Quote Originally Posted by mjh74 View Post
Ahhh

I've read 3 reviews of this board today with the E8600 chip saying how they instantly got it stable with all settings at "Auto" @ 500fsb - 1:1. I don't think I'm going to get anything of the sort here. I've tried most settings here within this thread and pushed NB and other voltages far past what I'd be happy with. The longest I can blend in prime at 500 is with all settings at "Auto" for 2 mins 44 secs .
Some chips are better than others. Like me you may have gotten a bad batch. I have an e8400. The VID is 1.2250! On a 45nm chip. It also needs a high vtt for stability. I find it relly hard to get this chip stable at anything much higher than a 425fsbx9. Im sure that I can go to atleast 450 on the fsb but getting it stable isnt easy. I am having much better results than my last board at least. Does anyone have any tips on how I could run my ram at 1066, 4,4,4,12? Icant even get it to post at 4,4,4,12. It seems stable at 5,5,5,15 with 2.1v on the dimms and the NBv at auto, it passes 10 runs of Linpack.I still need to play around with the NBv. Im not very familliar with memory overclocking. At what voltage should I start to get nervous feeding my ram?