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wdebow   08-10-2009 at 07:42:49 PM

I've upped my q9550 to 3.4 by only upping the fsb to 400. I'm new at this, and very conservative, don't want to do something foolish.

But, what is a reasonable target to shoot for? I'm very stable at 3.4 and cpu only running 36 degrees at idle. (Coolermaster v8 cooler) seems to handle any heat well.

Thanks,

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freezed1   08-10-2009 at 07:49:31 PM

Hi, welcome to the forums. 3.4 is perfect =], i am running mine at 3.8 but don't see any point rather than faster benchmarks. gl

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Bronze Overclocking badge overshocked   08-10-2009 at 08:08:22 PM

Yep you wont see much performance past 3.4 unless you are running crysis maxed out.

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conheomap2003   08-13-2009 at 11:46:59 PM

wdebow,

How's your load temp? Mine @ 4.0 idling 41C, but at load 64C~ (hottest core)

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grieve   08-14-2009 at 12:14:03 AM

Need to know the load temps.. idle means nothing.

I would settle for 3.4 as well there is little gain for the added heat past 3.2

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conheomap2003   08-14-2009 at 12:22:56 AM

I do video encoding. You think it would help?

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freezed1   08-14-2009 at 12:28:39 AM

I agree with grieve, the heat increases exponentially not linearly as you increase voltages and clocks. As again anything above 3.4-3.6 will not be any any use and think about how much wasted power you will be creating.

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cjl   08-14-2009 at 01:05:53 AM

What I usually do is find the point where you have to start increasing the voltage drastically for higher clocks, and use that as a daily use speed. My i7 for example does not run at the 4.2GHz in my sig most of the time (though I do crank it up there for benchmarking, CPU-limited gaming [FSX], and MATLAB and solidworks from time to time). Instead, most of the time, it runs at 3.73GHz, since I've found that it can run 3.73 at basically stock voltage (1.223v, according to CPU-Z), but anything more and you start needing significantly more voltage, and the power and heat start climbing much faster once you are past that point. It'll be different in every CPU, but it's not too difficult to find - just overclock with the voltage set to 1.25 or so, and see where you hit the limit. Once you are at the limit, back off just a hair (50-100MHz) and see how low you can get the voltage. Once that is done, that is where I would keep mine for daily use.


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