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Recent content by funcantonguy73

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    I'm getting black screens and CPU fan goes berzerk???

    I've been pushing my Q9550 and finally got it to run 3.6 for a good while but lowered it to 3.4 since the difference between the 2 speeds is just not a big gain. But now at 3.4 I get random black screens and the cpu fan goes 100% crazy. Got to be a voltage issue and I'm guessing ram voltage...
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    Who's staying with skt 775?

    Now that I have this Q9550 E0 @ 3.6 I am very happy with the performance I'm getting from it. I will wait and see what Sandy Bridge has to offer but I'm going to stick with my upgrade rules that I laid out when I had my X2 4400 and 8800GTX 640 meg. When hardware exists to double both my CPU/GPU...
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    Q9550

    I'm running very stable at my current settings. Took me a long time to get to where I am. Upping the voltage was the only way to get anything more than 3.4 stable. I have my memory running 848 @ 2.1v and it's just purring away. I tried 3.8 but it wouldn't boot at the current voltages with that...
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    Q9550 to 1090t- time to switch?

    I've worked my way up to where I am now it's taken the past 8 months to get there little by little. I think it will do 3.8 at the current voltages but I haven't tried it yet. Running the full spectrum of stress tests and games at these settings once I"m confident then I'll try and get 3.8 out of...
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    Q9550 Finally reached 3,502 on a 1,648 fsb & 824mhz memory!!!!

    I tried 1066 OCZ Gold memory when I first built this system but the board hated it. Wouldn't even boot no matter what configuration I tried. So I took it back and got this stuff. Perhaps some 1066 memory of another manufacturer is what I should have tried but I just wanted to get the machine...
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    Q9550 Finally reached 3,502 on a 1,648 fsb & 824mhz memory!!!!

    After weeks of trying to get both CPU & Memory to OC nicely together I'm happy with what I've achieved. Till this point it would only do 3,400 1600 fsb @ 800mhz memory. I upped the cpu voltage to 1.3 and the OCZ memory to 2.18 and so far it's been rock solid. Posting the best benchmark and game...
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    GTX 470 or just hang tight?

    Considering a non reference cooler GTX 470 when they finally get them out. I really considered a move back to ATI 5850 but I'm going to stay with Nvidia. I figure for 350-375 the GTX 470 with a nice cooling system on it should allow for some good overclocking. I can't see any issues with HX620...
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    Finally got my Q9550 @ 3.6 !!!

    I'm running right now at 1.25v with a 2.00v memory voltage. E0 stepping here
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    Finally got my Q9550 @ 3.6 !!!

    After giving up and leaving it for a while I started tinkering again last night and voila it's so far stable at 3.6 with the memory @ 848. Running fantastic and passing all benchmarks/games with flying colors. Very happy with my setup now this has been my ultimate goal ever since building it...
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    Intel Burn Test 20 passes completed!!!

    I ran Prime 95 for 9 hours while I was at work yesterday, 10 passes of high stress Intel Burn and every single benchmark I have which is over 25 of them. Not single burp from it. Running fantastic and I'm happy with the results. Played Crysis for 2 hours this morning and it's just running as...
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    Intel Burn Test 20 passes completed!!!

    I started Prime 95 this morning when I left for work at 4:50am and it was purring right along when I got home at 2:15pm. Almost 9.5 hours and highest temperature recorded by Speedfan for CPU was 63C and the cores were 63/63/61/61 C and motherboard temperature highest was 100.4. Gonna put the...
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    Intel Burn Test 20 passes completed!!!

    I got my cpu to 3.4 which is great but I had to drop the memory back to 800 and up the voltage from 1.8 to 2.0 in order to get it to pass Intel Burn Test High. It made 5 successful passes with the core temps reporting 63/63/61/61 C. Very happy but I see of no way to get it to 3.6-3.8 and...
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    Intel Burn Test 20 passes completed!!!

    Hi guys sorry I haven't been back to respond to you all! I have tried so many different configurations of bus speed and memory and upping the cpu voltage and ram voltage it won't boot at anything past where I have it now. Nothing will boot. I have only taken the cpu voltage from 1.175 to 1.200...
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    Intel Burn Test 20 passes completed!!!

    Thank you to all of you who share your experiences with overclocking and cooling your hardware. I forgot to put up my temperatures during the Intel Burn Test. Highest temperature recorded from Core Temp was 58C.
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    Intel Burn Test 20 passes completed!!!

    Just would like to know if you guys feel that 20 passes of Intel Burn Test 2.4 would be enough to consider my overlock stable and pretty much bulletproof. I've run over 25 benchmarks at these settings and it hasn't given me any problems. I've had this current machine since July but just now got...
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