Lost my Overclocks with an RMA'd Board.

mc_bob · 2 Apr 2006 at 21:08

Mr Mister said:
LOL 4.5 would be a bit far.

What hsf you got?

Stock with a dab of AS5 (which makes no difference on this kind of cooling might I add).

MC_Bob

james.miller · 2 Apr 2006 at 21:10

well your temps are surely misreading for a start. 35c @ 1.5v 2.6ghz on a venice is almost impossible on the stock HS

sablabra · 2 Apr 2006 at 21:15

james.miller said:
well your temps are surely misreading for a start. 35c @ 1.5v 2.6ghz on a venice is almost impossible on the stock HS

If it's idle or prime95 fails after only a few seconds it could be right

. If you look at the image he posted, the test ran for 0 minutes.

PC-M Vip3r · 2 Apr 2006 at 21:18

Aint it a Manchester core though?

mc_bob · 2 Apr 2006 at 21:47

Well at the moment the place where the Computer is its 20C according to a temperature probe on my Multimeter

I dropped the volts down to 1.375 since it wasnt stable and 2.5Ghz

Will keep you updated.
And I dont understand why its telling me its a manchester core, i bought a venice :confused:

MC_Bob

james.miller · 2 Apr 2006 at 21:50

well 20c isnt taken from the core is it? not when you have a heatspreader and/or a heastink in the way, besides that still wouldnt explain the low readings. 20c is room tempreature you know.

mc_bob · 3 Apr 2006 at 07:57

I don't get this, I left 3DMark05 on run and no crashes and I've been gaming.
I backed up to 2.5Ghz on 1.4v and still it fails prime, could it be drivers?
Are there any other things that could be wrong?
My ram is on a 166 divider.

MC_Bob

mc_bob · 3 Apr 2006 at 18:43

Hi,
I just had a look at nTune and found this.

Ive only got 4 slots.
And I dont use nTune for OC'ing just monitering, Definately something wrong with my board?

MC_Bob

Maybe rearrange the order my memory sticks are? EG fill up slot 2+3 instead?

mc_bob · 3 Apr 2006 at 19:45

Please help me out people, Im going to try moving the sticks about.
Do you think its worth reflashing the BIOS?

MC_Bob

chopchop · 4 Apr 2006 at 00:20

its most likely u just being a pussy and not giving the cpu enough voltage.
1.55v WONT KILL IT INSTANTLY, so just try it!!!!

Gashman · 4 Apr 2006 at 00:56

yeah im with the others on this, i have 3200+ venice as well, and mine runs at 2.6ghz perfectly stable but only when i took voltage up a bit, mines at 1.5v i think, but its worth saying overclocks don't always go haywire just because of CPU, other componants might not be liking it

CaDLoN · 4 Apr 2006 at 15:44

Dunno how it's seeing it as a Manchester core, not unless less it's magic'd it's self into an X2

mc_bob · 4 Apr 2006 at 16:09

CaDLoN said:
Dunno how it's seeing it as a Manchester core, not unless less it's magic'd it's self into an X2

Hmm, May reflash, then start flowing the volts through it

, So I'm being told to anyway.

Thanks for your help people. Ill post with results.

MC_Bob

gunner · 4 Apr 2006 at 17:18

I've got my 3000 Venice at 2.65 but it needs 1.52V to make it stable tho.

Is your RAM stable with mem test? That can bottle neck high clocks too. I used to fail Prime until I tried G.Skill RAM

....Just my 2p's worth.

mc_bob · 4 Apr 2006 at 17:29

gunner said:
I've got my 3000 Venice at 2.65 but it needs 1.52V to make it stable tho.

Is your RAM stable with mem test? That can bottle neck high clocks too. I used to fail Prime until I tried G.Skill RAM

....Just my 2p's worth.

Ive got my Ram on a divider, its near enough working at stock.

MC_Bob

Gashman · 4 Apr 2006 at 17:51

my rams set to 200mhz as well cause it won't go much higher i don't think, but me processor seems content at 1.5v, not only 1 or 2 degrees above stock with zalman cooler

mc_bob · 4 Apr 2006 at 19:04

Hi,
I gave it 1.55v but still the same results, I'm beginning to doubt its the overclock, something else is wrong.
Ive started running memtest with the CPU still at 2.6 but with 1.4v and currently no errors.

Since it was giving an error back in prime straight away there must be something else causing it, maybe in windows?
And suggestions appreciated. Also, it has never crashed with these clocks and volts. Should I go to an older BIOS?

MC_Bob

mc_bob · 4 Apr 2006 at 19:56

This is weird, Its been on for 1hr 24mins and no errors.

I think I may just leave it, to me its something not setup right.

Suggestions, I know I keep asking but Im running out of Ideas ?!?!

MC_Bob

EDIT - Looks like the host has gone down

but Ives explaned the pics in the posts.

Cheers

Gashman · 4 Apr 2006 at 21:54

does it clock to 2.6, like can you play games and stuff on it without any problems, if you can it sounds like the problem is with memtest, prime or whatever, if it works at 2.6 without crashing, BSOD or anything i think you should just tell prime, memtest where to stick it, no problems with my setup and i haven't ever ran memtest, prime, 3d mark or anything :rolleyes:

mc_bob · 5 Apr 2006 at 22:10

Gashman said:
does it clock to 2.6, like can you play games and stuff on it without any problems, if you can it sounds like the problem is with memtest, prime or whatever, if it works at 2.6 without crashing, BSOD or anything i think you should just tell prime, memtest where to stick it, no problems with my setup and i haven't ever ran memtest, prime, 3d mark or anything

Haha, alright cool, Thanks

Just as a sidenote, SuperPi runs the tests no problems. Unstable system usually wont complete the test.

Thanks

MC_Bob