Retail Q9650 Overclocking Thread

[ViViD]

Nice scores Sergio and ViViD but I can't let you two have all the fun.

The GPU just didn't want to clock like it usually does but anyway. http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=11128533 (only did 830/2050/2500 instead of the usual 850/2100/2500)

Nice Resualt M8
Nice Chip What Use Cooler? LN2?
I Thinck My Quad On Bad Batch Number I Use Over 1.40 V For VCore

[radaja]

Nice scores Sergio and ViViD but I can't let you two have all the fun.

The GPU just didn't want to clock like it usually does but anyway. http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=11128533 (only did 830/2050/2500 instead of the usual 850/2100/2500)

thebluemeanie1,sorry i did not even see this.awesome clocks

[thebluemeanie1]

jajaja i don't wanna give tha vcore to mine that's why i limit myself to 1,4vcore...maybe someday

congrats mate that's a nice number

cheers
Sergio

Thanks. From the looks of what is in your signature you wouldn't have any cooling problems with more volts.

Nice Resualt M8
Nice Chip What Use Cooler? LN2?
I Thinck My Quad On Bad Batch Number I Use Over 1.40 V For VCore

Thank you. The cooling is a custom watercooling system with a 240MM radiator. After 15-20 minutes of benching the liquid temperature gets high enough that it takes about a half hour of rest before it will run with any kind of stability.

thebluemeanie1,sorry i did not even see this.awesome clocks

Thanks man. I learned a lot from your various posts in this section.

[CryptiK]

@CryptiK

Hey dude! Hows it going? When do you plan to move to the Gigabyte UD3P? I see you're still on the M2F.

Not sure if I will at this stage.

[Sem]

seem to be having problems getting my Q9650 prime stable
it passes linpack at 4.05Ghz 450x9 @ 1.28 vcore

but core 2 fails prime within 2 minutes and ive tried going all the way up to 1.35v

NB and VTT at 1.36v
using a maximus ii formula
anyone got any suggestions?

thanks

[Jor3lBR]

Lots of fun to overclock these CPUs.

Too bad that Jor3lBRs run is marked invalid, I need a new goal now.

http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=843116

Had my Q9650 disabled for a long time now.

I will hook it up tomorrow to get the 9.3 Super Pi back so you have some seconds to live for . I didn't save the entire pi run because it was a lousy run and never thought it would beet the World Record.

And XS erased my post of last stable OC (IBT and Prime95) 4700Mhz 1.39-1.40vcore. Too bad had some good pointers there.

[andressergio]

Had my Q9650 disabled for a long time now.

I will hook it up tomorrow to get the 9.3 Super Pi back so you have some seconds to live for . I didn't save the entire pi run because it was a lousy run and never thought it would beet the World Record.

And XS erased my post of last stable OC (IBT and Prime95) 4700Mhz 1.39-1.40vcore. Too bad had some good pointers there.

Wellcome back mate

Cheers
Sergio

[Jor3lBR]

Here, no tweaks, this is on regular Win 7 OS that I used daily (no wazaa, fresh install etc etc).

[andressergio]

Here, no tweaks, this is on regular Win 7 OS that I used daily (no wazaa, fresh install etc etc).

awesome mate !!!

[thebluemeanie1]

Here, no tweaks, this is on regular Win 7 OS that I used daily (no wazaa, fresh install etc etc).

Thanks, catching that is going to quite the challenge.

I used the same clockspeed on a cut down XP and you still killed my time.

How to get this to run at 5GHz..Hmm...

[darkgregor]

Thanks, catching that is going to quite the challenge.

I used the same clockspeed on a cut down XP and you still killed my time.

How to get this to run at 5GHz..Hmm...

and your current BIOS settings are ?

[thebluemeanie1]

Robust Graphics Booster - FAST
CPU Clock Ratio - 6X
CPU Host Frequency - 545 or 556
PCI Express Frquency - 103
C.I.A.2 - Disabled
CPU Clock Drive - 1000mV
PCI Express Clock Drive 1000mV
Clock skews are all set to 0PS.

****DRAM Performance Control****
Performance Enhance - Standard
Extreme Memory Profile - Disabled
(G) MCH Frequency Latch - 400MHz
System Memory Multiplier - 2.00
DRAM Timing Selectable - Manual
>>>Sandard Timing Control<<<
CAS Latency Time - 5
tRCD - 5
tRP - 4
tRAS - 15
>>>Advanced Timing Control<<<
tRRD - 15
tWTR - 15
tWR - 31
tRFC - 255:eek:
tRTP - 15
Command Rate - 3
>>>>Channel A Timing Settings
Static tRead Value - 15
Everything else is Auto.
>>>>Channel A Driving Settings
Driving Strength Profile - OC-1200
Everything else is Auto.
>>>>Channel B Timing Settings
Same as Chanel A.
>>>>Channel B Driving Settings
Same as Channel A.

****Motherboard Voltage Control****
>>>>CPU
Load Line Calibration - Enabled
CPU Vcore - 1.60000V
CPU Termination - 1.660V
CPU PLL - 1.810V
CPU Reference - 1.036V
>>>>MCH/ICH
MCH Core - 1.660V
MCH Reference - 1.051V
MCH/DRAM Refence - 0.920
ICH I/O - 1.750V
ICH Core - 1.300V
>>>DRAM
DRAM Voltage - 2.100V
DRAM Termination - 1.050V
Channel A Reference - 1.050V
Channel B Reference - 1.050V

CPU Features are all Disabled.

