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XPS 720 BIOS released today.
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Davet50
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April 22nd, 2008 17:00
Winngames
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April 22nd, 2008 18:00
Davet50
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April 22nd, 2008 19:00
Ok I am not trying to be negative and I do applaud Dell for still thinking about all us 720 owners, But I just don't see the big deal here.
Ok the Yorkies are on a 45nm substrate and run cooler..but the real advantage is overclockability which with a 720 we just dont have.
From what i have been reading the Q9450 has only minor speed increases in speed over a Q6600 unless you can overclock it.
Being open to discussion I am looking for more reasons why this is a big deal with a non overclockable system?
Abiosis
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April 22nd, 2008 23:00
I just bought my system month ago,so do I need this update? please advice,thanks~~~
P.S. BTW I think I got the BIOS A05...
quivver
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April 22nd, 2008 23:00
quivver
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April 23rd, 2008 02:00
As promised, I installed my Q9450 back into my XPS 720 now with A06 firmware. Sure enough everything seems to work perfectly!!!
The only think I'm kind of worried about is the idle cpu temperatures for the CPU being reported. According to Nvidia System Monitor:
CPU1 Tj Temp: 51C
CPU2 Tj Temp: 47C
CPU3 Tj Temp: 45C
CPU4 Tj Temp: 43C
These are much higher than my 28C that my E6600 had. Looking online, people are reporting some temps like this too for the Q9450... Kinda odd... Anyone have any ideas if this is normal???
Here's a pic of the A06 bios screen:
Vista 64 workes perfectly with the A06 and Q9450.
steve_89
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April 23rd, 2008 05:00
RAMwoes
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April 23rd, 2008 06:00
quivver,
things to check for cause of high temps:
there isn't too much thermal paste (will cause high temps)
that heatsink fan is tightened down fully
that your fan leads are still connected.
great to hear that it you've got the q9450 working, thanks for the news.
THANKS DELL FOR THE BIOS UPDATE!!!!!!! REALLY GOOD WORK, KEEP EM COMING.
gdwrnch3
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April 23rd, 2008 09:00
quivver,
Did you try overclocking with ntune?
gdwrnch3
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April 23rd, 2008 09:00
Thats strange, my E8400 reads some crazy temps too!!!
After all these dudes messing up their 630s, bios update,,,,hahahaha
I can be very optimistic, but also very realistic.....
odenwalder
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April 23rd, 2008 12:00
quivver,
I have a Q9450 installed on a Gigabyte P35 DS4 and it is also reporting higher than expected temps via the CoreTemp utility. I am not certain that any of the monitoring utilities have the correct parameters (Tjunction?) for the Q9n50 chips yet. My 9450 has been running at 100% for over a week now at a 3.4 Ghz OC with no problems if that helps to ease your mind any.
quivver
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April 23rd, 2008 15:00
Thanks for the feedback guys. I didn't get a change to play around with my system too much last night. I just left it on for a few hours and checked on it at the end of the night and it was running pretty much the same 45-50C temps.
I made sure to use enough Arctic Silver 5 compound on the CPU and tightened the fan on there pretty good...
Checking online, there seems to be some other people complaining about the high idle temps on the new line of processors: http://www.overclock.net/intel-cpus/312822-q9450-high-idle-temperature.html
I'm not sure if this is a BIOS problem or Nvidia driver problem. I will try overclocking the system later this evening when I get home. Any specific setting you guys recommend that is safe to play around with?
mike1605
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April 24th, 2008 05:00
s3dbw
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April 24th, 2008 07:00
gdwrnch3
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April 24th, 2008 11:00