Recent content by mgmason

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    X3350 / Q9450 Overclocking Thread

    Well, I switched off Thermal Monitoring and did a manual overclock to 3.2 ghz, 8x400, with a manual 1.225 volt for the core (I wanted to try 1.2 stock, but it seemed to droop a lot on my P5Q). I'm OCCT stable for an hour and Prime95 stable for 6.5 hours, at about 63 degrees C on the hottest...
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    X3350 / Q9450 Overclocking Thread

    I have a Q9450 running on an Asus P5Q motherboard. I was overclocking fine to 400x8 using an Arctic Cooler Pro, everything seemed great, then one morning none of it would boot. I returned all the stuff to my local supplier, they ended up swapping out the motherboard, memory and CPU. Guess I was...