Retail Q9650 Overclocking Thread

[Leeghoofd]

Anyway, I think the short of this is that I think people need to stop using superpi and prime as methods for testing, as they no longer properly emulate load situations.

these tests do not include 3d gametests but are perefctly fine to get an idea about stability... load hyperpi with an instance for each core, you will have a hard time to get it stable... 450FSB is already pretty good mate on a i780 or i790 platform with a quad... Nvidia chipsets tend to run too hot and totally crap out with quads and DDR3 makes the strain on the NB even harder... Your instability is due to the Nvidia chipset... they are far too erratic in behaviour...