Q9450 OC / Temps / Settings

[Zucker2k]

I dunno where you have been for the past 2 months.... but X38 does not clock 45nm Quads worth a damn either... most Maximus Formula's are stuck at 440mhz FSB regardless of BIOS. I have gone through 3 chips, 2 X3350's and 1 Q9450 and all of them got stuck in the 440's regardless of voltage (and I am watercooled).

The only boards I have seen worth a damn is G35 (P5E VM HDMI), 790i, *some* X38 boards mostly from DFI/Gigabyte have clocked 45nm even over 3600mhz. And of course its emerging that X48 / Rampage Formula (real one, not flashed) is clocking them all the way to 480mhz FSB.

So all that being said I dont know where you get your info that X38 is any better at clocking 45nm Quads over P35. And dualcore I doubt is any different between X38/P35 its probably about the same hitting 4ghz area on the 8400's.

Sorry to bust your theory, there are too many people on this forum with x38/x48 pushing 45nm cpus to their limits. Some P965 boards, especially the asus commando is the wolfie king. The G33/G35 chipset has proven quite good with quads, x38/x38 are good with all cpus. I cannot say much for everybody, but I can definiely say so for my self and others I've noticed.

Some nice fsb with 4x2GB Ram



G.Skill 4x2GB DDR2 1000 rams pushed to DDR2 1066 with E8400 @ 8x533.



Pushing my wolfie. See sig. for Max Validated shot.



Q9450 @ 8x475 on Max Formula and 4x2GB of Ram, running at this setting right now as I type.



Some priming action from earlier....