Q9650 Overclocking And Feedback Thread

[trt740]

Well whilst the Biostar looks like a fantastic deal I have decided to save myself the price of DDR2 memory as I already have the DDR3 from my 790i ultra so whilst that is being RMA's I think I am going for the Asus PQ3T i45 Deluxe, hopefully I will be up and running by the middle of next week so I can test this damn chip, just hope these PQ's overclock as well as the reviews say they do.

thats a nice board.

 

[dark2099]

Well whilst the Biostar looks like a fantastic deal I have decided to save myself the price of DDR2 memory as I already have the DDR3 from my 790i ultra so whilst that is being RMA's I think I am going for the Asus PQ3T i45 Deluxe, hopefully I will be up and running by the middle of next week so I can test this damn chip, just hope these PQ's overclock as well as the reviews say they do.

Do you mean the ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe?

 

[Tatty_Two]

Do you mean the ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe?

I amended my origional post.....but yes although I thought it was T not 3.....the DDR3 version anyways......any good?

 

[dark2099]

It is improving, fitseries3 is better with the board than I am. Took us a while to figure out the board prefers DDR2 speeds and latencies (1200+, 5-5-5-15) more than DDR3 speeds and latencies, but with the newest BIOS fit has had some success running the ram running faster. Course if you browsed the XS thread on the board, there are people who might say its the best board out there (dunno how true that is, but there are people who have done much better than him and I).

 

[Tatty_Two]

OK, finally got the P5Q3 installed so here is a first screenie of the Q9650 all at stock, I have not updated the BIOS yet so it dont know the chip, much of realtemps etc does not support it yet I think as cores 0 and 1 show accurate readouts but 2 and 3 are way off!

More to follow, just have the added disadvantage of trying to get used to a new mobo before I can really get into some clocking.....damn and I thought my 790i had some overclocking options

 

[Tatty_Two]

Just flashed the BIOS to 1402...damn this board is strange, it defaults my memory on both of the BIOS's I have tried to 5-5-5-15 @ 1.5V.........instead of 7-7-7-20 @ 1.8V, if I increase the voltage manually to anything beyond 1.68V (afetr that 1.7V turns yellow to indicate your on tricky ground) she will just BSOD on windows startup, if I can get the memory sorted, gonna kind of make it difficult to overclock this muvvaa!

 

[Fitseries3]

it's easy as pie once you figure it out.

what settings are you using?

 

[Tatty_Two]

it's easy as pie once you figure it out.

what settings are you using?

Absoulutely no idea, just stock (auto) with a couple of adjustments so everything on auto, except I have raised my DDR volts to 1.68V as I said, manually set CPU divider at 9, manually set FSB to 333, manually set the 4 main DRAM timings to correct value, manually set NB strap to ram at 333 thats about it, all else on auto......I see that pewrformance thingy stocks at 5, reading over in XS, the lower it is the better performance but when ovrclocking it may need to go as high as 12? If I go manual and set it at anything over the 5 I got BSOD on windows startup.........................help!

Edit:....you like the stock 1.184V at it's stock 3gig speed?..........she will boot to windows on 1.16V!!!

 

[Fitseries3]

what memory you using? whats the best speed you found they run at?

DO NOT set the strap to anything other than auto. you WILL have problems 99% of the time. also... dont manually set the PL in the bios.

after you tell me the memory stuff i can pretty much tell you approximately what settings you need.

 

[Tatty_Two]

what memory you using? whats the best speed you found they run at?

DO NOT set the strap to anything other than auto. you WILL have problems 99% of the time. also... dont manually set the PL in the bios.

after you tell me the memory stuff i can pretty much tell you approximately what settings you need.

If you are talking what do they like before this board came along, the can do 1800mhz but they are comfy at 1600 at 7-7-7-20 2T all else on auto, in here, havent tried yet, I'll go have a play and be back later!

