Q9450 Overclock Problem?

g4m3rof1337

g4m3rof1337

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So I decided to work on my overclock on my Q9450. I clocked it to 1650 (which was like 3.2 or so) and set the CPU core to 1.42. Everything seemed stable. Ran about 40 minutes of Prime/SmallFFT and it kept saying "Self-test 10K passed!". I even played some BC2 and no problem occurred. I shut down, went to bed, then woke up today to a stuck BIOS boot screen. The screen that shows the system info, hard drives, ect, then it boots up. Well, it wouldn't show any of the information. I reset the BIOS and it worked, so I assumed it was an overclock issue.


I'm going to up the voltage a little and see if that does anything.




Thanks.
 
Check your memory settings, make sure you manually set speed, timings and voltage. If you can set overclocking to unlinked you can keep your ram at stock speeds (for now) and focus on the CPU first.
 
linkin said:
Check your memory settings, make sure you manually set speed, timings and voltage. If you can set overclocking to unlinked you can keep your ram at stock speeds (for now) and focus on the CPU first.
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Yeah, I changed the memory to unlinked. What do you mean by for now? Like if I want to up my clock higher?



How would I find out the settings I need to change for my ram? I've had it for awhile, so I doubt I'll find the info page. Perhaps a program instead?
 
If you look on the sticks themselves it should list speed, voltage and timings. That a DDR2 or DDR3 board? I think its DDR3 so try 1600mhz/9-9-9-34/1.65v and if its DDR2 try 800mhz/5-5-5-18/1.8v
 
Do I have to do this? Or only if I want to clock higher than 3.3?

Anyways, I upped my voltage to 1.4375 (I believe.. or around there. :P), then I ran Prime/SmallFFT for an hour and 50 minutes with no errors or warnings. I actually forgot it was running, lol.
 
Well you don't have to, some boards are really finnicky about RAM settings... my P5N-E was. But I've never had a 750i
 
I woke up today and had to reset my BIOS, lol. Perhaps it's a RAM setting? I mean close to two hours of Prime should render it stable, right?
 
Yes it should. Are you running 2x2GB or 4x1GB? Whith my 650i board it absolutely hated 4x1GB and refused to POST most of the time... I eventually went with 2x2GB and all my problems disappeared.
 
Yeah you would. Try those settings along with unlinked mode and see how far you can go with that.
 
Alright man, sounds good. I take it these settings are fairly easy to find? I've never looked for them before.



Also, thanks! You've been a great help!
 
No worries! The timings will be in chipset options, speed and voltage in your regular overclocking settings.
 
So my clocks still aren't working. I bootup every morning and it stops before the info screen loads and says something like 'memory testing'. I haven't updated my BIOS in some time, so I might as well try that.. but I'm also considering just not turning my computer off. :P
 
I just updated my BIOS and tried setting the voltage to the low 1.4 range, at around 1700/1750, so 3.4 and 3.5, and every time I saved and quit, a quiet high pitched noise came on and it wouldn't boot.

I'm also wondering, do I need to change any other voltages besides the CPU?
 
I actually fixed it. Well, fix is the wrong word, I solved it, lol. I had to boot up all the way after flashing the board, then restart and overclock. I'm actually holding a 3.40 overclock, that appears to be stable. I forgot to run Prime, but I was gaming for a few hours last night. I then booted up this morning, and it worked just fine.
 
Well, i'd leave it where it is as every time i fiddled with my p5n-e something wouldn't work right >.<
 
linkin said:
If you look on the sticks themselves it should list speed, voltage and timings. That a DDR2 or DDR3 board? I think its DDR3 so try 1600mhz/9-9-9-34/1.65v and if its DDR2 try 800mhz/5-5-5-18/1.8v
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Eh, Don't you mean 9-9-9-24?
The DDR2 one seems OK
 
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