Quote Originally Posted by GazC View Post
I know that the performance option is broken, my point was that it didn't help my overclock

However, I'm just pumping airconditioned air through my rad and my orthos temps at 3.6ghz have just dropped to 31degrees I'm going to have another go!
A little update, the cpu now seems perfectly stable at just over 3.8ghz. It can crunch small ffts without issue. However blend would crap out in a matter of minutes.

I started to suspect the NB as the ram was running slower than my last stable oc so I whipped the Heatpipe off and saw a very sorry sight - only 1/3rd of the thermal pad on the NB was making contact and the 1/3rd that had been making contact was bone dry. I've taken some pics and once I've found my camera cable I'll show you the pictures I took. I've applied some MX-1 to the NB and SB and I'm now (touch wood) Blending stable. I had to bump up the NB and GMCH voltages a fair way to manage it though as well as incresing DDR voltage to 2.3v - I think I'll save 3.8Ghz for benching only!

I'll post pics in a bit - this needs to be seen!

Edit - I've got a 10C drop on the NB temp, inspite of increasing the voltage!