Retail Q9650 Overclocking Thread

[Loco23]

My Q9650 did not scale well from chilled water to ln2 (same Mhz achieved)

My and my friend too: no matter -40 or +40
But low temp important in long test like SuperPi 32M or wPrime 1024M.

[grishenko45]

Far less being what?

went from 53.5 Gflops max to 49 Gflops max! gutted!

[Hoss331]

Did you have something extra running in the background when testing that time? On mine there is less than 1GF difference between running it at 1:1 916 vs. 5:6 1099, both do around 57Gflops.

[In-Fluence]

As you might be able to guess, I finally got my UD3P - great board so far!



Weeeee!!!

[andressergio]

As you might be able to guess, I finally got my UD3P - great board so far!



Weeeee!!!

congrats mate we told you its a great board

enjoy

[In-Fluence]

'tis indeed, and so chuffed I finally smashed my old 10.062 pi record (and with a quad!). I'm now half way through a loop of prime blend at 4.5GHz. Easytune makes life so much easier once you figure out how the refs actually work. Plus there's the fact that it behaves consistently - such an important factor. I plan to solve the lack of sensors & fan headers by getting me one of these. Then I'll gut out the case and route everything nice & tidy, and will actually be able to keep a near silent, closely monitored system again. Right now my rads are down by 2, but everything seems to be holding up ok. Will be back with more speed soon!

[radaja]

wow in-fluence great job with your Q9650.at least the MaxII wasnt a total waste,it really helps fine tuning
the OCing skills.kind of like learning on an acoustic guitar and then playing an electric for the first time.

[In-Fluence]

wow in-fluence great job with your Q9650.at least the MaxII wasnt a total waste,it really helps fine tuning
the OCing skills.kind of like learning on an acoustic guitar and then playing an electric for the first time.

Thanks dude

I couldn't have put it better myself with regards to the MaxII. It was a nice, pretty board with bundles of great features, but I doubt I'll waste any more time on it and will probably sell it while it's still worth something.
Just sold my lapped Q6600 too and given it a nice polish. Used it for 2 years and pretty much sold it for the same price i bought it. Was tempted to give it another try in my new board, but I can't make the guy wait.... can I?

I'm now spoilt for choice with what to try for next though... highest stable o/c? or highest fsb? or maybe get my old reapers in there and go for some pi benching?

[radaja]

yep your going to have a lot of fun this holiday season
so many possibilities

[E-mil]

I made a small improvement in results, but I think
that my MBO has came close to maximum FSB

or, I am just a n00b and I do not know how ... for now

PiFast - 20,58 s


SuperPi 32M - 10 min 57,829 s


Super Pi - 9,891 s


wPrime - 8,172 s



maybe is time for UD3P

[Linuxfan]

I made a small improvement in results, but I think
that my MBO has came close to maximum FSB
or, I am just a n00b and I do not know how ... for now
PiFast - 20,58 s
SuperPi 32M - 10 min 57,829 s
Super Pi - 9,891 s
wPrime - 8,172 s
maybe is time for UD3P

Nice runs!
If you got a UD3P I think you'll be rockin with the top!

[In-Fluence]

Finally got 550 FSB, but had to stop going further due to water pump stopping and PC repeadtedly shutting off !

I'm assuming it's the dodgy 12v atx connector I thought I'd fixed

Got to the login screen for 557, but then I started getting the shutdowns...

I'm giving the board a rest tonight after that little blast which turned out quite risky, so I'm gonna tighten up 500x9 which I've now got stable.

PS, can you run lower than PL9 on 1:1 at 500FSB UD3P? Any recommendations for the drive strength at this speed too?

[Hoss331]

If your ram can do cas4 you should be able to drop down to PL8 on 2.00D.

[radaja]

yep what hoss331 said.400 strap 2.00D pl8 cas4 was good up 520fsb for me if i remember correctly.

[In-Fluence]

Hmm, looks like I'll be on the hunt for better sticks again. Mine wouldnt go a notch over 1162 unless I loosened some of the sub-timings on the MIIF, might be different here, but I know that board wasn't so bad for memory. Might be able to lower cas to 4 though - will this board simply not post unless cas 4 is set?

Anyway, the most I could push ot of it was 560FSB
I go a bit carried away with the volts and decided not to push further. Jor3lbr, What kind of MCH volts did you use? I was hovering around 1.74....

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=887013


Like I said, I'd be biting at your heels, but that 6MHz is a long way away though, and as for max speed, I couldn't get past login at 450x9 - will get back to that another day

[In-Fluence]

Well, after another evening of tweaking, I managed to get 4953MHz. Just 2 off 10th place in the hwbot rankings (which I've just discovered and am pleased to see a few of you lot are on). I also nudged down my 1M PI time a little:



Pretty proud of myself as this is my first proper kind of opportunity to OC without much limiting me (except lack of a chiller / liquid nitrogen), but I've gotta say that if you intend to overclock these CPUs, then the UD3 range is king. Sorry to nudge you down andressergio, but it does take a lot of tweaking to get into this territory, so kudos to you, and Huuuuge kudos to Jor3lbr!

[TJ TRICHEESE]

Once not long ago (actually just before i got my i7) i had a q9650 it was an excelent chip it got me to 4.6ghz on water

[radaja]

In-Fluence,wow thats just awesome.you've got a great chip there.
its great to see what it can do in the right board
soon you might be getting some WR's

[Linuxfan]

Well, after another evening of tweaking, I managed to get 4953MHz. Just 2 off 10th place in the hwbot rankings (which I've just discovered and am pleased to see a few of you lot are on). I also nudged down my 1M PI time a little:

Pretty proud of myself as this is my first proper kind of opportunity to OC without much limiting me (except lack of a chiller / liquid nitrogen), but I've gotta say that if you intend to overclock these CPUs, then the UD3 range is king. Sorry to nudge you down andressergio, but it does take a lot of tweaking to get into this territory, so kudos to you, and Huuuuge kudos to Jor3lbr!

