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3.2 to 3.6?

Nate Silvers

Nate Silvers

Nate Silvers

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Does anyone know how to get from 3.2 to 3.6 on a Q9450 and Asus Rampage Formula motherboard? :confused: (see image)

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What RAM do you have? Currently its at 800mhz and timings of 5-5-5-15. If those are indeed the stock timings, then it may be difficult to get it any further without having very loose timings.

Also put a picture of the voltages screen up.
 
Yeh that'll be fine for the job. Itll just be a case of increasing the FSB frequency and adjusting CPU/chipset voltages then.
 
Thanks for helping me ghost101

I increased the FSB to 450 and the RAM to 1064 and got a divider of 5:3 (or is that ratio?). I got the BSOD when I tried to encode a video. Do I need to increase voltages? Is 5:3 bad
 
Keep the divider 1:1 for now. Find a stable cpu overclock first. Make sure the RAM voltage is set at 2.1v as well.

I assume that the cpu voltage is currently at stock? You will probably have to increase the cpu voltage to get it stable at 3.6ghz.

Whats the cpu voltage currently set at?
 
CPU = 1.240V
RAM = 2.1v

What next bill gates and btw nice monitor you got there I have that 1 too I like it better than the expensive 2408WFP
 
Well, up the cpu voltage to 1.300v and see if its stable. If not keep going until it is. I dont have your motherboard and so don't know if you have to increase the fsb voltage for 450mhz, but I doubt you do.

If the voltage (or temps) is too high for your liking, you can reduce the clockspeed and voltage accordingly.

Also the monitor isn't very good :p. My old 22" samsung has much better colours imo. The 2408WFP with its S-PVA screen would be better I would have though?
 
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Nate Silvers said:
Okay I'll give it a go and how do I keep the ratio at 1:1 because it changes all the time when I increase the FSB
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Not sure. Manually set the FSB strap perhaps.

edit: When you change the fsb frequency, doesn't the bios tell you what the new dram frequency will be? Just make sure thats 900mhz.
 
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Not sure. Manually set the FSB strap perhaps.
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This. Hit enter while the ddr2 speed is highlighted, and pick the number equal to double your fsb. Check occasionally, it might change to a different strap. Your ram is good all the way up to and past 4ghz, so it isn't going to be limiting.

Have you read through the basic guides? The ones that go + a bit on fsb, stress test, more voltage if it fails. Stop when too hot or voltage passes 1.3625.
That strategy will get you quite a long way
 
So I should set the FSB to 450 and RAM to 900Mhz and that will give 1:1 ratio. I havn't read the guides but I spent hours getting to 3.2Ghz with the lowest volts I could and stress testing with prime. I'll give this a go and up the voltage, stop at 1.3625 yeah? I'll try and get a bit below that just to be on safe side
 
Reset the cmos. Check that you're saving your settings in the bios. I think the bios not saving settings is a fairly standard problem, but I'm unsure as to the solution. If my P5Q fails to post, on the second try it runs on default settings. This may be what has happened.

1.3625 because it is the largest vid intel will ship a chip at, therefore implied to be the highest voltage they can tolerate without violating intel's spec.

You should not set the fsb to 450, not one of the basic guides will consider 50 fsb to be a small increase. 5 is more reasonable, and I tend to go up 1 at a time when its being difficult.

Go and read a few guides on it. The one here is old but the techniques haven't changed. Then come back, and it'll be a hell of a lot easier to explain to you whats going wrong. Most likely you haven't set your ram voltage to the specified, and its bsod because it wont run 900mhz at 1.8V.

But this isn't the point, stop increasing vcore when it isnt the cause of the instability, and dont jump up 50fsb at a time because you wont have a hope in hell of guessing whats become unstable. You need to be patient with this or it just doesnt work
 
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