[18th Anniversary] Asus Black Pearl - P5k-Premium Testing Report

[sesdave]

Erm, i can't remember the batch no, as i don't have the boxes with me, probably will go look for the Intel id proggy later, but it's VID is 1.2500. never thought that VID would affect a chip's ocability that much - noob me lol. anyway, my PSU is a SS OP 750W, liquid cooled by an apogee GTX, the idling temps at 3.6 at the stated Vcore is around 39-44C, kinda high lol... i followed your settings, damper is enabled, is the vdroop that high? i'll try out the ref volt settings now. thanks will report back soon.

CPUs with lower vid range tend to overclock better. I would check the seating of the HS. what temps did it reach on prime before it bombed.I am idle 36c and prime 62c with an ultima-90 . I only have a .025v difference between BIOS and reported on my MB. I also have a higher vid 1.2625v on my cpu which run 3.6 okay on vcore 1.425 - 1.4 reported with the posted settings. Still they are all different otherwise it would be too easy. Still is compared to the days of opterons and DFI mB's-lol!