How can this be?

Droogie

Droogie

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I have a Q6700, running on an ASUS P5N-D motherboard, and When I set the speed to 1199, which is equivalent to 2.99 GHz core quad as you all know, I'm perfectly stable. Yet when I set it 1200, it won't boot. At the boot screen it says, "Boot failed, press delete to enter setup" seams really strange to me. :confused:
 
Bump up the voltage one notch, that should give you a nice stable boot. If it takes more than 3-5 voltage notches to get stable (make sure your temps are ok), you should consider to lower the FSB a bit, which could mean you hit a FSB wall.
 
try running a memory divider. my guess is that's just your ceiling. my experience with AMD is that you can actually turn down the hypertransport frequency, but with intel you can't turn down the fsb so you're kind of screwed if your motherboard sucks. my guess is that your motherboard just sucks.

you know asus has a good reputation of building good overclocking boards... but they only build the best of the best and make you pay $500 for it. from my experience evga and gigabyte have the better low price overclocking boards. DFI isnt bad either.. or MSI as my last choice. asus tends to slack a lot on their low-end boards.
 
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