- Oct 2, 2007
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I ran 3ghz on stock vid with my Q9450 since April of '08, and lately it sometimes doesn't boot (hangs at the Asus bios screen) or will lockup while it's on all day. I'm guessing that more voltage will fix this, but I don't believe in OC'ing past stock volts (seen it actually slow down my benchmarks too much and requires too much of my time). From now on I'll probably just shell out the extra couple hundred bucks to get the speed I want even if it's $700 instead of a $400 cpu.
I did replace the PSU recently as it was making a high pitched sound under high loads and that seems to have gone away now for the most part.
Fill me in on what I'm missing on OCs failing over time
This is my rig-
Intel Core2Quad 9450 @ 3ghz (stock vid)
8GB Mushkin XP2-6400 (4-4-4-12)
Asus P5Q-E (P45 / ICH10R) bios 2101
MSI Radeon 5870
OCZ Vertex 60GB + 1TB Seagate 7200.11
AC Freezer 7 Pro
Corsair 620HX
Antec 900
Logitech G3 / Access 600 kb / SteelSeries QcK+
Asus VW266H + Dell 2005FPW
Windows 7 Pro 64
I did replace the PSU recently as it was making a high pitched sound under high loads and that seems to have gone away now for the most part.
Fill me in on what I'm missing on OCs failing over time
This is my rig-
Intel Core2Quad 9450 @ 3ghz (stock vid)
8GB Mushkin XP2-6400 (4-4-4-12)
Asus P5Q-E (P45 / ICH10R) bios 2101
MSI Radeon 5870
OCZ Vertex 60GB + 1TB Seagate 7200.11
AC Freezer 7 Pro
Corsair 620HX
Antec 900
Logitech G3 / Access 600 kb / SteelSeries QcK+
Asus VW266H + Dell 2005FPW
Windows 7 Pro 64
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