Quote Originally Posted by platojones View Post
Thanks CryptiK...yes, what you described is exactly the symptom I have. I've got vNB at 1.24v and vFSB set at 1.14...but I haven't touched vFSB at all thinking I had it maxed. Read the intel spec sheet again, though, and it says you can go to 1.26v on vFSB...so I can try bumping that and see if that helps...but, yes, that power drop always give me the feeling it's going to fail post...and then it does sometimes.
Which intel spec sheet did you read the 1.26v max vFSB in? I'd like to read it. Mine although it always did it, never actually failed POST but every time it did it my heart would skip a beat, especially when going for high clocks on the cpu or ram.


Quote Originally Posted by cliffy View Post
Whats the maximum safe votage for the northbridge on this board. i need about 1.34-1.36 to get syable at 470fsb but need to know if thats safe?
Yeah it should be fine at that voltage. The NB cooling is good for a passive heatpipe setup, and on my Maximus II Formula which is very similar, it doesn't get over 52*C NB temp when I've been benching at 1.4 vNB in 23*C ambients.