Q9650 Overclocking And Feedback Thread

[Tatty_One]

Originally Posted by voxhel

I have set FSB freq to 483 = 4105.5Mhz with Dram freq to 1453Mhz but i have Down with VCore to 1.4v. but maked gtl 0= 0.680 gtl 1=0.700.

Orthos runs CPU only for 15 mts and stoped.

temps 64-60-57-57

GTL ref ( 1.40*8.5=11.9 ???) what´s it used for? how?

Put it back the GTL refs back to auto then try that, if still not stable, increase NB by one increment, I think also with 1.4V that may be the cause, the longer the CPU is loaded under orthos, the greater the Vdroop becomes until perhaps it spikes at the point there is not enough voltage to maintain the load.....put it back to 1.425V!!! after all, you are not going to be running 24/7 at that speed, that should be your benching speed, for 24/7 speed find your may speed on say 1.35V and use that.

[kiddyoverclocker93]

i returned my striker ii extreme back and i have the asus rampage extreme now!!!x48 chipset...
my rams are :4 x 1gb crosshair 1600 mhz ddr3 7-7-7-20 1.8v..

any recommendations for o/c???

[Tatty_One]

Originally Posted by kiddyoverclocker93

i returned my striker ii extreme back and i have the asus rampage extreme now!!!x48 chipset...
my rams are :4 x 1gb crosshair 1600 mhz ddr3 7-7-7-20 1.8v..

any recommendations for o/c???

You need to go to a thread about overclocking your motherboard before you get into the specifics of the Q9650, I am only helping Voxhel because he has the same motherboard and RAM as me, you need to get to the bottom of your board first that is the main obsticle.

[kiddyoverclocker93]

but the thread's title isverclocking q9650 :s:S

[Tatty_One]

Originally Posted by kiddyoverclocker93

but the thread's title isverclocking q9650 :s:S

Yes but in order for you to overclock, you have to know your boards limitations, if you dont know your motherboard, you cannot overclock your Q9650........whats your batch No, pack date and Vid of that chip?

I could say to you, these chips tend to perform best at the 9x multi and you should be able to run at 4gig on 1.26V 24/7, that is worthless if you dont know how to set a voltage or FSB in your motherboards BIOS? (because I dont as I do not have your board) All I am saying is, learn a little about your board, whether it likes your memory and what settings work best, then post your BIOS options and stock settings then we can do a little work, I need to know for example, if I suggest to do something, that you actually know how to do it on your board.....does that make sense?

[kiddyoverclocker93]

ok thanks man..how can i find the batch number?

[warhammer]

TATTY no XFX 790 mobo ?

[Tatty_One]

Originally Posted by warhammer

TATTY no XFX 790 mobo ?

No, corrupt BIOS, RMA'd it, got a brand new replacement and sold it, got the Anus P5Q3 now instead.

[Tatty_One]

Originally Posted by kiddyoverclocker93

ok thanks man..how can i find the batch number?

On the box, you will find the pack date there also. The Vid can be found in Realtemps/coretemps.

[kiddyoverclocker93]

i'm running on 3.6 ghz 7 hours stable with prime95...voltage 1.32 v (450x8) and 1801 mhz ram(from 1600)...my vid number is:1.2500
but i can't get it stable at 3.8 ghz..i used more voltage(1.35v)with no luck..i wanna tweak the nb voltage..can anyone suggest some voltages for the nb and cpu pll?

[Tatty_One]

Originally Posted by kiddyoverclocker93

i'm running on 3.6 ghz 7 hours stable with prime95...voltage 1.32 v (450x8) and 1801 mhz ram(from 1600)...my vid number is:1.2500
but i can't get it stable at 3.8 ghz..i used more voltage(1.35v)with no luck..i wanna tweak the nb voltage..can anyone suggest some voltages for the nb and cpu pll?

Unfortunatly, thats about your motherboard and not the chip, your CPU voltage is already much too high, you have the same Vid as me, I run 24/7 on 1.26V @ 4gig so as I said earlier, you need to work on your motherboard first, what is a good NB setting on your board for the chip to run stabily at 4gig is different to what I will need on a different board........I can try to help but as I said, not knowing you board makes it difficult, if you want to list your current settings for 3.6gig like Voxhel and I have done earlier then I might be able to help and suggest some tweaks.

