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prayshadow

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    prayshadow reacted to Gohardgrandpa in Overclocking on Core 2 Quad.   
    Find a cheap Q9550 if you can. I had a q8300 and that chip wouldn’t oc well for me at all, got a q9550 and it went way farther 
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    prayshadow reacted to SupaKomputa in Overclocking on Core 2 Quad.   
    Some Core 2 Quad's are very OC able.
    I oc'd my Q6600 to 3.4 max, 3.1 for daily usage.
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    prayshadow got a reaction from ahuckphin in Overclocking on Core 2 Quad.   
    I just recently finished building a "retro" build of sorts, mainly for fun and because I just think Core 2s are cool since it what was current when I was a kid.  I wanted to ask about other people's experiences with overclocking a Core 2 Quad.  The specs of the BEAST are an ASUS P5G41T-M LX3 mobo, a Core 2 Quad Q9300, an EVGA 960 FTW, 8GB of Samsung 1600Mhz DDR3, an EVGA 500W 80+ PSU and a Silicon Power SSD with Windows 10.  I stuffed it all into an old eMachines T5048 case that originally came with a Pentium 4, from which I still have all of the original components.  I managed to get the CPU overclocked to *just* shy of 3.00Ghz from its stock speed of 2.50Ghz, any more and it will not boot.  It laid down a whopping 312CB in Cinebench R15 and 8925 in Superposition @ 720p low.  Does anyone else have any numbers from this chip or other Core 2 Quads regarding overclocking or benchmarking?  I plan to post up some pics of the build on my profile soon.  The entire build was put together for around $100 USD.  I'm pretty happy with it.  
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    prayshadow got a reaction from TheKDub in 8700K @ 5.2Ghz, need help!   
    Hi!  Thanks for the reply.  I found out it was my AVX offset, I did not realize that R20 was an AVX workload.  I just put my AVX offset back to zero and was able to dial back a little voltage and keep stable, I put down 4101cb in R20 @ 5.2.  I typically run mine @ 5.1 because I can run stable 5.1 at 1.25-1.28v, whereas I have to use a bit more than that for 5.2.  I have yet to try for 5.3, but I am delidding soon and I will try then.  No other programs running, I made sure to kill iCue, afterburner, etc.  My RAM is running at 3200Mhz.
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    prayshadow reacted to Jumper118 in Post your Cinebench R20+15+R11.5+2003 Scores **Don't Read The OP PLZ**   
    Wow 5.1mhz now. Soon it will be as fast as pentium 1
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    prayshadow reacted to LukeSavenije in High Refresh Rate, 1080P Monitor that isn't "GAMING"?   
    it was more to see if this is the kind of monitor op means. I just picked the first one from a list, but I'll add it to my fiter.
     
    https://pcpartpicker.com/products/monitor/#B=300,1000&D=100000,240000&T=1,5&r=192001080&sort=price&page=1
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