Quote Originally Posted by freeza View Post
I see a lot of you guys are pushing your Q9550/Q9650's to 4GHz and beyond.

I currently have a Q9550 OC'd to 3.7 GHz and my temps are as follows: (idle)

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47
50
50

Using this heatsink http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835186134

Room temps are about 86F since it's the summer. Question is, with these temps and my room temps, should i bother OC'ing more?

Also, how are you guys pasting your BIOS settings like that?

Thanks in advance.
Here are my settings:

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Robust Graphics Booster.....................[ Auto ] 
CPU Clock Ratio.............................[ 8 ] 
Fine CPU Clock Ratio........................[ 0.0 ] 
CPU Frequency 4.0GHz........................[ 500*8.0 ]

******Clock Chip Control******
CPU Host Clock Control......................[Enabled ] 
CPU Host Frequency (Mhz)....................[500 ] 
PCI Express Frequency (Mhz).................[100 ] 
C.I.A 2.....................................[Disabled] 

******Advanced Clock Control******
CPU Clock Drive.............................[ 900mv ] 
PCI Express Clock Drive.....................[ 900mv ] 
CPU Clock Skew..............................[ 0ps ] 
MCH Clock Skew..............................[ 50ps ]

******DRAM Performance Control******
Performance Enhance.........................[ Turbo ] 
Extreme Memory Profile (XMP)................[ Disabled] 
(G) MCH Frequency Latch.....................[ 333MHz ]
System Memory Multipler.....................[ 2.00b ]
Memory Frequency (Mhz) .....................[1000 DDR2]
DRAM Timing Selectable......................[ Manual ] 
CAS Latency Time............................[ 5 ] 
tRCD........................................[ 5 ] 
tRP.........................................[ 5 ] 
tRAS........................................[ 15 ] 

******Advanced Timing Control******
tRRD........................................[Auto ] 
tWTR........................................[Auto ] 
tWR.........................................[Auto ] 
tRFC........................................[Auto(52)] 
tRTP........................................[Auto ] 
Command Rate (cmd)..........................[Auto ] 

******Motherboard Voltage Control******
Load-Line Calibration [Enabled] 
CPU Vcore [ 1.25 ]..........................[ 1.3375 ] 
CPU Termination [ 1.20 ]....................[ 1.28 ]
CPU PLL [ 1.50 ]............................[ 1.570 ]
CPU Reference [ 0.760 ].....................[ 0.835 ] 

MCH Core [1.1 ].............................[ 1.32 ] 
MCH Reference [0.760 ]......................[ 0.850 ] 
MCH/DRAM Refernce [0.900 ]..................[ 0.950 ] 
ICH I/O [1.500 ]............................[ 1.500 ] 
ICH Core [1.100 ]...........................[ 1.100 ] 

DRAM Voltage [1.800 ].......................[ 1.9 ] 
DRAM Termination [0.900 ]...................[ 0.98 ] 
Channel A Ref [0.900 ]......................[ Auto ] 
Channel B Ref [0.900 ]......................[ Auto ] 

******Advanced BIOS Features******
Limit CPUID Max to 3........................[ Disabled ] 
No-Execute memory Protect...................[ Disabled ] 
CPU Enhance Halt (CIE)......................[ Disabled ] 
C2/C2E State Support........................[ Disabled ] 
C4/C4E State Support........................[ Disabled ] 
CPU Thermal Monitor.........................[ Enabled ] 
CPU EIST Function...........................[ Disabled ] 
Virtualization Technology...................[ Disabled ]

Core 2 Quad Q9650 @ 4.00Ghz 1.3375(v) F9 BIOS
2 X 2 GB DDR2 1100 @ 1000 G.Skill PC2-8800