Retail Q9650 Overclocking Thread

[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.