Thanks! yeah, I think I will stay a bit more conservative for now, lol. Oh, I have the ud5. I am burning in at 160x21 for now with 1.2 vcore... I ran my other OC at 180x20 with 1.23 vcore fine.... my chip was prime stable at 4ghz with 1.4 vcore but my temps were warm on air... this chip has me tempted to get back on the juice (ala h2o) badly... kind of eye balling water kits again.. I have a modded nautilus 500 with improved rad and fan, but not sure that will cut it here... I think I need a bit more cooling surface... anyways.. so far so good.. the mobo has behaved very well so far. *knocking on wood*

Quote Originally Posted by SteveRo View Post
Which ggbt board do you have? Many folks myself included have found the f4x bios's to be better for oc. My bios settings for high oc below - if you are on air start with a lower vcore - something at or below 1.4 might be a good start. Good luck!

load line enabled
vcore 1.55
qpi 1.335
cpu pll 1.88
dram v 1.64
HT off (or HT on with much higher temps)
turbo off
C1E, C3/C6,C7 off
EIST off
bidirectional prochot off
virtualization off
qpi, uncore, mem multi's: 36, 13, x6
1394, lan2 off
HPET on, 32 bit
965 on GGBT X58 extreme under water
This is with Bios F4m

Max voltages from intel -