How to overclock the QX9300 processor on the new M17x?

If you want to go up against your competition its the W90 and here is my Q9000 OC

2.85ghz

From W90 Benchmarks

Im looking for you guys to hit 2.7ghz atleast before I would be happy switching.

This is with the stock 6gb of DDR2 ram.

 

Thats nice.. I tried 1333 fsb (2.5ghz) but the system wouldnt even boot to bios screen.. I am sure its due to the vcore not changing.. all of that is locked out in the bios.. it even says, extreme not detected to unlock... it basically slaps u in the face.. lol

 

As you can see Cpu-Z says I get about 1.24v to my Q9000 compare it to that to see if its truly a voltage issue.

 

It's really 1.1:1 seeing as the RAM speeds are calculated by the FSB speed x2. That's close to 1:1, and even if it wasn't it's still acceptable. If it were something like 2:1 or 1:1.5, one bus would possibly bottleneck the other.

 

Okay. Thanks for the knowledge.

 

Last 3 versions of cpu-z read 3 different vcore in my actual laptop and u r comparing different versions .

 

on that note, if u (actually, i) end up not being able to boot at all coz of the OCing, where/how do you reset? on my desktop, it was easier to access the jumpers and change the frequency manually if my bios OC ended up not letting me boot. and, iirc, after 2 unsunccessful boots i'd get an initial screen message asking me if i wanted to reset my bios to default speeds. that was on 1.2 GHz AMD athlon thunderbird. but i saw that message just twice and ignored it (could've saved myself some trouble if i hadn't).

 

ok we need setfsb the creator hasn't got back to me !!!!!!!!


vicious we need u to help find it !!!!!!!!!!

my order is placed and i have info about the screen and stuff

 

He removed battery and CMOS battery.

BTW... U can probably ignore custom settings by starting it while pressing SHIFT (not sure if M17x have it but my past 6 computers have this option lol)

 

1440 res is not dual bulb 1900 res is

hard drive cage will be ready in a couple of weeks

wasn't the greatest but even dells tech support and team black hawk didn't know for sure about the screen

 

thanks bigx333, good to know. hope someone with an M17x can confirm the SHIFT func. otherwise that'll be one of my first questions here when i get it

 

Moo everyone does this to some extent.. yes yours may be worse... But do you guys realize when we read we don't really even look at all the letters, we read them in groups, sometimes it will cause us to read something wrong or such... there are many conditions like this, so it really isn't a big deal

 

BTW guys... when I overlock my Processor... is there a way to quickly underclock or overclock it with a key I have preset? I was told there were keys for that like on the Sager's

 

i know its not a big deal, i have been working on it the best i can. I know how hard it is to read so i switched to Firefox for spell check to fix that and I am just trying to fix grammer etc.

It's not a big deal i just have a issue with it on a large scale

 

Well you got our support man, I saw a psychatrist a while back for some depression and ever since I have been really interested with psychological conditions... I just though you might want to know the reason everyone has this problem to some extent is how we read things it's actually really interesting... wether it be a medical condition, all types of dyslexia stem from that

 

well, maybe we can use the sager 'recording' software if there is one, and assign it to user-picked keys instead of the 'programmable' ones that sager has, since AW doesn't...and assign it to [Fn] + [NUMPAD keys] or whatever u pick.

plus, afaik, i think it records keystrokes and possibly very specific in-game clicks. the [Fn] + [F1]/[F2] key on the Sager is just for fan speed (full/auto).

most viable option could be (shudder) a vb script with Dim, CreateObject, SelectionOption, SetText, etc.

/ducks

 

how does this overclocking look

 

tad on the LOW side

 

try to bring it to 3.2ghz

12x multiplier.

 

The qx9300 should easily do 3,2ghz..
Even my qs sample in the M17 managed that..

 

Theres obviously a restriction of some sort set on the vcore by Dellienware.

We shouldn't try to get to anything above 3.06 through just the bios alone

 

for the m17x i was able to overclock it to 3.6 ghz. only through the bios

Im just worried about the temp. I looked at my temp and its around 70 degrees celsius

 

what CPU did you over clock ???????

