afternoon lads,

like many, i switched from e6600 & p5w to q6600 & p5k-p a short time ago and recently bought a TR ultra 120 to replace the ageing asus silent square i never should have bought to begin with.

i also bought a antec 900 case which i'm fairly pleased with.

a couple of weeks ago I stuck my finger into the 200mm antec 900 "big boy" fan running at full whack which broke a] one of the 9 fan blades and b] my fingernail.

after sucessfully aralditing the fan blade back into place and lapping my q6600 & ultra 120 with 1200 wet & dry, It seems to be stable at 9 x 400 and i've been playing around trying to get it stable at 9 x 412mhz but so far it can only manage about 90 minutes of prime95.

can anyone suggest some good chipset voltages to help get over 400mhz with stability?

i'm loving the black pearl and it's certainly no curse to me, however I feel for those faced with sata issues & hope the new bios has helped somewhat.

yesterday I cooked up a vlite slipstreamed vista x64 with 292 hotfixes and installed it onto a single 36gb raptor with AHCI and it's feeling much more responsive than before when it was plain old SATA IDE.

i'd like to thank everyone on the forum for all the great info and for the inspiration that lunatics like eva2000 provide to ignite the overclocking flame within us all.

cheers, limb0