It's time to FORGET working a Yorkfield on a i680/i780 chipset...

[stealthbomber]

The negative responses is towards nvidia and their boards partners, who still claim up coming bios support for multicore 45nm processors on their i680/i650 boards and have done for many months now.

If they can't get a yorkfield to run on these boards (when clearly they had months to carefully experiment with this) then this would certainly be my last nvidia based motherboard!

[mdzcpa]

Ahhhhh...that's better!

But it's not what you think

My QX6850 is again nestled under my block and I'm ready to continue on playing Crysis and COD4

Nvidia has some SERIOUS work to do. Its far more than getting the multipliers working. 4 cores never made it into Windows. 3 cores could get there, but crash soon after. 2 cores was stable under load...as was 1 core.

Below is the best I can do....just 2 cores:

EIST enabled or not didn't help.....just as ineffective as the other CPU related BIOS settings. I tried em all.

I know I'll get flamed for this, but I'll dump this QX9650 before I dump my 2 gfx cards and a mobo. I hope Nvidia works this out...but I'm guessing the best they will come up with is some margin of improved stability. I'm thinking they'll never really get it humming for nice overclocks. Maybe I'm wrong though...I hope.

Anywho...keep an eye on the For Sale section if Nvidia can't come up with a good fix