Retail Q9650 Overclocking Thread

Seriously, if it's the Maximus II responsible for messing me around I'll have a UD3P by tomorrow, it's that simple. Upgrading is what I do, and if I'm gonna keep this rig for a year+ it needs to remain stable for more than a day. :mad:

I'm gonna run memtest first, and if that doesn't sort it I'll probably reformat because there is a chance that my OS is screwing things up too.

I was playing HL2 last night and had a bad crash, not a BSOD, but the monitor went black and everything started behaving strangely, and it's only since then that Prime has started to fail within a few seconds. :shakes:

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Originally Posted by NapalmV5

so its like that huh sergio.. air vs water ?

fine.. air cooled 4.8ghz/dq6/higher 285 clocks cometh!! :D

dont get me wrong.. great clocks/scores! :toast:

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Thanks Napalm

:rofl: i knew it LOL

Cheers mate :up: it was just for fun
Sergio

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Originally Posted by LennyRhys

Seriously, if it's the Maximus II responsible for messing me around I'll have a UD3P by tomorrow, it's that simple. Upgrading is what I do, and if I'm gonna keep this rig for a year+ it needs to remain stable for more than a day. :mad:

I'm gonna run memtest first, and if that doesn't sort it I'll probably reformat because there is a chance that my OS is screwing things up too.

I was playing HL2 last night and had a bad crash, not a BSOD, but the monitor went black and everything started behaving strangely, and it's only since then that Prime has started to fail within a few seconds. :shakes:

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Lenny i only telling you what was my nightmare on that board and remember regretting myself why not just going for the cheap UD3P...when i started seeing what the UD3P can do i inmediately sold it, first day it comes put my quad at 4005 with 1,18vcore and remaint hours stable on blend...wich on the formula II was impossible, played that stable not stable game every time, later i talked with some guys here that told me some had horrible PWM regulation and other things...thats my story, maybe its not your but for sure you will do more than fine on a cheap UD3P

Cheers mate :up:
Sergio

Found the culprit:

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/m...ys/memtest.png

Hopefully one of my memory sticks isn't dead, they are brand new :(

EDIT: Memtest86+ shows no errors after 2 passes... I'm gonna try some stress testing at stock speed to see if Windows is screwed.

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/m...s/S8302641.jpg

Tested with LinX at stock speed, no errors, so looks like the OS is fine.

Can't believe Prime is failing within just a few seconds when yesterday it was stable for two hours at exactly the same settings. :mad:

I have never tried this test before so Im not sure what I'm doing. Just left everything default and ran full screen tropics bench. It shows 4.5ghz but actually it is 4.25ghz-500x8.5 1:1 mem.
http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/1963/tropicsbench.jpg

Hello guys :)

I tried to improve my ram frequency but unfortunately my ram seems to hate o/c
Therefore I have to stay at 1:1
Nevertheless I tried to increase the pll and it allows me to reduce vcore.

CPU Voltage : 1,29
CPU PLL Voltage : 1.52
FSB Termination Voltage : 1,28
DRAM Voltage : 1.80
NBridge Voltage : 1.24
SBridge Voltage : 1,10
PCIE SATA Voltage : 1,50

Stable under LinX and OCCT

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/4899/q9650.png
:yepp:

That's a nice OC scarnhorst, 4.2GHz under 1.3v. :up:

I was having trouble earlier today with my OC of 4.3GHz but I changed my NB GTL fro +50mv to +30mv and Prime blend was fine for 6 hours. I can probably tweak it further to reduce vcore but not by much, I reckon 1.36 at best.

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/m...300p956hrs.png

Installed my crossfire HIS cards and ran it Tropics again same settings
http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/2...iretropics.jpg

I really like this bench program. Last pic I promise.

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/9097/00000f.png

bumped up the CPU to 4.6ghz for the 1024x768 run.

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/3...defaultset.png

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Originally Posted by OC Nub

I really like this bench program. Last pic I promise.

