Retail Q9650 Overclocking Thread

[nkresho]

Ok, here's what I have so far. I primed at 4203 this morning and got it stable for a 4 hour screen shot.

I came back around the 5 hour mark to take another and found an empty desktop with the little "your computer has recovered from a ...blah blah... message"



Looking at the cores, I bet it's a gtlref issue as 0 and 2 are off by the same number of tests as 1 and 3...

Am I correct in saying that the cpu ref is 0.797 divided by 1.22 = 65.33% and the nb reference is 0.812 divided by 1.260 = 64.44% I was used to my asus where ther is a ref for 0/2 and anotehr for 1/3??? So IIRC, theres a single gtl ref for the fsb and another single gtl ref for the nb????


Still working on getting this speed blend stable before I go on to the big time... 4400, 4500 beyond. lol

I'll probably do a remount tomorrow as well, as core 1 is always 3-4c higher than the others, which are all within 1-2c of eachother. Might be a bug too.

My second rad (mcr220) comes tomorrow and I have the whole day off, so I'll post more when I have it. I'll try to make a mini worklog thingy for adding a 120x2 to the bottom of a cosmos-s, I'll put it in the water section. If I get ambitious, i might even do a before-after temp comparison of some IBT runs. We'll see though, rad is coming UPS and that guy usually taked until 5pm to get me my stuff.