Retail Q9650 Overclocking Thread

[Triton]

Basically I'm thinking of getting a Fermi card or 5870, then switching to the UD3P, and i might keep my current ram, or get something better. and try moving higher for a 24/7 clock on this thing. it works perfect for my now, I don't really need anything to much more.. but sometimes when I'm doing to much like encoding a Movie and playing Bad company 2, both CPU intensive I'll occasionally get a freeze, it's probably my 750i n oc.. I'd like to know it's 100% stable with a UD3P that will be much easier to achieve.

I had SLI GTX 260 + 750i SLI FTW... 3 of them...all broke their SATA PORTS. With voltmods, maybe 4GHz would have been 10hr P95 Stable...yes, did all the GTLVREF tweaking...gee

My tip: get any (well..UD3P ) decent crossfire P45 board and SLI hack it (google techpowerup forum sli hack, very easy, works great on W7 x64), use all your other current hardware: One thing is for sure, you will know CPU will run until anything else than mobo is limited. I know all about freezes on 750i

What you'll gain with SLI GTX260 on P45 vs NVIDIA mobo? Weekend's fun OCing the c**p out of your Q9650, 200MHz inc for sure. Gaming wise: more stability, higher fps

In a year or so, when your games run slow, put SLI GTX260 to 750i and sell for big bucks, buy ATI HD6850 2GB and keep UD3P....octacore in 2012 ?

for the ram: corsair 2x2GB 6400C5, this kit cost me sub 40€ last year...it'll run atleast 940MHz 5-5-5-18(i tested up to 4.2GHz, then bought 1150MHz ram - no gain), never tried higher. my advise is to not put moolah on new ram..save all for next gen GPU and hexa/octacore