Asus p5q-e and Q9550

sybaris · 30 Jun 2010 at 15:43

Getting my Asus P5Q-E and Q9550

Has anyone got these combinations and what settings are you running your motherboard at?

Am also going to put in 2x2gb Kingston DDR2

sybaris · 30 Jun 2010 at 17:34

Will be getting 1066Mhz Ram and yes I would like to overclock it

sybaris · 30 Jun 2010 at 21:13

Thanks for that.

I have no idea how to work out memory timings and voltages.
I can follow the multiplier to up the CPU frequency but thats as far as my tech skills go. How do you people know what settings to change and what to change them to? Its a mystery to me.

sybaris · 1 Jul 2010 at 08:39

Thanks for your help.
Will probably buid over the weekend.

If I reached a stable system on these settings, what do I need to change to push it up to 4ghz?

sybaris · 1 Jul 2010 at 19:08

wow 4.2 that is inspiring.
Have ordered my 4gb kingston hyper x 1066 and megahalems cooler today.

sybaris · 3 Jul 2010 at 12:20

Id stick with my q9550 and asus p5q-e if i could get the thing to power on

sybaris · 13 Jul 2010 at 23:52

finally got the rig working

Upped fsb to 411
NB Voltage to 1.26
SB Voltage to 1.10
PCIE SATA 1.5
DRAM Voltage 2.2 (Kingston Hyper 2 x 2GB 1066)
FSB Term 1.2

CPU and PCIE Spread Spectrum - Disabled

Getting the following temps

On Load on Idle
Core 1 51 max 38 max
Core 2 40 max 35 max
Core 3 42 max 38 max
Core 4 47 max 38 max

Running Q9550, ASUS P5Q-E, Megahalems air cooler, Corsiar TX 750 PSU

I did change the DRAM frequency to 1069 (there is no 1066. there is a 1006 though)
and manually set the timings to 7-7-7-20 as per the sticker on the RAM

When I pushed the FSB up to about 470, I found that win 7 pro 64 threw a wobbly when booting and kept trying to run a repair. Dropped the FSB back to 411 and all was ok.

Can anyone advise pls?

sybaris · 14 Jul 2010 at 15:02

yep Kingston timings are as per sticker.
Seems pretty quick though in practice. Not that I wouldnt knock a faster rig.

Will try those settings.
Any idea why Win 7 goes nuts at a higher FSB setting?

sybaris · 14 Jul 2010 at 16:12

CHecked Kingstons site and can change timimg to 5 5 5 15 ... set to auto for now
Anyway. With a multiplier at 8.5
I get BSOD when changing FSB to 447 (3.82Ghz)
So far seems stable at 435 (3.71Ghz)

Any ideas how I can push to nearer 4Ghz without BSOD?
CPU voltage is at 1.31250

sybaris · 15 Jul 2010 at 09:18

Am I being daft here
Is Vcore the same as CPU Voltage?

sybaris · 15 Jul 2010 at 13:00

ok thanks for that, will ammend sig.
Am stable again at 3.6GHZ and going to start to knock the FSB up in increments of 5s
When I get to an unstable setting I will notch up the Vcore a little at a time.

sybaris · 15 Jul 2010 at 15:22

ok to get to 8.5x435 I have pushed Vcore up to 1.36250. I seem to be ok so far at 3.7Ghz

I did try to up fsb to 8.5x445 to get to 3.8Ghz but something odd happened.
I can boot to win7 on my SSD and it runs stable.
However if I boot to win7 on my Hard Drive, windows either stops responding and BSODS or BSODS on boot up.
Any other ideas?
Also in what increments should i push up Vcore?

sybaris · 16 Jul 2010 at 10:55

I see you are at 1.072v
mine reads 0.99 yet I had set Vcore to 1.36250 in Bios.
Which of these are correct. The bios or CPU-z?
I think I may need to up it still a little.
Would 1.4v fry my chip?

sybaris · 16 Jul 2010 at 16:01

Well i tried pushing vcore up to 1.4 but windows kept BSODing
Upped DRAM voltage to 2.3 but this made no differnce.
so dropped vcore back to 1.38
adn DRAM V to 2.2
also dropped fsb by one so instrad of 3.71Ghz I am at 3.70Ghz.

and all seems fairly stable so far

sybaris · 16 Jul 2010 at 23:28

Thanks pastymuncher.

will try over the weekend.

sybaris · 17 Jul 2010 at 13:38

Have upped NB voltage to 1.4
So far so good
Now do I stick at 3.7Ghz or shall I push it further?

Ohhhh I have been bitten by the overclocking bug.

sybaris · 18 Jul 2010 at 20:35

wow Pastymuncher you are absolutely right about the NB voltage.
so far still stable at 3.7Ghz.

Had got hold of an SSD so had a little "fun" when changing to AHCI.
Mobo got a bit upset and needed to tweak a little more.

Damn I can't stop adjusting things. Its almost an obsession now

sybaris · 19 Jul 2010 at 08:07

I know the bios has a mb temp sensor under tools. Not got any other mb testing apps yet. Still new to this.
But getting stable 3.7Ghz at 40*C

sybaris · 19 Jul 2010 at 15:49

lol fancy CPUs.

I remeber my trusty old 286 and my first actually purchased CPU a grand 486 DX 33. I bet most of you don't remember them. You'd laugh today at a 33Mhz CPU.

sybaris · 19 Jul 2010 at 23:53

Yep I remember the P75. Thinking who would want one of them.

I think for a while I am going to sit at 3.7Ghz. Should speed up championship manager a little though.

Will post my settings later this week and maybe it will help someone else out.