My conroe overclock :)

TomL · 26 Dec 2006 at 21:07

Jokester said:
Depends on what your RAM settings are, the motherboard defaults may not be the correct settings.

Jokester

Help me find the correct settings *whimpers*

tonyyeb · 26 Dec 2006 at 21:52

TomL said:
Help me find the correct settings *whimpers*

It looks like faulty ram to me. Reset bios to defaults, then set ram ratio to 2.0 and 5-5-5-18. Set your CPU at stock volts and stock FSB. Run orthos on blend. If it fails, swap the modules round and try again.

If it fails again try running mem test.

I have almost identical hardware to you and mine works fine on those settings when tested with orthos in blend mode.

EDIT: Apart from gfx card we HAVE identical hardware!

TomL · 26 Dec 2006 at 22:20

tonyyeb said:
It looks like faulty ram to me. Reset bios to defaults, then set ram ratio to 2.0 and 5-5-5-18. Set your CPU at stock volts and stock FSB. Run orthos on blend. If it fails, swap the modules round and try again.

If it fails again try running mem test.

I have almost identical hardware to you and mine works fine on those settings when tested with orthos in blend mode.

EDIT: Apart from gfx card we HAVE identical hardware!

There's other settings for the RAM, do I not take them off auto aswell? Should I have VDIMM on +0.3v?

tonyyeb · 26 Dec 2006 at 22:38

TomL said:
There's other settings for the RAM, do I not take them off auto aswell? Should I have VDIMM on +0.3v?

I have mine at +0.4 i think

TomL · 26 Dec 2006 at 22:56

tonyyeb said:
I have mine at +0.4 i think

And you leave all your other RAM timings on auto?

trojan698 · 26 Dec 2006 at 23:22

Bear in mind they're only guaranteed to run at 800Mhz @ 4-4-4-12, in no way are you guaranteed to stably run them at 880Mhz. Are the timings set manually in the bios? You could try adjusting the vdimm, my sticks are perfectly stable at 500Mhz on 2.1v (+0.3v) yet become unstable at 2.2v (+0.4v) at the same frequency and timings. You should be able to get away with a lower vcore too. Try setting the PCIe frequency to 100 if you havent done so already.

TomL · 27 Dec 2006 at 01:33

I ran memtest86 for an hour, having never used it before here's what I wrote down:

errors: 2216000
pass: 1
time: 1:05
cache on
ECC off
test std
ECC errors: 0

Rebooted into Bios and went into Power Management, and saw DDR18V: Fail, in red letters. I had set the DIMM to +0.4v. Changed DIMM to +0.3v, rebooted into Bios and DDR18V reported "OK".

Ran memtest86 for another hour, here's what I wrote down:

errors: 0
pass: 3
time: 1:05

Someone care to enlighten me?

And then I ran Orthos on Blend, 5 minutes in:

FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4
Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file.
Torture Test ran 5 minutes 18 seconds - 1 errors, 0 warnings.
Execution halted.

trojan698 · 27 Dec 2006 at 02:11

Mine do the same (well, I'm not sure about memtest but are no longer prime stable) it could be down to excess heat but I'm inclined to think it's the board as D9 memory usually eats volts. At least your memory is now stable, are you still running at 3080MHz? IMO you should drop the CPU voltage down to 1.325v (stock), increase FSB & GMCH to +0.1v and try running orthos again.

IMO the guide in the motherboard forum could be a tad better written and I'm not entirely keen on the advised method.

furnace · 27 Dec 2006 at 02:18

One question I've asked a few times and it's gone unanswered (would appreciate an answer if you're reading this and you know!) is what is the MCH voltage, and why would I need to up the MCH and FSB voltage?

I can understand the need to up the RAM (vDimm) and CPU (vCore), but am unsure about the above.

I'm getting the computer in 2 days now so advice is appreciated

TomL · 27 Dec 2006 at 03:15

trojan698 said:
Mine do the same (well, I'm not sure about memtest but are no longer prime stable) it could be down to excess heat but I'm inclined to think it's the board as D9 memory usually eats volts. At least your memory is now stable, are you still running at 3080MHz? IMO you should drop the CPU voltage down to 1.325v (stock), increase FSB & GMCH to +0.1v and try running orthos again.

IMO the guide in the motherboard forum could be a tad better written and I'm not entirely keen on the advised method.

I've never tried running at 3GHz, I think you think that I am the OP

arfur · 27 Dec 2006 at 09:48

My E6400 has run at 3.2 (400x8) from the day I had it on AUTO volts (1.2v I think), my GEIL 6400 runs at 1000mhz

perfectly stable .... guess I'm lucky

TomL · 27 Dec 2006 at 13:38

arfur said:
My E6400 has run at 3.2 (400x8) from the day I had it on AUTO volts (1.2v I think), my GEIL 6400 runs at 1000mhz perfectly stable .... guess I'm lucky

Can you run Blend on Orthos for more than an hour?

arfur · 27 Dec 2006 at 18:33

not tried it but it primes, runs BF2 and 06 without any issues, thats good enough for me,

jongeeone · 27 Dec 2006 at 18:36

your geil runs at 1000mhz? very nice idd

maybe i may get some more out of mine

D

tonyyeb · 27 Dec 2006 at 18:38

jongeeone said:
your geil runs at 1000mhz? very nice idd maybe i may get some more out of mine D

470 should be easily do-able (making 3.3ghz). Quite a few people have that stable.

TomL · 27 Dec 2006 at 19:12

arfur said:
not tried it but it primes, runs BF2 and 06 without any issues, thats good enough for me,

You see I can do this too, I receive no crashes/BSOD's/errors in normal Windows use, but Orthos will return errors, maybe I shouldn't worry about it?

jongeeone · 27 Dec 2006 at 22:47

Erm if you can do what you want then no, but RMA your ram any way

TomL · 27 Dec 2006 at 23:40

jongeeone said:
Erm if you can do what you want then no, but RMA your ram any way

I've been running Memtest86+ for 3 hours and its come up with 3 errors in 8 passes, all in the same memory address, good enough reason to RMA?

tonyyeb · 28 Dec 2006 at 09:32

TomL said:
I've been running Memtest86+ for 3 hours and its come up with 3 errors in 8 passes, all in the same memory address, good enough reason to RMA?

If it was my memory i would have sent it back by now.

arfur · 28 Dec 2006 at 18:55

what speed are you getting the errors at? if your getting the errors at or below stock speeds then yes return it, if your getting them at overclock speeds then I doubt you'll be able to RMA it as it runs at the specified speed.