Quote Originally Posted by Sodapopjones View Post
Yes, I'm glad you posted that, everyone thinks I'm crazy

I'm running 3430mhz, 245x14 @ 1.4v vcore, HT and FSB at 2450 @ 1.3v 24/7 stable.

I really should be able to go higher, but keeping the idle OC stable is the problem, it takes way more volts than it should, and under load you gain .04 to .06 volts making it to high resulting in unnessary heat.

I still have a week and a half to get my board back to Newegg, which I might do and just poney up and try something else.
3600 mhz here, 258*14*10*10, with turbo to 3870 mhz (not sure if it works all the time though, sometimes tmonitor (realtime core freq meter) doesn't budge while it should). turbo DISABLED in bios, otherwise it won't boot since the stock turbo (without k10stat loaded) is 16.5x multi which results in 4.25ghz.

if you haven't yet tried k10stat i recommend you do. on the fly p-states changes etc, it's quite handy. and if you enable turbo (in k10stat not in bios) hopefully you can let the turbo multies kick in (i.e it kicks in 16x on a 1, 2 or 3 threaded app, it doesn't when all cores are utilised).

otherwise i won't blame you for swithing to an asus or similar. i'm gonna have to deal with this one. i have the money but won't spend a dime on this system for the time being. i hope future bios updates will resolve most of the issues, but i don't think the vcore jump is gonna change. it's probably "hardcoded" in the VRM or whatever. so i'll have to compensate the lower idle vcore with CnQ for lower idle clocks.

last thing i'll say is that i haven't tried remounting my HSF. i think maybe i have a bad mount or the IHS is concave which gives me +10°C load temps. i have primed some cores individually at 4ghz with 1.3750v bios (1.43v load?) and it seemed to do okay which is a good sign.