why don't u try running prime95 to test its stability. we all hope we can achieve the lowest vcore with stability. it's not necessary to pump vcore excessively, coz it will shorten your cpu's life.

u can fry an egg on your lappy mmm... fried eggs. but bro, i dun think u should let ur quadies run at that kind of load temp. really will shorten the life span

poor HSF/CPU contact maybe?

beats me on the GTL I also wanna know how it works. I will wait for your conclusive finding

did u mean yorkfield 45nm? conroe is dual core leh btw, loving the ballistix u sold me

This post has been edited by metsatsu: Sep 21 2008, 12:20 PM

by the way, what sort of idle and load temp ur getting?

shit that's damn LOW. ur in an air con room? Mine is idle at 54 and load at 68 bro

oh okie. u r just like cyclone bro who doesn't trust coretemp and realtemp

Q9450 @ 438 x 8 = 3500Ghz 1.22v primed 10 hours stable



This post has been edited by metsatsu: Oct 19 2008, 01:57 PM

No leh, i just simply bought this from pinpinmao. I think it's so so only ler. I tried pushing it to 3.6ghz. but can't seem to boot into windows at 1.29v. i didn't dare to put it over 1.3v, as my cooling is not so good and more over, i'm not in an air con room. tkh bro, how much vcore can u achieve if u do 3.5ghz? can u still remember?

hehe thanks bro. But I might upgrade to Q9550 soon. still finding out.

This post has been edited by metsatsu: Oct 19 2008, 09:51 PM

same goes for my Q9450, after tkh_1001 bro asked me to try pushing my Q9450 to 3.6ghz, so i thought i will give it a try.

currently doing 3.5ghz @ 1.22v happily
however if 3.6Ghz must raise all the way to 1.37v!! the temperature automatically shoot up by extra 9c overall!!

increase your fsb voltage a little and give it a go.

Oh and sorry that we have ignored ur question. No, definitely not ur psu. Not for ur corsair at least. Corsair 620w psu is currently the most reliable and stable efficiency psu in the market. Saw ur rig's specs, i would say is the proc's limitation as well as mobo's setting. Have u played with the rest of the setting?

This post has been edited by metsatsu: Oct 23 2008, 11:13 AM

so how about now? has changing your psu made any difference to oc'ing your Q9300?

u know i really wish that i can adjust the gtl value like u guys with the DFI mobo, coz in my gigabyte x38 bios. there isn't much on GTL to play with

Man that's a good vcore for 3.75ghz. Either it's a good chip or the mobo is doing the trick?

bro, how's the temperature like?

what cooler are u using for your Q9450 bro? Your Q9450 seems to be performing almost the same as my recently sold Q9450. mine did 3.5hz comfortably at approx 48c/65c idle/load with prime @ 1.225v.

woah, load at 80c with IBT, sheeeet... i dun even dare touch that temp region. nanti your chip kena fried instantly

the highest clock i ever managed to get was only 3.6ghz. but not bcoz the chip had reached its limit but i think it was due to my cooler and mobo. even at 3.6ghz was rather shaky. coz my idle temp was like 59c which was 10c more than my 3.5ghz idle temp. 1.325v was needed to bump it from 3.5ghz to 3.6ghz lol.

Look at my sig. That's my current vcore