Q9650 Overclocking And Feedback Thread

[Tatty_Two]

try running your ram under or around 1200mhz with 5-5-5-20 timings. use 1.8v all the time unless you need to tighten the timings a bit more.

As a matter of interest, I have my 2 sticks in the orange slots because the manual said they were better for overclocking, as I aint even overclocking the memory yet, do you think I might get more stability putting them in the other slots?.....might give it a try anyways.

 

[Fitseries3]

mine seem to work better in the orange slots yes.

like i have said to a few other people with the p5q3...

it's all in the ram. this board hates some ram and loves others. it's just a matter of finding a pair it likes. my gskill HZ's are GREAT on this board but my crucial ballistix wont clock worth a F*&^ on this board at all.

 

[Fitseries3]

my board is in a good mood tonight so far...... P5Q3 is not a POS...

4.6ghz with memory 1:1 @ 1840mhz on air.

 

[Tatty_Two]

mine seem to work better in the orange slots yes.

like i have said to a few other people with the p5q3...

it's all in the ram. this board hates some ram and loves others. it's just a matter of finding a pair it likes. my gskill HZ's are GREAT on this board but my crucial ballistix wont clock worth a F*&^ on this board at all.

I hear what you are saying but reading through other forums, it does not seem that others have had any particular difficulty with mine, I might however see how much yours costs over here and get some, sell mine but if I do so I might be causeing myself some future problems when my 790i ultra comes back as it really likes my OCZ, I have managed a stable 1850mhz out of them at 7-7-7-20 and mine are only 1333 stock, I would hate to get yours, sell mine, get the 790i back and find it doesent like the new stuff, unless of course I sell the brand spanking new 790i but I would only want to do that if this board sorts itself out, I would guess that this board, memory issues aside would probably quad overclock as well as a 790....what you think? On a duellie I could get 605fsb with the 790 but only briefly used a quad on it.

Ohhhh and nice memory clocks by the way! maybe I will buy some of yours!

Is this them?.................

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-026-GS&utm_source=froogle

 

[Fitseries3]

yup thats them.

from my experience.... 790i is not as easy to OC as an intel chipset. i cant promise anything though.

phillbrown has the same OCZ kit you have and he cant get them to clock that well on any board.

TBH... if you can get a set of D9JNL chipped sticks it would be even better. i can almost guaranty that the D9JNL's will do 2000mhz or better on both the p45 and 790i.

 

[Tatty_Two]

Sod it, I bought the HZ's....they will arrive tomorrrow! Will Sell the OCZ's and the brand new 790i Ultra if I can get this board stable now......I really like it, just this memory thing.

 

[PaulieG]

Sod it, I bought the HZ's....they will arrive tomorrrow! Will Sell the OCZ's and the brand new 790i Ultra if I can get this board stable now......I really like it, just this memory thing.

Yeah, that's the downside of the p45 chipset. It hates highly clocked memory. I went through 2 p45's, and have gone back to p35/x38 just because of this. I had a set of Ballistix that would do almost 1200mhz on a Blood Iron, but couldn't get it stable at 1066 on either p45 board.

 

[Tatty_Two]

Yeah, that's the downside of the p45 chipset. It hates highly clocked memory. I went through 2 p45's, and have gone back to p35/x38 just because of this. I had a set of Ballistix that would do almost 1200mhz on a Blood Iron, but couldn't get it stable at 1066 on either p45 board.

yeah, I think with the P5Q3 DDR3 boards, it's the fact that they will do high overclocks (hence Fit's clocks above) but sadly on very few brands/models of memory, short of gaining intelligence from other users, the only way to get there is to keep buying and trying which aint good, Fit's now seem to be sorted, I can get very high CPU overclocks with the board but sadly unstable purely due to the memory issues, if these GSkill sticks give me that stability I really do think I can get the chip to 4.2gig prime stable cause if I just stress the CPU in prime it passes no trouble, as soon as I do one of the joint CPU/Ram stress tests.......death!

 

[Fitseries3]

like i said though... i cant 100% for sure say that your troubles are over. i know the D9JNL's are 100% compatible with p45 and they seem to be able to hit 2400mhz most of the time.

 

[Tatty_Two]

like i said though... i cant 100% for sure say that your troubles are over. i know the D9JNL's are 100% compatible with p45 and they seem to be able to hit 2400mhz most of the time.

No I understand that, dont worry, I wont hold you to ransome if they dont improve stability! if they dont, I will probably keep the 790i when it comes back from RMA and if the HZ's work well with it then keep them and sell the OCZ's and the P5Q3.

 

[dark2099]

The HZ's that fit are using are a pair I sent him, I have 2, and he has been able to get them to clock far better than the set I am using. The P45 chipset I think still has alot of work to be done on it.

