The E0 Q9550 SLB9V thread (finally!)

[cencik]

les_paulde impresiv results, push this baby to the limitos(no rush). 2 questions in my mind. Your VID and do you feel(see) any benefits between 4.0GHz<4.5GHz in real world application,games,GPU OC?
I discovered that when LLC is disabled(X38) i can run lower NB,CPU voltage, much lower FSB VTT. Now just 1.26v. Maybe it's my high but system seems to be more responsive and overall temperature is lower. Soon i need to do vdrop mod and maybe set ram to 1:1 PL10 for max FBS just to see if i can accomplish my goal 490X8.5 stable. From now i just start my OC from the beginning.TBD,TBC

[les_paulde]

les_paulde impresiv results, push this baby to the limitos(no rush). 2 questions in my mind. Your VID and do you feel(see) any benefits between 4.0GHz<4.5GHz in real world application,games,GPU OC?

Okay okay, I'm working on it!

The VID of my chip is 1.25v.

I haven't been able to crawl up to 4500Mhz yet, but I have successfully reached and benched at 4403Mhz. I must say that honestly, while the differences in feel between 4Ghz and 4,5 are small, they are definitely noticeable. Windows boots up faster and the overall system seems more responsive. But I guess with a bandwidth of >10,000mb/s on both write and copy, this could make sense... 3dmark06 and Vantage both definitely scale up their cpu points nicely with higher frequencies though, so the further you push it the better it seems.

Hope I managed to answer your question?