Hello all,
 
I recently had a friend who was interested in upgrading his machine to the fastest quad that was reasonable and I told him well the q9650 was the best possible with out going nuts on pricing (extreme edition)...
 
After talkingn to him he actually went out and purchased this processor without checking to see if his motherboard would support the q9650. Most of the forum posts I found said no, and that brings me to my reason behind this post.
 
We were successful in upgrading and his 680i to use the the 9650 at stock speeds with the latest BIOS provided on these forums. The board was a revision D so I dont know if this was actually the reason behind our results but in any case. I just wanted to share my experience with this board because I am sure there will be other people looking to see if there board will work with a 45nm quad core.

I have attached a screen shot to those who doubt if an overclock will work as well ...3600Mhz!!

Can you please ask your friend for some of the bios settings. I just got a Q9550 and Im getting random BSOD after fresh Windows 7 install and I cant figure out what the problem is. I would really appreciate if you can get at least the voltage settings. This whole upgrade plus a 5850 was to play bc2 and its been like 3 days trying to figure out this problem. Thanks.

amenra151

ShockTheMonky 

What part of FL you from? Don't tell me you're a Mickey Mouse neighbor or from South Beach.

I'm actually in Fort Myers FL about 1:30 hr south of Tampa

That's good then except for 1 small problem. you live in the worse area possible. You live in Bucaneer country. For that I am truely sorry.

I am still testing stability but using amenra151 and Cashh's tips I also was successful on getting q9650 working on the 680i, and also have it running at 3.6 ghz.

just thought i'd let everyone know. I finally got my new q9650 last night. All i did is plug it into my 680i SLI motherboard and everything worked fine, no tweaking. I decided to do a clean install to win7 64bit since i was changing it out. i ran that PC rig for 5+ hours straight with no issues. Haven't really pushed it yet by playing any games, perhaps tonight i will. I've never overclocked any settings on my 680i, so everything is at a default and worked fine. I'll probably end up overclocking it to around 3.5GHz when i'm done reinstalling everything and have time to research and play around with it. but at idle, the q9650 seems to be running at 7 to 10 degrees Cel. cooler than my old e6400.
i have a EVGA nForce 680i SLI (122-CK-NF68 version 2) with the latest p33 bios (upgraded that almost a year ago)

mallic1
So why isn't EVGA officially supporting these cpu's? 

Because the 680i was designed before the new CPUs were released by Intel, and it's hit and miss whether they will work. Many people find they don't.

If EVGA said they supported them, hundreds of users would soon complain that they don't work.  

I installed a Q9650 last night. Bios sees it fine and it passes POST, but when it tries to load the original OS (Vista 64) or if I try to install Win7 both at OS launch resets the system and it starts over. Any ideas?

Do you rrackow and bryan have the P33 BIOS installed?
You will need to install that perferably with a older 65nm CPU to even have a slim chance of any of the Q9000 series CPU's even working.

Did you try resetting the CMOS, maybe even a full clear by unplugging the power supply and then removing the CMOS battery for 10 minutes then reinstall.
Remember if you remove the cmos battery you will need to reset any settings you had to change in BIOS like memory voltage and you'll also need to reset your system clock in BIOS.

Other then that as others have said it is hit or miss as to if it works as it is not supported.

After reading this topic and this one:
http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=229808
I took the risk of upgrading my system to Q9650 as well. IT ALL WORKED OUT PERFECTLY! I've been running the system for the whole day, made stress tests, played games and watched videos - not a single error.
Chipset:680I SLI SPP
Model: 122-CK-NF68 rev. A2 ("A1" says the sticker on the mobo)
Default bios settings (P33)
Windows 7 x64

Sorry to bump this old thread, but I just wanted to confirm that the Q9650 will work on a EVGA 122-CK-NF68-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI with the p33 bios.  Where do I get this bios, and is there a better one that will work since this was discovered?
 
Best video card/cards in SLI mode for this outdated combo?

I've done quite a bit of research since my last post.  Here's the P33 bios which is the latest version:
http://cdn.evga.com/bios/NF68_P33 dot bin (dot = ".")
 
With a Q9650 you should be able to do much better than my Q6600 B3.  I also have a Q6600 G0 that I'm going to try with the Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme heat sink and Scythe Slip Stream SY1225SL12M 120mm fan to see if I can get 3.6 on air (quietly) 24/7 stable.  I also have a Noctua NF-S12B fan to try.  I've got two 260 GTX in SLI mode running off an antec HCG900 PS.  
 
 

Ive got a 122-CK-NF63-TR nForce 680i SE SLI 775 TR Version. Not sure where to check for BIOs but have you folks with success stories gotten the q9650 working on this specific version of the 680i board?

Hmm...CPU-Z says i have a 122-CK-NF68 when all this time i thought i had 122-CK-NF63-TR. How accurate is CPU-Z in this regard?
 
Heres a pic:


I dont see P33 bios in there so i guess its safe to say i dont have it?
I have the p33 bios bin saved to my desktop. How do i go about applying this without a floppy drive? Are there any winflash utilities i can use?

Alright, i got Aida64.
 

Still says 122-ck-nf68 but i guess thats what i have lol. For BIOS stuff i do see 691N0P33 so suffice to say, im on P33 and in the best shape to try a q9650?
 
As for applying the BIOS (if i wanted to reapply it for example) there arent any instructions on the page about how to do it. I just have a .bin file sittin there. Tried burning it as a bootable image to a CD, didnt work. Tried IMGburn and MagicISO. Neither can do it. The USB method is rather complicated but the more i think about it the more i think i remember doing it that way to update the BIOS last time i did it anyways. Bleh.