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Overclocking on Core 2 Quad.

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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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Used Q9400 at 3.2GHz to do 325cb in the past

 

 

You can still do the BSEL mod, I think

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Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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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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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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5 hours ago, Gohardgrandpa said:

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 

I'm actually bidding on a pretty cheap Q9650 right now, but I'll look into a 9550 as well, I know they usually go for about half or less what a 9650 will go for.

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Why not going for the QX9650? It has a much higher TDP than the Q9650.

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I have a Xeon X5460 running perfectly stable at 4GHz on an Abit IP35-E.

Currently I'm testing the limits of a QX9650 on an Asus P5E-Deluxe. Right now it's at 4.1GHz and showing no signs of instability.... yet..

 

Before that, I've had a Q9550 at 3.8GHz on the Abit board. I sold it to a friend clocked at 3.6GHz and haven't heard back from him about it.

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