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n°1757421
05-17-2008 at 04:01:43 AM

I just bought a Q9450, just curious to see what some people out there have OC'd it to? And what their system specs are?

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halcyon
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n°1757425
05-17-2008 at 04:15:45 AM

3.4Ghz so far, hoping to take it a little further with better RAM.


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n°1757458
05-17-2008 at 11:27:55 AM

jcorqian - what are your stock temps? I just bought mine today also and i put it in my ds3l rev2.0 mobo and my temps seem pretty high with my Noctua NH-U12P.

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n°1757462
05-17-2008 at 12:46:02 PM

Are you using RealTemp? If not, try it: http://www.techpowerup.com/downloa [...] p_2.5.html


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n°1757479
05-17-2008 at 05:37:15 PM

I won't have my parts for my build yet until next Tuesday, so I couldn't tell you sorry.

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n°1757482
05-17-2008 at 06:16:42 PM

yea im using real temp

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n°1757488
05-17-2008 at 07:17:48 PM

I just put my tuniq tower on it to see the difference between the two

halcyon
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n°1757505
05-17-2008 at 09:54:57 PM

Mesh, I've been through the frustration myself. The warmest core on my 9450 chooses to idle @ 46-50C and the coolest 39-44C ...under load the warmest core will hit 66-67C in a ~24C room. I've tried 3 different coolers and 5 applications of AS5. I'm not a rocket scientist but I'm not quite retarded either.

 

I've read that the DTS sensors on the 9450's are funky and show inaccurate idle temps.

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n°1757588
05-18-2008 at 07:25:41 AM

halcyon wrote :

Mesh, I've been through the frustration myself. The warmest core on my 9450 chooses to idle @ 46-50C and the coolest 39-44C ...under load the warmest core will hit 66-67C in a ~24C room. I've tried 3 different coolers and 5 applications of AS5. I'm not a rocket scientist but I'm not quite retarded either.

I've read that the DTS sensors on the 9450's are funky and show inaccurate idle temps.




How funny. Just as im reading through several posts regarding the inaccuracy of these 9450 sensors I come back and read your post. Well, this is most disappointing because it makes it rather difficult to OC / bench. Hmm.. Im curious what Intel has to say about it. I just bought my processor at Fry's this Friday so im still able to exchange it. Did you hold on to your 9450?

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n°1757606
05-18-2008 at 01:52:40 PM

Yeah, I did. Using RealTemp it says the DTS sensor shows 28-30C delta to TjMax (the maximum temperature for the processor). I do believe that's close to accurate giving the research I've done. 45nm chip's sensors, as you may have read, become much more inaccurate as the temperature is loaded since that's what the temperature sensors are designed for.

 

The sensors are not designed to show idle temps, they're designed to tell the processor at what point to throttle back due to excess temperatures. Via reverse calculations are beloved software tries to determine what the idle temperature is (of course ambient temperature calibrations are required for true accuracy). This can all only be accurate if TjMax value is known (and other factors), but since Intel doesn't release that data for its desktop processors its guess-work. It is widely thought that the TjMax value for the 45nm Wolfdales and Yorkfields is 95C...but noone knows for sure.


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n°1758162
05-22-2008 at 05:52:13 PM

Those temps match what I'm seeing. I have mine running at 3.2Ghz and the warmest core hits 65C under load, using the tuniq tower with the fan turned most of the way down.

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n°1758262
05-23-2008 at 02:25:58 AM

3.6 45c load, watercooled on a rampage formula 450x8.


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n°1758302
05-23-2008 at 12:01:16 PM

Yeah, I might have do some H20 at some point. I'm truly less than a noob @ that!!!!


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n°1758371
05-24-2008 at 02:59:32 AM

the h20 220 compact is a great starter kit, and should be more than adiquit for those who dont want to deal with a big bulky air cooler. people told me i would not be satisfied with a kit from swiftech or anywhere, they were totally wrong, i love it, and it was a lot easier than starting from scratch.

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n°1758411
05-24-2008 at 07:27:42 PM

nman729 wrote :

the h20 220 compact is a great starter kit, and should be more than adiquit for those who dont want to deal with a big bulky air cooler. people told me i would not be satisfied with a kit from swiftech or anywhere, they were totally wrong, i love it, and it was a lot easier than starting from scratch.



I was just looking at that kit yesterday in MicroCenter. So, you're recommend it to someone that's never done liquid b4?


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05-24-2008 at 11:09:56 PM