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/9097/00000f.png

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:shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked:

you destroyed us mate :rofl: thats an awesome score

Congrats
Sergio

Thank you Sergio. I am running 2 gpu's, I will try it with a single 4890 to see how it compares.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/n...ie1/wprime.jpg
I think that is the Q9650 1024M record.(until Jor3llBR sees this thread):)

The screen shot looks horrible because I was using 256 color mode. It gives a very slight boost.

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Originally Posted by scharnhorst

Hello guys :)

I tried to improve my ram frequency but unfortunately my ram seems to hate o/c
Therefore I have to stay at 1:1
Nevertheless I tried to increase the pll and it allows me to reduce vcore.

CPU Voltage : 1,29
CPU PLL Voltage : 1.52
FSB Termination Voltage : 1,28
DRAM Voltage : 1.80
NBridge Voltage : 1.24
SBridge Voltage : 1,10
PCIE SATA Voltage : 1,50

Stable under LinX and OCCT

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/4899/q9650.png
:yepp:

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nice chip. mine does the same 4.2 @ 1.29. Curious if you've tried for higher clocks and at what voltage. i've been happy at 4.2 with a pretty low voltage so i haven't touched it for months, but wondering if you've tried higher clocks with around 1.35v.

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Originally Posted by douirc

nice chip. mine does the same 4.2 @ 1.29. Curious if you've tried for higher clocks and at what voltage. i've been happy at 4.2 with a pretty low voltage so i haven't touched it for months, but wondering if you've tried higher clocks with around 1.35v.

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My chip is also very similar - I currently have 4.3GHz stable at 1.3625 in bios, 1.368 load in CPU-Z. It all depends on the voltage curve of your chip... some chips that do up to 4.2GHz below 1.3v aren't necessarily good with low volts beyond that frequency.

I am trying to get 4.3GHz stable at 1.35 and i think it's possible but it will require a lot of work with clock skews and GTL voltages. Most reasonably good Q9650s hit 4.3GHz around the 1.35v mark, give or take.

Hello,

I tried to overclock at a higher level than 4200MHz.
Unfortunately it was necessary to increase vfsb, vcore and vnb and I'm quite afraid of it. ^_^
Moreover I'm trying to overlock another cpu at the same time.(E7400 @9*445 for the moment @1.288v :yepp:)

Tested a single 4890 to see how it compared to these guys GTX285 cards. Had to go way up on the core and mem to get this score.

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/5299/bestkyo.jpg

Nice score Napalm!! I will have to work much harder to try and beat that. I think this card is about topped out though.

oh that was the 1gb and i thought its the 2gb cause i got the 2gb @ 190fps but when i saved the 1gb score saved it over the 2gb.. after i posted i noticed

great results @ 4890 ocnub :toast:

i miss ati fun.. still waiting on 2gb+ycbcr444/similar digital color format from amd

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Originally Posted by andressergio

Unigine new versions Leeg

Cheers :up:
Sergio

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Thx I love this stuff for reviewing :) Makes my life a wole lot easier

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Originally Posted by NapalmV5

oh that was the 1gb and i thought its the 2gb cause i got the 2gb @ 190fps but when i saved the 1gb score saved it over the 2gb.. after i posted i noticed

great results @ 4890 ocnub :toast:

i miss ati fun.. still waiting on 2gb+ycbcr444/similar digital color format from amd

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Thank you Napalm.

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Originally Posted by OC Nub

Tested a single 4890 to see how it compared to these guys GTX285 cards. Had to go way up on the core and mem to get this score.

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/5299/bestkyo.jpg

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Simply awesome mate and also that score at W7 damn :clap:

Cheers
Sergio

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Originally Posted by Leeghoofd

Thx I love this stuff for reviewing :) Makes my life a wole lot easier

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glad you like it mate :up:

Yoh guys,
how do you like this one:
http://www.abload.de/img/prime95custom20stunden371l.jpg

Great Stability Fritz_the_germ
If U Can Go For 500FSB U Can Set 1200Mhz Ram :) And Ur Mobo Look Like Mine

But I Cant Over 500FSB Stable If U Can Do It Tell Me I Mean Help Me :D