Does the P7N SLI Platinum suck for overclocking?

[XMan]

I can't get my Q9400 stable at 3.2. I'm pretty sure it's not the CPU as it struggled to OC a Q6600 as well. I could only get it to 3.0 after being able to do 3.3 on a DS3.

Would I be better off going back to my DS3?

 

[ahenkel]

You know I have the same board. Mine was impossible to get stable even at stock settings, and forget overclocking I couldn't gt my e4500 to even to 2.3 (stock is 2.2). I rma'd mine. Honestly unless you're dying to try out SLI I would go back to the DS3. The one other thing is I've read Nvidia chipsets have FSB hole problems so it may just take experimenting with different settings.

 

[gamefreak32]

Basically, yes. Mine was stable at 3.5Ghz on my Q6600 for 3 months, then all of the sudden unstable. Clocked it down to 3GHz. It was stable for 2 months then the motherboard died. If you want something to last you for more than 9 months, avoid this board. The 1 year failure rate is horrible and I think this is true with most 750i motherboards.

 

[XMan]

Originally posted by: gamefreak32
Basically, yes. Mine was stable at 3.5Ghz on my Q6600 for 3 months, then all of the sudden unstable. Clocked it down to 3GHz. It was stable for 2 months then the motherboard died. If you want something to last you for more than 9 months, avoid this board. The 1 year failure rate is horrible and I think this is true with most 750i motherboards.

So what's a reasonably priced replacement? I'd like to keep my 9600GT SLI setup as it works very well. All the SLI-capable motherboards seem to be ~200, which is ridiculous, IMO.

 

[lopri]

I know this suggestion is probably unacceptable, but here it is anyway: Get a dual-core CPU.

 

[XMan]

Originally posted by: lopri
I know this suggestion is probably unacceptable, but here it is anyway: Get a dual-core CPU.

I do too much video encoding for that to be an option, unfortunately.