Retail Q9650 Overclocking Thread

Well i tought that its time to re activate this wonderful thread :D

with 30C outside summer here i used my portable AC to push 10C to the rad, room ambient was at 23,2, here are some results :up:

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/3891/p10304981.jpg

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/778...7178214853.png

Cheers all

Very nice Sergio. :up:

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Originally Posted by OC Nub

Very nice Sergio. :up:

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thanks friend :up:

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Originally Posted by andressergio

thanks friend :up:

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Indeed very slick setup and temps!

A bird told me that the new rad is coming next week so there is room for improvement :up:

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Originally Posted by Jor3lBR

Indeed very slick setup and temps!

A bird told me that the new rad is coming next week so there is room for improvement :up:

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jaaa thanks friend that will be a bird of pray :rofl:

i just decided to play as couldnt do it on the afternoon it was damn hot outside like 36C, waited the nite and this was some fun

Cheers mate :up:
Sergio

btw: you got a killer sig :up:

hey andressergio
I saw what ya said about the gskills 9600 , do you think i would even benefit at 4.0 with a high bandwith vs my tight timmings 4 4 4 10 perf 8 ? with a trfc at 52
hoss331 is helping try to push my current setup but for some reasom im getting locked up , would like your opionion being you really like this board like me and probaly passing over till i9 since your pushing just as fast as a i7 thanks:up:

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Originally Posted by the_real_7

hey andressergio
I saw what ya said about the gskills 9600 , do you think i would even benefit at 4.0 with a high bandwith vs my tight timmings 4 4 4 10 perf 8 ? with a trfc at 52
hoss331 is helping try to push my current setup but for some reasom im getting locked up , would like your opionion being you really like this board like me and probaly passing over till i9 since your pushing just as fast as a i7 thanks:up:

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hola !!! happy new year mate...

yes i see hoss is trying to help all i can say to you mate is having 1200Mhz mem make lots of room for OC, ive seen lots of ppl very limited on OC with 1066mem, etc also gigaboard like some kind of mem, the ones that hoss have are awesome same as this Gskills PI9600, when i bought them costed me a fortune but i dont regret been benching them till 1300 using 2,4+ still runs awesome and run cool than other sticks i saw...

Try them you wont regret

Other thing you gotta consider is that not all chips are the same nor mobos...sometimes you got stucked by something else, thats the reason i prefeer mem that can do great OC even pushing lots of volts on the chip. But this is just inmo.

Cheers :up:
Sergio

thanks sergio make alot of sense hmmm I might just have to hit the button on these , if anything I wont lose performance but i should gain a bit , I looking to stick with this board awhile its really a fantastic board , hopping its not my q9650 hitting its limit at 4.0

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Originally Posted by the_real_7

thanks sergio make alot of sense hmmm I might just have to hit the button on these , if anything I wont lose performance but i should gain a bit , I looking to stick with this board awhile its really a fantastic board , hopping its not my q9650 hitting its limit at 4.0

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a pleasure mate...i been using quads since all this starts, i guess i had 2 duals, dont rememnber, but i discovered that quads push chipset very much and if you dont use mem that are loose that have room you will be limited on OC, thats my finding

blades are very good also but hard to find also they dont like much voltaje, you can strike the gskills till 2,5 wont hurt them

Cheers mate
Sergio

How important is it to have a low VID? I noticed my VID is 1.2250. Is this bad? The highest I can hit is 4.25GHz stable. Anything higher and 1 core always fails no matter how much vCore I add :(

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Originally Posted by sean222

How important is it to have a low VID? I noticed my VID is 1.2250. Is this bad? The highest I can hit is 4.25GHz stable. Anything higher and 1 core always fails no matter how much vCore I add :(

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Normally for very high overclocks it's more benificial if you have a low VID as the chip is actually binned as one that requires less voltage needs for it's stock speeds. When overclocking this assists us by having a larger voltage margin for overclocking. Your 1.225v chip is not a bad chip at all, It's just not one of the very low VID chips which means that overclocking to really high frequencies would more than likely require voltages way beyond Intels safe specs.

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Originally Posted by sean222

How important is it to have a low VID? I noticed my VID is 1.2250. Is this bad? The highest I can hit is 4.25GHz stable. Anything higher and 1 core always fails no matter how much vCore I add :(

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My Q9650 is a 1.225V VID if I remember correctly and it will do 4.91GHz at around 1.57V. It seems like it would run prime95 at 4.5Ghz and 1.42V but I never bothered to stability test extensively.(I think I did 15 minutes of prime at 4.7GHz 1.52V before the temperatures were in the high 80s. Its been too long since I tried to push it further.)

