Quote Originally Posted by dnottis View Post
Give it a bit more voltage and see if you get anymore out of it.

If Orthos is failing that fast and prime isnt... make sure you are running small FFTs to tax the CPU, blend will tax ram too. If you are running blend it might be your memory and not the CPU - just be sure for now you are running small FFTs to test the CPU, then you can run memtest loop test 5 for awhile to see if the ram is stable at said settings.
I've moved up to BIOS 0603 now as I wasn't very successful with 0602.

When using Orthos, I was only running the small FFTs test. I'm not sure if it makes any difference but i'm using Vista Ultimate x32..i've read a few threads where people have experienced near instant crashes with Orthos but Prime95 is much more stable for them so i'm not sure if that is happening to me.

Also, i'm have some inconsistencies regarding temps. CoreTemp, Asus Probe 2 and SpeedFan record pretty low temps of around 26/27C for the CPU and about 31-33C for the cores but Intels Thermal Analysis Tool records the cores as anything between 35C and 45C. Which one should I regard as more accurate?

Finally, I decided to start from scratch with the clock settings and have been using Clunk's P5K addon as a marker. I'm currently at a FSB of 380MHz and the only other settings I have changed is pcie to 100, enabled dampner, set ram timings to 4-4-4-12 and dram voltage to 2.1v which are the details printed on the modules. I've also disabled spread spectrum and the settings in CPU configuration. I'm gonna test things then try take it up in incriments of 5 on the FSB then start to raise the vcore, pll, nb, sb voltages if need be.

Thanks for the continued help.