Quote Originally Posted by Isaac MM View Post
What FSB do you people can get on air?
Air or water made no difference for me. All water did was make the temps look nicer while benching. I got the same results. @ 450FSB 3.6Ghz my chip needs 1.28v-1.30v to remain prime stable and I think I can even lower that. It's the board's chipsets that get stressed and require voltage bumps after 420-440FSB. Then GTL settings kick in and when you don't have them available it takes vtt and vcore to push farther. I never adjusted the gtl settings on the evga or the dfi that's this weekends project. Since the P5E-VM HDMI doesn't have gtl settings and pushed the chip farther I believe once I find the right combination on the dfi or evga I can lower the required vcore & vtt to acheive the same clocks. It seems clocking the Q9450 requires time, patience and perhaps and extra board or two to know your hitting a FSB wall and not a cpu wall.