Cryptik,

Thanks for all your help, you pointed me in the right direction and now I am stable with those settings. I got the water cooler, temps didn't change one bit. Now I know air cooling on higher end chips can be just as good as water cooling depending on the setup of course. Lesson learned. I bumped up my FSB to 475 and am stable with it. All other settings are as we discussed.

Everyone says the TJmax for the Q9xxx series is 100C although intel has not published it. Is that still the common consensus? Also, Any settings imparticular you would suggest in the BIOS when using water cooling? For expample, temperature warnings...etc?

Stable 6 passes on intelburntest maximum stress as well as all first pass tests of prime 95.



Temperatures
Motherboard 33 °C (91 °F)
CPU 22 °C (72 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #1 38 °C (100 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #2 38 °C (100 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #3 34 °C (93 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #4 33 °C (91 °F)
North Bridge 43 °C (109 °F)
South Bridge 41 °C (106 °F)
PWM 34 °C (93 °F)
GPU 40 °C (104 °F)
GPU Memory 32 °C (90 °F)
GPU Ambient 33 °C (91 °F)
GPU VRM 34 °C (93 °F)

Cooling Fans
GPU 985 RPM (62%)

Voltage Values
CPU Core 1.376 V
+3.3 V 3.264 V
+5 V 4.944 V
+12 V 11.928 V
+5 V Standby 5.164 V
CPU VTT 1.449 V
CPU PLL 1.574 V
North Bridge +1.1 V 1.449 V
South Bridge +1.1 V 1.124 V
South Bridge +1.5 V 1.501 V
DIMM 2.117 V
DIMM VTT 1.058 V
GPU Vcc 3.218 V