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overclocking Q9300
hi everyone. long time no see. you all have been helpful in the past so i thought id come back.
so i have a q9300@2.5GHz that im trying to get to 3.0GHz. ive never overclocked before...hehe...but i do understand the basics of it. that paired with my knowledge of computers, i thought id do some googling and give it a try.
i managed to get a stable overclock @2.7GHz (360MHz bus), but when i went to 2.775GHz (370MHz bus) i started getting freezes, bsod's, you name it. so i tried increasing the voltage of the cpu, loosing the memory timings, unlinking the memmory and slowing it down. this helped a little, but i just noticed something about 15mins ago that i couldn't find a fix for.
My last OC config looked like this,,, CPU 2.775GHz@1.23750v, RAM unlinked 800MHz@2.110v (7 7 7 15 2T).
i ran Prime95 and it stayed up but said one of my core had failed. this had me worried so i loaded my non-OC'ed profile from bois and tested again. (im doing that now). no problems. but this is the thing i cant figure out. non-OC'ed, my vcore reads at 1.8-1.9, in overclock it reads 1.18. ??????? it even reads this low when i override the vcore to 1.23750v fron bios.
i believe this is my prob. as i increase the cpu speed, the vcore reads less and i can't figure out how to supply the extra voltage.
any help would be appreciated. thanks.