Shlouski Posted November 13, 2009 Posted November 13, 2009 Hi guys, ive found a lot of helpful threads on the website, so i thought, why not join. Well i used to have P5NT-D, which ive had many problems with, I think its a problem with the early 780i chipsets. Ive just bought a P5Q-E, as ive read that the P45 chipsets overclock very well. I have a q9550 which was stable at 3.4 (stock vcore) in my P5NT-D and 8gb of geil 800mhz cl4, so i can rule out the processor as being the problem and the ram is on loose timings. The motherboard has hit the wall at 395 FSB, which is stable for hours and hours, but if i try for 396 it wont even post. I was thinking of trying my 1066mhz kingston ram and trying different ram fsb ratios, but i dunno if this is going to help. Can anyone help please? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AIinc Posted November 13, 2009 Posted November 13, 2009 The motherboard has hit the wall at 395 FSB, which is stable for hours and hours With what did you test the stability at 395fsb? Did you run Prime 95 for many hours? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shlouski Posted November 14, 2009 Posted November 14, 2009 With what did you test the stability at 395fsb? Did you run Prime 95 for many hours? yeah i used prime on all cpus at the same time (large). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AIinc Posted November 14, 2009 Posted November 14, 2009 I'm sure someone else can, but I can't help you with the Asus P5 series boards, I used to have one (don't remember which?), but I had nothing but problems with it, and eventually RMA'ed it, thats when I got into the ROG series boards. I know Gigabyte makes one heck of a P45 board! Hopefully someone will be along to help you out with your P5Q-E Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shlouski Posted November 14, 2009 Posted November 14, 2009 thanks, i hope so Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shlouski Posted November 14, 2009 Posted November 14, 2009 I thought i would try some different memory. I had 4gb of corsair 800mhz memory in another computer, so i popped a 2gb chip of it in and now i have 410mhz stable. Im still going as far as I can, i wonder if it wasnt working because it had 4gb of ram and now it has 2gb of ram, or if it was not liking the geil ram. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AIinc Posted November 14, 2009 Posted November 14, 2009 410Mhz? do you mean 410 on the FSB? or 4.1GHz cpu speed? 2Gb's of memory will OC easier than 4Gb's! & yes there could also be a compatibility issue? Not sure though? 2Gb's are easier on your northbridge. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shlouski Posted November 14, 2009 Posted November 14, 2009 (edited) Well now i got around 3.6ghz stable (422mhz), which is nice. Do you think I may have problems when I try to put the other 2gb in? Edited November 14, 2009 by Shlouski Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AIinc Posted November 14, 2009 Posted November 14, 2009 at this point, all you can do is try! It cant hurt. If it does work, then you know you have a compatibility issue, with your other memory! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shlouski Posted November 14, 2009 Posted November 14, 2009 Yeah, I just thinking I would see how far i can with the 2gb while it is working. Anyway even if the cl4 geil is better than the cl5 corsair, i will probably need to drop the latencies anyway. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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