Quote Originally Posted by MagnumMan View Post
Well I spent most of the day seeing if I could coax more CPU out of this CPU, but I cannot. I didn't bother going down to 2 sticks because I want to run with 8gb memory. Even if I push the system to FSB 244 it is not stable (3.66GHz CPU). It's "close" at that point. I tried backing off the FSB to DDR2-800 with the same timings that work at 960MHz, and tried to push the CPU up to 3.7GHz but it was not stable, even with 1.6V on the CPU and 2.6V on the other BIOS setting (that starts with 2.5V, I forget the name!) Just to be absolutely sure I am going to keep it at 3.6GHz on the CPU, 2.4GHz on the NB, with 1.4V and 1.3V respectively as stated in my signature. Memory was also not stable up past DDR2-960, looks like I found all the limits I can, and will just have to be happy with it. I was really expecting more though.
Why not just try with 2 sticks? Only takes a second to pop them out. 4 sticks puts alot of stress on the IMC. What do you do on your computer that requires 8gb of Ram?