Retail Q9650 Overclocking Thread

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Originally Posted by Jor3lBR

Hey Bluemeanie I see you have some backups :up:

Well yeah those are still on the works I don't know what should I do to optimize wPrime, it's a new engine to me, I dunno how come my scores with hiegher ram speeds are lower, obviously I'm doing something wrong. I probably can get lower scores on Vista I only tried on Xp and W7 I would hate to format my PC right now...

The temps always helps but my SuperPi scores I did with water. wPrime1024m is a real cooling system test after it passes 80%!

Your wPrime efficiency really isn't bad at all, not like when I try Pi32M.:rofl:

4.5Ghz with very loose timings finished at 11 minutes 1 second. 4.7Ghz with tighter timings, 12 minutes+.:ROTF:

wPrime

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Originally Posted by thebluemeanie1

Very very impressive times with clock speeds to match. The CPUz, SuperPi 1M, 32M and PiFast are completely untouchable.:shocked:(By me anyways)
Does going colder help with the FSB speed?

Once I saw your post I got right to reinstalling windows and running wPrime.;)

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/n...prime1024M.jpg

I think I got the hang of it now:

http://i40.tinypic.com/33v16dh.jpg

Now I have to post 1024m.

Ah, very very nice.:clap:
You might want to try out Vista or 7. They seemed to perform quite a bit better than XP for me. Then again I'm not the one under 7.7 seconds.

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Originally Posted by CryptiK

Not sure if I will at this stage.

Oh alright, well it's good to see you still busy playing with the M2F!:up::up:

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Originally Posted by Jor3lBR

Here, no tweaks, this is on regular Win 7 OS that I used daily (no wazaa, fresh install etc etc).

http://i42.tinypic.com/286v3f6.jpg

Nice Jor3lBR!!!

Damn... nice work there. Maybe I could boot above 4.3 ghz if I tried giving it more than 1.41v but that is the highest I've ever gave it.

Nice results guys

Got my Q9650 two days ago, and the second it was out of the box, it got lapped :D

Nice and smooth, shiny surface to it, lapped my Tuniq Tower base as well.

P5Q Deluxe, 2005 BIOS
4 x 2GB Corsair TwinX PC8500 CAS 5's

FSB: 445
Mult: 9
vCore: 1.3000v in BIOS, 1.288v in CPU-Z
FSB Termination Voltage: 1.2v
MCH Voltage: 1.2v
CPU GTL: 0.670x

Load line calibration ENABLED
Memory at 1:1 ratio, 5-5-5-15 timings

Load temps after 40 mins of OCCT:

Core 0: 65 *c
Core 1: 62 *c
Core 2: 67 *c
Core 3: 67 *c

SuperPi 1M = 11.871secs :)

Did i get a good one? :D
MCH GTL: 0.670x

Figured I'd dump this in here. Summer has arrived and my apartment is very hot inside with no air conditioning so I have been workin on a "low voltage" overclock to keep temps and consumption down.

1.088v idle in CPU-Z, 1.076 load.

3.40Ghz (378 x 9) and CAS 4 DDR2-900 with 8GB installed :D

OCCT stable overnight :up:

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...v-34ghzIBT.png

http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/r...nd_testing.png

After 3 days of running P95 small fft for curing I believe I've lost another 1C of maximum temps. Ambient temperature is 66F (18.888C). I've achieved these temps using Prolimatech Megahalems with two Silverstone FM122s in push pull config and a careful application of Shin-Etsu X23-7783D. Very happy...I've got about 8-9C drop vs my old cpu cooler, Xigmatech S1284EE.

Running 4.310 40 min blend stable now...but when I push cpu higher and my ram past 1200Mhz Prime blend throws errors within 5-50 minute. I've tried various mch core / ref settings with Cpu Termination of 1.34 and 1.36V but so far no luck. Using 2.50A as memory strap multiplier...any ideas?

Hi guys, just ordered a Q9650 myself...

