Upgraded E6400 to Q9450 :D

[MilkyJoe]

hi, since upgrading to Q9450 i had another option in my gigabyte p965 bios appear which is called = Fine cpu clock ratio so i can now add 0.5 extra to my multiplyer so i actually now have a X 8.5 mutiplyer so instead of 2.66 ghz i get 2.83 ghz, so my question is why do i have this option now?

Edit i just realized that even thought it said in bios that the multiplyers at 8.5, its still at only 8 x but im still happy bc 2 running smooth and crysis 2 is a lot better

 

[Westie]

GPU u using?

 

[Avathar77]

Some gigabyte bios has this option(0.5 multi increments) but only for the CPUs that supports is. Q9450s max multi is 8 so you will not be able to go higher than this, but should be able to do 6.5, 7,5 etc giving you more FSB overclocking head room

 

[Justintime]

Trouble is on those cpus, for overclocking the low multiplier is the main issue so he'll never likely want to use a lower .5 multi

 

[synixx]

bc 2 running smooth and crysis 2 is a lot better

Yeah tell me about it bc2 runs terrible on dual cores! My friends and I often have lan parties and two of them have 8800gt's and one is running an e6400 @ 3.2ghz and the other a q6600 @ 3.2ghz and on the dual core it's a lag fest while on the q6600 it's perfectly smooth!

 

[MilkyJoe]

GPU u using?

I using a msi 5850 twin forzr II

 

[subbytna]

deffo still life in the core2quads

 

[jake9891]

That's why I am waiting with an upgrade. Currently have Q9550. Fitted new cooler yesterday and overclocking it while I write this. Aim is to have total of 1GHz overclock, so 3.83GHz.

Subytna I can see you have a very simillar PC to mine, our motherboards and cpus are the same.

Core 2 Quads won't be gone so soon!