the players:
Gigabyte GA-EP45C-DS3R (W/C NB)
Q6600 G0 (1.2875v stock vcore, pretty good for a quad)
corsair 1600mhz 9-9-9-24 ddr3 (1.8v stock)
cooled with a no name gigabyte water block on the cpu (need to upgrade) swifty NB block, a rebranded dtek db-1 pump, and a swifty 2x120mm rad with yateloon 2000rpm fans in push pull
for pics go to my thread in the modding section, theres a link to it in my sig (click the one with the specs in it)
well the first thing i did was try to get the memory to run stock. i lowered the multi on the cpu to 7, and that got the memory going good at 1600mhz. of course, i could not be satisfied with those crappy cl9 timings though! so after many hours of tweaking and memtest, i managed to tighten them down to 7-8-7-17. not bad from 9-9-9-24. i still have yet to play with subtimings, but i feel like this memory can do more. i have noticed they love low volts though, i can boot at cl7 with 2.0 volts, but not anything higher
so far looks like i have some pretty nice ram!next, i decided to find the max FSB. i got it to run super pi at 475 MHZ (3.8ghz on the cpu):
valid: http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=427082
and thats about as good as i can get anything, because for somereason after that my motherboard took a dump and now can only run at 3.0ghz max
