Maximus Extreme + Zalman GT1000 tri-loop setup - picture heavy

[polar bear]

Well, I was just midway through a Vantage run then I just glimpsed over to the everest sidebar and what catches my eye (drumrolls please): all of a sudden I can see 4050MHz!! Turned out after I swapped the GFX cards (actually had to do this twice as it was the 2nd one that was faulty, so had to reconnect the tubing and refill water and bleed and all lol) the bios had decided to switch multipler from 8x to 9x (it does that sometimes after a hardware change but usually results in system that wont boot).

BUT NOT THIS TIME MAMA! Oh no cause I had already cranked up the voltages as I was not sure why system was not stable - was running Vcore of 1.60. So YES I am happy to say that I am finally stable above 4.0GHz the MAGICAL limit (for me anyway lol ). Below follows proof (yes I am not making this up ) - not the best Vantage score but anyway my personal fav so far as it beat the previous score (same system with Q6600 at 3.6GHz) by nearly 700 points ie a 9,3% increase!

Lol still awhile until I can compete with MikeGuava though