Advice on Setting up & overclocking a Q9650 to 4gb on a P5N-T Delux
Hey Guys,
Just got all my parts together and built my new PC (Got Board of the XBOX) and I have noticed a few odd things BUT with me being new to Vista thought it would be best to put a post up on here to let the experts
(Butt Kisser or WHAT) take a look and help me get the best out this rig:
CPU - Intel Quad Core 2 Q9650 3 Gig 1333 FSB (Running 1600 FSB for 3.6 Gig)
HS - ASUS Silent Knight II
MB - ASUS P5N-T Delux (Running 1306 BIOS)
RAM - OCZ Reaper DDR2 PC6400 X2 2 Gig Stick (Running 1066 Mhz)
GFX - Nvidia 8800 GT OC2 512 GDDR3 (stop gap card want the GTX285)
PSU - Hi Power 1000 Watt
Case - Cooler Master Cosmos S (With Side Window also X6 120mm Akasa Red Neon Fans)
SC - Onboard HD Audio (Sadly my XFI Extreme Gamer Card aint here yet Dam stockists)
HDD - 160GB IDE (Stop gap)
DVD - IDE DVDRW
LCD - ASUS 22" VH226 1080p Screen
SS - Logitech Z5500 5.1 (
WOW )
WC - Logitech Sphere Orbit AF
MS - Logitech MX Revalution
KB - Logitech G15
OS - Vista 32 Ultimate
Now I have the bios set up pretty much ok I THINK ... and my system is Very very stable, the ram is at 1066Mhz, FSB 1600 @ 3.6 GB X4 all ok for CPU
When I 1st built this rig I was using a ATI Radeon X850XT (barrowed) and everything was cool Bios showed I had 4 gig ram, windows also showed 4 gig BUT I no there is a limitation to 3 gig for 32 bit OS and my little App on my side bar showed this 3 gig and was idling around 800 to 1 gig with around 2 spare,
I flashed my bios to the 1402 bios and my system went lil nuts so I went back to 1306 and reset everything back up and thought whilst I was there I would slap in the nvidia card till I get my GTX285, my little app thing now shows 2557mb of ram ???? nothing I do changes this ???? any help appreciated
Thanks guys also smash away with the Q ill try answer them so you can get a clear picture
Daniel
Hey Guys,
Just got all my parts together and built my new PC (Got Board of the XBOX) and I have noticed a few odd things BUT with me being new to Vista thought it would be best to put a post up on here to let the experts

CPU - Intel Quad Core 2 Q9650 3 Gig 1333 FSB (Running 1600 FSB for 3.6 Gig)
HS - ASUS Silent Knight II
MB - ASUS P5N-T Delux (Running 1306 BIOS)
RAM - OCZ Reaper DDR2 PC6400 X2 2 Gig Stick (Running 1066 Mhz)
GFX - Nvidia 8800 GT OC2 512 GDDR3 (stop gap card want the GTX285)
PSU - Hi Power 1000 Watt
Case - Cooler Master Cosmos S (With Side Window also X6 120mm Akasa Red Neon Fans)
SC - Onboard HD Audio (Sadly my XFI Extreme Gamer Card aint here yet Dam stockists)
HDD - 160GB IDE (Stop gap)
DVD - IDE DVDRW
LCD - ASUS 22" VH226 1080p Screen
SS - Logitech Z5500 5.1 (

WC - Logitech Sphere Orbit AF
MS - Logitech MX Revalution
KB - Logitech G15
OS - Vista 32 Ultimate
Now I have the bios set up pretty much ok I THINK ... and my system is Very very stable, the ram is at 1066Mhz, FSB 1600 @ 3.6 GB X4 all ok for CPU
When I 1st built this rig I was using a ATI Radeon X850XT (barrowed) and everything was cool Bios showed I had 4 gig ram, windows also showed 4 gig BUT I no there is a limitation to 3 gig for 32 bit OS and my little App on my side bar showed this 3 gig and was idling around 800 to 1 gig with around 2 spare,
I flashed my bios to the 1402 bios and my system went lil nuts so I went back to 1306 and reset everything back up and thought whilst I was there I would slap in the nvidia card till I get my GTX285, my little app thing now shows 2557mb of ram ???? nothing I do changes this ???? any help appreciated
Thanks guys also smash away with the Q ill try answer them so you can get a clear picture

Daniel
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