Q9450 OC / Temps / Settings

[RunawayPrisoner]

Well, is extra NB cooling need for this mobo?
I mean the included sink is pretty beefy...

Well, if you can live with 45C NB, then NB cooling is not needed.

But if you don't want to live with that, get Thermaltake Extreme Spirit II for the NB.

Voltage modding the NB is recommended if you want to see over 525MHz screened, but it's not required to hit 500MHz stable. And yes, I really mean 500MHz stable on this chip.

Hmm... guess I'm the only one to dare try that so far.

And I'm still regretting selling a golden P5E-VM HDMI that could do 450MHz all at the lowest voltages possible. (and 500MHz stable at 1.51v NB, while leaving everything else at their lowest values still) If you can find a Q9450 with VID of 1.100v or 1.00v, there's a good chance you can hit 4GHz at around 1.32v to 1.42v. My chip took 1.47v to be stable...