Long story short had to sell my i7 rig and I'm rocking my old set up with a q9650.

Stable at 3.8ghz but having issues getting it higher. I ran a q6600 at 3.9 GHz and in another mono my q9650 pulled 4.3ghz.

Specs are

Q9650
Dfi lan party x48 dark
8 gigs geil ego one ddr2 800
Antec quatro 1kw
Gtx 680 "yes I know bottle neck lol but for $200 new I could not say no."
Cpu is water cooled.


First dfi mobo. Use to gigabytes. So if you got any tips or ideas on what I can get to hit 3.9 - 4ghz let me know. Thanks.