"ASUS P5Q Deluxe discussion".

[Leeghoofd]

Lo Moscow,

if your rams can't do 1200mhz forget 500FSB quad action daily on the P5Q series... Buy yourself a 9550 and you will have 4Ghz for sure... more is all luck: good CPU, High speed rams, Good mobo, PSU , Cooling etc....

Unless you are multitasking or ya apps support the extra cores, you will not feel much difference over ya OC'ed dual core...

[aamsel]

Lo Moscow,

if your rams can't do 1200mhz forget 500FSB quad action daily on the P5Q series... Buy yourself a 9550 and you will have 4Ghz for sure... more is all luck: good CPU, High speed rams, Good mobo, PSU , Cooling etc....

Unless you are multitasking or ya apps support the extra cores, you will not feel much difference over ya OC'ed dual core...

Hi Leeghoofd!
I hope that you are well!!

I have a P5Q Deluxe, BIOS 2201 with an E8600 @ 4GHz (401 x 10) @ 1.208v CPUZ, 1.225v in BIOS on TRUE. I have not tried to overclock beyond this, but I will post all of my settings for your input in the next few days.

I am not a gamer, and not a huge multi-tasker, but I have noticed the following with my rig:

When I am burning a DVD and web-surfing at the same time, there are slight hesitations in going to websites that are not there when I am not burning a DVD. These are not huge and vary, but are definitely gone when not burning a DVD.

Do you think that these would totally disappear if I went to a Q9650/Q9550 instead of the E8600, or do you think that this is nothing to do with the CPU itself? I have gone to a X25-M boot drive to eliminate the drive being a factor, and the data being burned to DVD is on a different drive as well.

Thanks!