- Joined
- Jun 30, 2002
- Location
- Boise, ID, USA
I'm planning on purchasing a Q9450 (I get a special deal on Intel CPUs), and running it at 1.6GHz FSB on an x48 board (those are spected to run at that speed natively) with RAM also rated to that speed. I believe this means an FSB overclock of x1.2 and a new chip speed of about 3.2GHz.
1: Is this feasible/wise?
2: If yes to the first, what is a good motherboard to accomplish this goal?
3: If yes to the first, what is the known heat output of this chip at that FSB? Is the voltage going to need to be raised on chip to reach that target? What kind of cooling is reccomended?
I would like to use air cooling if possible, my case is well ventelated with 120mm fans and side vents. I do plan on replacing it with something even more thermaly efficient in the near future, having a top blowhole will be nice as heat tends to get trapped up there behind the optical drives.
Any advice is well appriciated, I will post resutls for benchmarking and thermal data if/when I get this running.
1: Is this feasible/wise?
2: If yes to the first, what is a good motherboard to accomplish this goal?
3: If yes to the first, what is the known heat output of this chip at that FSB? Is the voltage going to need to be raised on chip to reach that target? What kind of cooling is reccomended?
I would like to use air cooling if possible, my case is well ventelated with 120mm fans and side vents. I do plan on replacing it with something even more thermaly efficient in the near future, having a top blowhole will be nice as heat tends to get trapped up there behind the optical drives.
Any advice is well appriciated, I will post resutls for benchmarking and thermal data if/when I get this running.