authentic

I have a Gigabyte - GA-EP35-DS3R board with a Q6600 at 3.2Ghz in it right now. I plan to sell my q6600 and get a q9650. Am I waisting my time? I don't want to purchase a new board, does anyone know the limit of the GA-EP35-DS3R? It says the front side bus is made to go to 1600 ect.. and the multiplier goes to 400 or so in the bios.

Has anyone overclocked a q9650 on a GA-EP35-DS3R?

Thanks

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InTeL

is ur q6600 with vid of 1.3250? the new q6600 is bad overclocker. i had a p35-ds3r board before i could overclock the e6850 to 3.8. The q9650 has a lower vid 1.2.... maybe 1.1 ... runs cooler, i think you can overclock it to 3.6 - 3.8 with decent cooling. You have to try it out before you know it. Good luck.

authentic

All I know is I have a newer Go STepping purchased last year in January.
I think my Ram is keeping me from overcloking to much.

I am more curious about the motherboard, not the q6600... becuase I want to buy a q9650 and just want to make sure the board will be able to overclock that chip a bit.

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authentic

I called Gigabyte Tech Support and the guys said that I shouldn't have any problems overclocking a q9650. Just wanted to let you guys know... anyone who thinks I will have a problem... let me know.

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dPaquin

you probably shouldn't have a problem. My question is: How far can you go?

procc64

Im running a q9650 and GA EP45 DS3R. I cant even get them to work together with the default bios settings. I have to increase voltages in the M.I.T. Now my cpu temps are higher than Id like them to be.