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Another 680i SLI q9550 success story

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Cashh
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2010/03/11 17:55:43 (permalink)
Needed upgrade for Bad Company 2 so i had to replace my c2d6600 with a quad core. Without doing much research I got the q9550 just to find out that its not officially supportr by my mobo. I remember reading that quad cores are supported but I had no idea 45nm was not on the list. Anyway google returned a couple of post  people making it work somehow so i decide to give it a go. After 3 days of non stop BSOD checking RAM replacing Vcards and playing with the bios Im running the q9550 on my 680i SLI @ 3.5GHz (can push it more) and playing BC2 where my temps stay under 50 degreese on air cooling. All I had to do is OC the CPU it just wouldn't run stock no matter what settings or voltage I gave it. Played aroud with the voltages but pretty much normal OC stuff. What a pain these three days were.
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    Grassmonkey
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    Re:Another 680i SLI q9550 success story 2010/03/12 04:22:29 (permalink)
    Do you mind posting the settings you are using?

    I've just installed the Q9550 and this could save me 3 days of experimenting!
    Think a lot of people would appreciate it.

    Thanks
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    Re:Another 680i SLI q9550 success story 2010/03/12 07:58:20 (permalink)
    I still need to play around with the voltage settings but this is what I have right now. I tried going to 3.6GHz on Auto valtage but i got a bsod so I backed down to 3.5 .


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    No I didnt try to make more challenging for you . its just the way i held my phone :)
    post edited by Cashh - 2010/03/12 08:09:10
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    Re:Another 680i SLI q9550 success story 2010/03/13 07:46:00 (permalink)
    Good thing I have a laptop and can spin it round with a flat screen!!!
    I've got it running now anywhere between 3.2 and 3.5 where I want it.

    Just 2 things, did you have it that on shut down it automatically restarts itself up again?

    Also since the moment I OC'd it, I get a high chirping sound from around the cpu, NB, RAM area, whenever it is processing.
    It's not a thermal warning or anything, I'm sure of that.
    I've removed the RAM to check each 1 but no luck.

    Anyone else know where this comes from, as before I got the cpu OC'd and it wouldn't run windows I didn't get this?

    Or am I just going to have to name this computer "the noisy cricket"?
     
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    Re:Another 680i SLI q9550 success story 2010/03/15 22:00:46 (permalink)
    Hmm I take it that is one of the original revisions of the 680i you have as I remember there was a bunch of people with that chirping noise when overclocking on those boards. It was the R50's I believe that were making the noise, was not supposed to hurt anything just was annoying from what I remember.

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    Re:Another 680i SLI q9550 success story 2010/03/22 19:19:02 (permalink)
    Oh, the crickets!!!!! I haven't heard anyone mention of hearing that for a long time.
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    Re:Another 680i SLI q9550 success story 2010/03/22 22:36:01 (permalink)
    This thread along with many other reports I have seen of similar stories almost have me thinking about trying this out myself. As I have a last gen 680i (rev A2) I think my chances should be pretty good. Thanx for the post Cashh
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    Re:Another 680i SLI q9550 success story 2010/03/31 14:16:53 (permalink)
    I am in the same boat, upgraded to Q9650 without knowing the 680i doesn't support 45nm (should always hit goggle before any purchase -ugg) so going to give this a go. Computer is running more than it's crashing so I hope these tweaks will do the trick. Thanks Cashh for the heads up on the thread.
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