OC'ing QX9650

[Toxcity]

Super Prime is a program that stresses the CPU to 100%(Dual Core). IF it isn't stable it will crash/BSOD and so on.

Can be found here.

Run two to get to 100% CPU usage,

[pegasus_ted]

well ive got wprime v1.62 but couldnt run 2 but it worked 4 threads at a time and i ran the 1024 and got a time of 372.5 secs...

and just ran 32 and got 11.797 secs...

That any good?

[Bungral]

Originally Posted by name='pegasus_ted'

well ive got wprime v1.62 but couldnt run 2 but it worked 4 threads at a time and i ran the 1024 and got a time of 372.5 secs...

and just ran 32 and got 11.797 secs...

That any good?

Yes 11.797 is very good.... What speed you got that running at now and what voltage?

[Bungral]

Originally Posted by name='Toxcity'

Super Prime is a program that stresses the CPU to 100%(Dual Core). IF it isn't stable it will crash/BSOD and so on.

Can be found here.

Run two to get to 100% CPU usage,

Tox man, where you been hiding... Just use Prime 95. It will have all four cores crunching away with just the one instance of the program running.

[Rastalovich]

Originally Posted by name='The Computer Council'

We were overclocking one of these to 4Ghz recently. We struggled to get it stable at first (400 x10) until we realised it was one of the worst Extreme chips we had seen in a long time - needed alot of voltage! We changed it for another in the end to keep the temps down (even on a w/c system).

Hopefully you have a good chip, do you know what your chips VID is (its native automatic voltage)?

I`m pretty sure my first increase in volts is beween 3.8 & 4, probably more towards 4. VID is 1.2xx something. I know 4.2 took another step-up in volts again.

[Emexrulsier]

Originally Posted by name='pegasus_ted'

i managed so far to get to 11 x 350 but going over that and bsod boo hoo but my 3d mark gone up by 1097 to 18211 hehehe

Good to know the GX2 aint as fast as 8800GTX SLI

I have virtually the same spec as you but 8800GTXs and im getting about 19600 so far in 3dmark and that was either running the QX at 3.4 or 3.6 cant remember now.

[Toxcity]

Originally Posted by name='Emexrulsier'

Good to know the GX2 aint as fast as 8800GTX SLI

I have virtually the same spec as you but 8800GTXs and im getting about 19600 so far in 3dmark and that was either running the QX at 3.4 or 3.6 cant remember now.

Does depend on what system you are running.

[pegasus_ted]

i dont know if im allowed to pt links in a post like this but in answer to emexrulsier's comment about the 9800gx2 and his cards in sli if he looks at this page (in specific) at the 3dmark '06 scores i think he might be suprised as to how triple sli only just gets higher scores never mind dual cards in sli

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews.p...gb_en9800gx2/4

and at the highest res the gx2 overtakes the tri-sli rig so im not sure if his comment is valid or not

plus this is not on as good chip and stuff

any comments that can help me on this???

[pegasus_ted]

just another noob question from me. sorry. i noticed that when i up my fsb that has a direct relation to my ram speed. Does having faster ram enable you to clock your processor higher opr am i completely mistaken???

ie im on ddr2@667 at the moment, if i upgrade to ddr3 would that make it possible to clock higher than im getting at the minute.

im only getting to 11x335fsb before it bsod on me. i had it at 10x350fsb as well but higher and bsod. could this be due to the ram speed???

thanks for the help

[Bungral]

It could definitely be the ram limiting you.. Especially being value ram and being 4 x 1gb sticks will also make life more difficult. Even some higher speed DDR2 wouldn't go a miss and wouldn't break the bank either.