BSOD's Overclocking QX9650

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luckystar

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Hello everyone,

I have been trying to overclock my lovely new QX9650 and i keep getting BSODs when i overclock 3.5 or above.

I have set the voltages which have been set as high as 1.27365 (i think it was, it was the lowest setting for 1.27. I have set the PLL and VTT. i have set the ram timings loose as well as setting the voltage for the ram. I have also turned off things like speedstep and C1E. Nothing helps.

I have used multipliers 9.0, 9.5, 10.0, 10.5 and 11.0.

I have had different FSBs, some of which would not allow the BIOS to POST.

For ref. The BSODs i have had are, 0x01E and 0x07E and i have also had the ones where something was terminated or did not load into the CPU.

The BSODs will stop as soon as i reset the clocks back to stock and all will be ok again. I have also ran Intel Burn Test with 10 tests and all passed with flying colours (Funny thing though, the time it took for one test to complete was getting on for 500 sec's and to me, thats not good as my old Q9300 which was oc'd to 3.0ghz took exactly the same amount of time).

Can anyone please point me in the right direction or tell me where i am going wrong. I don't really want to raise the voltages anymore as the temps were already being read as 39 degrees c when set to the voltage stated above but if i do then please say how far i should go, i don't want to fry my little QX. i only had it a couple of weeks.

Thanks in advance
 

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Hello luckystar,
I think this will help.
If you temps are going high it may be an idea to upgrade your CPU cooler, you don't say which type of cooler you have, so I'm assuming it is stock.
I would say your CPU Voltage is not high enough.

CPU.JPG

Let me know what type of CPU cooler you have, my temps never go above 50C under load they are in the high 40C, the Max operating temp for the Cpu is 64.5C. (check my specs for my cooler). Mine is OCed to 3.9 GHz with no issues.

CPU 2.JPG

Hope this helps, good luck and post your results.
 

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Hey buddie,
Are you running on stock cooling or some special cooling?:huh:
Oh yes, and try increasing the voltage if you have a good cooler and
your temps are fine... and there is a max limit i think which u cannot go
above in the processors, but actually the barrier is 4GHz at which i am
stuck and not able to overclock to even 4.05Ghz and it goes BSOD then...
Anyway try it and if any further problem occurs post back :D
 

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Ops sorry i forgot to say one more thing, Try keeping your multiplier the highest and your FSB will have to be a bit lower than with lower multiplier to achieve the aim OC.
 

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you also have to be prepared for the fact that you may have just got a poor OCer.....:(, no matter how many different voltage combination's you throw at her the clocks just wont climb.

my Q9450 is like that, 10mhz above 3.6ghz & i'll be getting intermittent BSODs

you could push a little more VCORE through it, but not too much...... for 24/7 use we wanna keep the voltage as low as possible.
 

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luckystar said:
Hello everyone,

I have been trying to overclock my lovely new QX9650 and i keep getting BSODs when i overclock 3.5 or above.

I have set the voltages which have been set as high as 1.27365 (i think it was, it was the lowest setting for 1.27. I have set the PLL and VTT. i have set the ram timings loose as well as setting the voltage for the ram. I have also turned off things like speedstep and C1E. Nothing helps.

I have used multipliers 9.0, 9.5, 10.0, 10.5 and 11.0.

I have had different FSBs, some of which would not allow the BIOS to POST.

For ref. The BSODs i have had are, 0x01E and 0x07E and i have also had the ones where something was terminated or did not load into the CPU.

The BSODs will stop as soon as i reset the clocks back to stock and all will be ok again. I have also ran Intel Burn Test with 10 tests and all passed with flying colours (Funny thing though, the time it took for one test to complete was getting on for 500 sec's and to me, thats not good as my old Q9300 which was oc'd to 3.0ghz took exactly the same amount of time).

Can anyone please point me in the right direction or tell me where i am going wrong. I don't really want to raise the voltages anymore as the temps were already being read as 39 degrees c when set to the voltage stated above but if i do then please say how far i should go, i don't want to fry my little QX. i only had it a couple of weeks.

Thanks in advance
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You DO use the Load Line Calibration for this processor right?

I have just a Q9550 E0 stepped at 4.037 Ghz @ 8.5x multiplier with vcore of 1.3 and WithoutVdroop enabled (same as Load Line Calibration, just EVGA's term)all on a 1900 fsb.

My fsb at 1.325, my PLL at 1.5 (lowest) SPP at 1.47 and my MCP at 1.6.

You SHOULD be able to hit with those settings (maybe higher vcore because yours is a C-step revision, as E0's overclock alot better but are not available with QX processors.).
 

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