Rather unlucky this time...:

Q812A247

E8400 on a Asus Rampage on water. OCZ 9200's at 1202 5-4-4-10 PL7 at 500fsb.

Cant it get stable above 4.2 GHZ

Runs stable at 8*500 at 1.408v / 24C idle, 1.38v / 47C load (Realtemp figures, on water)

Tried 8,5*500, but gave up above 1.55 volts. It would still crash after 2-3 minutes in OCCT.

VID is set as 1,1125 in Coretemp, and 1.2225 in Realtemp/CpuID

Pretty disappointing chip all in all, was hoping for 4,5ghz 24/7

Question:

Is it really true that FSB affects the vcore requirements ? A few of the posters here seem to believe so. Some real life figures would be excellent. 500FSB PL7 really does wonders for the memory I'm using. Does 10700 on all 3 tests in Everest at 45.8ns latency, so I'd really love to stay at this FSB.

Also, what about GTL ? There are only 4 possible settings on the Rampage, ranging from 0.62x to 0.67x. They don't seem to have any immediate impact from what i can tell. Neither does PLL from what little ive been able to test so far.