[Buckeye]

I am not sure what is going on with these CPU's I have tried. I see boostedevo was hitting 5ghz with 1.5vcore, mine would not even boot unless I was close to 1.7vcore which was just to much load for SS Phase.

Sometime wrong with the ES CPU's or board, I dont know, maybe its just me.

I did get a Dominator GT 2000mhz RAM kit were I could really tighten up the RAM timings and thats what I used on these last runs, but getting to 2000mhz was not easy, where as on my other Dominator 1600mhz kits I could get to 2000mhz easy but could not get the RAM very tight.

So in the end of all this I am scratching my head going crappy ES CPU's or something wrong with the board, I don't know. The more I see what others are doing I am begging to think something is up with the MB as 2 ES CPU's now are doing pretty much the same thing.

Just to add here...

One of the 860's had some burnt pads and stains all over the back and not even cleaned the tim completly off.

The 870 I used here had black marker with a date writen on it and that went back to July I think it was, will have to pull CPU off and double check that.

These ES's that I have gotten have clearly been around the block a few times.

So it could also just be the board, I don't know.
This chips freak at the thought of going colder than a SS Phase so no Cascade or LN2 as the cost for that to run at DICE temps plus how baddly they have been running on Phase just doesnt make sense.

Thinking my Dominator 1600 RAM just wasnt cutting it anymore I went and purchased the Dominator GT 2000mhz kit which was costly and tbh that didn't even help much. But I throw this new kit on my MA790FXT-UD5P and 965 C3 and they sing like crazy.

Then its possible I am just horrible with these P55 boards, which is prolly true. All I know is I have been fighting this board and CPU's for weeks and not getting anywhere fast.