Retail Q9650 Overclocking Thread

[andressergio]

Guys I just got my Q9650. My batch is L827B623 with pack date of 09/25/08. Got mine from mwave since they were throwing in a free assasin's creed game I am still waiting on my case (Antec P182) and Xigmatek S1283 cooler to come. Along with that, I will be pairing a PC P&C 750W, Corsair 8500 DDR2. I am still stuck on the choice of motherboard and have narrowed it down to Asus Rampage Formula or the new Gigabyte EP45 UD3P. I think the Rampage should go over 500 FSB though the EP45 seems to do it easily. But then the EP45 has fried a few dual cores and that makes me a nervous camper.

Wish you luck mate, i hate to wait, have to wait mine like 10 days i have it on my way but takes tiiime

Cheers
Sergio

[davidoff619]

Guys I just got my Q9650. My batch is L827B623 with pack date of 09/25/08. Got mine from mwave since they were throwing in a free assasin's creed game I am still waiting on my case (Antec P182) and Xigmatek S1283 cooler to come. Along with that, I will be pairing a PC P&C 750W, Corsair 8500 DDR2. I am still stuck on the choice of motherboard and have narrowed it down to Asus Rampage Formula or the new Gigabyte EP45 UD3P. I think the Rampage should go over 500 FSB though the EP45 seems to do it easily. But then the EP45 has fried a few dual cores and that makes me a nervous camper.

Just my view on a board would be go sli as these are the best alround board you can buy as I7 is rubbish. And so is ati's driver I mean their cards Atm. Till the new 1's come. Happy looking for new mobo.

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

Just my view on a board would be go sli as these are the best alround board you can buy as I7 is rubbish. And so is ati's driver I mean their cards Atm. Till the new 1's come. Happy looking for new mobo.

the 780i best all around board????? omg your hilarious

you just wait till you start getting data corruption on your hard drives, then BSODs then a dead board then tell me again its the "best all around board" lololol.

nvidia is known to have the worst boards around, soon enough you too will know the pain.

[WaterFlex]

[davidoff619]

ok maybe your right MAYBE! MAYBE YOU RIGHT ABOUT THE Q9650 NOT BEING ABLE TO DO OVER 4 GHZ! I don't think he was looking to benchmark his pc. And the only people I have found having problems are people using stupid voltages. And keep trying to push there system it's called to many failed overclocks. You know when your booting to windows and the you get bsod when you get there. That happens. It happened to me two times on my p5q dlx and it also killed my 9800 gx2. So it comes down to only push as far as you can and would for 24/7. Unless you benching where you won't have much stuff installed and if you have it's called back ups 2 times a month a least. Would not go with ASus to many cold boot problems or even just working 1 day dead the next and you harddrive is corrupt to. MAYBE I WILL GET HIT BY A BUS 2MOZ BUT IM NOT GOING TO STOP IN ALL DAY BECAUSE IT MIGHT HAPPEN. WARRENY. I COULD GO ON AAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL DAY LONG. GO WITH WHAT WORKS BEST FOR YOU NOT WHAT IS THE CHEAPEST !ATI! Before you start NV fanboy I'm not that is a fact!!!!!

[zlojack]

Uhm...ok?

Anyway, I'm loving these Q9650's but I can't justify the price difference over the Q9550 .

I'm thinking getting 4-4.1 GHz out of an E0 Q9550 is pretty sweet for $300 less!

[OliverM84]

Uhm...ok?

Anyway, I'm loving these Q9650's but I can't justify the price difference over the Q9550 .

I'm thinking getting 4-4.1 GHz out of an E0 Q9550 is pretty sweet for $300 less!

Some Q9550 do 4200 - 4400 too

[carepolice]

Some Q9550 do 4200 - 4400 too

pix pl0x

nah just wondering where i can see these beauties ?

