I've been reading this thread over the last few days after picking up a new Q9650. L843B805. I'm running it on a EVGA 780i A1 which comes to my surprise it isn't one of the better boards. Well it's what I have to work with so I will throw out a few things to see if I can get a few tips.

I've done my best over on their forums but they seem to be a bit less active than this thread. And you guys seem to have a handle on this better than most.

Right now my rig is running at 4000.5 445X9 and my Vcore is set to 1.40 bios which reads 1.376 in CPU-Z.

I've been hesitant to go above that vcore setting without really understanding the temps and what I should be looking for. So far this thread has vcore settings anywhere from 1.27 all the way up to 1.5 and so on.

She boots fine and I have yet to have it crash on anything other that Prime95 with the Small FTT test.

Under idle it runs low 30C and under Blend it will run mid 40-50Cs Under Small it will go up to around 60C.

I'm also running an older Zalman 9700 LED which I've read isn't cutting it at these speeds anymore.

So question is it worth getting it Small FTT stable and if so am I okay to keep going up in vcore? What Temps should I watch out for...

Any advice would be appreciated.