Quote Originally Posted by Grnfinger View Post
Under 65c load would be fine imo, some say 70c is ok.
Your temps are decent for air cooling and if your happy with your rig at 4.0GHz then why bother to play with it. If your able to use it 24/7 and have zero issues then I would say do not fix whats not broken, if your looking to squeeze a few drops more out of the chip then post your bios setup and we can make some suggestions and help get you where you want to be.
Well I finally had my first crash under normal gaming... So I'm looking really for stability at this point. I think I have very conservative numbers so far but I just don't know the bounderies.

Here are my current settings

Q9650@ 4000.5 Ghz 445X9
vcore in Bios is set to 1.4 CPU-Z is 1.38
CPU FSB 1.3
Mem 1.9 (Stock)
SPP 1.45
MCP 1.55
HT- SPP-MCP 1.25

All Spread Spectrum Disabled

Temps are low 30C at idle and under normal game load low 50C. Under Small FTT they reach low 60C. CPU Cooler Zalman 9700 LED


Goal is stability and of course I would like to go higher if possible...