Retail Q9650 Overclocking Thread

[zoson]

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...

I hear what you're saying, but with this same motherboard and my E8600 I can do 4.4GHz at 550FSB with very little voltage. I can do 4.7GHz with the same chip and lower FSB...

Is the increased FSB load of a quad really so much greater that this board would croak at 100FSB less?

My northbridge is watercooled. It peaks out around 80C with 1.85v and 500fsb at full load with the quad... With the dual it peaks out around 60C with 1.38v and 550FSB...

Anyway, what I would really like to see is one of these guys hitting ~550 fsb with a quad on one of these P45 boards is to prove what everyone is saying to me... Run 500 LinX loops and show the screenshot of it finishing.