Ahh it was because I was running prime95 and burn test as the same time. 10 Passes does not really prove you are stable. When I was at 3.4ghz I would not start getting errors until after 23-26 passes on average. Stable enough for games maybe, but I don't need a BSOD or undetected errors when saving pictures from my SLR. I'd gladly give up 3200MHZ to have truely stable hardware. It's not that much difference in performance. 3400 is better for bragging rights but it won't pass 50 iterations so I'd feel like I was living a lie! Not many on this forum are willing to run 50 passes, so I have to question alot of so called stable overclocks.
If I sell this setup I'll probably ditch the MB and CPU pickup an E0 stepping and P45 chipset. But I want a motherboard I can liquid cool since I already invested so much cash into the nice universal water blocks for it. None of the Asus boards look like you can liquid cool them very easily. Do any of them use Digital regulation like the DFI boards?
Also how many people are testing with 8GB ram on the Asus Boards? Running only 4GB of ram significantly increases my stable overclock, but I want to run all 8GB that I paid $280 for...
Bit dissapointed in intel after hearing such great things about their new CPU's and how overclockable theya ll are. I have usualy been able to squeeze much higher percentages off AMD chips.
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