Quote Originally Posted by fitseries3 View Post
dont take me wrong... i can boot at lower voltages but its no where near stable enough to do anything other than boot the machine.

stock runs at 1.1v with this chip still. even when i ran it on my TEC it needed a fair about of voltage. i can still get 4.4ghz to boot but getting to the desktop is like a 1 in 100 chance.

i have the cold boot problem as well.

at first it wont do anything other than power up the fans and lights. i hit the reset button and then it will hang on DET_DRAM for a min or so then i hit reset again and it powers right up. very odd yes but this isnt the first board this has happened with, 775's included.
Yeah, see, I have been on the AMD boat for the last 12 years so I have no idea how anything worked in the Intel world. Core i7 is my first Intel build since 1996. The cold boot is sure annoying though. I am just curious to see if there is some parallel that can be drawn between the cold boot and the crappy OC requiring a ton of voltage on certain boards. After all, cold boot is indicative of a power problem of some sort, and having to provide a lot of power to make OC stable and/or not being able to stabilize it at all could also be indicative of a power problem.