Asus W90's with the Q9000 processor.. what you getting for overclocks?

Heya ppls, just got mine and did an AS5 job on the cpu and video cards. Now I'm setting up the clock speeds.. What is everyone getting for speeds on this processor? I'm sitting at 2.6ghz till I get 3dmark finished downloading.

 

2.7 was my good stable point that was 100% stable under full load for all 4 cores.

2.85 was my "suicide" overclock where I could pass a round of WPrime but not do an intensive bench/game.

My new W90 I got yesterday seems to be a bit better.

I got 2.915 for my suicide run and have not found my max stable yet.

The cpu itself is fine, its the ram that is being pushed too hard.

 

There seems to be no way to deal with the ram either eh?

 

Not really, even if you put faster ram in there it will boot at the slower speed thus giving it the "tighter" timings, so it will get unstable about the same speed.

I mean there is probably some ram out there that has more lax timings so it can overclock higher but I have no idea what.

But given that we cant raise the voltage even if you found better ram about 3.2-3.4ghz is all you can get.

 

Yeah 2.7 was my stable limit too, just dont over do it, as you say the ram is definately being pushed hard, just try and keep a nice ratio, they reccomend 1:1 for ocing but its a different case with lappys.

Is it ddr 3?
Sorry for this dim question but my internet is running at 25kb today...rediculous and i just cant seem to find exact specification for it anywhere.


Cheers
Cata

 

DDR2 667 is what its running at on a 2:3 divider I think.

So @ 400fsb for a 2.9ghz overclock its running at like DDR2 1066 with the 667 timings.

Unfortunatly ram wont change its SPD timings if you FSB overclock in the OS, only if you change the boot speed wich has to be done in bios.

There is a memory tool out there but it will only change the non important timings, the the CAS latency the first number and thats the important one. If I could change it from 3 to 4 it would probably let me get 3ghz.

 

Well I dropped in an X9000ES chip from my Sager 5793. I know its not a 1066fsb chip, but the machine recognized it no problem. The beauty of this is that the lower fsb of 800 brings a pile of overclocking to the X9000! I cranked it up to 3.7ghz and got a slick 17k 3dmark06!

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=11109525

I used memset intel memory util to loosen the timings a pinch as the divider was 3/5 nott 4/5 with 1066.. I may pin mod the chip and change it, then I can get better fsb and lower the multi from 16 to 13 or 14 or whatever i can crank the fsb to.. Lovely maachine this Asus is! True overclocking bliss!

 

yeah, the great thing about the Montevina platform is that it can recognize the older Merom and Penryn processors for the Santa Rosa platform. But I would be careful though with it; even though it has a lower FSB, it has a high number of multipliers to make up for that, which in itself would add to the power consumption/thermal limit of the chip.

That said, game on! 3.7ghz on an X9000 is pretty sick.

 

Hmm 3.7 is god dam awesome, but curious still to know how far the q9000 can be pushed.

Any luck with them timings visc?

 

can you explain this more?

 

use SPDtool or thaiphoon burner to change anything about the ram.
Timmings (including main CAS), frequency, voltage...

But I do not suggest changing ram voltage.
Use the tools at your own risk.

Basically they both do the same thing, flash the spd in the rams EEPROM.

If you do a "bad" flash, there are two ways to fix it.
One of them involves taping ram pins and "hot plugging".

Be carefull please

And BTW, if your ram EEPROM is WP (write protected) then your pretty much out of luck
No flashing for you unless you want to try a pin mod + hot plug.