Retail Q9650 Overclocking Thread

[mngdew]

MM - 899134
FPO/Batch - L826A972
Pack Date - 08/28/08

Will know vid once I get my motherboard on Monday

I have the same batch. I have mine stable at 450x9 with 1.28V/1.26V(Vcore/VTT) full load.
1.2500V VID

[Jor3lBR]

I have the same batch. I have mine stable at 450x9 with 1.28V/1.26V(Vcore/VTT) full load.

Forgot to ad the VID for that batch. Can you edit your post?

[NapalmV5]

Well I use those exact voltages for my 4050 450FSB 24/7 stable in prime95, and 50 runs of linpack. I'm actually typing from it now, even. And I don't use bios or software for voltages, ever, DMM is your friend. The problem is CPU-Z.

Admittedly, I have QX9650, C0, But I can guarantee that you need some tweaking, or it's teh cpu, not the board, as this board has provided more FSB than any other I have tried so far, ever, for 45nm quad.

I can easily boot into 460FSB, but I have not done much work on stability yet(this is P05 bios):

do you have CPU GTLREF and MCH GTLREF settings in the bios on your new board?..if so, work with those.

guys its not my cpu/tweaking.. its not my first GTL settings mobo..

right now its in even worse shape.. cant even boot @ os @ 3600 450x8 only 400x9

why does the cpu run rock stable @ 4050 450x9 on the dfi dk x48t2rsb+ ? albeit @ .05 higher vcore than on mars but without any GTL tweaking

anyways.. ill be getting another blackops.. hope not all blackops are the same as this one

[AndreaEG6]

Hi, I'm a new member from Italy! How far do you think I can push this CPU with my PC setup?

Case: Cooler Master Stacker | PSU: Hiper HPU-5B880 880W | CPU: Q9650 Cooled By Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme | MoBo: Asus Rampage Extreme | RAM: 4 GB DDR3 Corsair Dominator @ 1600 Mhz | GFX: Sapphire ATI HD 4870 X2 | HDD: Velociraptor 300 GB + 2x Seagate 7200.11 750 GB | Monitor: Samsung 2493HM | Keyboard: G15 Mouse: G9 OS: Vista Ultimate 64bit

Thanks in advance for any suggestion ^_^!

[JohnnyV]

*pulls out his crystal ball*

4Ghz+

*puts away his crystal ball*

But seriously... no one can tell in advance. It all depends on the quality of the chip and the quality of the person that overclocks

[AndreaEG6]

Eheheh . Chip batch is L822B348, pack date is 08/13/2008...hope to get good results .

[andressergio]

*pulls out his crystal ball*

4Ghz+

*puts away his crystal ball*

the quality of the person that overclocks

[terroristone]

i got mine today, im currently at 4ghz, it primes ok, but wont do 3dmark as yet, i've tried dropping my memory down, 1.37cpu/1.28vtt, i havnt played with the glt setting as yet, still looking for more info, dose anybody have a good starting point?
Andrew

[AndreaEG6]

Here's my crystal ball :



Do you think I can go for 450 without any problems?

[Ace-a-Rue]

i got mine today, im currently at 4ghz, it primes ok, but wont do 3dmark as yet, i've tried dropping my memory down, 1.37cpu/1.28vtt, i havnt played with the glt setting as yet, still looking for more info, dose anybody have a good starting point?
Andrew

that's strange to do Prime 95 but you can't complete 3D Mark 2006 or 2005...which one?

[cadaveca]

why does the cpu run rock stable @ 4050 450x9 on the dfi dk x48t2rsb+ ? albeit @ .05 higher vcore than on mars but without any GTL tweaking

'Tis more than possible that auto values in DFI bios are higher than blackops, and actually, that's what I'd point a finger at(i think Ace-A_Rue agrees with me). This is why you must never overclock on auto settings...how can you know what's wrong, if you do not know what's set?

This is not a slant directed at you, but at mobo makers. The whole label of "AUTO" should no be so...it creates more confusion than is needed! If you knew GTL values of both boards, and that they were the same(personal experience from overclocking the boards myself tells me that they are not), maybe you could sort the issue.