Just wondering, how are the VIDs and steppings on the new chips right now? What are you guys getting? And do they have the same correlation to overclockability like Kentsfield?

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Originally Posted by Kai Robinson

Got my Q9650 two days ago, and the second it was out of the box, it got lapped :D

Nice and smooth, shiny surface to it, lapped my Tuniq Tower base as well.

P5Q Deluxe, 2005 BIOS
4 x 2GB Corsair TwinX PC8500 CAS 5's

FSB: 445
Mult: 9
vCore: 1.3000v in BIOS, 1.288v in CPU-Z
FSB Termination Voltage: 1.2v
MCH Voltage: 1.2v
CPU GTL: 0.670x

Load line calibration ENABLED
Memory at 1:1 ratio, 5-5-5-15 timings

I would run ya ram at 1066mhz region Kai, this way you can drop a lower PL on the P5Q Dlx, thus increasing ram performance big time (might require some more Nb juice though).

Vcore wise your CPU seems very average. 4ghz at 1.288 is not bad, but not brilliant either. Anyway very nice power to mess with daily ( me sniffs with my E7400 :p )

I am running my Q9650 with 4x2GB of RAM so I guess I will keep with the 0803 bios for now. I lets me stay at 4GHz with my 1066 ram at 1112MHz.

Anyone have a good starting template for the UD3P motherboard clocked at 4050? That's all the overclock I'm going for since I just want something 24/7 stable on air. I just got this board today and don't know where to start. I upgraded from an Asus P5B-Deluxe so there are many new settings.
Thanks

I wouldn't jump that far if I were you. At most, I'd try 9x400 first... it's easy, and usually doable on stock voltage.

I was running @ 4050 with my P5B for the last few months. Just took 1.4 vCore with that board.

What vid is your chip?

Vid 1.225

Q9650 Batch # L836B361 w/ VID of 1.2250
Gigabyte EP45-UD3P
G.Skill 2x2GB Pi Black DDR2 800 F2-6400CL4D-4GBPI-B
Core-Contact Freezer
Antec P180
Corsair 520HX

FINALLY I was able to do 9x490 with 1.4v , strap266 (stable). Sorry no screen shot only this:
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/343/ocz1225.png

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Originally Posted by TooFastForYa

Anyone have a good starting template for the UD3P motherboard clocked at 4050? That's all the overclock I'm going for since I just want something 24/7 stable on air. I just got this board today and don't know where to start. I upgraded from an Asus P5B-Deluxe so there are many new settings.
Thanks

