Quote Originally Posted by MrDeeds View Post
@dinges
Sadly the vdroop on the board hasnt allowed me to realiably use voltages higher than where i am at the moment. I do intend on doing the pencil vdroop mod this weekend and hopefully that'll allow me to go further. Im my case i havent been able to find stability at 4.3ghz and higher. I can boot all the way to 4.6ghz for suicides and can sustain 4.5ghz for 32mb pi but not much more.

It could be my cpu but i really think its the fact that i havent really had the patience to find the settings to go further. I was stuck at 3.8ghz for months on my previous board so when i could hit 4.2ghz 24/7 orthos stable i pretty much just took it.

The heatpipe is a waste and you definately need something better for orthos testing over 4ghz. The one thing you do have to remember though is you'll need something for the sb once you pull the heatpipe. To each his own on the vrm area, I havent experienced anything adverse by running without sinks so i'm just going to continue that way.

On another note i wasnt able to get 525x8 stable while i have no issues doing 9x467. It isnt the ram or the cpu. I can run small ffts for hours but blend is a no go. It dies after about an hour. I think it may be because i dont really know what to do with cpu vtt. I dont think its nb voltage becaue i actually have worse results when i raise my nb volts. Also has anyone found it helpful to raise ddr2 termination volts.
thnx for the info, did some testing over the weekend but not for long .
at first i discovered one of my ram sticks was doa, so i started playing with only one stick, just set alot of high volts (all purple-red, nb@1.4v) and booted at 4ghz (450x9), installed windows at that speed and did some 5min of orthos blend, then 475x9, same story.
485x9 was not stable though, so to find stable bus and mem speeds i set 8x500 1:1, turned orthos blend back on and went out for some groceries, when i came back (10-15mins later) the rig was off and would not post anymore. so seems like another quick commando kill

btw all this was on the standard heatpipe cooling, which i cleaned and put as5 underneath. at 4 and 4.25ghz i did feel some of the heatsinks but none of them where exceptionally hot, even upto 1.685v vcore (bios).