 

[Fitseries3]

The HZ's that fit are using are a pair I sent him, I have 2, and he has been able to get them to clock far better than the set I am using. The P45 chipset I think still has alot of work to be done on it.

but im keeping them

you can have my crucials.

 

[Tatty_Two]

The HZ's that fit are using are a pair I sent him, I have 2, and he has been able to get them to clock far better than the set I am using. The P45 chipset I think still has alot of work to be done on it.

Yeah, but thing is, even if I set my OCZ's at just 1066 with loose timings, I have no stability whatsoever, I cannot even play any game at any setting with or without the CPU overclocked.....there is absolutely nothing there to play with, I have tried loads of diferent settings, have even played with all the sub timings but nothing, so if the HZ's just gave me stability at lower speeds it would at least mean I have a system that can play a game/bench!....little point in me getting this Q9650 to 4.2gig ig I cant do anything with it because of cr*p memory! At this very moment in time, I would be happy with say 1333mhz 7-7-18 with stability...... it seems my OCZ's cant give me that, at least the two of you have stability with the HZ's.

 

[Fitseries3]

oh you'll get that for sure.

i was just toying around last night and somehow got 5ghz/2000mhz to boot to windows. thats true 1:1. 10x 500 with the e8600.

 

[Tatty_Two]

oh you'll get that for sure.

i was just toying around last night and somehow got 5ghz/2000mhz to boot to windows. thats true 1:1. 10x 500 with the e8600.

So you just manually set the voltage and the main timings and leave all else to auto?

 

[Fitseries3]

nah...

10x460
fsb strap = auto
all mem clock skews on auto
dram freq = 1841mhz
8-8-8-20
PL = 9

vcore = 1.3625v
gtl 0/2 = auto
gtl 1/3 = auto
pll = 1.54v
term = 1.36v
dram = 1.94v
NB = 1.46v
nb gtl = auto
SB = 1.4v
pcie sata = 1.6v

loadline = enabled

thats for 4.6ghz stable on the e8600

 

[Tatty_Two]

Yay! I have total system stability............now wait for it, in order to get that, I cannot set my memory voltage for higher than 1.8V, I must put all timings on auto and I cannot go any faster than 1000mhz and the timings I get at 1000mhz are the dizzy heights of 6-6-6-18 @ 2T but it's Orthos stable for 2 hours and damn, this chip at 4gig being stressed NEVER goes above 47C on any core! Those GSkill have surely gotta give me a bit more than that ffs.

 

[Tatty_Two]

OK, now I have some stability, albeit with me memory working like a snail, lets see what this chip can do on some decent air, lets start tonight with 4.275gig again overvolted a bit to be safe, will test in prime before I try to move up the scale a bit, again ignore the 3rd and 4th core temps, realtemps cant read them yet on the E0 steppings.........

 

[Tatty_Two]

Sod it, couldnt resist, last for today, I am starting to like this board, if the GSkill memory sorts my memory issues then this is really gonna be flyin.....................

Edit: Just ran 2 instances of Orthos, both Blend and small FFT for half an hour (appreciate this does not make it long term stable)just to make sure she didnt crap out on me straight away, she got upto a fairly toasty 78C but remained stable, this is probably my max speed for benching unless I manage to drop volts by a bit.

 

[Tatty_Two]

Thanks Fit, got the GSkill today, put them in tonight, have not pushed them yet but already they are running fine at 1600mhz 1:1 I owe ya one! I now have speed and stability!

 

[Tatty_Two]

CPU death run on air....too scared to go any higher might have to go for water!

 

[nflesher87]

how do you do it Tat?! I'm stuck at 3.888, albeit amazingly stable with just ~1.25V but I couldn't get it to post with anything greater than I believe 440 FSB

 

[Tatty_Two]

how do you do it Tat?! I'm stuck at 3.888, albeit amazingly stable with just ~1.25V but I couldn't get it to post with anything greater than I believe 440 FSB

Dont know really, we have different boards, am just trying to see if I can get 500fsb.....is your board x38? some of those struggle to get beyond about 460 with a quad but you should be getting more than that, you sure you dont kneed serious NB voltage or something? I assume a BIOS has been released for your board that supports the 9650?

 

[nflesher87]

Dont know really, we have different boards, am just trying to see if I can get 500fsb.....is your board x38? some of those struggle to get beyong about 460 with a wuad but you should be getting more than that, you sure you dont kneed serios NB voltage or something? I assume a BIOS has been released for your board that supports the 9650?

funny thing is I'm already using serious NB voltage so all I can assume is it's a board limitation...which I honestly was not expecting to find with the maximus...and yes it is X38 but I have it flashed to the most current Rampage BIOS

 

[Tatty_Two]

funny thing is I'm already using serious NB voltage so all I can assume is it's a board limitation...which I honestly was not expecting to find with the maximus...and yes it is X38 but I have it flashed to the most current Rampage BIOS

May I suggest then, just for the hell of it, setting NB on auto, then give it a try.