thinking of upgrading

The quad, or the new F9I BIOS, has alot more vdroop than the F8 BIOS with the E8400.

With the 8400 I had BIOS Vcore set to 1.29375 and it drooped to 1.26 in CPU-Z.

With the F9I BIOS and the Q9650 I have BIOS set to 1.30625 and it droops to 1.24 in CPU-Z.

Temps are getting high I think.
Core 0=75°
Core 1=70°
Core 2=70°
Core 3=68°

OOPS...Core 0 just stopped small FFT after 12 minutes.

OK I got 1 hour + stable at 445x9 using 1.31875Vcore set in BIOS...1.90Vdimm set in BIOS...all other voltages set to auto or normal.



Tonight I will let it run the blend test overnight and hope to get 8+ hours stable on blend. Fingers crossed.

Yeah, the vdrop is gonna be lower. The BIOS setting is dumb. It's just a label that represents a particular resistance value in the circuit. The quad pulls more current, and thus the voltage drop is more. Just use CPU-Z as your reference point. Your temps are fine IMO...especially given your ambient temps. I wouldn't be afraid of 75*C either in your situation.

Well, I tried to run P95 blend overnight, but forgot to turn off the sleep function! It went to sleep with P95 running! I didn't think that would happen?!

Well, I guess I will just have to try again tonight!

So far I have had zero problems. Captured some video from my camcorder, and edited/encoded a few.

I have been copying/pasting huge chunks of data across my network.

Here are my current settings.

Robust Graphics Booster = FAST
CPU Clock Ratio = x6
Fine CPU Clock Ratio = 0.0
CPU Frequency = (445 x 9)
CPU Host Clock Control = Enabled
CPU Host Frequency = 445
PCI-E Freq(Mhz) = 100
CIA 2 = Disabled
Performance Enhance = Standard
System Memory Multiplier = 2.00D (1:1)
Memory Frequency = 890
DRAM Timing Selectable (SPD) = Manual = 5-5-5-15

Advanced Timing Control
Act to Act Delay = Auto (3)
Rank Read to Write Delay = Auto (3)
Write to Precharge Delay = Auto (6)
Refresh to Act Delay = Manual (42)
Read to Precharge Delay = Auto (3)
Static tRead Value = Auto (8)
Static tRead Phase Adjust = Auto (0)
Command Rate (CMD) = Auto (2)

Clock Driving and Skew Control
CPU\PCIEX Clock Driving Control = 800mV
CPU Clock Skew Control = Normal

System Voltage Control
Manual
DDR2 Overvoltage Control = +0.10
PCI-E Overvoltage Control = Normal
FSB Overvoltage Control = Normal
(G)MCH Overvoltage Control = Normal
MCH Reference Voltage Control = Normal
DDR Reference Voltage Control = Normal
DDR Termination Voltage Control = Normal
CPU GTLREF1 Voltage Ratio = Normal
CPU GTLREF2 Voltage Ratio = Normal
Loadline Calibration = Enable
CPU Voltage (Vcore) = 1.3187

These settings already passed 1+ hour P95 small FFT and 30 minutes large FFT. If I can get this to pass 8+ hours of P95 blend I will consider it a done deal.

I would run all three for at least 8 hours, but you'll probably be fine.