Read-to-write delay is also quite tight on this board, and affects ram clocks, so much so that my ram is NOT stable @ jedec timings, because the board ignores some SPD info.

[ACE76]

I have the same batch. I have mine stable at 450x9 with 1.28V/1.26V(Vcore/VTT) full load.
1.2500V VID

My vid is 1.25 as well...I haave no issues running the CPU at stock speeds with 1.8 though...I got it to 460 on my Maximus II Formula and it hit 500 on the DFI P45 Dark Plus...I'm in the process of setting that board up in my case and theen I will work on it thoroughly for stability...I prefer it over the Maximus II Formula hands down by the way.

[Ace-a-Rue]

i hit 500 FSB on the Biostar TPower I45 and it was functional but herky-jerky with the benches.

[loonym]

i hit 500 FSB on the Biostar TPower I45 and it was functional but herky-jerky with the benches.

You think this was due to chipset cooling or something else... cpu?

[Ace-a-Rue]

You think this was due to chipset cooling or something else... cpu?

i did a pipe mode with bolts and nuts along with upgraded TIM paste...i believe it was just the bios code that was holding it back...i am not sure if Biostar will correct that issue; otherwise, the board does wonders with a dual core!!

[MacClipper]

Was wondering if anyone needed to adjust the CPU Clock Skew to reach 4GHz? Don't seem to see any mention of it in quad o'cing unlike the dualcores.

[AndreaEG6]

Good morning guys, yesterday I eventually came to a:

• FSB 400
• 9x
• V.Core 1.30
• V.Dram 2.0
• Ram Frequency: 1600 Mhz with 1:2 divisor
• Timings: 7-7-7-20
• All the rest on [auto]

Which settings should I work on to get to a stable FSB 450 x9? What about VTT and GTL? Any suggestion on those and on the motherboard's tensions? VID is 1.2500V, batch L822B348, pack date 08/13/2008.

Thanks !

[terroristone]

that's strange to do Prime 95 but you can't complete 3D Mark 2006 or 2005...which one?

06 dude, i played with glt settings and got it to do thru the first cpu test but blod on second, so i dropped back to 3.8 (425fsb) and no problems... but still wanting to get to 4ghz.
Regards Andrew

[Ace-a-Rue]

Good morning guys, yesterday I eventually came to a:

• FSB 400
• 9x
• V.Core 1.30
• V.Dram 2.0
• Ram Frequency: 1600 Mhz with 1:2 divisor
• Timings: 7-7-7-20
• All the rest on [auto]

Which settings should I work on to get to a stable FSB 450 x9? What about VTT and GTL? Any suggestion on those and on the motherboard's tensions? VID is 1.2500V, batch L822B348, pack date 08/13/2008.

Thanks !

you really need to go to the motherboard specific thread to get those answered.

[WaterFlex]

Can anyone reach 500 FSB? It would be great to see 500x8 clock.

[Ace-a-Rue]

i hit 500 FSB on the Biostar TPower I45 and it was functional but herky-jerky with the benches.

Can anyone reach 500 FSB? It would be great to see 500x8 clock.

my above quote says so...a quad is very hard to get to 500 fully stable at 8x...i could get there into windows and it was functional but like i said benches were the problem.

[Jor3lBR]

Anyone can take a guesstimate on the aprox. LOAD of this Q9650 at 1.6vcore/4400mhz?

[AndreaEG6]

Anybody has reports of L822B348 batch being unstable @ 450x9 FSB?

[Tatty_One]

Batch # L820B036
Pack date 31st July
Vid 1.250V

Hi,

This is the max I can get stable on air (hits 78C on dual orthos load), but to be honest I only got there last night so I have only run orthos for an hour, the night before I just went to 4.275gig and I ran orthos for 2 hours stable but am having some problems with my board/memory ATM so things are a bit hit and miss!

Anyone know why my realtemps isnt sensing core's 2 and 3?

Thanks

[carepolice]

Little offtopic: I got same issue Tatty one ! http://img359.imageshack.us/my.php?i...psissuehh6.jpg Core #2 n #3 wont go lower than 40c ???