Quote Originally Posted by Pntgrd View Post
I am just going to try out a Gemini II. At $15 I wanted to see what effect it had on cooling the whole top of the board. If you thinnk about the design of it is just made for a Stacker 830. I can always go back to the Ultra if it doesn't work out but to tell you the truth, I am getting so frustrated with this Intel system I may pitch the whole thing and go back to AMD. I reflashed the bios again and same thing. Nothing above 3.5 is stable and I am not even sure what I HAD stable a couple of nights ago will be stable now. It took a restart at what WAS stable after setting the bios to get into Vista. I am half afraid to try any tests. It just is weird that if I try above 1.48 or 1.49 it justs reboots. I have been running my 1066 Ballistix at 1:1 5 5 5 15 so it cannot be that I would guess. PMW temps never get above the high 60's, cpu never above 61c on the highest core. I have spent a month reading up on overclocking this thing and 3 weeks playing with it. Something in the parts is a dud and I can't figure out what it is.

a couple things that i would recommend:

do not use 1T....that can disrupt a lot of things when memory is being accessed at that speed....intel chipsets are all about high latencies...1T doesn't work very well on intel chipsets since MCH is in the NB...it might on AMD but that is because the MCH is located on the CPU die.

2nd, i heard via the grapevine that WD Raptor drives are subject to errors on this newest version of the ICH9(R) chipset(s)....if you can swap out the drive with another type other than a Raptor, you might just get a higher overclock.

3rd, try boosting your ICHIO 1.5v to 2.0v for a short time along with boosting your MCH to 1.7v for a short time to see if that steadies your overclock or allows you to go higher...if it does allow for a higher overclock or makes it very stable then you can back it down a notch at a time to find the sweet spot.