Q9450 OC / Temps / Settings

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Temperatures measured by Real Temp?

And... how did the processor die?



Nope. Intel specifically stated in their specs sheets that 1.36v is recommended for max vCore. Beyond that, processor may perform in weird ways. Then beyond 1.45v, normal operation is no longer guaranteed.

As for VTT... believe it or not, maximum is 1.10v. Not even funny, as that means... you can't increase VTT at all.





If you look at Intel's specs sheets, you'll see that VTT should have a maximum of 1.10v, and seriously, maximum of 1.10v. Anandtech is recommending others to run at at most 1.40v, but that doesn't mean you can run it as high.

By the way, as stated, VTT is FSB Termination Voltage, not CPU Voltage.

Next is... never ever EVER turn off CPU TM Function. That means even if the CPU detects that it is overheating anywhere, it WON'T turn off!! (Sorry if I sound angry here, but this is critical! Much more critical than other settings!)

I was expieriencing weird issues with what I thought was my MB because I had shorted out the fan plug with a jumper :P oops. I rmaed the mb P5Q in sig and hooked everything up and still same issues. My issues were when I would go to start up Vista it would hang right after the progress bar and never go any further. I tried to reinstall vista and it would hang at the hard drive detection screen. It actually made my screen go all screwy the last time I tried to reinstall to where it looked like my screen had been swept with a broom, everything went all streaky across the screen. That one is hard to put into words.. I started trouble shooting by testing my memory which made it through like 70% of a pass with memtest with 0 errors and I figured ok it's not that..

I then proceeded to start breaking down my raid and running a single drive at a time to see if I could spot the bad one and I thought I had it then I went through one more time and all three drives seemed ok. I was like ok one thing left CPU. I swapped out mine with my old one now fiance's Q6600 and boom I was able to install Vista without a hitch. I recreated my three drive raid0 and proceeded to install Vista without a hitch. I let it sit there all by itself for prob 6 hours just falling asleep and what not and no issues. My only conclusion was it had to be my Q9450. I would think that it just wouldn't post if it was that but it sure seems to have been just that... I did a quick google and found a couple of post from not to long ago regarding Q6600's that were having similar issues to mine and they ended up being the peoples CPU'S.

P.S yes measured by realtemp.