Quote Originally Posted by CryptiK View Post
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.




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.
Here's the spec sheet for the Q9000 series cpus:

http://download.intel.com/design/pro...hts/318726.pdf

It's table 2-3, DC Voltage and current specifications, 1.26 for the 4 series chipset family.