**Official ABIT IP-35 Pro Review/Overclock/Guide Thread**

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I can beleive this thread is almost to 400k

anyway, I had a couple questions as every now and again like to play with the clock settings on my system.

what would you say is the upper limit on the voltave for the northbridge and MCHIO? I have gone as high as like 1.56 and 1.8 respectivly and im wondering if trying them that high is causing any damage to the board. just to be clear they are not running that high all the time but I have taken them there to see what the top end of my overclock is. i do have a fan on the northbridge but i haven't done that bolt mod yet. the fan btw is a cpu cooling fan from a P4 so i know its getting good airflow.

also in trying to overclock it seems that above 500fsb my e6550 seems to work but in a strange way, when I run orthos the cpu spikes to 100% but then drops like a second later to like 6 percent. orthos doesn't stop and the system laggs like it is under load but the control pannel does not indicate its under load nor does the temp go up in core temp. any ideas on that?

and lastly my system has around 6100hours of runtime, most of that is 24/7 every now and again the board hangs on post, either displaying nothing at all or showing my cpu as a single core. is this indicative of a failing board?

my system specs are in my sig. for reference.

At least you can get there. I can't get stable above 450 regardless of RAM/Voltage/multiplier settings.

[Ace-a-Rue]

At least you can get there. I can't get stable above 450 regardless of RAM/Voltage/multiplier settings.

when you say "stable", are you talking about Prime 95 or OCCT???...what is your method to determine stable?

[18 is # 1]

when you say "stable", are you talking about Prime 95 or OCCT???...what is your method to determine stable?

Prim and Orthos. OCCT will run at 3.8GHz.
I'm hesitant to run Vcore at more than 1.38 uGuru (1.36 shown on CPUZ)