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[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.

[Fritz_the_germ]

Well guys,
I really didn´t care about the batch before I bought the Q9650. The VID is 1.3v and I have to adjust 1.36v in BIOS (=1.32v real) to get the 4 GHz (470*8,5) prime95 and LinX0.6.1 stable. I can live with it.

@Mikeyakame,
This DFI behavior is common. Even when you got it LinX stable, on some days the board has it´s own mudes. Or for example one step more vnb seems to much voltage and prime95 stops after the first loop large FFTs.
Yesterday I changed the "Read Delay Phase Adjust Pull-ins" from all in Channel 1 "Auto" to "enabled" (=e) "Auto"(=a), e, e, e and Channel 2 to e, a, a, e, e everything worked out fine but today I had to Clear CMOS because of a C1 fault

EDit: I read your post on DFI LANParty thread, thanks for that!

Is there any new ASUS-BIOS coming up the next days. The 0902 ist about six months old.

[Alien Grey]

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.

That's what I call a good batch.

It doesn't mean that a batch with a low VID is going to overclock very good but it gives you more room to raise the CPU Voltage.