Retail Q9650 Overclocking Thread

[Q6600]

You could very well be right since its x38 and all of us with q9650 or the extreme version used p45 ud3p motherboards to achieve great clocks. But honestly you really should go to p 45 if your having trouble with 425 fsb or greater . My qx9650 which I sold for its full retail cost because of what it could do, used ud3p mobo and could do 530 fsb with low termination and low volts ran very cool maybe you should consider it.

I tried to buy the ga-ep45t-ud3p p45 ddr3 mobo but it is discontinued! i heard that gigabyte will bring out new p45 ddr3 mobo in q2 2011

question: which is the best for OC the q9650? p45 under ddr2 or ddr3?

[X4er0]

Well i jumped on the bandwagon and my batch is L037B486 with VID 1.30000.

I clocked it stable on 4050MHz, 60 degrees on load, cooling is a lapped TRUE 120.

Gonna go for 42xxish for 24/7 and than i'm a happy boy!!!

edit: nope, my ram is the limiting factor, on 460 it crashed and it isn't the power, i even tried 2.0Volt on my RAM and no difference. So now it is 4050MHz, well it does 57Gflops in IBT on 4050MHz, i see people with 4200MHz and they have 58Gflops.