Hello, I've now built my system, have everything in place.
The cooler I was after wasn't in stock ,and they didnt tell me. They sent a dodgy Antec Vapochill Micro Extreme performance free of changre, but it don't seem to work all that well.
Everythign installed, using arctic silver for the thermal compound.
I'm currently overclocked to 2343MHz stable. Ran prime 95 fine, no crashes. All's good.
Now I know this chip should be able to go further. The stepping is CABNE.
Whenever I go over 269 FSB, it doesn't boot and goes to default steppings.
Any ideas on whats happening? Voltages are Vcore at 1.425 and Chipset is at 1.55
The mobo is an Abit AN8 Ultra. The RAM is Corsair XMS 3200 2.5 3 3 6 timings atm. I tried loosening the timings to 3-3-3-7 , but it didnt help.
please help!