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Originally Posted by 1Tanker  I wouldn't say there's anything wrong with the board. Several suggestions: You might want to try upping the PCIe frequency.. start at 101MHz.. and try some variations(usually 117-120 is the upper safe limit). Also, try taking out 2 sticks of RAM..some boards don't clock as well with all 4 DIMMs populated, and since these boards only have 4 phase power-circuitry vs. some of the higher-end boards(6 and 8 phase)...it may be struggling a little. You didn't tell us what frequency you're running your RAM at, and the timings...as well as the vDIMM. You should drop to a lower divider if you can(1:1... 2.0 in DS3L BIOS)... and loosen the timings to 5-5-5-18..and 2.1v or 2.2v(2.3..+5 is getting high). Another possible issue is the water-cooling. When you have a water-black on the CPU, there isn't any residual(spillover) airflow that will help cool the NB/SB... so if you haven't already, try some active cooling on the NB and SB... as well as your RAM(if it's getting warm). Lastly, you have to realize that not all CPU's are great overclockers... it could very-well be your CPU... quads(the best ones) top out ~470-480FSB, so i wouldn't count on getting that. If you want to find out if the chip will run a decent FSB, drop the multi to 6 or 7, and try 470ish. Oh, and if you're getting 430 with the stock multi(9)...that's 3870 MHz... not too shabby really. GL, and let us know how you make out.. and if anything helps. 
Edit: I didn't see your post, Biff... i guess i was typing my novel when you posted.   |
Thanks for the quick replies guys. I have my ram running at 5-5-5-15 at 430 fsb. I loosened it upto 5-7-7-22 and didnt see any difference so went back to 5-5-5-15. I will try with 2 sticks and see if it makes any difference.
I always have 1:1 ratio. My system won't post with anything else.
I dropped my multi to 8 and 7 but fsb wall seems the same. My north bridge is also water cooled.
I haven't tried upping the pcie frq. yet, will do that once i get my ocz 700W (had antec tp3 650 which blew due to water leakage from my gpu water block, arghhhh..). I will post results once I get the psu up and installed.