Printable View
Under 65c load would be fine imo, some say 70c is ok.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scendore
Your temps are decent for air cooling and if your happy with your rig at 4.0GHz then why bother to play with it. If your able to use it 24/7 and have zero issues then I would say do not fix whats not broken, if your looking to squeeze a few drops more out of the chip then post your bios setup and we can make some suggestions and help get you where you want to be.
Could this mean that my IHS is not flat? Would lapping help me any here?
http://i698.photobucket.com/albums/v...r/Capture3.jpg
Yeah, lapping could help you=)
I get hooked on lapping when i see what the result was on my first one.
What cooling do u have? If water, have u a back plate? Too tight? Lapping may not help in all situations...Quote:
Originally Posted by mreld3r
Edit: Well, i see u have a Big Typhoon :)
The thermal sensors in the 45nm Core 2 Dual and Quad processors are very poor at reporting accurate core temperatures. You can lap your CPU until it's as smooth as a baby's bottom and as shiny as a mirror but you'll probably still see the same pattern when it comes to your reported temperatures. Reported differences of 10C between two cores sitting side by side is not uncommon at all but that doesn't mean that the core temperature is actually different by 10C. In the majority of cases, it's mostly just sensor error.
You can also try RealTemp. It gives you a few more options to see how your sensors respond at different loads by doing a CPU Cool Down Test.
http://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/
Man I'm seriously thinking about getting a UD3P, this X38-T2R hates going over 450 with a Quad. I can get it to 456 with a little arm twisting but now my ram keeps freezing the PC during videos. I know it's not the CPU because it passes Intel burn test and 12hrs. of Prime95. I know this Quad has more left in the tank, I'm at 4.1ghz with 1.3v vcore, 1.34v VTT. I can't go higher no matter what voltage I pump through the board, it just locks up just before or shortly after booting into Windows.:mad:
Welcome to DFI + Quads combination my friend. It is not a good board to use with these chips. I had same processor in my DFI X48 (check my build log in the sig) and maxed out with CRAZY voltages at 472 x 9 (1.6vtt 1.8pll etc)!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mysterfix
Now I'm happy at 4680Mhz (520x9 IBT/Prime stable) with 1.30vtt/1.5pll/1.389vcore. :up:
Well I finally had my first crash under normal gaming... So I'm looking really for stability at this point. I think I have very conservative numbers so far but I just don't know the bounderies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grnfinger
Here are my current settings
Q9650@ 4000.5 Ghz 445X9
vcore in Bios is set to 1.4 CPU-Z is 1.38
CPU FSB 1.3
Mem 1.9 (Stock)
SPP 1.45
MCP 1.55
HT- SPP-MCP 1.25
All Spread Spectrum Disabled
Temps are low 30C at idle and under normal game load low 50C. Under Small FTT they reach low 60C. CPU Cooler Zalman 9700 LED
Goal is stability and of course I would like to go higher if possible...
To find help you will be better of looking into Evga specific forum or look for your mobo thread here in XS.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scendore
The problem you're facing is more related to your mobo bios settings then to the Q9650 (what this thread is about).
You my friend are EXTREEEEM! I wouldn't even consider using that much volts for VTT and PLL. Knowing my luck the board would smoke as soon as I tried to boot with those settings.:eh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jor3lBR
As soon as I can find someone to peddle a system to I will be getting the UD3P for sure.:up:
Decided to try a custom run today with my Q9650. Looks ok to me. :D
Although it looks to me as if Core 0 is kinda weak, it was still running 4096K at test 7 while the other cores already were running 1024K again.
http://www.abload.de/img/q9650_4100_1264_customhvx3.png
A little more voltage will probably fix that.
Got me self a UD3P today; I wanna find out what all the hype is about :p:
Looking forward to your resultsQuote:
Originally Posted by Zucker2k
Post them up in the maximus thread would you?
Be nice to see what all the buzz is about
I will; it's got a tall task - gotta beat 9x529 FSB with 8GBs of ram of my Rampage Formula x48. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Grnfinger
Thanks m8:up:
If anyone is up to the challenge its you
zucker2k,thats awesome news.looking forward to some amazing clocks from you and your new board(which you will later come to call the best quadcore OCing board i've ever owned):)post as soon as possible cant wait.
The big difference is that on the Rampage you can only CPU-Z validate because is not stable and on Gigabyte you can actually Prime95/IBT it...Quote:
Originally Posted by Zucker2k
But why sub utilize 8gigas of ram? You can use 4 gigas on one machine and 4 gigas on the other :-)
EDIT: just to add that this board has failed to run smoothly with large amount of ram (16Gb) I don't think it was meant to be used as a server but as a OC/Enthusiast board. It will be interesting to see if it can get different results with 8Gb.
Hey guys, was checking out this thread. Ordered the q9650, should get it early next week. Hope that I didn't make a mistake, have an EO q9550 running at 4.0ghz 471x8.5. Want to try and get at least 4.25ghz. I'm not very Xtreme with my voltages, just started running a quad a month ago and unsure what reasonable 24/7 voltages are. I mostly play online games, need to be able to run the clocks everyday not just for benching. Also ordered another EP45-UD3P, after getting use to the settings I love the board. Ordered everything from Newegg, haven't had much luck with overclocking eggy cpu's in the past but the price was right. Will try and post results when i get it up and running.
You know I'll do my very best to wring out all the performance I can get without going over the edge.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grnfinger
Well, took me about 3 hours to swap boards; some minor but significant problems on the pcb designs of the two boards mean no mcw30 on the sb, but this is no biggie as the ich10 sb is known to run quite cool. Good news isI'm up and running so I can have whole day tomorrow to tweak. Bad news is (yes, there is bad news) the ambient temps have changed so much since my last runs. This room is an oven and the weather has gotten rather warm lately since I relocated. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by radaja
Priming at 4.7Ghz+ would be the feat of the century. I just love 8giga, would have nothing less. Notice even on my runs on ripping, I had 8giga :shakes: :shrug: Dumb, but that's just me; makes the overclock even more impressive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jor3lBR
Looking forward to some tweaking; main goal is to:
1. Find voltages differences between the UD3P and the Rampage Formula
2. Find max clocks
3. Find max fsb
4. Find max stability
Should be fun :toast:
Hey, i got my Q9650 today, batch is almost the same as your's. But if i understand correctly, L844B is a nice stepping? Can't find anything on it with GoogleQuote:
Originally Posted by deachus
My specs:
SLB8W
L844B803
It seems to be one of the better steppings out there. Mine runs super cool and p95/LinX stable with low volts. What mb will you be using with your Q9650?Quote:
Originally Posted by DemonEyez
Okay, that sound very promising :) I'll be using my current mobo, a DFI DK P45 T2RS Plus. The CPU will be watercooled bij a D-Tek FuzionQuote:
Originally Posted by deachus
Sounds good. Post your results here for us to see. I would like to see how yours compares to my L844B. I would test with Intel Burn Test or LinX after you have found stability with p95. I was able to run p95 for 10hours+ with no errors or problems but was getting lock ups in COD World At War. I ran LinX and found I was not actually stable. Had to bump vcore up a notch.Quote:
Originally Posted by DemonEyez
Watch out guys.... new ram sticks on the way!
Guess ambients only become a factor when I'm priming. This chip has a lot left in it too.