Decided to start pushing the FSB on my Q8400.. this is what I got so far

[Ket]

Not too shabby at all IMO. I don't like my bandwidth results one bit. For some reason my memory won't even clock to 1140MHz without a ton of errors, which is bloody annoying. I'll have to play around with timings a lot more and switch DIMM slots, see if that helps. Because of the divider I'm having to use, thats why my PL setting is so rubbish. Once I can iron the kinks out I'll be able to get down to PL 8 or 9, still not fantastic, but acceptable.

[Ket]

Small update.. 481MHz FSB and counting



ED - 7*500. Next stop.. 515FSB.

[chenxuwen]

Not too shabby at all IMO. I don't like my bandwidth results one bit. For some reason my memory won't even clock to 1140MHz without a ton of errors, which is bloody annoying. I'll have to play around with timings a lot more and switch DIMM slots, see if that helps. Because of the divider I'm having to use, thats why my PL setting is so rubbish. Once I can iron the kinks out I'll be able to get down to PL 8 or 9, still not fantastic, but acceptable.

Is it prime 95 stable in this setting?

[GrossmeisterB]

C2D != C2Q!! Getting >500FSB on Quad is far more difficult than getting that on a dualcore!!

[WaterFlex]

Ket
Good job, mate

[Leeghoofd]

Not very good latency there...

[Mr.Pink]

[chenxuwen]

C2D != C2Q!! Getting >500FSB on Quad is far more difficult than getting that on a dualcore!!

I know. I tried and failed.
This is a problem on P45, or just a problem on P5Q series?

[thebluemeanie1]

I know. I tried and failed.
This is a problem on P45, or just a problem on P5Q series?

It's pretty much that way regardless of motherboard. Even if you disable 2 cores on the quads they won't get anywhere near the FSB of the duals.

[zsamz_]

I know. I tried and failed.
This is a problem on P45, or just a problem on P5Q series?

you people need to try the ud3r or ud3p
even a n00b can do 500fsb on them boards
for a dual dfi is best but quads ud3X series is a must

[Zucker2k]

you people need to try the ud3r or ud3p
even a n00b can do 500fsb on them boards
for a dual dfi is best but quads ud3X series is a must

Preach on, brother!

[radaja]

well i never thought id see the day
zsamz you've come a long way in a very short
time,regarding gigabyte.it one thing to give it
a second chance,but promoting it?you sir are
a good man.

[zsamz_]

well i never thought id see the day
zsamz you've come a long way in a very short
time,regarding gigabyte.it one thing to give it
a second chance,but promoting it?you sir are
a good man.

i always say the thruth
even if i step on toes
btw since i have primed my quad @ 4.35 with my ud3r its just been sittin there just waiting till i play with it again
long live the rampage extreme

[chenxuwen]

i always say the thruth
even if i step on toes
btw since i have primed my quad @ 4.35 with my ud3r its just been sittin there just waiting till i play with it again
long live the rampage extreme

So anyone knows Gigabyte's secrect? We can try and do a bios mod on ASUS P5Q series.

[zsamz_]

So anyone knows Gigabyte's secrect? We can try and do a bios mod on ASUS P5Q series.

you can try
i'm sure its not the xtra copper
cant be compared to asus to be honest

[Brian MP5T]

I just built a system for a friend for the first time with this CPU. I'm pretty used to overclocking the E8500 so without hesitation on the initial boot I set the clock from 333 to 400. Never had any problems.

So from 1333 FSB to 1600. about 120% I suppose...

His Mobo is an ASUS P5Q3 with 1600 DDR3.

I'll see about 466 as the next jump...