Retail Q9650 Overclocking Thread

[OC Nub]

Trying some benching today with my 9650 and gtx280 in Windows 7 64bit.

[ViViD]

Nice Score OC Nub
But Me With Q9550 @4300Mhz Can Got 6500 CPU Score Why Ur Quad Can give Like Me @4600Mhz?

I Tested Yesterday With 4330Mhz Just CPU Test Alone And Got 6900 Scores
But It's Not Stable My Mobo Is Not Well For Quad

[Jor3lBR]

Trying some benching today with my 9650 and gtx280 in Windows 7 64bit.

Nice 3DMark06 score Nub, your Q9650 + GTX280 are putting some HD4890 in the back

[Hoss331]

Nice Score OC Nub
But Me With Q9550 @4300Mhz Can Got 6500 CPU Score Why Ur Quad Can give Like Me @4600Mhz?

I Tested Yesterday With 4330Mhz Just CPU Test Alone And Got 6900 Scores
But It's Not Stable My Mobo Is Not Well For Quad

If you using XP that would be why your score is higher.

[OC Nub]

Nice 3DMark06 score Nub, your Q9650 + GTX280 are putting some HD4890 in the back

Thanks Jor, This card clocks well. In certain benchmarks it destroyed my 4890 even at 1000mhz core. In Furmark bench the 4890 wins hands down. In game though they are pretty evenly matched.

Thanks Vivid: Hoss is correct, in XP the score is much higher than in Windows7. I don't have XP installed to run ATM but Sergio got around 2k higher using XP vs 7.

[OC Nub]

Ran these with the same setup, q9650 4.25ghz. 1st one hd4890 2nd gtx280.

[andressergio]

Trying some benching today with my 9650 and gtx280 in Windows 7 64bit.

Great Score mate

Cheers
Sergio

[OC Nub]

Thanks Sergio, also thanks you for all your help in getting this thing stable.

Trying Hyper PI using 250a with OCZ Platinum pc2 9200's, PL8 turbo. This is all new to me, I normally just run Prime and LinX. It is nice to try new things.

[Martin.v.r]

hmm look here 4.6GHZ to 72XX IN cpu score http://hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=826826
Watercooling
3Dmark 2006 - 23758 marks Radeon HD 3870 X2 @ 945/1100mhz on H20

[OC Nub]

Nice score Martin.

[Hoss331]

OC Nub, was your memory set to 1:1 for those 3D06 runs? I was thinking that cpu score does seem a little low for 4.6, just wondering if memory would be causing it. I ran a couple runs at 4.45 1250 and am getting in the mid 6800s with win7. To bad my 4870 wont put up a good score though.

[andressergio]

Well today i started playing again with the BFG GTX285 H20 and the quad



Cheers all
Sergio

[OC Nub]

WOW . Excellent score Sergio!!!

[andressergio]

WOW . Excellent score Sergio!!!

on my way to the 25k

thank you mate !!!

Cheers
Sergio

[OC Nub]

[QUOTE=Hoss331;3900631]OC Nub, was your memory set to 1:1 for those 3D06 runs? I was thinking that cpu score does seem a little low for 4.6, just wondering if memory would be causing it. I ran a couple runs at 4.45 1250 and am getting in the mid 6800s with win7. To bad my 4870 wont put up a good score though.

Yes I was using 200d. I couldn't get stable at 1200mhz. Trying the OCZ Platinum 1.8v now, working on 1200 now to see if it brings the score up.

[Hoss331]

Yes I was using 200d. I couldn't get stable at 1200mhz. Trying the OCZ Platinum 1.8v now, working on 1200 now to see if it brings the score up.

oh yea i think it will

[OC Nub]

Was able to get my mem to run 1200mhz but using the 250a-4:5, not 240b-5:6 divider. That limits my oc to 4.32ghz. Ran 06 again today in Windows 7 using my HIS cards.

[LennyRhys]

I made great progress after properly tuning the CPU GTLs...now happily priming away at 4300MHz with 1.375 in BIOS. HOWEVER... about 20 mins into prime my cores suddenly shot up to 80C+ doing 8k FFTs - beforehand they had been sitting in the high 60s/low 70s, so it was a huge jump.

My Zalman 9700 has served me well but perhaps now is a good time to make it redundant... I really need to shave a good 10C off these load temps, and I'm honestly not sure if there is a cooler that can outperform the 9700 by that margin. Thinking about getting Megahalems...

[OC Nub]

Well, doesn't look like I will get my CPU score up in 7 64bit or maybe my CPU is a dud. Either way it runs great and oc's well for me. Ran one last time in 7 using an 8.5 multi and 1:1-200d on the mem. I don't have any 2x2gb kits that will allow for a 5:6 devider over 1200mhz. Still pretty happy with my overall score.

[Hoss331]

I highly doubt the cpu is a dud, either way its still a nice overall score. What were the clocks on the 4890 for those runs?

[OC Nub]

Thanks Hoss, I was using 960 core clocks. Went and got the advanced version of 06 to just test CPU to see if I could get it to score higher. I think the divider on the mem is killing my score but IDK . I think in XP I could easily break 26k, need to install it and see.
I need to look at your sub timings for the blades and see if anything will help get this mem any higher.

[andressergio]

Well, doesn't look like I will get my CPU score up in 7 64bit or maybe my CPU is a dud. Either way it runs great and oc's well for me. Ran one last time in 7 using an 8.5 multi and 1:1-200d on the mem. I don't have any 2x2gb kits that will allow for a 5:6 devider over 1200mhz. Still pretty happy with my overall score.

damn congrats Tom

thats a really nice score

Cheers
Sergio

[OC Nub]

Thank you Sergio.
Out of desperation I put a set of 2x1gb Reapers in an booted fine at 1250mhz 250A. Will test them tonight and see how high I can go in a fresh install of 32bit vista.

[LennyRhys]

I lowered vcore in BIOS to 1.362 and temps are lower this time, 78C max before I stopped prime - last time it was 82C.

Very happy to be priming at 4300 and it looks like 1.36v will do (maybe less, fingers crossed) but I'm looking at about £60 of cooling power to make this OC stable.

[andressergio]

I lowered vcore in BIOS to 1.362 and temps are lower this time, 78C max before I stopped prime - last time it was 82C.

Very happy to be priming at 4300 and it looks like 1.36v will do (maybe less, fingers crossed) but I'm looking at about £60 of cooling power to make this OC stable.

lenny a TRUE 120 will do the job more than well

Cheers
Sergio