Overclocking Q9450/Q9550/Q9650 on Asus P5Q Pro
July 11th, 2009 | 
Author: Getting the most out of your system isn’t an option when you’re a technology enthusiast — it’s a life style, a requirement, a way of living your life to the full. (I bet that’d be a good ad phrase). Today we’re going to be looking at the Asus P5Q Pro motherboard, with 3 variations of the Q9000 series of CPUs, as listed in the title.
The BOIS on this motherboards originates from American Megatrends Inc, so it’s one where we can expect certain options are similar, do the same thing and are repeated once or twice as you go through it.
For this tutorial, we will use a frequency of 3.2GHz – Note that a 3rd party CPU Cooler is recommended for anything above 3GHz, all overclocking done is at your own risk.
So, let’s get to it.
Head into your BIOS by hitting Delete at the POST (power on self test) screen. From there we will head into the AI Tweaker section, where there are various options to change, relating to system performance.
| AI Overclock Tuner | Manual |
| CPU Ratio Setting | 08.0 |
| FSB Frequency | 1600 |
| PCIE Frequency | 100 |
| FSB Strap to Northbridge | Auto |
| DRAM Frequency | DDR2-800 |
| DRAM Timing Control | Auto |
| DRAM Static Read control | Auto |
| DRAM Read Training | Auto or Disabled |
| Mem OC Charger | Auto |
| AI Transaction Booster | Auto |
| CPU Voltage | 1.28V to 1.3V |
| DRAM Voltage | 1.9V |
There are a couple of settings which have been deliberately left out, these options need not be touched as the automatic configuration is right for what we want to achieve.
After this, head into your Advanced tab in the main BIOS screen, and then into CPU Configuration.
| C1E Support | Disabled |
| Max CPUID Value Limit | Disabled |
| Intel Virtualisation Tech | Disabled |
| CPU TM Function | Enabled |
| Intel Speedstep (TM) Tech | Disabled |
| Intel C-STATE Tech | Disabled |
And that’s it; you would now effectively be running your CPU at 3.20GHz with an FSB of 1600MHz and ram at 800MHz.
Once again I emphasise that these frequencies should be done with 3rd party cooling and any settings altered in your BIOS are done at your own risk.
I would recommend the following programs to make sure your computer is running normally and properly.
CPU Z is used to monitor components of your PC so that you can see if everything is running the way it should.
Prime95 is used to stress the CPU at 100% and the RAM at its max to stress them, making sure they are stable.
RealTemp is the choice temperature monitor program to make sure your CPU doesn’t get too hot.
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Nice write up.
Meh. I personally like to figure it out as I go.
Can you please do an overclocking tutorial for the new AMD series?
Thanks, got any links to general overclocking thesis?
Such a specific guide makes it almost too easy. Wish me luck.
Very Helpful tutorial. Thanks for this.
Awesome, Q9 series is so good.
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Love it, would love one for i7.
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Not bad but an i7 article would be cool.
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