Quick Q9550 Question.

[one-shot]

I have a Gigabyte DS3L with a 4-pin cpu plug on the board. I am running an E6750 @ 3.7Ghz and I'm selling it to buy a Q9550. Will I be able to overclock the Q9550 to around the same clocks with the 4-pin? Or would I have to get a new board and use the 8-pin connector on my PSU? Anyone have any experience with this?

 

[JDocs]

A better question would be can you overclock the chip(chip / motherboard limitations) itself to that point. Some good news though is that the Q9550 is a 5 IPC chip while the E6750 is a 4 IPC chip. In *theory* at 3.2ghz the Q9550 should be faster per core.

 

[one-shot]

Hopefully I'll get the EO stepping of the chip. I'm confident in my overclocking. My board is running at a 8*463Mhz FSB right now. I hope I can get around there with a quad. My main concern is the CPU getting enough current(Amps) out of the 4-pin socket.

 

[rangersig]

I dont't think you will as long as the bios supports the chip and the board only requires a 4 pin plug. If it gets to the point where you think you will need a new board for a q9550 then you might as well upgrade to a core i7 system.

 

[richardscott]

if the q9550 needs to much power then you will have alot of vdroop but should not affect a mild oc, for a big oc then you run the risk of blowing a cappicitor. which is by by mobo cpu and gfx card and ram mabee