Retail Q9650 Overclocking Thread

[OC Nub]

OK not 4905 but getting closer Sergio. Very hard in 64bit w7.

[Jor3lBR]

Wow they actually released it! With I7 and I5 being released I figured they wouldnt bother with another 775.

That 3380 came out...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819117207

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=668972

Wow for the X3380 price you can buy an i7 920 + X58 Mobo + DDR3 and still have some change to watch "Inglorious Bastards"...

[Hoss331]

Wow for the X3380 price you can buy an i7 920 + X58 Mobo + DDR3 and still have some change to watch "Inglorious Bastards"...

No kidding! That is the price they said it would be, the old 9650 price plan, but with I7 and I5 now here I doubt theyll sell many at that price. I do wonder if the retails are any better than the ES chips but im not going to find out myself.

[mrcape]

The price might drop. Hard to say with xeons but it's interesting at least. I'm still on 775 and loving it.

What were those 9550s going for like $150 at microcenter? Geez that would make a nice setup for anyone.

[nugzo]

That 3380 came out...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819117207

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=668972

I guess its just a misprint that newegg says that one doesnt support 64bit... right?



I need some input from the ud3p v1.6 users. I have another ud3p comin in tomorrow from the egg, i assume it'll be a 1.6. Anybody know what the difference is between the different revision boards? Something would have to be way different for the 1.6 to use a different bios right?

[bigwill68]

The price might drop. Hard to say with xeons but it's interesting at least. I'm still on 775 and loving it.

What were those 9550s going for like $150 at microcenter? Geez that would make a nice setup for anyone.

There you go MrCape they been on sale now for 6 weeks straight at Micro Center and there $169.99

http://www.microcenter.com/single_pr...uct_id=0299412

[Hoss331]

I guess its just a misprint that newegg says that one doesnt support 64bit... right?



I need some input from the ud3p v1.6 users. I have another ud3p comin in tomorrow from the egg, i assume it'll be a 1.6. Anybody know what the difference is between the different revision boards? Something would have to be way different for the 1.6 to use a different bios right?

Yep, its a misprint.


V1.6

Aside from featuring the new Smart 6 system management utilities package(and BIOS), this model remains unchanged.

[jonathankru]

but you can play further giving volts mate also i see you got an awesome PSU wish i had that you can have real fun with it...i have a low vid and im sharing the loop with the GTX285, higher vid quads require more volts but it's up to everyone if you decide to play with it, on the giga i pumped lots of volts and then my PSU starts shutting down i will swap for a corsair soon.

i benched it till 1,56vcore real / 1,75pll / 1,66vtt and 1,76 MCH and the 2x2 gskills till 2,4

Cheers
Sergio

I was using my 24/7 setup as an example. I am 3d stable @ 4.6Ghz but that is with 1.57V (In Windows) but i am unsure of how much more it can take.

How do you now how much VTT to give your cpu? I find if i give it more then a certain percentage of the vcore it stops letting me boot. Is there some sort of stage where it starts to help? Ie: for me at 1.4VTT it is unhappy but maybe above 1.55V it will start helping?

Thanks for your response.

About the PSU. It helped my MAX OC on GPU by 65 MHZ on the core which i was glad about.

[andressergio]

OK not 4905 but getting closer Sergio. Very hard in 64bit w7.

We will make it mate hard on 64bit but im confident will arrive there

Very nice mate
Cheers
Sergio

[andressergio]

I was using my 24/7 setup as an example. I am 3d stable @ 4.6Ghz but that is with 1.57V (In Windows) but i am unsure of how much more it can take.

How do you now how much VTT to give your cpu? I find if i give it more then a certain percentage of the vcore it stops letting me boot. Is there some sort of stage where it starts to help? Ie: for me at 1.4VTT it is unhappy but maybe above 1.55V it will start helping?

Thanks for your response.

damn 1,57 is what i used for 4900 its amazing how different temps are on this chips being a lower vid to a higher

vtt it all depends mate, in my case till 4500 i dont need more than 1,36, but up to there it starts needing it, all depends. You should start to test slowly from a stable setting and then up till you get the most of it stable, then the rest will be bench or just screens.

Cheers mate and good luck
Sergio

[andressergio]

NICE! Congrats Sergio! 4.9Ghz

thank you mate

[andressergio]

Congrats on the 4900mhz Sergio

Thanks Tom this is a product of our team work remember that

[jonathankru]

damn 1,57 is what i used for 4900 its amazing how different temps are on this chips being a lower vid to a higher

vtt it all depends mate, in my case till 4500 i dont need more than 1,36, but up to there it starts needing it, all depends. You should start to test slowly from a stable setting and then up till you get the most of it stable, then the rest will be bench or just screens.

Cheers mate and good luck
Sergio

Thanks for tips. Will try and post results later.

Ignore the PM

[OC Nub]

We will make it mate hard on 64bit but im confident will arrive there

Very nice mate
Cheers
Sergio

Thank you. We will keep working on it.

[FrostyAMD]

Been reading thru this thread as I am planning a q9650 buy. Got a ep45-ud3p buying some g.skill 1100 now. I am just to about to page30 and am reading thoroughly trying to understand the oveclocking and the relationship of settings as they help or hinder sucess. My big question now is what batches have you seen that are most reponsive to overclocking. there seems also to be A B and C codes in the batch numer are they significant ? Meaning A's on average clock better Than B's ? Any help in this regard to help me try to get a good batch will be appreciated. thanks

[The Viper]

Does anyone know what some of the good batches are for the 9650, are later weeks OCing better or earlier?

