Quote Originally Posted by Garrett View Post
are all you guys running extra fans on the NB and/or mosfet area or what?
You bet, active cooling over NB should be standard on this board. The system can get pretty hot under stress, but a good fan over NB ( + flame freezer on the back) will keep the system, NB and SB under control. I'm using Intel's stock CPU-fan-mod, LOL, with auto RPM, and it is doing a good job.

Quote Originally Posted by ChrisB17 View Post
Hmm I can get this board to pass like 12+ hours stable prime small ffts. But as soon as I run "blend" it bsod's.

Here are my settings so far.
201 BCLCK
20x ratio
1.216 vcore (Under load)
1.4v CPU-VTT
1.23 NB voltage.
1.64-1.66 VDIMM Voltage.

I dont understand what else I can do to make it more stable.
Blend would stress your RAM, and you should look at timing/deviders or Vdimm, and try different VVT too, i would suggest.


You guys think it is madness to go for primes stability at BCLK 221? It did BSOD on me after 30 minutes, anyways
w3520 @4.2GHZ (221x19) 1.21v, 20 minutes prime


BSOD after 30 minutes.
Couldn't prime more than 30 minutes, but it was fun trying anyways.