 

you have a qx9300?

 

That sounds more like Dual core numbers TBH, but if it is Qx9300 then WHOA!!! . A Qx9300 is easily able to hit those numbers but sadly Voltage is always the culprit for the lack of stability. Hopefully Alienware ups the voltage along the way for the Quadcores .

 

or some one trys CPU genie

 

Can CPUGenie actually increase voltage ? i thought it was only to decrease ? never messed with it myself honestly .

 

you need an extreme to do it. here is a pic of me trying to increase it in the whitebook but it failed.
edit here's a better pic
http://i44.tinypic.com/2vrxs37.jpg

 

Ahh well thats very cool and might be worth a looking into . how much did the software cost you ?.

 

yea i have Qx9300. So not enough voltage will restart the computer if you overclock too much?
Also am i able to increase voltage with that cpu genie?

 

What has been stable clocks then for you on the Qx ? 3.5ghz ? CPU temps of 70 are perfectly fine so dont even worry about that .

Can you throw up some pics of CPU-Z with you Overclocked at 3.6 when you get a chance .

 

15 day trial. and only 15 dollars. if it worked i was going to buy it. but it didn't

before anything if you can boot into windows. i would like to see a screen shot of cpu-z of your qx9300 and then we can test to see if it is stable.

 

ditto screen shots or it never happened

 

well not sure if these are good settings but they seem stable.

for 3.6 its multiplier 13.5
memory 900
fsb 900

3.5 multiplier is 13
memory 950
fsb 950

The picture is for the 3.5 since I believe fsb and memory are important are it wont be worth it.
But im guessing that 950 is worse since the default was 1066 right?

 

use cpu-z version 1.42 also is see that you did boot at 13x. it seems right. have you done any benchmarking at all to see if you lock up or bluescreen?

 

mm im kinda new at this. Benchmarking? Also whats the difference between the two version of cpu-z

 

What are the full specs of your machine ?

 

one has a error in reporting Stuff

 

thats with cpu-z v1.42

Specs:
intel core 2 extreme quad WX9300 2.53GHz (12MB Cache, 1066MHz FSB
6BG DDR3 at 1066 MHz
640GB -2x 320GB 7200RPM -RAID 0
Single NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M, 1GB

 

why is it reporting 2600.1 mhz?

 

the moo that can be from eist. let me get a pick of my cpu doing the same(not sure if i have any.)


ok it seems to read different from my es qx9300.

have you ran anything yet to see if you bluescreen or freeze????

if not run cpustabtest and see what happens. also take a screen shot of it so we can see it go to 3.5ghz.


and from what i read in order for you to do this you lowered the fsb and the memory speed and up'd the muiltlier. that would mean that you are down clocked and up clocked you cpu rendering lower from what i am seeing?????

please correct me if i am wrong. i may be wrong. by my qx9300 at the 12.5x is 3.33ghz. then 13x is 3.5ghz which you said you are. but lowering your fsb would also lower your clock speed.(i'm confusing my self lol.)

 

i know what your sayign and i noticed it to....

 

yea ur right, if you lowerd the fsb then that would effect the performance of the entire computer which would be bad, and the multiplier would up it for the cpu only i think

 

just OC CPU via multipliers and see what you get

 

yes lowering the fsb will affect your whole system and bringing up the clock speed will be useless. but if you can keep it at 1000mhz then it might be a performance decrease. i can't test (everyone knows why) but do this


run 3dmark06 and see what's good with your score,

run it stock

and then we can go on from there to give you the best setting for your computer.

i choose 3dmark06 since fsb and the cpu matters. pcmark is another good one but many don't know it and where you should land.

 

Only benchmarks can tell you whats going on . you need a baseline of benchmarks to start from. So start with something like 3dmark06 and vantage and run the system stock write it all down or what ever then run the system at the settings your getting 3.6ghz at and report back with your findings.

 

that's what i just said. Lol.

 

considering it was posted in the same minute, i don't think he saw it

 

you got a point. my bad quad

 

"run it stock"

Is that the setting for the 3Dmark?