This is just a preliminary update, but it doesn't look good for the new chip...

Using just the multi's the best I could get was 12.5x, with everything else stock 13x was a no go. I rebooted a number of times with CPU VID ranging from 1.20 to 1.35... Nada on 13x....

IMC looked a little better. With the CPU downclocked (matching NB multi) I managed to get it up to (219x11x11x8) or 2409Mhz on both the cores and the IMC.

BUT, as soon as I brought the cores back up, even 2250 was a no-post on the IMC... Arrrrrrrrrrg........

The HT Ref will do 250 stable, so basically, I'm right back where I was with my first chip 250x10x8x8. Granted, I had a couple months to tweak the old one but it really doesn't look like theres a whole lot more to be had. I was really hoping for at least 13x using just the multis....

Do you folks have a system for testing cores individually? AOD doesn't seem to be well suited for the task..