Quote Originally Posted by ThatGuy16 View Post
I can't break 4.34Ghz to save my life. I don't know if its the board or chip. i can get it stable at 4.3, but i can't even get into windows anything above that . I'm stable at 4.0 with only 1.26v, i was thinking with water cooling i could at least hit 4.5Ghz for some bench runs.


Are these good temps for my setup, Apogee GTX, MCR320 rad..

At 4.0Ghz 1.26v. I get 21c idle and 37c load (CPU temp "Tcase?"). The cores read 48-50 on load (im still thinking the core readings are wrong.)

At stock clocks/volts. The temperature only goes up 1c on load (21c "cpu").. I'm always paranoid, i think all of the air is out of the system.
Those temps are excellent. I was having a hard time booting at 1900fsb or 4.275ghz too. I eventually got it to boot at 4.5ghz or 2000mhz fsb with 1.6 volts. TEmps were high but it passed 3dmark06. Temps were in the 60's on load and 40's idle. That's with really good air cooling.
Try giving that sucker a ton of volts and it will boot!