The laughable advanced memory timings are the difference between a very stable 4.85Ghz and a rather unstable 4.9Ghz. For 4.85Ghz i could use Performance Level 11 and much tighter timings all around.

[andressergio]

well just an update of my SPI 1M just for fun



cheers
Sergio

[WaterFlex]

Holy crap! Sick FSB for quads! Well done, mates !

[Jor3lBR]

Hey guys,

Inspired by thebluemeanie1 I decided to go for the 7 Gold Cups available for Q9650 hardware: CPU-Z, PiFast, SuperPi, SuperPi32m, wPrime32m, wPrime1024m and PCMark05. I got 6 out of 7 so I think it's an interesting read for Q9650 owners:

Q9650 - 6 Gold Cups in one Day (conquering the HWBot HOF)

[thebluemeanie1]

Hey guys,

Inspired by thebluemeanie1 I decided to go for the 7 Gold Cups available for Q9650 hardware: CPU-Z, PiFast, SuperPi, SuperPi32m, wPrime32m, wPrime1024m and PCMark05. I got 6 out of 7 so I think it's an interesting read for Q9650 owners:

Q9650 - 6 Gold Cups in one Day (conquering the HWBot HOF)

Very very impressive times with clock speeds to match. The CPUz, SuperPi 1M, 32M and PiFast are completely untouchable.(By me anyways)
Does going colder help with the FSB speed?

Once I saw your post I got right to reinstalling windows and running wPrime.

[Jor3lBR]

Very very impressive times with clock speeds to match. The CPUz, SuperPi 1M, 32M and PiFast are completely untouchable.(By me anyways)
Does going colder help with the FSB speed?

Once I saw your post I got right to reinstalling windows and running wPrime.

Hey Bluemeanie I see you have some backups

Well yeah those are still on the works I don't know what should I do to optimize wPrime, it's a new engine to me, I dunno how come my scores with hiegher ram speeds are lower, obviously I'm doing something wrong. I probably can get lower scores on Vista I only tried on Xp and W7 I would hate to format my PC right now...

The temps always helps but my SuperPi scores I did with water. wPrime1024m is a real cooling system test after it passes 80%!

[thebluemeanie1]

Hey Bluemeanie I see you have some backups

Well yeah those are still on the works I don't know what should I do to optimize wPrime, it's a new engine to me, I dunno how come my scores with hiegher ram speeds are lower, obviously I'm doing something wrong. I probably can get lower scores on Vista I only tried on Xp and W7 I would hate to format my PC right now...

The temps always helps but my SuperPi scores I did with water. wPrime1024m is a real cooling system test after it passes 80%!

Your wPrime efficiency really isn't bad at all, not like when I try Pi32M.

4.5Ghz with very loose timings finished at 11 minutes 1 second. 4.7Ghz with tighter timings, 12 minutes+.

[Jor3lBR]

Very very impressive times with clock speeds to match. The CPUz, SuperPi 1M, 32M and PiFast are completely untouchable.(By me anyways)
Does going colder help with the FSB speed?

Once I saw your post I got right to reinstalling windows and running wPrime.

I think I got the hang of it now:



Now I have to post 1024m.

[thebluemeanie1]

Ah, very very nice.
You might want to try out Vista or 7. They seemed to perform quite a bit better than XP for me. Then again I'm not the one under 7.7 seconds.

[xzulu]

Not sure if I will at this stage.

Oh alright, well it's good to see you still busy playing with the M2F!

Here, no tweaks, this is on regular Win 7 OS that I used daily (no wazaa, fresh install etc etc).

Nice Jor3lBR!!!

[xguntherc]

Damn... nice work there. Maybe I could boot above 4.3 ghz if I tried giving it more than 1.41v but that is the highest I've ever gave it.

Nice results guys

[Kai Robinson]

Got my Q9650 two days ago, and the second it was out of the box, it got lapped

Nice and smooth, shiny surface to it, lapped my Tuniq Tower base as well.

P5Q Deluxe, 2005 BIOS
4 x 2GB Corsair TwinX PC8500 CAS 5's

FSB: 445
Mult: 9
vCore: 1.3000v in BIOS, 1.288v in CPU-Z
FSB Termination Voltage: 1.2v
MCH Voltage: 1.2v
CPU GTL: 0.670x

Load line calibration ENABLED
Memory at 1:1 ratio, 5-5-5-15 timings

Load temps after 40 mins of OCCT:

Core 0: 65 *c
Core 1: 62 *c
Core 2: 67 *c
Core 3: 67 *c

SuperPi 1M = 11.871secs

Did i get a good one?
MCH GTL: 0.670x

[tool_462]

Figured I'd dump this in here. Summer has arrived and my apartment is very hot inside with no air conditioning so I have been workin on a "low voltage" overclock to keep temps and consumption down.

1.088v idle in CPU-Z, 1.076 load.

3.40Ghz (378 x 9) and CAS 4 DDR2-900 with 8GB installed

OCCT stable overnight

[LiquidReactor]

After 3 days of running P95 small fft for curing I believe I've lost another 1C of maximum temps. Ambient temperature is 66F (18.888C). I've achieved these temps using Prolimatech Megahalems with two Silverstone FM122s in push pull config and a careful application of Shin-Etsu X23-7783D. Very happy...I've got about 8-9C drop vs my old cpu cooler, Xigmatech S1284EE.

Running 4.310 40 min blend stable now...but when I push cpu higher and my ram past 1200Mhz Prime blend throws errors within 5-50 minute. I've tried various mch core / ref settings with Cpu Termination of 1.34 and 1.36V but so far no luck. Using 2.50A as memory strap multiplier...any ideas?