Quote Originally Posted by Singh400 View Post
First all, thanks for this thead, a ton of info here - anything and everything you need to know about the Q9450 is in here. So cheers!

I was hoping that someone could take a look at my settings and suggest any possible improvements.

I’m currently running at 3.4 Ghz stable (linpack 10x, and Prime95 12hrs+)

Here are my settings:
Code:
Ai Overclock Tuner 		[Manual]
CPU Ration Setting		[8.00]
FSB Frequency			[425]
PCIE Frequency			[100]
FSB Strap to North Bridge	[266 MHz]
DRAM Frequency			[DDR2-1066MHz]
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel A1	[Auto]
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel A2	[Auto]
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel B1	[Auto]
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel B2	[Auto]
DRAM Timing Control		[Manual]
 1st Information:		5-5-5-15-3-52-63
 CAS# Latency			[5 DRAM Clocks]
 DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay 	[5 DRAM Clocks]
 DRAM RAS# Precharge		[5 DRAM Clocks]
 DRAM RAS# Activate to Prechar	[15 DRAM Clocks]
 RAS# to RAS# Delay		[Auto]
 Row Refresh Cycle Time		[Auto]
 Write Recovery Time		[Auto]
 Read to Precharge Time		[Auto]
  2nd Information:		7-3-5-4-5-4-6
  READ to WRITE Delay(S/D)	[Auto]
  Write to Read Delay(S)	[Auto]
  WRITE to READ Delay(D)	[Auto]
  READ to READ Delay(S)		[Auto]
  READ to READ Delay(D)		[Auto]
  WRITE to WRITE Delay(S)	[Auto]
  WRITE to WRITE Delay(D)	[Auto]
   3rd Information:		14-5-1-6-6
   WRITE to PRE Delay		[Auto]
   READ to PRE Delay		[Auto]
   PRE to READ Delay		[Auto]
   ALL PRE to ACT Delay		[Auto]
   All PRE to REF Delay		[Auto]
DRAM Static Read Control	[Disabled]
DRAM Read Training		[Auto]
MEM. OC Charger			[Auto]
Ai Clock Twister		[Auto]
Ai Transaction Booster		[Auto]
 C/P: A1 A2 A3 A4 | B1 B2 B3 B4
 LVL: 10 10 10 10 | 10 10 10 10

******** Please key in numbers directly! ********
CPU Voltage			[1.21875]
CPU GTL Voltage Reference(0/2)	[0.370]
CPU GTL Voltage Reference(1/3)	[0.750]
CPU PLL Voltage			[1.50]
FSB Termination Voltage		[1.26]
DRAM Voltage			[2.10]
NB Voltage			[1.40]
NB GTL Reference		[0.370]
SB Voltage			[1.10]
PCIE SATA Voltage		[1.50]
*************************************************
Load-Line Calibration		[Enabled]
CPU Spread Spectrum		[Auto]
PCIE Spread Spectrum		[Auto]
CPU Clock Skew			[Auto]
NB Clock Skew			[Auto]



I started at a vcore of 1.33750 and have slowly dropped it down to 1.21875 doing linpack 10x every time I drop the vcore.
Where did you come up with those gtl ref #'s? Kinda surprised at that is all. After tweaking my gtl's I ended up with:
0/2= 0.670
1/3= 0.675
NB gtl= 0.640

I understand that every setup is different.

Larry