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Nice review, but you quoted a forum member without acknowledgement
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Just joking. Back on topic, that review must have taken a fair bit of work - how long did it take you?
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Back on topic, that review must have taken a fair bit of work - how long did it take you?
To write it, umm well about 2 hours with editing but spread over a few nights...
Just knew what I was going to do in advance so as I read, examined and installed the board I just took pics as I went...
Now, for the Fun bit...
Modded mach2GT Standing by to sub zero the board, go for some uber high clocks and FSB & hopefully at the same time some more HWBoints
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My bet would be the GTL settings... I have found that the 45nm Chips are particularly effected by the GTL settings and a lot of stability can be found by tweaking them. See the bios OC settings in my review
im using an e6600, what GTL settings would be recommended for 65nm cpus, currently using the defaults which are 110.
Ive just ran prime now for 25 n a half hours at 450x8, no errors, but cod4 and ut3 crash after 5 to 10 mins
Use a bootable USB key.
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im using an e6600, what GTL settings would be recommended for 65nm cpus, currently using the defaults which are 110.
Ive just ran prime now for 25 n a half hours at 450x8, no errors, but cod4 and ut3 crash after 5 to 10 mins
It all depends on what you set the VTT settings to... I will be adding a GTL/VTT explanation to the review later on today hopefully...
Try VTT @ 1.453v
CPU GTL 1/3 REF = 130 (x67 or 67%) 80 (x61 or 61%)
CPU GTL 0/2 REF = 120 (x67 or 67%) 75 (x61 or 61%)
NB GTL REF = 100 (x67 or 67%) 55 (x61 or 61%)
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Always amazes me the amount of people who overclock that dont have a floppy, which I have always considered essential & it isnt like they cost much
But as Cob says, use a USB key, HP have some software that enables a USB stick to be bootable same as a normal HDD. Google it m8
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Welcome Back DFI, hehe they used to make some good stuff, prefered EPOX though!
EPOX.... eeeeeeeeeew
DFI had a much better *marketing dept* than EPOX though and they were the first to really pick up on the Gamer-Series stuff which ASUS obviously took note of and came up with ROG, lol what a name!
Am I mistaken or were EPOX a UK company?
Am I mistaken or were EPOX a UK company?
No it doesn't boot from the USB stick, it just reads the updated BIOS file from it.The motherboard has to support bootable sticks tho, but since you mentioned it then I assume it does. Cool
Yeah i got a fan on mine now to keep temps down but would rather whack a block on it
Would you be able to tell me what other voltage settings you are using? Mine currently running at 450x8, so 3.6ghz, my board passed prime95 for 16 hours but im getting crashing in games
Could it be my PVM's over heating causing the crashes?
I bet it is the PVM's but im not saying it is and you blaim me if it isnt. What temp do yours get upto? (System temp on smart gardian) Tho ppriming should max out *** PVM's more than gaming so maybe not. Maybe more NB voltage, I had to up my northbridge now I have a 8800 GTX in, seeing as GFX bandwidth goes through NB it needed a bit more juice, which would explian why it crashes only when gaming
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Where I have had issues with systems passing prime then failing when playing games, I tend to look at the PSU as often the graphics draws huge power from the PSU in a way that doesn't happen when it's priming. Does it run 3DMark '06 OK? What is the PSU? I managed to blow up a Tagan 700W with a pair of X1950 Pro's in CrossFireX with mine, so I reckon it needs a hefty PSU with a big graphics card(s). I would also check the automatic voltage adjuster - I have mine set to 100.23%, but I have seen it add big chunks of voltage when it's set on AUTO. It may be it's fast enough to pick up the load on CPU/RAM stress testing, but not on games.
@Monstermunch, you did'nt say what cpu you are going to put under phase. But if it is an E8400/E8500, then i'm afraid the GTL values in your other thread will not help you. If you click the link in my sig you will find the GTL's needed to run at 4.6ghz are completely different from that list. This could be because of it being under phase anyway. I have another E8500 that is at 4.8ghz at the moment and GTL values for it are much the same as my old one. But i will also add that "clock setting fine delay" is also very very important as well. If the values there are wrong, then the clock will also fail.
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The speed of the CPU is irrelivant to GTL settings, the only thing that is connected is the VTT voltage setting. See here for more details... http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17865450
I take it then you did'nt bother to check my OCDB link. I did'nt say that cpu speed had anything to do with GTL settings. In a round about way i was saying that the values in your chart simply will not work. When you get your phase unit set up, you will see exactly what i mean. Try using that chart to set GTL values will result in instant BSODS as soon as you run Orthos/Prime. I know because i have a stable system with my values, and imputing yours caused an immediate BSOD in Orhtos.