Wow, thats pretty interesting, I never really though of bad contact as a clue.... With the next rig I'll be setting up on (my actual rig, I've been waiting for this for a while) I'll be eliminating all of those problems, I hope. I was talking a VERY dodgy 300w power supply, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was a combination of bad rails, voltage fluctuations and a bad connector - it only had 10A on the 12v rail, and its made by augira
At present my 2500+ does 2.35ghz under air pretty easily on 1.75vcore - ive had it boot into windows at 2.5ghz on a cold day at 1.85vcore. I'm hoping for a 2.5ghz at around 1.9vcore stable with water, that would be excellent. This will be on a DFI board with an enermax psu, both are fairly new so I'd imagine the psu and mobo ATX connectors shouldn't have any issues. With this DFI board, im not to willing to start butchering anything just yet - I have a ka266 motherboard that I'm going to do the ZIF mod on, and I'll look at getting a second hand 1700+ or something similar, for voltage/temps etc testing. I'd like my next block to perform quite a bit better (a degree or two would be nice, I think that won't be hard as the this block isnt really even close to what it should be) and im not willing to trust motherboard temp sensors for my results. I think the K type thermocoupled multimeter will be good enough for comparasions sake.
Thanks for the help
