Retail Q9650 Overclocking Thread

[Devious]

Sorry to go off topic here :

@Devious : They are, but your ram isn't really liked by the board... have you tried 1406 bios ? 500FSB was really no issue on my 2 boards with the quad...with Mushkin and Gskill PC8000 ram 1081Mhz is absolutely no issue, Mushins 4gb kit can even do 1120mhz... the reapers I had were troublesome...

Sorry my sig is out of date, im actually running 4GB OCZ flex 9200, which can do over 1100mhz. Those reapers were awful, got rid of those quick.

I have tried the 1406 bios and it hasnt made any difference.

Can I ask what settings you have used ?

I had the p5q dlx and it would not get my q9650 over 455 stable tried everything ended badly killing my 9800 gx2, had to reinstall windows 3 time and the memory hole we wont go there. As well as never wanted to boot first time. Wait or anytime to be honest tried all the bios even a default never wanted to play. Good luck! I went for the evga 780i not had a problem since booted first time @ 4.050 and screams though every game save youself time and money and send it back.

Interesting, my x38 got as high fsb as this P45 and the x38 are spposed to suck with yorkies.

I wonder if there is a board out there to get this to 500fsb ? I thinking this is more of a cpu wall, shame if it is as its using no vcore for high clocks.