help with a q9650

[fireandice]

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.

[Kensek]

Hi,

I used to run my Q9650 on water at 4.5GHz with these settings shown in the picture.



More info here: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...t-202187.html&

[Carsten]

#1 - DFI X48 is not a very good board for q9650. Try Asus X48.

CB

[fireandice]

#1 - DFI X48 is not a very good board for q9650. Try Asus X48.

CB

Yeah I'll just do a upgrade to a i7 instead lol. I had a q6600 but most I could do was 3.9 on it so 3.8 on this 9650 is better
I got a q9300 but I Dont think it will clock higher since it looks like I'm fsb limited.

[fireandice]

At 4ghz. Just not stable. Freezes at load. Any idea on how to get it stable. This mobo is the hardest I ever had to overclock on.