Quote Originally Posted by pphx459 View Post
Yea, these chips are finally cheap enough to warrant an upgrade from an Q6600. I wonder how many people are hitting over 4.0 with a Maximus?
Well 3825 MHz seems to be my cieling with this Zalman 9700 cooler
I have repeatedly with dozens of tweaks attempted 4GHz and just cant get windows to fully boot, I've come close getting past the password screen but it freezes shortly after loging in..

I have a vid of 1.16
Currently have stable occt 1 hr @ 1.175 425x9 = 3825MHz
I had to put a fan on my NB as it was pushing 50'c + now idling @43'c
I mainly played with the voltage and FSB i tried increasing my NB v but no effect there?

One thing that is bothering me is the load time to boot, my previous 6600 on gigabyte gax38DQ6 seemed much faster I count the times the bar rolls across the screen before the password prompt and it used to be 4-5 rolls across now It takes 10?? My benches are rocking @ just under 23,000 on 3dm'06 up from 18000 w/ the 6600 @ 3.4ghz I just cant seem to hit that 4ghz marker Any suggestions would be very welcome, heres my voltages
Asus Formula Maximus

Vcore 1.16v
cpu pll 1.632
NB v 1.632
Dram 2.32
FSB term 1.344
SB v 1.072
ddr2 controller ref v 1.152
SB 1.5v Voltage 1.552

Any help greatly appreciated