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Originally Posted by Blameless 
Board and PSU are probably fine, but the cooling may well not be.
On top-end air the typical i7 970 will do ~4.2GHz, exceptional ones will do ~4.4GHz and most bad ones will still do ~4GHz.
Some of your voltages look excessive. There is no reason for IOH to ever be set above 1.1v except at extreme BCLKs (over 200MHz) or moderate OCs with SLI/crossfire setups. +200mv on QPI/Uncore is also likely more than necessary. I don't even use that much for 168x25, 4.2GHz core, 3.2GHz uncore, and 24GiB of memory. Unless your uncore clock is excessively high, or you are trying to run very fast memory, you probably don't need more than +100mv.
Also, in my experience, even multipliers are less stable than odd ones on both Bloomfield and Gulftown. I'd highly recommend using the 23 or 25 multiplier.
Board and PSU are probably fine, but the cooling may well not be.
On top-end air the typical i7 970 will do ~4.2GHz, exceptional ones will do ~4.4GHz and most bad ones will still do ~4GHz.
Some of your voltages look excessive. There is no reason for IOH to ever be set above 1.1v except at extreme BCLKs (over 200MHz) or moderate OCs with SLI/crossfire setups. +200mv on QPI/Uncore is also likely more than necessary. I don't even use that much for 168x25, 4.2GHz core, 3.2GHz uncore, and 24GiB of memory. Unless your uncore clock is excessively high, or you are trying to run very fast memory, you probably don't need more than +100mv.
Also, in my experience, even multipliers are less stable than odd ones on both Bloomfield and Gulftown. I'd highly recommend using the 23 or 25 multiplier.
my bios will not let me adjust the multiplier at all...its locked out, anyone know a work around? I know the cooling isnt the best but they did have a factory overclocked option to 3.8Ghz with this SAME cooler so it is possible some how just not sure what combo of settings or if there is some other things going on there..... anyone with an alienware area 51 alx running around here?
