Quote Originally Posted by Cybercat View Post
Stable as far as 30 min of Prime worth.

I didn't try testing more than that. I'm thinking of selling the rig and going Intel, unless somehow I'm missing something big.
The advice pershoot gave is all very good!

The other thing I noticed conserning your reboot problems sound very similar to what was happening to me on the Biostar 790GX A2+. I was running that on a bench and even though I had Mem sinks on the FETS and a fan blowing on the PWM section of the board it did the exact same thing. Everytime it happened I'd do the finger test on the FETs & Chokes, they were SMOKING hot...

This seems to be a common problem with most AM2+ boards, putting a fan over the PWM section of the board will probably help. To be quite honest I think most Mobo Mfgs have cheaped out on AMD boards. Hopefully PhII will make them take notice and release some decent boards with quality components and good cooling solutions...

Phenoms are definetly tricky to OC, but to me thats the biggest part of the fun..

1.45 Vcore may be a little low considering it's only .1v over stock, as long as your temps stay good under load you may want to bring that up a little. AMD even says max Vcore is 1.55 and I'm sure that's a conservative number...

C2Q is probably much easier to OC, not sure about I7 but I would assume the addition of the IMC on die makes it more difficult too..