Sorry if this has already been asked in this thread.

[bigwill68]

Been reading thru this thread as I am planning a q9650 buy. Got a ep45-ud3p buying some g.skill 1100 now. I am just to about to page30 and am reading thoroughly trying to understand the oveclocking and the relationship of settings as they help or hinder sucess. My big question now is what batches have you seen that are most reponsive to overclocking. there seems also to be A B and C codes in the batch numer are they significant ? Meaning A's on average clock better Than B's ? Any help in this regard to help me try to get a good batch will be appreciated. thanks

as far as the letters A,B,C means that what (lot)

Example: L149A463-0726

1st letter or digit = plant code (Malay)
0 = San Jose, Costa Rica
1 = Cavite, Philippines
3 = .............., Costa Rica
6 = Chandler, Arizona
7 = .........., Philippines
8 = Leixlip, Ireland
9 = Penang, Malaysia
L = ............, Malaysia
Q = ..........., Malaysia
R = Manila, Philippines
Y = Leixlip, Ireland

2nd digit = Year of production (2001)

3rd & 4th digits = week (49th week )

5th - 8th digits= lot number

10th - 13th digits = serialization code


they are made in and it's a luck of the draw if you end up with a good batch number are not it's all about how your parts work together as far as the G.SKill 1100...I wonder if this one below? and the ep45-ud3p board go to the thread on here and what people are using and what kinda luck they are getting out of the board and there parts and Compare notes alot people are willing to help I myself had alot of help with my Biostar I45 from here when..I bought it figuring the bios voltage and the different setting to use to get a Good overclock got a 4.5ghz on my E8400 and 3.9Ghz on my Q9550 both on air and I've seen the A's on the chips get pretty high ..I've only seen the A,B's in the states...I thinks the C's are over seas someone correct if..I'm wrong

G.Skill 1100
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231194

even if you drop some 1066 in your board like this below this is some good also
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231166


Best of Luck on your journey into the overclock World Of Computers

[Machinus]

I have L846B6B2...and I am having trouble getting past 3.8 on air, any advice?

[The Viper]

anyone have any results with the following batch

L843B805
L842B068
L846B809

[Navigator1]

very hard to boot over 530 ??

2x q9650 545fsb windows booted + validation @ 4.9ghz on air.. no easytune


http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=422821


http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=434280

1.2125vid: lower vcore @ higher temps
1.2500vid: higher vcore @ lower temps

both air cooled by the same ifx14

havent checked but i think its still the wr on air

Hey Napalm do you have a Template for this settings? ...pls show the template ...thx

[Navigator1]

Hmmm...

...i see all the guys with excellent validations near or over mine use ddr2 boards ...i think with ddr3 boards its even harder to do a good oc job

[Jor3lBR]

Hmmm...

...i see all the guys with excellent validations near or over mine use ddr2 boards ...i think with ddr3 boards its even harder to do a good oc job

Yes P45 seams to work better off with DDR2, for validation it doesn't really matter as the ram is less important, they are relavant when it comes to stability, DDR2 topping out at 4800Mhz and DDR3 around 4600Mhz.

[Triton]

C'mon guys, soon autumn is here !

LOL, 'some' of you probably thought "hey, lower ambient temps, let's break old records !" ?

Nope, I mean there will be so many new games to play soon: L4D2, CoD MW2 etc etc

I've had it with OC, I'm disgusted by the amount of time I've "spent" ocing this bastard of Q9650....I already got the freq I wanted from my Q9650, but one thing is still annoying me sooo much: can't find a stable MHz to a 1.344 or 1.360v cpuz ..thats anything above 1.3625v bios...

I've had 3 good P95 Blend runs: 10hr 4.1GHz/1.296v cpuz, 4.15GHz, 1.312v cpuz and 4176MHz, 1.328v cpuz (and this with x2.40 mem x TURBO, no nothing extra for MCH volts), so scaling is very poor, some odd 25mhz for 3 notches vcore raise...


Q9650 4176MHz
OCZ Blade PC2-9200 1114MHz

Load Line Calibration Enabled
VCORE 1.3625
CPU Termination 1.3000
CPU Reference 65%
MCH Termination 1.3200
MCH Reference 67%
CPU Drive 900mv

VDIMM 1.8200
TIMINGS 5-5-5-18 + AUTO
Performance Enhance Turbo

P95 Blend 8hr OK (10hr with Std Perf. enhance)


If I go 4194MHz with same MCH and FSB volts (raise vcore one notch): always BSOD withing 10mins, so here I must raise MCH (more likely than FSB vtt). 1.32v FSB and 1.34v MCH gives max 4hr Blend time


P95 Errors guys ?

rounding error - inc vcore and u be 24h OK
two types of "final result" errors...cant rem them both - inc MCH/mem or lower timings
BSOD - MCH volts too low, this often 1024K test

[Triton]

This morning I flashed the BIOS, from F9 to F10e beta...wasn't successful, no way I could get memory work at 2.40 ratio. *sigh, real deep real one*

Since it was a failure BIOS for my rig, flashed back to F9 and *fingers already caught inside jar* all is working, better than before actually !

Currently P95 Blending 4230MHz, 1.344v cpuz, 1128MHz mem 5-5-5-18 with Turbo...1.5hrs already.

[The Viper]

Well i searched high and low and finally found myself a batch# L847C153. These week 47Cs are hard to get. Anyone have any experience with this batch? Ill post some results when I get it.