Try this out,

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******Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.)****** Robust Graphics Booster.........................[ Auto ] CPU Clock Ratio.................................[ 9 ] Fine CPU Clock Ratio............................[ + 0.0 ] CPU Frequency 4.05GHz...........................[ 450 x 9.0] ******Clock Chip Control****** CPU Host Clock Control..........................[ Enabled ] CPU Host Frequency (Mhz)........................[ 450 ] PCI Express Frequency (Mhz).....................[ 100 ] C.I.A 2.........................................[ Disabled ] ******Advanced Clock Control****** CPU Clock Drive.................................[ 800mv ] PCI Express Clock Drive.........................[ 900mv ] CPU Clock Skew..................................[ 0ps ] MCH Clock Skew..................................[ 0ps ] ******DRAM Performance Control****** Performance Enhance.............................[ Standard ] (G) MCH Frequency Latch.........................[ 400 ] System Memory Multipler.........................[ 2.00D ] Memory Frequency 1066...........................[ 900 ] DRAM Timing Selectable..........................[ Manual ] CAS Latency Time................................[ 4 ] tRCD............................................[ 4 ] tRP.............................................[ 4 ] tRAS............................................[ 12 ] ******Advanced Timing Control****** tRRD[3].........................................[ 3 ] use your old settings for these tWTR[3].........................................[ 3 ] tWR[6]..........................................[ 6 ] tRFC[54]........................................[ 54 ] tRTP[3].........................................[ 3 ] Command Rate (cmd)[0]...........................[ 2T ] ******Channel A Timing Settings****** Static tRead Value [ 8 ] ................[ 9 ] tRD Phase0 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase1 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase2 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase3 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 6 ] ................[ Auto ] tWR 2wr (Differnt Rank) [ 6 ] ................[ Auto ] tWR 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 5 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD 2wr (Same/Difft Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ Auto ] Dimm 1 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ] Dimm 2 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ] DDR Write Training..............................[ Auto ] ******Channel A Driving Settings****** Drive Strength Profile..........................[ 1066 ] Data Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ] cmd Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ] ctrl Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ] clk Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ] Data Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ] cmd Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ] ctrl Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ] clk Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ] ******Channel B Timing Settings****** Static tRead Value [ 8 ] ................[ 9 ] tRD Phase0 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase1 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase2 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase3 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 6 ] ................[ Auto ] tWR 2wr (Differnt Rank) [ 6 ] ................[ Auto ] tWR 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 5 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD 2wr (Same/Difft Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ Auto ] Dimm 1 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ] Dimm 2 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ] DDR Write Training..............................[ Auto ] ******Channel B Driving Settings****** Drive Strength Profile..........................[ 1066 ] Data Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ] cmd Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ] ctrl Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ] clk Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ] Data Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ] cmd Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ] ctrl Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ] clk Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ] ******Motherboard Voltage Control****** Load-Line Calibration...........................[ Enabled ] CPU Vcore [ 1.15 ]...................[ 1.3375 ] CPU Termination [ 1.20 ]...................[ 1.260 ] CPU PLL [ 1.50 ]...................[ 1.500 ] CPU Reference [ 0.760 ]...................[ 0.822 ] MCH Core [ 1.100 ]...................[ 1.280 ] MCH Reference [ 0.760 ]...................[ 0.837 ] MCH/DRAM Refernce [ 0.900 ]...................[ 0.950 ] ICH I/O [ 1.500 ]...................[ 1.500 ] ICH Core [ 1.100 ]...................[ 1.100 ] DRAM Voltage [ 1.800 ]...................[ 1.900 ] DRAM Termination [ 0.900 ]...................[ 0.950 ] Channel A Ref [ 0.900 ]...................[ 0.950 ] Channel B Ref [ 0.900 ]...................[ 0.950 ] ******Advanced BIOS Features****** Limit CPUID Max to 3............................[ Disabled ] No-Execute memory Protect.......................[ Disabled ] CPU Enhance Halt (CIE)..........................[ Disabled ] C2/C2E State Support............................[ Disabled ] C4/C4E State Support............................[ Disabled ] CPU Thermal Monitor.............................[ Disabled ] CPU EIST Function...............................[ Disabled ] Virtualization Technology.......................[ Disabled ]

Thanks Hoss.
With those settings the system failed IBT. From the template you stated a DRAM Voltage of only 1.9 so I left the timings at 5-5-5-15. From this post http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=203292 for my exact memory they used 2.0 volts to run 4-4-4-12 timings but I don't know how to change the MCH/DRAM Ref accordingly. Just ran prime and core 3 filed after 1 minute.

Wasnt sure on your ram, so either use your old ram settings or auto for now. What prime test did you run, blend, failed on 1024k or 8k?

