can a bad mobo do this?

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SooTyLaD

SooTyLaD

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right...

as a few of you who have read my threads, i have been under the impression that i have had a lot of bad luck in terms of the quality of components i have purchased for my latest build...

• the cpu is very voltage hungry (1.55v to get 3.4gig)

• the ram required loads of volts before it even thought about running stable (that was the cellshock which got RMAd) and the new ballistix also requires 2.6 volts to run stable at 945 4-4-4-12

• the mobo is always doing that cycle reboot thing...

could it all actually be the fact that i have a bad mobo? at the end of the day what are the odds of having a cpu, and two sets of ram that are voltage hungry bad clockers... noones that unlucky right?
 
When my DS4 had the cycle problem i actually narrowed it down to the RAM as it booted fine with a generic stick that only needed 1.8v.

Flashing to the latest BIOS sorted it tho with the Geil
 
I have the same m/b, and have no problems with it. The cpu runs alittle hot, and needs 1.37 for 3.4. The re-cylce does sound like the memory. When I had the geil stuff, I got that problem with this setup, I changed to the crucial and it's been great.

The best settings for me are

488 fsb @ 7
Core 1.37
memory 4.4.4.10 +.4 (2.2)
pci-e @ 105

I gave the fsb (g)mch +.15
pcie +.05

The chip does 3.6 using the x8 multi but runs a lot hotter (62-65 underload), and 3.5 using the x9 multi. both need volts above 1.38.

It might be worth trying the x7 multi.
 
see what your saying sounds about right... i need 1.55v for 3.4 but where you need 1.38 for 3.6 i need 1.675 :eek:

it cant be the RAM cuz like i said i already RMAd the cellshock and the ballistix are my second set...
 
What stepping is the cpu? I only need 1.3v (set to 1.325 just in case) for 3.4 with my L692B, some cores really stink though :D Have you upgraded the BIOS.
 
ok so we've established the cpu stepping is bad, so that accounts for the voltage greedyness of the cpu...

but what about the ram then? both cellshock and ballistix require much more volts than everyone else says... this cant be a three-way bad component coincidence... the motherboard is the common facter does no one agree?

i'm seroiusly considering cutting my losses and moving up to an EVGA 680 board, i just want something solid as a rock! - do you guys really not thing the mobo is causing any problems?
 
w3bbo said:
It might be the motherboard if its undervolting.
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do you mean the motherboard is not supplying the volts i'm asking it too? is there any way of checkin this?

all in know is in everest, it states my cpu is at 1.488v when in fact its set to 1.55... but we've already established even 1.488 is bad but i have a bad stepper...

is this what you mean w3bbo?
 
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