Man you arent having much luck there Crash! Sounds like a heat issue, so here are the stupid questions: Whats your thermal paste? Have you tryed reseating the Heat sink? What voltage are you running to get ehat 3.2ghz? Ive seen those V1's on a few systems, they seem to work well, so I dont think thats it!

Yeah. Its a B3 stepping so I wont be that lucky. HOPEFULLY the 45nm wont be hot. My thermal paste is the IC Diamon 7. Works great. Dropped my temps about 10*C when I first applied it. This time around with stock speeds, I dropped 20*C!!! Tell me how that is just by switching mobo's and teh direction of the HSF. (No longer blows out rear cause fan, blows up towards PSU). The voltage Im at currently is 1.35xxx.

I know many are getting much higher overclocks on those B3's, I have the G0 Q6600, but havent put it in my X38 yet, had it in my P35 most recently! But Ive hit 3.6 easy, well I H2O everything so that helps, but I know 3.4-6 can be done on air!

I could probably get away with it too if I could just Prime it to test for stability, but heat is an issue there and shuts down my computer.

Your on the new Bios, have good cooler, I would reseat it if you havent yet? Start there, I know that many times just reseating a block can make 10c decrease easy and a bad seat can cause shutdowns and a fried chip too!

Im not going to fight to try and make it run cooler becuase it just wont. I have tried to many times before. Its not worth it. Ill just have to wait and see for the Q9450 (if that is still being released. Im seeing benches for everything but that)

Keep your faith man, I feel yah!

On an Off note!

I see this memtest 3.4 beta4 that you all are using for your benching and posts here, can you throw a link this way for that download? I have searched 2 days for it and cant find anything that looks like that!

Thanks guys!

So you are planing on upgrading to the 45NM? ME too but waiting for a price drop in a few months first. I have a feeling you wont have to worry about heat once you get that.

Anyhow let me know when you get one, kinda would like to here the diffrences you notice, before I go and swap my chip!

Glad to see your not too worked up over this, some people get very upset at things and just wont settle down for anything. Hang in there!