Don't be worried about a little bit higher VID.:up:

sean222, with more voltage and the right settings you can get it past 4.25.
I had a regular Q9650 and with 1.65vcore it did 4.7 and 4.8 on water and maxed out around 4.95ghz on subzero. :up:

I concur, mine's a 1.2 which seems to be about the average, but it can go past 5ghz, and bench at ~4.9 on water.

I have 1,2875 VID CPU and last night past 4,9 GHz for max CPU-Z,
bench at ~ 4,8 GHz, all on air (cold air - open window) and vcore around 1,60-1,65 V

http://hwbot.org/community/submissio...hz_4923.84_mhz

:):)

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Originally Posted by orbiter

Normally for very high overclocks it's more benificial if you have a low VID as the chip is actually binned as one that requires less voltage needs for it's stock speeds. When overclocking this assists us by having a larger voltage margin for overclocking. Your 1.225v chip is not a bad chip at all, It's just not one of the very low VID chips which means that overclocking to really high frequencies would more than likely require voltages way beyond Intels safe specs.

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That's what I was thinking :(

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Originally Posted by thebluemeanie1

My Q9650 is a 1.225V VID if I remember correctly and it will do 4.91GHz at around 1.57V. It seems like it would run prime95 at 4.5Ghz and 1.42V but I never bothered to stability test extensively.(I think I did 15 minutes of prime at 4.7GHz 1.52V before the temperatures were in the high 80s. Its been too long since I tried to push it further.)

Don't be worried about a little bit higher VID.:up:

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Glad to see a 1.225 VID can go that fast :)

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Originally Posted by Linuxfan

sean222, with more voltage and the right settings you can get it past 4.25.
I had a regular Q9650 and with 1.65vcore it did 4.7 and 4.8 on water and maxed out around 4.95ghz on subzero. :up:

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Yea, you're right, but my cooling is not adequate to push 1.6+ volts.

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Originally Posted by In-Fluence

I concur, mine's a 1.2 which seems to be about the average, but it can go past 5ghz, and bench at ~4.9 on water.

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:eek:

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Originally Posted by E-mil

I have 1,2875 VID CPU and last night past 4,9 GHz for max CPU-Z,
bench at ~ 4,8 GHz, all on air (cold air - open window) and vcore around 1,60-1,65 V

http://hwbot.org/community/submissio...hz_4923.84_mhz

:):)

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ZOMG, you guys are getting amazing speeds...so it's not my VID then :( It's me :( LoL.

Actually I think it's my cooling, although I have water cooling, I only have a Feser 240 rad...AND my overclocked GTX 295 is in the loop! :( It generates a lot of heat that my CPU pays for :( I have another rad (MCR-220)...maybe I can make another loop.

Ok ok, so now that I know that it's possible to go faster, would it be safe to run at 1.5v or 1.6v 24/7? (with OK water cooling) I'm enjoying 4.25 @ 1.375, but 4.5 (24/7) was my goal a long time ago! Haven't made it there yet :(

Thanks :D

1.6v 24/7 is in no way safe, but I guess you have to ask yourself how much you care if it does degrade after awhile. By the time it degrades enough to be problematic, you could probably just upgrade platforms anyway. No way of telling how long that will be though. Intel absolute max is 1.45v IIRC, but depending on how you interpret their spec sheet, this may or may not be safe to use. Running high volts is also hard on the mobo VRM so it will need good cooling.

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Originally Posted by andressergio

Well i tought that its time to re activate this wonderful thread :D

with 30C outside summer here i used my portable AC to push 10C to the rad, room ambient was at 23,2, here are some results :up:

Cheers all

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Sweet setup and numbers Sergio, but I know these numbers will be crushed soon with quad 4.9-5ghz goddess :up:

Keep us posted.

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Originally Posted by Jor3lBR

Sweet setup and numbers Sergio, but I know these numbers will be crushed soon with quad 4.9-5ghz goddess :up:

Keep us posted.

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for sure mate i think is time i update my sig :rofl:

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Originally Posted by andressergio

for sure mate i think is time i update my sig :rofl:

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Wow! This is what I call x3380 goodness. Show us some torture tests (LinX, Prime95), please.

You must have found an ES since thats the same batch as mine.

andressergio,congrats on your x3380 5Ghz goodness:up:
whats the vid on that one?

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Originally Posted by radaja

andressergio,congrats on your x3380 5Ghz goodness:up:
whats the vid on that one?

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hey radaja its a vid 1,2 like 7C cooler than my Q9650 1,1875 vid and does some magic numbers to play with :up:

cheers :up:
Sergio

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Originally Posted by andressergio

hey radaja its a vid 1,2 like 7C cooler than my Q9650 1,1875 vid and does some magic numbers to play with :up:

cheers :up:
Sergio

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Can't wait to see some 3d Sergio!

7oC cooler! Nice head room to play with in the summer :up:

Congrats on the new chip Sergio.