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[Fritz_the_germ]

Originally posted by Cryptik:
"You can certainly run PL8 at 500 FSB on a P45, quite easily in fact. My M2F runs 500 FSB / 600 MHz ram (DDR2-1200) / PL8 / Clock Twister Moderate / static read and dram read training enabled @ 1.25 vNB totally stable 24/7. You are of course limited in your PL choice by the memory divider and CAS latency, and increasing the vNB will not allow a lower PL to be used when limited by these parameters".

Another problem is that I don´t have a 3:4 divider to oc my mem. pretty easiliy. The next possible divider is 5:4. I don´t think that the CAS latency of 5-5-5-15 limits my system. If I want to run my mem. sticks on default I could adjust a fsb of 500 MHz (=600 MHz mem. speed).
I have got a fsb of 490 MHz prime95 stable firing 1,39v to the nb. Next week a will be on vacation so there is no way out to hit my goal.

@Alien-Grey,
if the P45 chipset ist better for quad, why don´t you get a P45 plus a Q9650?
Still trying to get your batch.
I asked a friend of mine about our seeking. He told me the certain batch doesn´t mean the cpu will exactaly work like you suppose. He knows two guys who bought a cpu with the same batch and still the cpu behaviour is really different.

[Alien Grey]

@Alien-Grey,
if the P45 chipset ist better for quad, why don´t you get a P45 plus a Q9650?
Still trying to get your batch.
I asked a friend of mine about our seeking. He told me the certain batch doesn´t mean the cpu will exactaly work like you suppose. He knows two guys who bought a cpu with the same batch and still the cpu behaviour is really different.

Maybe you are right. All CPU's overclock different. Maybe I should just order one and hope that I'm lucky this time.

EDIT: Wish me luck, I've just ordered my Q9650.

[Fritz_the_germ]

Alien-Grey,
I wish good luck for your new cpu. Some dealers didn´t even answer my mail.
If there is any response I will tell you by pm.
If you want to stress your new q9650 just use the new version of LinX: LinX 0.6.1

Quelle: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/663563/LinX/en/LinX.7z

[greg.m]

Maybe you are right. All CPU's overclock different. Maybe I should just order one and hope that I'm lucky this time.

EDIT: Wish me luck, I've just ordered my Q9650.

GOOOOD Luck mate.

Looking forward seeing some results

[Alien Grey]

GOOOOD Luck mate.

Looking forward seeing some results

Thanks mate.

My dealer is going to order the Q9650 next Monday. The price is going to drop a little next Monday.

[mikeyakame]

Thanks mate.

My dealer is going to order the Q9650 next Monday. The price is going to drop a little next Monday.

I wish I got myself a Q9650 but unfortunately at the time they were out of stock and had to be ordered in special order, and my Q6600 was broken. I like my Q9550 and all, but the extra 0.5x multi would have been awesome. since I only run my fsb @ 400-410mhz 24/7 these days which is 3.4-3.45ghz, 3.6-3.7ghz would have been sweet.

My DFI board sometimes from boot to boot won't correctly do the POST memory delay procedure correctly, and it can screw up my stable bios settings. I haven't been bothered to go through a solid week of testing/fine change/testing/fine change to get the FSB any higher. At 400-410mhz board works great with the GTLs I worked out are optimal for my cpu/board anywhere from 333-420mhz fsb. Beyond this point GTLs will work most of the time, but cause the once in a blue moon bsod which might takes hours or days to come up. Then once I change them by a fraction (0.0007-8v) I gotta repeat the whole procedure again if it passes prime/linpack!

Good luck with your Q9650 if it works great maybe you can send Asus an xmas present this year instead of an angry love letter

[Alien Grey]

I wish I got myself a Q9650 but unfortunately at the time they were out of stock and had to be ordered in special order, and my Q6600 was broken. I like my Q9550 and all, but the extra 0.5x multi would have been awesome. since I only run my fsb @ 400-410mhz 24/7 these days which is 3.4-3.45ghz, 3.6-3.7ghz would have been sweet.

My DFI board sometimes from boot to boot won't correctly do the POST memory delay procedure correctly, and it can screw up my stable bios settings. I haven't been bothered to go through a solid week of testing/fine change/testing/fine change to get the FSB any higher. At 400-410mhz board works great with the GTLs I worked out are optimal for my cpu/board anywhere from 333-420mhz fsb. Beyond this point GTLs will work most of the time, but cause the once in a blue moon bsod which might takes hours or days to come up. Then once I change them by a fraction (0.0007-8v) I gotta repeat the whole procedure again if it passes prime/linpack!

Good luck with your Q9650 if it works great maybe you can send Asus an xmas present this year instead of an angry love letter

All I need is a good batch. I keep my fingers crossed because I didn't have much luck with my hardware. I don't want to RMA it after some time because it sucks.

The new batch L847C037 seems to be very good with a low VID. It would be awesome if I can get one of these.

And yes, I would love to send ASUS an Xmas present this year.

[mikeyakame]

All I need is a good batch. I keep my fingers crossed because I didn't have much luck with my hardware. I don't want to RMA it after some time because it sucks.

The new batch L847C037 seems to be very good with a low VID. It would be awesome if I can get one of these.

And yes, I would love to send ASUS an Xmas present this year.

My 9550 is batch #L845B512, don't know much about the different batches but this one has a 1.19v VID and runs 3.6ghz at 1..20-1.21V perfectly.