[sswilson]

Originally Posted by encorp

It was the FSB voltage, upped it to 1.25 from 1.20 and got my vcore down to 1.3** so far, I can probably go even lower..

The temp disparity was solved with re-seating my heat sink; now they are all on par with each other and are riding at the lower end of 40's at full load :D

Can't wait to put this thing through a good 24 hours run tomorrow.

/me shameless replying to his own thread.

No problem with that... Seeing what hoops you need to jump through will probably help somebody in the future who's in the same boat.

You're doing it right though... baby steps to get it up to where you want, and testing all along the way to ensure that you're fault-finding the right snag.

Have you played with the VTT yet? I'm not completely sure what it does, but it's related to the handshake between the cpu and the northbridge. Of all the voltages I ran into when I first started playing with C2Ds it's the one that helped push me over the edge once it seemed I'd hit a wall.

As far as PCI/PCIe freqs go... I'm not sure there is a way to monitor that, but everest would be a good place to start. I normally just set mine to 101 but that's just an old habit from boards which didn't lock the bus if you left it at auto/100.