try this,

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******Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.)****** Robust Graphics Booster.........................[ Auto ] CPU Clock Ratio.................................[ 9 ] Fine CPU Clock Ratio............................[ + 0.0 ] CPU Frequency 4.0GHz............................[ 445 x 9.0] ******Clock Chip Control****** CPU Host Clock Control..........................[ Enabled ] CPU Host Frequency (Mhz)........................[ 445 ] PCI Express Frequency (Mhz).....................[ 100 ] C.I.A 2.........................................[ Disabled ] ******Advanced Clock Control****** CPU Clock Drive.................................[ 800mv ] PCI Express Clock Drive.........................[ 900mv ] CPU Clock Skew..................................[ 0ps ] MCH Clock Skew..................................[ 0ps ] ******DRAM Performance Control****** Performance Enhance.............................[ Standard ] (G) MCH Frequency Latch.........................[ 400 ] System Memory Multipler.........................[ 2.00D ] Memory Frequency 1066...........................[ 890 ] DRAM Timing Selectable..........................[ Manual ] CAS Latency Time................................[ 5 ] tRCD............................................[ 5 ] tRP.............................................[ 5 ] tRAS............................................[ 15 ] ******Advanced Timing Control****** tRRD[3].........................................[ auto ] tWTR[3].........................................[ auto ] tWR[6]..........................................[ auto ] tRFC[54]........................................[ auto ] tRTP[3].........................................[ auto ] Command Rate (cmd)[0]...........................[ auto ] ******Channel A Timing Settings****** Static tRead Value [ 8 ] ................[ 9 ] tRD Phase0 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase1 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase2 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase3 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 6 ] ................[ Auto ] tWR 2wr (Differnt Rank) [ 6 ] ................[ Auto ] tWR 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 5 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD 2wr (Same/Difft Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ Auto ] Dimm 1 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ] Dimm 2 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ] DDR Write Training..............................[ Auto ] ******Channel A Driving Settings****** Drive Strength Profile..........................[ 1066 ] Data Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ] cmd Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ] ctrl Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ] clk Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ] Data Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ] cmd Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ] ctrl Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ] clk Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ] ******Channel B Timing Settings****** Static tRead Value [ 8 ] ................[ 9 ] tRD Phase0 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase1 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase2 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD Phase3 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 6 ] ................[ Auto ] tWR 2wr (Differnt Rank) [ 6 ] ................[ Auto ] tWR 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 5 ] ................[ Auto ] tRD 2wr (Same/Difft Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ Auto ] Dimm 1 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ] Dimm 2 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ] DDR Write Training..............................[ Auto ] ******Channel B Driving Settings****** Drive Strength Profile..........................[ 1066 ] Data Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ] cmd Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ] ctrl Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ] clk Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ] Data Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ] cmd Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ] ctrl Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ] clk Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ] ******Motherboard Voltage Control****** Load-Line Calibration...........................[ Enabled ] CPU Vcore [ 1.15 ]...................[ 1.3500 ] CPU Termination [ 1.20 ]...................[ 1.260 ] CPU PLL [ 1.50 ]...................[ 1.500 ] CPU Reference [ 0.760 ]...................[ 0.823 ] MCH Core [ 1.100 ]...................[ 1.280 ] MCH Reference [ 0.760 ]...................[ 0.838 ] MCH/DRAM Refernce [ 0.900 ]...................[ auto ] ICH I/O [ 1.500 ]...................[ 1.500 ] ICH Core [ 1.100 ]...................[ 1.100 ] DRAM Voltage [ 1.800 ]...................[ 1.900 ] or whatever you used before DRAM Termination [ 0.900 ]...................[ auto ] Channel A Ref [ 0.900 ]...................[ auto ] Channel B Ref [ 0.900 ]...................[ auto ] ******Advanced BIOS Features****** Limit CPUID Max to 3............................[ Disabled ] No-Execute memory Protect.......................[ Disabled ] CPU Enhance Halt (CIE)..........................[ Disabled ] C2/C2E State Support............................[ Disabled ] C4/C4E State Support............................[ Disabled ] CPU Thermal Monitor.............................[ Disabled ] CPU EIST Function...............................[ Disabled ] Virtualization Technology.......................[ Disabled ]

I ran blend. Will try those settings and will report back in a little bit.
Thanks

Those settings seem much better. Still failing IBT but it's getting up around 90 C. Running Prime for around 30 min now without any errors.

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Originally Posted by TooFastForYa

Those settings seem much better. Still failing IBT but it's getting up around 90 C. Running Prime for around 30 min now without any errors.

Above 65oC the Q9650 will give Prime/IBT errors but it's not necessarily the settings are wrong but the temps are too high.

So if you wanna test stability keep the Q9650 under 70oC otherwise your results will be flawed... :up:

So far running Prime my max temps are 73C.
What were your temps with the core-contact when you were at 4.4? I'm also using a core-contact and I'm at 73C at 4.05. :confused: