Quote Originally Posted by Lurker246 View Post
Isn't it a limitation with the 975x chipset and Quads? For the most part anywhere between 333 - 360 could be stable, it seems to be a lottery what you'll be able to reach and keep stable with a quad.

I've only seen I think 1 guy that has managed to get it above 360 stable and that was with a completely watercooled mobo- NB,CPU,mosfets...etc.

The highest I was able to reach was 360 X 9 3.2Ghz (I've got 6 x 120mm fans on it) but the onboard audio would completely freak out and almost pop your ear drums with a high pitched whine before it died.
I got 370 stable on my Qx9650. Using x-fi though. 380 fsb wasn't prime stable at 1.3875v and I didn't try to go any higher on the vcore. 400 fsb didn't post. The same frequency was stable at much lower vcore at 333 fsb/higher multi. This was at 4-4-4-12 timings and 1.65 mch.