Quote Originally Posted by soapman72 View Post
I am currently running 1.65v on the NB. I could get away with 1.61v at a command rate of 2N, and at that setting my system was completely stable. Your board may need 2 clicks more or less than my setting, so obviously run no more than you need---I believe I am pushing the board very hard.
You put quiet a lot of voltage on the NB indeed. You seem to get it right with the 2 clicks less as you can see in the current settings I used as provided at the end of this post.

As for the cooler....It is kinda funny how things work out, but I purchased a Corsair cooler to keep the platinum ram cool. The ram didn't want to play nice no matter what........The cooler wont fit over Reaper modules because of the heatpipe.......I took the cooler apart, and it is just (3) 40mm fans wired together, so I removed the metal housing, so nothing would short out on my board or video card, and I ised plastic zip ties to strap them together using the mounting holes in the corners of the fans.......once they were strapped together, I used 2 more zip ties around the heatpipes at each end of the NB heatsink, and strapped the whole assembly to the NB cooler. It worked out very well, and doesn't even look too ghetto, even though I don't care much. 6000 rpm x 3 fans equals a happy NB...... I hope!
Yesterday I tried something similar when I turned up the voltages of the NB and DRAM a bit more to try to get things stable because I'm getting sick of 3rd week of trial and error. I put a 80 mm fan on my vidcard aimed at the DRAM mainly but the NB took some advantage of this fresh air as well. Before I got to sleep I tried some gaming for an hour and it seemed stable. I tried to remove the fan when everything immediately crashed.

I already order the OCZ XTC cooler but the brackets won't fit with my vidcard. Luckily I can sell it to a friend of mine for the retail price. When I'm buying the Corsair memory there will also be the airflow fan included and I want to use it for the memory ofcourse. But maybe I can mount the 80mm fan on the D-Tek CPU block. I also want to remove the blue Asus shield but how did you do that because I read it is kinda hard to remove?!?

These are my current settings:

Ai Overclock Tuner = Manual
eXtreme Memory Profile = Disabled
CPU Ratio Setting = 9
FSB Strap to Northbridge = 400
FSB = 450

DRAM Timing Control = Manual
DRAM Frequency = DDR3-1800
DRAM Command Rate = 2N
DRAM Timing Control = Manual
CAS# Latency = 8
RAS# to CAS# Delay = 8
RAS# PRE Time = 7
RAS# ACT Time = 24
All Else to Auto

DRAM Static Read Control = Disabled
DRAM Dynamic Write Control = Disabled

DRAM CLK Skew on Channel A2 = 300
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel B2 = 300

Ai Clock Twister = Auto
Transaction Booster = Auto (gray setting gives an indication of PL7)

CPU Voltage = 1.44375v
CPU GTL 0/2 = 0.67
CPU GTL 1/3 = 0.67
CPU PLL Voltage = 1.58v
FSB Termination Voltage = 1.28v
DRAM Voltage = 1.98v (active cooled with 80mm fan)
NB Voltage = 1.57v
NB GTL = 0.61
SB Voltage = Auto

Clock Over-Charging Voltage = Auto
Load Line Calibration = Performance
CPU Spread Spectrum = Disabled
PCIE Spread Spectrum = Disabled
CPU CLK skew = Auto
NB CLK skew = Auto

All energy saving options are disabled.