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Following this thread with interest. Suggested the possibility of using one of these units a while ago, but got slaughtered by a few non-believers...

Considering this for my next system upgrade -...

Watch out everyone - the 45nm non-extreme quads are coming!

Been considering a Q9550 for my ME but holding off the purchase for a while yet. Want to see what is possible first.

So, come on......

FSX. Getting sweet performance with my ME rig finally, after endless hours of tweaking. But it was worth it - screenie below (fps around 25 unless flying into some insanely busy airport with loads of...

See below (post #32) re: temperature improvement with new EK blocks. Previously I had the Reserator XT watercooling the CPU (Swiftech Apogee GT) AND chipset (stock Asus fusion solution) in the same...

Thanks for your input guys, just as I thought this thread had died ;)

Been spending the last week tweaking FSX for performance as well as some annoying out-of-memory issues I struggled with....

@ funkflix,

Your rig has left me speechless... still looking at it in awe => :clap:

How far have you been able to take your E8400 on that rig? Thinking of getting one for my system. Although I...

Thanks, that's promising. Might do that instead of getting the E8400, since the Q6600 is likely to beat it anyway despite a lower clock (in 3DMark06 at least). I'm using my computer mainly for...

Hiya all!

Anyone running a Q6600 >4.0 on this board (don't want to hear from you phase-extremists pls lol!) ? Reason I'm asking is that I've currently got it at 4050 on my Max_Ex. Thought is to...

Been reading this thread with awe - subscribed long time ago lol. Very inspiring to see such skill put to good use.

I had a laugh when I read about rad though. Same thing happened to me recently...

Nice work there, but what's your VID? Mine's at 1.2250V and I'm prime/occt 12-hr stable at 3825 but only super-pi 32M at 4050, 1M at 4095.

Guess it's all chip-dependant (got a G0). Decent cooling...

Thanx for your input, just as I thought this thread had died ;)

Wow, that's a neat setup you've got there, very tidy n organized, good work on the cable management. Tubing routing looks good too. ...

Well, folks, sorry for my rants hihi (dunno if anyone's even reading this thread anymore lol) but IMO I've come a long way. I never thought I would get this beast stable, BUT with a logical,...

Well, folks, sorry for my rants hihi (dunno if anyone's even reading my posts anymore lol, it's been awfully quiet here lately) but IMO I've come a long way. I never thought I would get this beast...

1) Q6600 G0
2) L738B065
3) http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=339704
4)

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/6398/superpi32mat4050mhzatddaf1.jpg

5) EK-Supreme + Laing DDC Ultra +...

Well, I have reached another milestone here with this... Seems like I'm already worlds away from yesterdays woes when I wanted to give up. However, until I raised the Vcore a bit, I could not pass...

Well, after endless hours of BIOS tweaking I can finally say that I have reached some *stable* settings. Not going to break any records here, but at least I am happy with my results. That's good as I...

Probably this is about as high as I can go for a Vista boot and 1M:

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=339690

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/134/superpi1mat4095mhzatddrrl7.jpg

Well, as I said I have been adjusting the volts - and below is what I will keep for 24/7 usage:

Ai Overclock Tuner : Manual
OC From CPU Level Up: Auto
OC From Memory Level Up: Auto
CPU Ratio...

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/8428/sisandramembandwitdthatri6.jpg

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/4199/sisandramemlatencyat405qc3.jpg
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http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/6398/superpi32mat4050mhzatddaf1.jpg

An extra 219 points from tightening the mem timings in Vantage :D

Not sure, but as I am a flight sim addict, I would guess PCMark reflects flight sim stability better than 3DMark as it is so...

Well, due to tightened timings at 7-7-7-20-1T compared to 8-8-8-26-2T i was able to get a whoopping 91 extra 3DMarks :clap: /sarcasm off.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=6068636
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That run was fairly short lived, this is what happened after maybe 5 secs lol:

http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/328/occt002fy3.jpg

Increasing Vcore from 1.60 to 1.65 and during post i get...

http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/4936/3600mhzocct1hrstablegb7.jpg

Next up is FSB 450*9=4050 @ mem 900MHz

So far so good.

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/7945/3000mhzocct1hrstablepe0.jpg

Next up is FSB 400*9=3600 with mem @ 961.