Testing / comparing : Intel D975XBX2 / Asus P5B DX ***56K WARNING***

[slappynutz]

I don't know if this will help, but I also use a P180 case with a Tuniq. Using a E6600 636A CPU, @400 FSB I need 1.4375V Vcore to get 9+ hours Orthos Blend (Priority 4) stable. Coretemp @ idle is 35C, @ orthos load 55C, TAT 100% 63C with 22C ambient. The highest I've been able to get 9+ hours orthos stable is 412 FSB with 1.475V vcore. After that no matter what vcore was set, there were stability problems for my setup.

Cool, thanks. That's about what I was seeing last night.

I'd love to get my E6600 to 400FSB if only to get my memory clocked at its rated speed. Starting to wonder how much of a performance jump I'll really be seeing between 3.24ghz and 3.6ghz. Wish there was an overclock database with different benchmark specs out there somewhere. Haven't been able to find one.

The CPU box states my max voltage as 1.35 and the CPU vid reports at 1.214 in CPUid (or somewhere thereabouts). Guess it's just newb angst keeping me from going over 1.35 actual voltage in Windows (accounting for the .05/.04 vdroop).