Quote Originally Posted by Leeghoofd View Post
Try to put some volts manual mate , NB might require a bit more volts for 4 dimm operation

For Lucifer and Truehighroller

I think you will get both an RMA board, but getting a new cpu, never... get real guys... there are so many Q9450 and 9550's out there that are overclocked and most run fine with your hated setting on "performance"...

C'mon, pushing 480FSB daily could damage the CPU and or mobo... Is that now the mobo's fault ?... Some things go down slowly other stuff just brakes... you are overclocking and you take the risk...

I find this is getting out of proportion big time as it's all Asus' fault now... we had similar stuff with the degrading CPU thread... everyone's cpu was dying suddenly, yet it only required "for most" a small bump in Vcore to stabilize again, others had crappy PSU's, mobo with LLC issues, some had ram going bad etc...

If I was you guys I would make a seperate thread on your issue... and see what gives... I hope you get your issues fixed but I hardly believe Asus will do nothing more than just swap the mobo's
You'd perhaps be more sympathetic if you were an Q9450 owner

I've also experienced the same problems after trying and briefly using higher bioses than 803. Note that its only an 3.6 overclock, not more, hardly bleeding edge stressing components

I think this is the ideal place to share information on this subject.

After all once you set your system up, whatdaya going to do, fark with ram timings for ever more? this is a genuine issue (as witness by different users) and its not exactly work to read the thread - its nice to have new material relating to the board

the combined replacement cost of the cpu and board is only ~$500, so I wouldn't dismiss it as a petition for new hardware
personally I follow this thread to see if the problems have solutions
ie new bios that I can use with my CPU and fix for the restart on power down

Another point is Luci5r drove the overclocking of the q9450 on this board when the board was first released : work that enabled many (like me)to simply use the template to get up and going while new to the subject, surely that huge positive contribution books time to discuss a board/cpu problem

and what if the time truehigh has done results in cpu swaps, that is beneficial to the community whom have the cpu/board combination

*the worry here is that
1 we are stuck with 803 bios for ever more and
2 the same settings on 803 will stop working - eg the non shutdown problem, which personally just started happening this week on mine


I think its valid discussion, and I think if you had the same cpu you would too.
Q9450 is end of line but Q9550 is popular so there possibility of this becoming more common