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Old 06-16-2009, 01:58 AM   #2 (permalink)
greenbrucelee
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Re: Q9550 Overclocking: C1 vs E0 stepping

you might get some good results although beaware that not all CPUs are created equally some cpus of the same speed and make might overclock a lot some may not. You need to get the E0 stepping one if your going to be overclocking. I reckon if you do everything correctly you might be able to achieve 3.2 possibly a bit more. You will probably have to drop the ram frequency down though. Since your buying an Asus board see what it's auto overclocking feature gives you. My Asus rampage formula gave me 3.52 on extreme mode but I have upped it to 3.91. I did have it at 4 but due to ambient temps being high because the summer I had to drop it.
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