghz
DRAM = 800
boots, primed, but won't reboot. again.

OC failed.
Vcore = 1.4625....

nope.

NB = 1.5...

nope.

So ok... at this point i thought i should be dabbling with more settings since the NB is extremely hot to the touch....
but where do i go? there're so many unfamiliar settings! (ironic coming from a DFI-fanboi that used BloodIron and a couple LanParties in the past), and Im hesitant on using the same PLL or GTL settings from the BloodIron since theyre different chipsets and different boards....

So....... that's it.

Anybody kind enough to point me into the right direction on my journey back to 3.6? (or point out the stupid mistakes I did with this unfamiliar board? lol)

Thank you very very much in advance

ps: http://forums.overclockersclub.com/i...c=152180&st=24 my old discussion on occ on my BloodIron and the same Q6600 if that's any help...