Retail Q9650 Overclocking Thread

[Zucker2k]

There you two go putting words into my mouth again. At no time did I say you could pass LinX and then have Prime fail.
I've maintained this whole time that LinX is by far a better stress tester than Prime. Prime can pass 24 hours while LinX still fails after a short period of time. I've seen this behavior in the last four CPU's I've owned. I'm quite convinced that people like you bash it because you can't pass it stable. Complete denial of the fact that your OC is not stable.

Now you guys are fronting like a bunch of kids. Clearly I use 200 LinX loops to test my stability, as seen in my screenshots. I asked sergio to prove his OC with 500 loops max mem. If you guys can't see that he's deflecting instead of proving, well I feel sorry for you. If he were truely stable, this conversation would have been over long ago when he posted his screenshot.

I thought XS would be a haven for people who were serious about overclocking, but instead I find another forum full of fanboys defending their false champions.

Right there, is where you're wrong - prime IS NOT small ftts alone. The real deal is large ftts (especially when you're running high clocks with high fsbs and ram around 1200mhz). The reverse is true - you need more juice to pass blend and large ftts than linx. Yeah that 200 passes with your DUAL CORE is nice, BUT THIS IS A QUAD THREAD; and that's why you came here for help because that same board that took your dual to 550 can hardly take a quad to 460 fsb stable! You need to listen and listen well; to play with the big boys in this thread, you'll need to discard that NV mobo and get a p45 board - hell, get a UD3x board and you can come back and thank us later.

To summarize, many here can run linx all year and fail prime blend/large ffts in five minutes, unless they add more voltage; and that's the truth.

Edit: Nub beat me to it.