Quote Originally Posted by cencik View Post
Time to review this thread.
Max(for now) on my x38 limited mobo and skills. 50c on NB is limiting me(40mm fan on it). I would like to have GA-EP45-UD3P to see full potential from this cpu. I can boot up to windows whit 495 FBS but not stable.
I would like to HIGHLY recommend the Gigabyte EP45-Extreme to anyone wanting to push this chip. Check out what I managed to achieve after only a couple of hourse, fully >8 hrs prime stable (both blend and small ffts):



I didnt even need to mess with any skew or reference voltage settings. I just set up some voltages, guessed a good vNB (1.36v on p45 chipset) for 4Gb of PC8500 ram and this FSB and went for it. After bumping up vCore one notch, it was fully stable and I was just like .

I couldnt believe it was so easy to push this mobo and the NB temps are still below 48C!! Compared to my older rampaged P5E dlx, this baby really shines in all aspects. While my older mobo was capable of priming at 471 fsb, it was still not 3D stable, whereas my Extreme fully is. It's like this mobo was made for 45nm quads!