Quote Originally Posted by mikeyakame View Post
I wish I got myself a Q9650 but unfortunately at the time they were out of stock and had to be ordered in special order, and my Q6600 was broken. I like my Q9550 and all, but the extra 0.5x multi would have been awesome. since I only run my fsb @ 400-410mhz 24/7 these days which is 3.4-3.45ghz, 3.6-3.7ghz would have been sweet.

My DFI board sometimes from boot to boot won't correctly do the POST memory delay procedure correctly, and it can screw up my stable bios settings. I haven't been bothered to go through a solid week of testing/fine change/testing/fine change to get the FSB any higher. At 400-410mhz board works great with the GTLs I worked out are optimal for my cpu/board anywhere from 333-420mhz fsb. Beyond this point GTLs will work most of the time, but cause the once in a blue moon bsod which might takes hours or days to come up. Then once I change them by a fraction (0.0007-8v) I gotta repeat the whole procedure again if it passes prime/linpack!

Good luck with your Q9650 if it works great maybe you can send Asus an xmas present this year instead of an angry love letter
All I need is a good batch. I keep my fingers crossed because I didn't have much luck with my hardware. I don't want to RMA it after some time because it sucks.

The new batch L847C037 seems to be very good with a low VID. It would be awesome if I can get one of these.

And yes, I would love to send ASUS an Xmas present this year.