[kiddyoverclocker93]

ok i'll post later some bios settings..i'm playing a little with the nb voltage now...

[kiddyoverclocker93]

ok here are two pics with my o/c...
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[Tatty_One]

Originally Posted by kiddyoverclocker93

ok here are two pics with my o/c...
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I need your BIOS settings, how high are you now, you should be able to acheive around 4.5gig on air.

[kiddyoverclocker93]

cpu voltage:1.3
nb voltage:1.49
nb GTL voltage:+40mV
dram voltage:1.86
4.5??are you crazy??with air???

[Tatty_One]

Originally Posted by kiddyoverclocker93

cpu voltage:1.3
nb voltage:1.49
nb GTL voltage:+40mV
dram voltage:1.86
4.5??are you crazy??with air???

I can actually boot to windows at 4.6gig but it is totally unstable, and yes, on air! Look a couple of pages back in this thread.

Can I have your full BIOS, I need ram and all the other, rather than list it, can you take a picture of the actual screen in the BIOS on startup?

[kiddyoverclocker93]

A friend of mine told me that if i give more voltage than 1.3v there's a big risk of degrade...
anyway..here are some pics from bios...






i tried at 4.3ghz but my rams can't get higher than 1865mhz..how can i set my rams go to 1865 mhz without lowering the FSB?
now i'm testing 4.2

[Tatty_One]

Originally Posted by kiddyoverclocker93

A friend of mine told me that if i give more voltage than 1.3v there's a big risk of degrade...
anyway..here are some pics from bios...






i tried at 4.3ghz but my rams can't get higher than 1865mhz..how can i set my rams go to 1865 mhz without lowering the FSB?
now i'm testing 4.2

Again your asking questions about your motherboard options and not the chip....which is why I said, you must learn your motherboard first! There will be an option where you can set your memory divider top lower the speed, let me have a look at your pics and I will get back to you. 1.4v is the commonly recommended max 24/7 for a 45nm chip to avoid electronic degredation, you can do short benches at higher though.

OK, just looked, just go to DRAM frequency and hit enter, you will get divider options to run at a slower speed.

[kiddyoverclocker93]

i tried that...but the higher frequency after 1865 is 1580
is too low!!!

[kiddyoverclocker93]

can you recommend me some voltages to go up to 4.5 ghz stable?

Are you sure i can go to 4v?the highest voltage intel recommends is 1.3625...and my temperatures will be up to 70 C

[Tatty_One]

Originally Posted by kiddyoverclocker93

can you recommend me some voltages to go up to 4.5 ghz stable?

Are you sure i can go to 4v?the highest voltage intel recommends is 1.3625...and my temperatures will be up to 70 C

In that case no then, what cooling you using? and yes you can got to 1.4v but like I said, I run 24/7 at 4gig ay 1.26V..... and if you dont wanna put a ram divider in, then you arent going any higher unless you get some better ram, use the divider and tighten your timings, at the moment I am running at 1700mhz at 6-6-6-18.

[kiddyoverclocker93]

1.26 at 4 gig??i wanna a pic with prime95 showing 5 hours of benchmarking and a cpuz pic...

[Tatty_One]

Originally Posted by kiddyoverclocker93

1.26 at 4 gig??i wanna a pic with prime95 showing 5 hours of benchmarking and a cpuz pic...

Well that will take 5 hours then, just check 2 pages back at my looped 2006 run at 4.4gig and check the voltages there, it's 1020pm here now but tomorrow night when I get home I will humour you and then post.

[Tatty_One]

There ya go, I did a quick run before bed, I have had to resize the image to fit the 190kb limit, speedstep is on hence Orthos reporting the slower speed, you will see that the FSB is correct though and realtemps shows the correct speed, also you can match the times in realtemps with the times in Orthos, voltage set in BIOS at 1.26v, under load it obviously went up by the 0.04v!!

I'll put puter on when I get home tomorrow and do a full run for you Ohhhh and that was with my central heating on so ambients around 23C.

[kiddyoverclocker93]

ok man i believe you!!!i need 1.3v to boot at 4 ghz stable..maybe the reason are the 4 gigs of ram??(4 x1gb?)