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Winchester OC limits?

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Peanya

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I've seen many people who can get a Winchester past 2.3GHz, but getting it Prime95 stable just won't work. In most cases, it's almost always after about 2 hours. You can run games, and do just about ANYTHING but Prime95.
I've heard Asus has posted 2 BIOS updates to help with this but no success. In my experiments, I've gotten both the LDT bus and the memory way past 250MHz stable as long as the CPU is under 2.3GHz.
In my system, I'm using the OCZ PowerStream PSU, and OCZ's EL-plat rev 2 memory that is actively cooled. I'm also using a Koolance system. As you can tell, the equipment is good. The limiting factor here is the CPU.
Right now my system is 100% stable in everything at 9x256; LDT X4; Vcore 1.475; DDR voltage 2.65; timings of 2.5-3-3-10; both the NB and LDT voltages were bumped up just one notch as I had stability issues at 256 at stock.
So if anyone has heard of anything to get it past this AND be prime stable for more than several hours, please reply!
 
You won't get prime stable, there's a known problem with the winchesters and prime 95. Unless you use prime 95 as an actual application and not a stress tester just be happy you can run all of your programs you actually use with no problems.
 
Yes, I've read that too. What I'm trying to find out is if anyone knows a way to get this fixed. For the longest time Prime95 was the most popular way to test if a machine was 100% stable. Now all the sudden people are saying it's no good. There has to be a reason this is happening.
 
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