Thanks Ace! I'll try that tonight... was using CPU-Z to see the bouncing. Also, when OCing to 3.6, and I start testing 3dmark06, the video drops to about 50% - per some more researching, I'm assuming I just need to increase the PCIe clock speed to 101. Something should have flagged me to it when I began to lose overclocking potential on my video card - would normally OC it to 750, and was then able to only OC it to 720 after the 3.6GHz OC. Would I ever need to increase it more to 102? Are there other factors I could also then be missing? I know I'm not sharing a lot of details right now about the voltages I'm trying, but it's because I've been spending hours of rebooting/testing voltages and can't give a concrete single number response yet

Quote Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue View Post
i would try CMOS clear with battery out and PSU unplugged...don't forget to push the power button to unload the caps...if you can get to the mobo power ATX power plug, i would unplug it...leave it for 5 or 10 minutes...put everything back together....after that, go into the bios and set the bios to optimize bios defaults...save...go into windows to see the C1E and EIST working...now...reboot to disable both...go back into windows to see if the multi stays a 9x.

what program are you using to see the multi change from 6-9-6?