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I have managed to oc my Phenom II 965 (c3) to 4.045 GHz which seems seems pretty par for the course. Here's my problem, to get there I had to crank the cpu voltage up to 1.608 and the cpu-nb to 1.55v. based on what i'm seeing in the forums and such, that's really high. If i try to bring the voltage down a little the system becomes unstable. Any thoughts on why I need so much voltage when others seem to get it done at just over 1.5v?
 
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that's probably not that bad... i'm at 3.9ghz and 1.51V on the core with all else at stock, 1.53v wasn't enough for 4ghz-- i never tried higher. why don't you just oc via the multi and leave your nb and ram alone?
 
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I have some decent headroom with the RAM, In am just over 1700 and nb over 2700. I gain nothing on the cpu by lowering these.
 
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thats high!!!!!!!!! im at 4.0 on stock volts and i know alot of other members here are able to reach 4.0 on stock volts.

i cant understand why you need that much juice, i assume your on the latest bios for the board?
 
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exactly, I can get it stable at 3.8 on stock voltage. anything higher and I have to feed it tons of power. I have no idea why.
 
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latest bios caused my temp sensors to read faulty so I reverted to previos but same results on either version.
 
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Hmm im at 1.55v at 4.02ghz with 965 c3

I am not on latest bios due to my raid cards working on my current bios
 
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its probably your BIOS check on XS in the GD70 thread and see if there is a better one for your chip alot of the beta BIOS's kick the retail ones around
 
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I'll check into those, thanks. Is there any one here with A PII 965 on a gd70? if so, what bios(s) are you using?
 
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