Retail Q9650 Overclocking Thread

[In-Fluence]

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 meant to say this is happening during linx, and that CPU temps are hitting around 72-75°.... Any help here would be gratefully received.

@ Grisheko45

For 500x9 I used the following voltages:
vcore: 1.43125 (1.376)
mch core: 1.4 (may be able to lower)
VTT: 1.34
PLL: 1.5
CPU Reference: (one notch abover default - can't remember what this becomes)
NB Reference: Default
vDimm 1.9 (1.88)

All other voltages were left on auto.
Clock drive & skews & were set to 1000/1000/0/50 (drives may be able to go lower, but not tested) Skews were quite crucial to getting stable - make sure you try combinations to find your own best ones - for me, 100/150 worked just as well, and 150/150 seemed better for higher speeds - particularly for 540+ fsb.

I'll get around to posting a bunch of templates after I've found a few that work well for me - I've not really got any final stable settings finalised at the moment except this one, and I also have some xmas shopping to do so might be a day or so

@ E-Mil - congrats on your runs! You've only made me decide to get my reapers out later on! I see you got quite a bit faster than me at lower CPU MHz, I'll have to try some of these runs in safe mode - watch this space.