[OliverM84]

pix pl0x

nah just wondering where i can see these beauties ?

http://img260.imageshack.us/my.php?image=4250pw7.jpg

http://img2.abload.de/img/6pq1.gif

http://img2.abload.de/img/q9550_4273...97min_2oq2.jpg

http://www.forumdeluxx.de/forum/atta...5&d=1225559609

http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=4420mhzocshayq.png

Last one, over 4,4GHz

[davidoff619]

http://img260.imageshack.us/my.php?image=4250pw7.jpg

http://img2.abload.de/img/6pq1.gif

http://img2.abload.de/img/q9550_4273...97min_2oq2.jpg

http://www.forumdeluxx.de/forum/atta...5&d=1225559609

http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=4420mhzocshayq.png

Last one, over 4,4GHz

the board would need to be Water cooled if not more extream for them sort of speed good luck hitting that unless you know alot about water and and are willing to spend slot of time and money on this maybe kill a board or 2 aswell. Very nice clocks though!

[WaterFlex]

Holy crap! 520 FSB on Quad!!!

[OliverM84]

Holy crap! 520 FSB on Quad!!!

You need no water with some P45 Boards,
i can go FSB 530 with my Gigabyte EP45 on air.

[WaterFlex]

My dream is Q9650 at 500x9 for 24/7 usage on water.
But it costs too much...

[davidoff619]

You need no water with some P45 Boards,
i can go FSB 530 with my Gigabyte EP45 on air.

530 on a quad on air. With 7x but not with 8 or 9 that's one dead pc within a few days/weeks. This guy in the links is going for 25/ 7 prime stable not just benching. Unless you can get 530 on your quad x8 or 9x. May aswell give it ago mate then post back. Prime or IBT. Not being funny see how it goes

[OliverM84]

530 on a quad on air. With 7x but not with 8 or 9 that's one dead pc within a few days/weeks. This guy in the links is going for 25/ 7 prime stable not just benching. Unless you can get 530 on your quad x8 or 9x. May aswell give it ago mate then post back. Prime or IBT. Not being funny see how it goes

The Board on air, cpu under water, ...

[WaterFlex]

Yeah. Q9650 530x9 is possible.

[OliverM84]

Yeah. Q9650 530x9 is possible.

Not really, ... 500x9=4500MHz, thats not easy to run prime stable. only e few run at these clocks.

530x9 with wassercooling, no way i think. Super PI, ok, but not prime.

Super Pi i can run 534x9, prime 500x9

[OliverM84]

Update:

On watercooling, ... no LN2 or Dryice or something like that.




Q9650 | 4608MHz | 1.408v | FSB512 | DDR2-512MHz | Gigabyte EP45 Extreme | Wakü | L825B325 | B | 1,225v | OliverM84

[WaterFlex]

Look this, this, this, this.
500x9 is ok for Q9650 on P45 on water.
530x9 can be reached also with NB watercooling.

[Jor3lBR]

Update:

On watercooling, ... no LN2 or Dryice or something like that.

No Ln2 yes, but you have a Gigabyte EP45 Extreme not fair at all

[Sparda]

teaser SS with UD3P
Only worth pi 1M without a sweat...lol...for 24/7 around 4.5Ghz stable is possible with decent voltage.

No Ln2 yes, but you have a Gigabyte EP45 Extreme not fair at all

Your phase unit is crying....come join us to the dark side with new mobo

[Jor3lBR]

teaser SS with UD3P
Only worth pi 1M without a sweat...lol...for 24/7 around 4.5Ghz stable is possible with decent voltage.

Your phase unit is crying....come join us to the dark side with new mobo

Nice results also Sparda!!!

Yes you are right poor Cryo-Z is so bored that is just sad I'm using DFIx48 w/ the quad at 469x9 1.30vcore super pi around 10,5s temp -46 to -50oC.

I'll Probably do that next year cause wife will kill me on spot if I touch this PC this year

[OliverM84]

No Ln2 yes, but you have a Gigabyte EP45 Extreme not fair at all

There are some other good boards for FSB > 500

[andressergio]

I'll Probably do that next year cause wife will kill me on spot if I touch this PC this year

Just give her a good present for Xmas and so on January 2/2009 just run for a new board

Cheers mate !

How come the DFI not getting that ? is it a very good mobo...

Kind Regards
Sergio

[jcool]

Because DFI X38 and X48 can't hit decent FSBs with any and all Quads. I have the same problem, can't get above FSB 460 with my Q6600 for the life of it, tried it for months lol. Another mobo --> 480 stable
Only no other mobo will hold my 250W Q6600 on 24/7 load without exploding