Retail Q9650 Overclocking Thread

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

These chips can boot into windows at very low volts, but keeping them stable is the problem.

9x 500FSB with 8GB RAM:

WOW 500 FSB quad on an x48 is a major acomplishment

[Zucker2k]

WOW 500 FSB quad on an x48 is a major acomplishment

Thanks; I've heard that x-series chipsets are poor clockers - never had that problem; thank God. I'm memory limited right now (8GB plus the 7200 Pi CLD4 love cas 4 and nothing else) but I agree, 500 FSB PL8 is awesome. Now to keep it stable.

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

Thanks; I've heard that x-series chipsets are poor clockers - never had that problem; thank God. I'm memory limited right now (8GB plus the 7200 Pi CLD4 love cas 4 and nothing else) but I agree, 500 FSB PL8 is awesome. Now to keep it stable.

thats always the challenge with the asus boards ain't it?

my personal experience between asus and DFI is that the DFI clocks to stable pretty easy if you know what to do, but the asus clocks past stable and comes back down. I am not sure what it is about the boards, but multiple cases have been like this for me.

either way you have a killer chip on that board

[Zucker2k]

thats always the challenge with the asus boards ain't it?

my personal experience between asus and DFI is that the DFI clocks to stable pretty easy if you know what to do, but the asus clocks past stable and comes back down. I am not sure what it is about the boards, but multiple cases have been like this for me.

either way you have a killer chip on that board

It's a work in progress; I don't have any experience with DFI boards, but Asus hasn't let me down either. See my sig for 500FSB Quad primes on Asus boards with 8GBs of ram.

[Jor3lBR]

It's a work in progress; I don't have any experience with DFI boards, but Asus hasn't let me down either. See my sig for 500FSB Quad primes on Asus boards with 8GBs of ram.

It is a feat to boot 500 fsb but unfortunately you can't blend Prime95 in none of those speeds on X48 setup. I bet is hard for you to Prime95 with 4200Mhz. They are unstable they can't handle the load.

But if you can 3D with it and use your day to day softwares thats fine.

[Zucker2k]

It is a feat to boot 500 fsb but unfortunately you can't blend Prime95 in none of those speeds on X48 setup. I bet is hard for you to Prime95 with 4200Mhz. They are unstable they can't handle the load.

But if you can 3D with it and use your day to day softwares thats fine.

What do you mean? Did you see my sig? Note I'm using 8GBs of ram. I've seen no board do that

[Jor3lBR]

What do you mean? Did you see my sig? Note I'm using 8GBs of ram. I've seen no board do that

Yes, that's what I'm saying you cannot Prime95 only Cpuz on the X48

These cpu's wont get stable above 4200Mhz on X48's. It's doable but very hard.