It definitely takes H2O and the right board and a little work to get in the top 10 with this CPU on Hwbot!
Nice work!

[In-Fluence]

Hehe, I see you're up there too linuxfan. Nice work on 5+GHz - I'll try and get back to it at some point as my system is 2 fans down at the moment. It's been snowing here too and is freezing out so I'm tempted to get the fans running , open the windows and do a 'chilled room' run tomorrow which might help matters..

To help me on the way, I had settings saved for 535x9 and moved up with setfsb from there. What kind of volts were most of you guys using to acheive your goals? I'll post a bunch of settings of mine sometime soon when I have a nice load of saved profiles

I'm trying for 530x8.5 linx stable at the moment. CPU is fine but getting the NB stable is tricky. 500x9 is P95 stable. The only trouble is that I'm getting shutdowns during both - is this indicative of too low vcore or something worse?

[Jor3lBR]

Anyway, the most I could push ot of it was 560FSB
I go a bit carried away with the volts and decided not to push further. Jor3lbr, What kind of MCH volts did you use? I was hovering around 1.74....

Hey, MCH not over 1.62 will be good till 5Ghz, now PLL is another story.

Like I said, I'd be biting at your heels, but that 6MHz is a long way away though, and as for max speed, I couldn't get past login at 450x9 - will get back to that another day

Hey, MCH not over 1.62 will be good till 5Ghz, now PLL is another story. So you forgot your Asus yet?!

Well, after another evening of tweaking, I managed to get 4953MHz. Just 2 off 10th place in the hwbot rankings (which I've just discovered and am pleased to see a few of you lot are on). I also nudged down my 1M PI time a little:


Pretty proud of myself as this is my first proper kind of opportunity to OC without much limiting me (except lack of a chiller / liquid nitrogen), but I've gotta say that if you intend to overclock these CPUs, then the UD3 range is king. Sorry to nudge you down andressergio, but it does take a lot of tweaking to get into this territory, so kudos to you, and Huuuuge kudos to Jor3lbr!

Great results bud It does take a LOT of time and cod weather to get to sub 9.7s on Spi1m, very nice and continue to push and have fun with this extraordinary board

[Linuxfan]

Hehe, I see you're up there too linuxfan. Nice work on 5+GHz - I'll try and get back to it at some point as my system is 2 fans down at the moment. It's been snowing here too and is freezing out so I'm tempted to get the fans running , open the windows and do a 'chilled room' run tomorrow which might help matters..

To help me on the way, I had settings saved for 535x9 and moved up with setfsb from there. What kind of volts were most of you guys using to acheive your goals? I'll post a bunch of settings of mine sometime soon when I have a nice load of saved profiles

I'm trying for 530x8.5 linx stable at the moment. CPU is fine but getting the NB stable is tricky. 500x9 is P95 stable. The only trouble is that I'm getting shutdowns during both - is this indicative of too low vcore or something worse?

I did not have a cherry picked, low VID chip whatsoever.
You don't WANT to know what kind of voltage I put through that CPU.
I think I had the CPU Vcore at 1.7v in the BIOS with the MCH at 1.7 or 1.8?
Got some good scores anyway.
A cold room and more vcore should help you a little to get it to around 4.9ghz for superpi.

[In-Fluence]

I did not have a cherry picked, low VID chip whatsoever.
You don't WANT to know what kind of voltage I put through that CPU.
I think I had the CPU Vcore at 1.7v in the BIOS with the MCH at 1.7 or 1.8?
Got some good scores anyway.
A cold room and more vcore should help you a little to get it to around 4.9ghz for superpi.

I got real lucky with the chip I think, and considering how well it clocked with low volts I thought I had a chance of getting some good max clocks. 5GHz was just out of reach on this attempt though. Eventually, the right board got me to see its real potential though and I'm very pleased
I didn't really try highest speed with superpi, just from the highest I used to boot with, I'll continue to have a blast tomorrow for some sub 9.5 runs. I also have a pair of reasonably speedy reapers which should help at a higher divider.
(nice colour fluid btw )

Hey, MCH not over 1.62 will be good till 5Ghz, now PLL is another story. So you forgot your Asus yet?!

Great results bud It does take a LOT of time and cod weather to get to sub 9.7s on Spi1m, very nice and continue to push and have fun with this extraordinary board

I'll take the MCH hint on board, thanks for that
I noticed a lot of your stable runs are with really low vtt which seems to be where I fall down - I need 1.34 to keep 500x9 stable, and have gone to around 1.5v for 550+.

Totally forgot my 'Arseus' - it's packed away in a bow as new, ready to be sold. I'm holding out for a bit longer as I want make sure I still have a half-decent backup if I blow this board up, as the only other alternative is a P5N32-E SLI

I've still a few things to do before I go for a run that I would consider my best attempt..
I need to lap my cpu for starters - the surface is VERY uneven. There's about 35-40% of one side that barely comes into contact with a thin layer of paste, so I have to put plenty on at the moment.
Next is to get mosfet blocks (any suggestions welcome), and maybe put in a 2nd loop to keep the CPU cooled seperately.

Finally, thanks for all the feedback - all good fun!

[In-Fluence]

Just got 4th place in wprime 32

http://hwbot.org/listResults.do?cpuM...true&limit=100

[radaja]

In-Fluence,congrats man.so many possibilities,and so many records to be broken.keep pushin!!!!