Quote Originally Posted by abeeftec View Post
What I have noticed about these Chips is that you must find the sweet spot on the Blck.

My buddy(who currently holds WR) actually confirmed this with his 2 chips.

One was 119 and one was 105. Also some are even 133.
It could be anything!! But when you find it the chip will take significantly lower voltage. Some may disagree with this but I have used enough of these CPUs to know.

However, in your case, it could just be that your chip is commanding much more voltage once you get over 4.9. That is actually typical on liquid and air and typical of overclocking any CPU
Same strange behavior here.

My chip can pass Cinebench at 4.5ghz (100,1mhz x 45) @ 1.22v in bios (1.24v in Windows), I can perfectly run 3dmark11 and Vantage at 5.1ghz (127,6mhz x 40) @ 1.45v, but no way I can pass (or even reach) 5.2ghz. I've tried up to 1.65v.

I can't believe in such a low wall.

Temp is not the deal, I run it in a waterchiller.

Tried bios 1005 and 1101.