Q9650 volts

[DarkWhisper]

Whats the highest volt you can safely use on normal water cooling. ive got 4.1ghz running at 1.44 wont stay stable with anything lower run ibt and prime for 4 hours temps never went above 61c

 

[Yurihyuga]

1.45 volts is the highest recommended to go and also stated as long as temps are ok, that would mean water cooling since 1.45 on air would be in simple terms suicide.

1.36 is Intels recommended max voltage.

If the volts are lowered quite a bit to reach 4ghz I would go with that since that extra 100mhz just isn't worth it.

 

[DarkWhisper]

volts stable on 4ghz was 1.41

 

[Yurihyuga]

in that case won't make much difference to lower them so leave that up to you. Just wouldn't recommend going over 1.45 volts.

 

[pastymuncher]

You have hit your limit so you may as well be happy with what you have. 45nm cpu's do not like lots of voltage.

 

[Antx777]

Is that in the Bios or CPUZ etc?, as I'm on 4Ghz, but with 1.36 Volts (QX9650 mind

Bios is 1.46 (Asus Striker II Formula 1452 FSB and X11 Multiplier)

 

[Yurihyuga]

1.45 vcore in bios.

 

[DarkWhisper]

1.48 bios. 1.448 cpu-z

 

[Temi_D]

Those are some insane amounts of volts. I have the same chip and it does 4GHz on stock volts. Are you sure its not another setting other than the volts limiting your OC? What mobo/ram/settings are you using?