Recent content by Sir Ali

I will try running Prime @ everything stock (inc. RAM) after the P04 BIOS Flashing. Let's hope the processor is fine.

I'm running unlinked. I would have left the RAM @ 800 but my Vista rating is @ 5.8. Call me stupid but it does bother me not to get 5.9. :D

First of all, this is my first OC so bear with me. Q9450's are known to run at low voltage because the chip itself cannot take much. I also heard that either a high or low voltage can run you into stability issues. I flashed my BIOS to the P03 version when I saw now that there's a P04 out...

I don't think I'm gonna overclock it over 3.2GHz. It's fast enough now. So 1600 FSB is pretty reasonable. I will try it @ 1.2250v.

But I've seen other overclocks with that voltage (even less). Dunno about their stability though. I need to run it for 24h because this PC is gonna be used for work as well. I need to ensure that it's really stable. Does the RAM have anything to do with this error?

Hi, I have a Q9450 processor, EVGA 780i SLI motherboard and 8GB of OCZ Reaper HPC DDR-800 RAM. I overclocked my processor to 3.2GHz unlinked (1600FSB using a multiplier of 8). The RAM is overclocked to 900MHz with timings of 5-4-4-15/2T. Processor runs @ 1.3v Bios, 1.25v in HWMonitor...