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Would this be considered acceptable for a Q6700 on standard cooling?

3250 mhz
FSB 325 mhz
bus 1300 mhz

All at stock voltage
 
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So 325 x 9 huh, ..just under 3GHz, .ye should be fine..
 
The board can either do it or it can't, nothing else for us to add really, but i read it's a kickass little board! Just watch those volts, and Northbridge temps get very hot. (highly recommend you put a 40mm or 60mm fan on the sink if you're gonna run it 24/7, especially in summer)

Hmm, I'd recommend 3rd party cooling, just grab a Cooler Master Hyper TX2, their cheap and run with the big boys.
 
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My Q9300 runs at 3.06GHz(idle temp 47C), FSB is at 408MHz and DRAM 1023MHz.

The ratio is 4:5 but If I decide to push things further I'm going to have to lower the ratio to 1:1... I don't know if my board could handle a 450-500MHz FSB :eek: the Q9300 can handle it though ;)
 
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Dobee said:
My Q9300 runs at 3.06GHz(idle temp 47C), FSB is at 408MHz and DRAM 1023MHz.

The ratio is 4:5 but If I decide to push things further I'm going to have to lower the ratio to 1:1... I don't know if my board could handle a 450-500MHz FSB :eek: the Q9300 can handle it though ;)
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Pardon my insolence but where does one set the ratio?
 
My Q9450 is occationally a bit dodgy with the 400FSB overclock (2.6Ghz @ 333 / 3.2Ghz @ 400), so I stopped it, but the chip is just so fast anyway - i barely notice.

I think the big problem is the limited board GA-P35-DS3L v2.0
Vcore small +.01V bump
MCH (Northbridge) +0.2V bump
FSB +0.2V bump

DDR2 +0.4V Bump (don't panic it's rated 2.2V max 2.3 so 1.8 +0.4 is only 2.2V minus Vdrop - which takes it to 2.14V @ the moment)

The system is stable for days, then suddenly hits a wobble. which is why I stopped for a bit, Overclocking isn't all that important with a chip this good......
But if I win the Wantitall compo, where I've put in a XFX 790i board, I think I'll have no problems OCing my chip.

Why am I writing all this, to answer the original question..... It depends more on your motherboard than what the chip can do - sure there's limits, but you must have a good board to reach those limits.
 
JUGGY said:
Pardon my insolence but where does one set the ratio?
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You can view your current FSB-DRAM ratio using CPU-Z under memory, I don't know about Gigabyte but with my Asus board I set a FSB frequency and calculate the DRAM ratio but the bios does this automatically...

So say I set my FSB at 400MHz then my DRAM frequency choice for a 1:1 ratio would be 800MHz.

Hope that's clear enough?...

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I set everything else to auto(timings, volts etc) and my system seems much more stable this way compared to when I entered these values manually, the timings are correctly detected so I see no reason to set it manually anyway.
 
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leelo said:
My Q9450 is occationally a bit dodgy with the 400FSB overclock (2.6Ghz @ 333 / 3.2Ghz @ 400), so I stopped it, but the chip is just so fast anyway - i barely notice.

I think the big problem is the limited board GA-P35-DS3L v2.0
Vcore small +.01V bump
MCH (Northbridge) +0.2V bump
FSB +0.2V bump

DDR2 +0.4V Bump (don't panic it's rated 2.2V max 2.3 so 1.8 +0.4 is only 2.2V minus Vdrop - which takes it to 2.14V @ the moment)

The system is stable for days, then suddenly hits a wobble. which is why I stopped for a bit, Overclocking isn't all that important with a chip this good......
But if I win the Wantitall compo, where I've put in a XFX 790i board, I think I'll have no problems OCing my chip.

Why am I writing all this, to answer the original question..... It depends more on your motherboard than what the chip can do - sure there's limits, but you must have a good board to reach those limits.
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Did you try further increasing the vcore a bit to keep it stable?
Either that or back it off just slightly and then run the stress tests?
What programs did you run to test the OC and for how long?
 
the q9300 on most mobo bottoms out on about 440fsb

that 7.5 multiplier is horrible

the most i have seen the q9300 do is 3.5ghz, will not go higher no matter what you do

i sold it and bought the q6600 rather, can get it to boot at 3.9ghz but my gigabyte mobo is limiting me, will see how my new asus mobo goes

you can have the best board money can buy with a q9300 and your going to be disappointed

leelo you should be able to hit 3.4ghz or more on that cpu, give it plenty voltage man :)

its near impossible to kill your cpu unless your crazy and putting your volts to like 1.8 or 2

also remember most board have a voltage drop, so 1.5v in the bios is not 1.5v but lower
 
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Killa - you can see why i didnt want that chip --- the q9450 SLAMS it...
I've seen guys break the 4Ghz barrier on the q9450 with Nvidia 790i boards.... thats just insane
 
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Killa - you can see why i didnt want that chip --- the q9450 SLAMS it...
I've seen guys break the 4Ghz barrier on the q9450 with Nvidia 790i boards.... thats just insane
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Is the q9450 worth the price difference?
 
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Is the q9450 worth the price difference?
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hmm, good question - but price difference between what? the Q9300 or the Q6600?

If Q9300 - I'd say yes - the Extra cache and multiplier make the price difference to the Q9450 worth the extra bang IMHO

If you're talking Q6600 - urm, tough call - 10% performance gain warrent the spend - sup to you to decide on that...
 
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