I literally just overclocked my new QX9770 to 3.8GHz by only changing the multiplier, I even left voltage on auto (I know I know, I monitored it though and it hardly budged). When I went for 4.0GHz then I had stability issues, some manualy tweaking to the voltage has the beast going again. I may try to push it further later tonight. So far thoroughly impressed by this chip, unlocked multipliers rule.
Actually, I am using a Hyper 212 with dual 2000RPM (push+pull) and AC MX-2. This thing is getting to these high clock speeds under 1.4v. I'm going to try to 4.2 or even 4.4. We'll see, I have confidence it would be stable, I just don't know how much more voltage I'm gonna need.
Good job man. I've got my QX9650 clocked at 4Ghz using the Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme, and under 100% load this baby still struggles to get higher than 60C.
Good job man. I've got my QX9650 clocked at 4Ghz using the Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme, and under 100% load this baby still struggles to get higher than 60C.
raynimrod
The highest I've seen this is 63C when I was stress testing. So yeah, that sounds about right when we compare where my cooler stands to yours.
Nice, i cant wait to get my i7 920 d0 soon. Also got a rampage II extreme coming soon....hoping to hit atleast 4ghz.
beefdog
What, you're selling 955? Shame... Anyway, I don't see why you spent money on that quad when you could have acomplished the same with Q9300. QX9750 is not a beast, it is overpriced because of it's unlocked multiplier and higher frequency so it looks like a beast in price. Why didn't you just get an I7 975? You could get a new mobo and overall it would be the same price, except that 975 would destroy that CPU. But i heard you have connections at Intel, though, so it makes sense to grab anything you can no matter how much it costs ;)
Nice, i cant wait to get my i7 920 d0 soon. Also got a rampage II extreme coming soon....hoping to hit atleast 4ghz.
beefdog
With a good cooler you can get to 4 with Phenom II also. I got it up to 4.01 with some dirt cheap Cooler Master. Imagine what you could do with your. Of course, anything over 3.8 is unreachable without a little more voltage.
That's not that amazing. If you can get it up to 4.4ghz and still have it running cool, that'll be pretty decent.
Manly-manly-man
Well, yeah, I was just amazed at the fact I was able to get it to 4.0GHz withouth putting any effort into it. It was way too easy. I'm going to try for 4.2 or 4.4 later. [QUOTE="Slig0"]
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Nice, i cant wait to get my i7 920 d0 soon. Also got a rampage II extreme coming soon....hoping to hit atleast 4ghz.
What, you're selling 955? Shame... Anyway, I don't see why you spent money on that quad when you could have acomplished the same with Q9300. QX9750 is not a beast, it is overpriced because of it's unlocked multiplier and higher frequency so it looks like a beast in price. Why didn't you just get an I7 975? You could get a new mobo and overall it would be the same price, except that 975 would destroy that CPU. But i heard you have connections at Intel, though, so it makes sense to grab anything you can no matter how much it costs ;)
Yeah, I wouldn't have bought QX9770 over an i7. I got this baby for free (connections indeed) I couldn't imagine paying $1000 for this thing. The Q9300 was a decent little chip, that's what I was using before, I had it overclocked to 3.34 but I needed a whole 1.4v to do it on a weak little 7.5 multiplier. We're talkiing a lot of fine tuning to just about every BIOS setting to get that Q9300 to 3.34GHz, so that fact that this thing is at 4GHz and all I did was touch voltage (and I'm using less too) is impressive.
Now do the right thing and lower the multi 1 notch below stock and clock the FSB to some insane level. Even if you only make it back to the stock overall clock speed it'll be faster than with a multi increase.
Now do the right thing and lower the multi 1 notch below stock and clock the FSB to some insane level. Even if you only make it back to the stock overall clock speed it'll be faster than with a multi increase.
I think I'll keep my chipset working at an easy 400MHz FSB. I was already stressing it with my old chip at 444MHz with extra voltage on just about everything.
Nice, i cant wait to get my i7 920 d0 soon. Also got a rampage II extreme coming soon....hoping to hit atleast 4ghz.
Slig0
What, you're selling 955? Shame... Anyway, I don't see why you spent money on that quad when you could have acomplished the same with Q9300. QX9750 is not a beast, it is overpriced because of it's unlocked multiplier and higher frequency so it looks like a beast in price. Why didn't you just get an I7 975? You could get a new mobo and overall it would be the same price, except that 975 would destroy that CPU. But i heard you have connections at Intel, though, so it makes sense to grab anything you can no matter how much it costs ;)
No not selling it, just putting it into a different computer. I got the i7 and rampage II combo for like $400....and with me doing hd videos on youtube now makes it worth it for the rendering power.
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