I hope you can get your boot issues worked out Dejah . Keep tweaking and you'll find your 940's sweetspot .
I've personally seen the 965 topple both the 920 and the 940 clocked at the same ghz . All on the same board (Evga x 58) . SOMETIMES ITS LUCK OF THE DRAW on each cpu. I've also seen the 940 with its 22 multi at some great clocks. 4.4 , 4.5ghz...At my local lan cafe one guy has his 940 on AIR at 4.4ghz with triple Sli and HT ENABLED. So it is possible to get some great clocks out of all 3 cpu's.. Most of the time a bad overclock is user error or bad components .
I have clocked both the 920 and the 940 on the same board. I may have had a off batch cpu but I couldnt get the 920 stable past 3.8ghz . Pulled out the 920 and popped in the 940 , kept the same voltages and BAM . CLOCKED IT TO 4.115 GHZ with ht and 4.3 without . Vantage and prime95 stable.(its the setup I'm on now).
I've built 4 Corei7 systems so far 2 with the 920 ...2 with the 940. I'm probably going to get scorned here for saying this but both 940's clocked higher and was more stable with 3-12gigs of ram than either of the 920's . Luck I guess . Thats was enough for me to see to get my own 940. Glad I did.. AND damn glad I chose the Asus over the EVGA.
HOPEFULLY a future bios will fix the unstablility with HIGH OVERCLOCKS wile using HT. I could run this all day but why treat my cpu like LAST YEARS Model?
59C Max temp after Vantage run .
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