 

[Fitseries3]

Overclocker Tuner: Manual
CPU Ratio Setting: 10.0
FSB Frequency: 450
PCIE Frequency: 100
FSB Strap To North Bridge: AUTO
DRAM Frequency: ~14XX - 16XX
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel A1: Auto
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel A2: Auto
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel B1: Auto
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel B2: Auto
DRAM Timing Control: Manual
CAS Latency: 7
DRAM RAS to CAS Delay: 7
DRAM RAS Precharge: 6
DRAM RAS Activate to Precharge: 18
RAS TO RAS Delay: Auto
Row Refresh Cycle Time: AUTO
Write Recovery Time: Auto
Read To Precharge Time: Auto
DRAM Static Read Control: Disabled
DRAM Dynamic Write Control: Disabled
DRAM Read Training: Disabled
DRAM Write Training: Disabled
MEM OC Charger: ENABLED
Ai Clock Twister: Ligther
AI Transaction Booster: AUTO

CPU Voltage: 1.4365v
CPU GTL Voltage Reference (0/2): Auto
CPU GTL Voltage Reference (1/3): Auto
CPU PLL Voltage: 1.54-1.6
FSB Termination Voltage: 1.36-1.4
DRAM Voltage: 1.9-1.96
NB Voltage: 1.4-1.5
NB GTL Voltage: Auto
SB Voltage: 1.2
PCIE SATA Voltage: 1.5
Load-Line Calibration: Enabled
CPU Spread Spectrum: Disabled
PCIE Spread Spectrum: Disabled
CPU Clock Skew: AUTO
NB Clock Skew: AUTO

 

[Tatty_Two]

your an absolute star!...I'll give them a try thank you.

 

[erocker]

You may need a little more FSB Termination Voltage than fitseries running a quad.

 

[Fitseries3]

that was with a quad.

 

[Tatty_Two]

Those settings didnt work, although I reduced the multi to 9 as thats mine but still put the FSB on 450 to give me 4gig....i will keep on playing, it's more than likely that I just need to fine tune one of them.......Fit do you know if that quad was a Kentsfield or Yorkfield?

 

[Fitseries3]

the qx9650 i had. those settings worked fine.

 

[Tatty_Two]

OK, have been playing a bit, not pushed too hard....Fit I gotta say you were dead on....shit this memory compatibility really sucks, tried everything just to get her to boot at 400FSB....3.6gig and nothing, as soon as I lowered my mem speed down to ridiculously slow levels....well here you are! Ignore voltages, just set it a bit higher than I thought I would need...........by the way, EVERYTHING is auto/default here apart from memory, no added volts to anything.

Will keep on playing, if this is the best that it's fickle memory controller can produce then when the 790i gets back, it's going straight in!.....more to come hopefully.........

 

[nflesher87]

installing mine in a bit tat, will see if we can collaborate at all

 

[Tatty_Two]

installing mine in a bit tat, will see if we can collaborate at all

In my case it's this new "stand in board"....not the chip

 

[Tatty_Two]

OK, here is just over 4gig at 450fsb.......looaadsss of headroom on volts and temps, again it may well do this on less volts, I just banged it up to make sure, still the memory is a HUGE problem so having to run it slow and loose, tweaking of that will come later, I am not going to try 4.2gig just yet as I want to do some tweaking and some priming first......more tomorrow!

Fit, these are mostly your settings, damn I have only had this board in for just over 24hrs and I so cant wait for my 790i Ultra to come back!!

 

[nflesher87]

OK, here is just over 4gig at 450fsb.......looaadsss of headroom on volts and temps, again it may well do this on less volts, I just banged it up to make sure, still the memory is a HUGE problem so having to run it slow and loose, tweaking of that will come later, I am not going to try 4.2gig just yet as I want to do some tweaking and some priming first......more tomorrow!

yay

 

[Tatty_Two]

yay

Nate, with the right board this chip is just sooooo easy man.....enjoy!

 

[Fitseries3]

it's all in the memory man. the right set of memory can make the P5Q3 a badass board and the wrong set can make it look like a total POS.

my crucial ballistix 1600mhz kit runs like total crap but my set of gskill HZ's 1600mhz kit in insane.

 

[Tatty_Two]

Lol, ran prime cpu and memory stress, lasted 17 seconds! even with the memory so slow and loose it dont wanna know at 4 gig, now stressing just the cpu in prime and not touching the memory ran for an hour with no errors, gotta spend more time on these memory settings tomorrow.....thanks for your help thus far......more tomorrow.

 

[Fitseries3]

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.