Quote Originally Posted by KTE
Wow, nice, but isn't that kinda expensive

You guys are too rich for me
KTE, The price was the same as New Egg.. I'm certainly not rich (Tax Return). The American Dollar just ain't what it used to be $239 is actually pretty cheap for a brick&mortar store.

Quote Originally Posted by KTE
Too low VID/Volts really, that's what I would expect. Try 1.40VID/Auto volts and set it to 200x13, stock all else.
I raised the VID to 1.40 (@ 13x), it just continually ran the Windows boot screen but it didn't crash. It seemed like progress, so I slowly inched it up to 1.45 VID same result each time even after a couple minutes of waiting (HD activity stopped).
I finally gave it one shot @ 1.475 Vid... That resulted in a Blue Screen "Interupt Not Received on Secondary Core"

So, did you feed it around 1.35VID and check out if you can hit 2400MHz stable? Bench/Stability test it. You'll need much more time yet.
Yeah, NB VID was @ 1.35, and it was stable enough to bench as long as it was at the same multi as the cores it was good up to 2409Mhz. The latency times on the L3 cache actually didn't improve from 2000 though, strange.

Why not? Use P0H BIOS and AOD should work very fine, not with 1.13 though. Unless you're on Vista, then I'd not think about AOD just yet.
Doesn't POH have the TLB patch? Actually AOD doesn't seem to work too bad with Vista64, some of the voltage adjustments get squirley, but if you make sure they change and only do 1 at a time it's liveable...

I actually managed to hit 2.6 in AOD... It just won't boot into windows when it's set to 13x in BIOS, actually the one time I got it to run in AOD it was at 12.5x with a higher HT Ref, IIRC...

Your right it takes a while to dial one of these in, I've not lost hope, but I was hoping for better initial results....