[HITandRUN]

Originally Posted by 2chesapeakes

I will have to get the batch when I get home I spend from Sunday bight until Friday on the road with work. I can tell you I've had the CPU at 200clk however I need to play more to get any type of stability out of it. This was also on air with the intel stock cooler. I had the uncore at the lowest setting and QPI set to 4.8 setting under CPU feature.
I have yet to figure out the CB and CBB temps. This weekend it wouldboot at -95 then I would try and reboot at -75 and CBB. Heat gun to the pot bring the temp down to -68 she would boot. Reboot at -90c and it would boot. I have yet to get this CPU beyond -100C so I am unsure where the CB is.
I will test out the CB next time I have it on LN2.

Yeah I know the story too good. I have the same issue here on my end. The 975 don’t like voltage at all and makes you work for the sweet spot. At the other had my board seems to like a higher BLCK and uneven multis. Also can someone tell me what the Turbo is good for on an unlocked chip? I mean is there anything going on behind the scenes in terms of current surveillance. I just feel that with turbo disable the board runs better. Any thoughts on this guys?

[Buckeye]

On my 965 I turned Turbo off.

I had pretty much the same issues with that chip that you guys have with the 975. But I had really crappy memory at the time and could have been most of my issues. I will be getting that chip back here soon and will run that chip again and see what happens.

[HITandRUN]

Originally Posted by Buckeye

On my 965 I turned Turbo off.

I had pretty much the same issues with that chip that you guys have with the 975. But I had really crappy memory at the time and could have been most of my issues. I will be getting that chip back here soon and will run that chip again and see what happens.

Yeah in my case I have the Dominators GT's so this should be not the problem. I have to work harder on this mobo/cpu!

[<<HANNIBAL>>]

975 is a nice CPU but i never loved Extreme Editions
simply because you can do the same thing (if not better) with non Extreme one

[2chesapeakes]

Originally Posted by HITandRUN

Yeah I know the story too good. I have the same issue here on my end. The 975 don’t like voltage at all and makes you work for the sweet spot. At the other had my board seems to like a higher BLCK and uneven multis. Also can someone tell me what the Turbo is good for on an unlocked chip? I mean is there anything going on behind the scenes in terms of current surveillance. I just feel that with turbo disable the board runs better. Any thoughts on this guys?

I don't use turbo on the classy and I know ram isn't the issue. two boards two extreme processors and the same issue. starting to think I wasted money and should have went for a xeon. One more LN2 session and both of these CPU's may be in the market place section.