Q9450 System - See Any Problems?. This forum rocks. I've learned more here in the week or so I've been puttering around than I did in the previous 2-3 weeks of frustration... And I think I've got my system. Any problems? I'll be re-using the following - DVD...

not found any which apply directly to your problem of the downclocking. The 266MHz. FSB is default for a 65nm CPU. I don't know. I have the same CPU as you on an ASUS X38. I originally had an e8400 and dropped in a Q9450. There were problems. The Q9450...

have always had plenty of problems with any asus build... heard the striker extremes are good... but thats too much money for my blood. Anyway... the x38 will give better memory performance vs the 780i... and will be more stable with that 45 nm q9450 the...

Weird Q9450 problem. I noticed lately that my computer hasnt been running as fast as it used to, nothing with the hardware has changed. I went out and bought a WD raptor hard drive yesterday to see if the hard drive was the problem, it is faster with the raptor...

than the 2Ghz single core Turion 64 that I am using now! I'll wait for the next gen before upgrading from my Q9450 system which is only about 10 months old. That's smart. My i7 @ 3.5Ghz is not noticably faster than my Q9450 @ 3.4Ghz. From an E8600 @ 4.8...

only ONE HD4890 and CF if you really need too.... What RES are you using OP ? I use both ati and nvidia cards also. Thats why I am glad core i7 opened up the options abit more. Have a q9450 system running 4870 crossfire and my main rig is core i7 with...

GHz. I can boot at 3.8 GHz. but it's not stable. And like MaDMagik said, google for a Gigabyte P45 OC guide. I just restarted my comp and went into bios and looked at my configs for you. I have a Q9450 on a X38-DS4 so our systems are pretty similar. If...

the current system, video card, etc. So... Which one should I get? I'm leaning toward the Q9450 because of concerns about heat issues w/ the QX9650 coupled w/ the fact that it is reported as a non-standard CPU w/ possible problems. I don't need/want problems....

in Administrator. Not sure where to go from here; any ideas? I upgraded from e8400 to q9450 earlier this year and experienced some unexpected problems. My q9450 was not recognized correctly in Device manager for example. A reinstall of Vista 64 OS fixed all...

around 7.5 +/- .1 - i5-750 stock, 5770 GPU 1 Patriot Torqx 128 Gig in laptop = 7.4 I'm running a 300 GB Velociraptor and 150 GB Raptor. My Windows Index for them is 5.9 on a system with Q9450 (OC to 3.4GHz), 8GB Corsair Dominator, GeForce 8800GT My...