Q9450 OC / Temps / Settings

[Justintoxicated]

I think it is your DFI board. I originally had my Q9450 on a DFI LP LT P35-T2R, and it would not budge an inch over 350MHz FSB no matter what settings I changed or how much voltage I applied to what.

I got a Rampage Formula and presto! I can get 488MHz FSB stable!

What asus board can I liquid cool the NB? Every Asus board I have sceen that is decent has those crappy heatpipes that screw up liquid cooling anything other than the CPU.

Or in other words what is the best Asus MB out for this chip right now, and what is the best one that I can actualy use? In many tests the X48 seems to be up to 10% faster at the same speeds as the P45 chipset in games. So I still need some convincing.

I have tried voltages over 1.4, however at 3200 MHZ I'm IntelBurnTest Stable 43 iterations so far and still going at only 1.26v, actualy I think I can lower the voltage more still but it needed a touch of Vtt (1.255v) if I remember. Still working on lowering voltages the IntelBurnTest takes over night to run 50 passes with 8GB ram.

Strange thing is, I was getting 44Gflops with more voltage and I am now only getting 23-42, I don't understand why it is varying so much.