I won't comment on NB voltage as high since you use high FSB on 8Gb RAM, and I suppose you tried to lower a notch, right? On the other side, VTT at 1.5v is about 25% out of intel specs, so as if you were giving your vcore some 1.875vOriginally Posted by Zucker2k
Your vDDR voltage is impressingly low at 1000MHz, you got there great sticks. Giving them some 2.0 to 2.1v would be safe (unless the maximus overshoot them as it is known for...) and could give you some better clocks
Overall, I can only say you got a great benchmarking performance there with 500 FSB on a quad + 8Gb RAM on the X38.
But, I doubt it is the sweet spot for your setup. You have a good CPU and memory combo running high specs on low voltages. Your Q6600 will be safe with up to 1.45v real vcore and your memory could kick the 1200MHz at 2.10 safe voltage. Your CPU should easily be stable at 3.9GHz at an acceptable vcore (1.45-1.47v) which on 8x multi will give you 488FSB and 976MHz on the RAM at strap 333 or if you manage strap 266 stable you'd outpass 1200MHz on the RAM
In the worst scenario (3.9GHz CPU, strap 333, memory at 976MHz), running the memory lower than 1000 MHz, you could tighten the timings, the TRFC or at least enable static read control and some more relaxed booster settings to get better bandwidth. Even at same memory settings than your actual 500FSB performance, the +400 MHz on the CPU will compensate the small decrease in memory bandwidth.
Maybe you tried it all, but I'm certain, 8x480 to 8x488MHz is a better 24/7 setup in your case and should give you lower vNB and lower VTT
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