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Overclocking Q9550 To Fsb 1600 In Shuttle Sx48p2


cyberstorm

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Hello everybody,

 

iam not so experienced in overclocking so i thought you might can help me.

 

I would like to overclock the Q9550 (base clocks: 2,83ghz, FSB 1333) to 3,0ghz+ with FSB 1600.

The shuttle mainboard and my ram (4096MB Corsair PC3-1600 CL7 KIT XMP) supports FSB 1600.

 

I have already tried overclocking it, but it failed with prime95.

 

I have the latest shuttle bios installed. Any of you know how to set the voltages?

 

Thanks in advance!

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  • 2 months later...

Hi there,

 

I have tried following configuration, unfortunately with no success :/

 

CPU		DDR		NB		SB 1		SB 2	   FSB		 room	  CPU   Mainboard	 CPU   Mainboard
1,3		1,80	   1,4	   1,6		 1,05	   +150		20		bad errors in windows
1,3		1,85	   1,4	   1,6		 1,05	   +150		20		40	43			61	62
1,3		1,85	   1,4	   1,6		 1,1		+150		20		43	45			62	65
1,3		1,85	   1,4	   1,65		1,2		+150		21		44	45			65	69
1,3125	 1,85	   1,4	   1,65		1,2		+150		21		45	46			66	68

 

Spread spectrum enabled and disabled. First CPU / Mainboard is in idle, the next one under load. It always failed in prime95, the longest run before it failed was about 12 minutes

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Hello everybody,

 

iam not so experienced in overclocking so i thought you might can help me.

 

I would like to overclock the Q9550 (base clocks: 2,83ghz, FSB 1333) to 3,0ghz+ with FSB 1600.

The shuttle mainboard and my ram (4096MB Corsair PC3-1600 CL7 KIT XMP) supports FSB 1600.

 

I have already tried overclocking it, but it failed with prime95.

 

I have the latest shuttle bios installed. Any of you know how to set the voltages?

 

Thanks in advance!

first off what i did to get my q9550 is start off with default voltages. then i added some starting volts to the cpu core an nothing else like i think i went to 1.20. started taking my fsb up in increments of 20 and tested occt for like half an hour. when you get an error add volts, like 1.25. if that dosent fix your problem change the cpu core volts back to 1.2 and add .5 volts to your north bridge and test again.

 

dont volt your south bridge, dont volt your mem, dont volt the grtlanes, pretty much your at home with the north bridge and cpu core, if you want to fiddle with other voltages thats fine just do one change at a time so you know whats helping

 

what motherboard are you using? where did you get your computer?

 

my q9550 is at 3.8 on 1.25 and 1.45 nb volts and i could probably go lower with the core

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Hi there,

 

thank you for your reply.

 

This evening I tested different configurations again because I went to corsair homepage... there I found the voltage setting for the corsair module in that mainboard (of shuttle SX48P2). The corsair ram should be at 1.9V when going to FSB 1600... that was the reason of the failed tests.

 

Tonight i ran following configurations (multiplier on 7.5 for 3.0Ghz, XMP profile activated, spread spectrum enabled):

 

CPU	 DDR	  NB	  SB 1	SB 2	FSB	Ambient T.  CPU	Mainboard   CPU	 Mainboard   stable
1,3	 1,9	  1,4	 1,65	1,2	 150	20		  45	 46		  65	  67		  no - shutdown
1,3	 1,9	  1,4	 1,6	 1,1	 150	20		  41	 42		  62	  66		  yes, 20min
1,2875  1,9	  1,4	 1,55	1,1	 150	22		  40	 41		  61	  67		  yes, 20min
1,275   1,9	  1,35	1,55	1,1	 100	22		  39	 42		  61	  66		  no - shutdown
1,2625  1,9	  1,4	 1,55	1,1	 150	23		  39	 42		  62	  68		  yes, 20min
1,375   1,9	  1,4	 1,55	1,1	 150	23		  40	 43		  61	  65		  yes, 20min
1,225   1,9	  1,35	1,55	1,1	 150	23		  40	 43		  59	  64		  yes, 20min
auto	auto	 1,35	1,55	1,1	 150	23		  38	 42		  59	  65		  yes, 20min
auto	auto	 1,35	auto	auto	150	24		  38	 41		  59	  65		  no, shutdown
auto	auto	 1,4	 auto	auto	150	24		  38	 41		  59	  65		  yes, 30min

 

I'll try lowering the FSB to +100mV as next test. If its stable i'll try having the NB at 1,35. Any stable configuration will then be tested for several hours. I'll post my results.

Edited by cyberstorm

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Hi there,

 

thank you for your reply.

 

This evening I tested different configurations again because I went to corsair homepage... there I found the voltage setting for the corsair module in that mainboard (of shuttle SX48P2). The corsair ram should be at 1.9V when going to FSB 1600... that was the reason of the failed tests.

 

Tonight i ran following configurations (multiplier on 7.5 for 3.0Ghz, XMP profile activated, spread spectrum enabled):

 

CPU	 DDR	  NB	  SB 1	SB 2	FSB	Ambient T.  CPU	Mainboard   CPU	 Mainboard   stable
1,3	 1,9	  1,4	 1,65	1,2	 150	20		  45	 46		  65	  67		  no - shutdown
1,3	 1,9	  1,4	 1,6	 1,1	 150	20		  41	 42		  62	  66		  yes, 20min
1,2875  1,9	  1,4	 1,55	1,1	 150	22		  40	 41		  61	  67		  yes, 20min
1,275   1,9	  1,35	1,55	1,1	 100	22		  39	 42		  61	  66		  no - shutdown
1,2625  1,9	  1,4	 1,55	1,1	 150	23		  39	 42		  62	  68		  yes, 20min
1,375   1,9	  1,4	 1,55	1,1	 150	23		  40	 43		  61	  65		  yes, 20min
1,225   1,9	  1,35	1,55	1,1	 150	23		  40	 43		  59	  64		  yes, 20min
auto	auto	 1,35	1,55	1,1	 150	23		  38	 42		  59	  65		  yes, 20min
auto	auto	 1,35	auto	auto	150	24		  38	 41		  59	  65		  no, shutdown
auto	auto	 1,4	 auto	auto	150	24		  38	 41		  59	  65		  yes, 30min

 

I'll try lowering the FSB to +100mV as next test. If its stable i'll try having the NB at 1,35. Any stable configuration will then be tested for several hours. I'll post my results.

yeah that was my n/b 1.35 at 1600, it worked at 1.3 but my system was noticeably better at 1.35, i think your supposed to disable spread spectrum tho?

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Yea your right, i just disabled spread spectrum and moved to NB 1.35V, lowering the +150mV FSB gets unstable. Are you also having +150mV FSB?

 

I let the barebone run prime95 through the night... looking forward to the result tomorrow morning :)

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Multi  Spread S. Core C. CPU   DDR   NB	SB 1  SB 2  FSB  Ambient T. CPU  Mobo  CPU  Mobo  stable
7,5	enabled   400	 auto  auto  1,4   auto  auto  100  --		 --   --	--   --	no, shutdown
7,5	disabled  400	 auto  auto  1,35  auto  auto  150  --		 --   --	--   --	no, CPU 4 failed after 1h 2min
7,5	disabled  400	 auto  auto  1,4   auto  auto  150  22		 --   --	60   66	yes, since 7h (still running)

I'll let the test run for some more hours.... Maybe I try reducing the FSB to +100mV. I'll keep reporting.

Edited by cyberstorm

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