Orthos - FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4

[Messiah Khan]

So we're talking about heat, not instability. Ok, sorry, I got confused.

Hehe, my sarcasm detector seems to be beeping. But your right, its temperature and to some extend electro migration that damages hardware, no instablility. Having said that, instability can cause data corruption and loss so its not entirely risk free. But if done correctly, and tested well then overclocking is relatively safe.

 

[simonnance]

heat can cause instability, but instability can also be caused by insufficient power being supplied to the chip for the operating frequency you are asking of it. Sometimes this will cause the comp not to boot, other times boot and restart, and more dangerously, boot, not restart, but STILL be unstable, which can silently corrupt data used by your system.

 

[MoodyB]

Btw. Im running a silent Scythe Ninja Rev. B (No Fan on)

Put a fan on it if you're trying to get 3ghz+ out of your cpu. The Ninja is a good heatsink, but running it passively cooled with an overclocked cpu is not the best idea.

 

[Jaaay]

Put a fan on it if you're trying to get 3ghz+ out of your cpu. The Ninja is a good heatsink, but running it passively cooled with an overclocked cpu is not the best idea.

Not sure how to actually attempt to put it in a DS3.. Everything gets in the way of the huge thing. Ram sockets etc. I'll try now and see what i can do.

 

[Jaaay]

Ive got the Scythe Ninja fan on now.
Lower temps

Upping my vcore still isnt working though, do i need to up any other of the other voltages or keep them at normal?
Ive tried 3.2Ghz (410) @ 1.45v i think it is, well the highest 1.45 setting.
Still wont pass or even boot if i change the voltages.
Running 3.2Ghz now with all voltages on AUTO it boots, but i dont think its stable.

 

[smsmasters]

Ive got the Scythe Ninja fan on now.
Lower temps

Upping my vcore still isnt working though, do i need to up any other of the other voltages or keep them at normal?
Ive tried 3.2Ghz (410) @ 1.45v i think it is, well the highest 1.45 setting.
Still wont pass or even boot if i change the voltages.
Running 3.2Ghz now with all voltages on AUTO it boots, but i dont think its stable.

Try 1.5V at least, the vdroop makes it lower than what it really is.
Vdimm 2.1V
Set NB to 1.45V.

 

[Big.Wayne]

Ive tried 3.2Ghz (410) @ 1.45v i think it is, well the highest 1.45 setting.
Still wont pass or even boot if i change the voltages.
Running 3.2Ghz now with all voltages on AUTO it boots, but i dont think its stable.

Hi Jay™

surely 3.2GHz is 8x400, you wrote 410? In your boots I would start again, and I would 'manually' set most the of the voltages to a low value and off you go, slowly crank it up.

You need to find out how fast your motherboard can run, how fast your memory can run and finally how fast your processor can run, its not a good idea to try to find this out all at the same time!

It's easy to get the impression that overclocking is a doodle and I guess it is when you know how, but when your starting it isn't easy, best to read up what other people are doing and take lots of notes.

[edit] oh btw don't worry about the details when Orthos Prime fails (I noticed you were pasting lines and lines of results from that program). If it errors you just know something is wrong deep down!

 

[Jaaay]

Hi Jay™

surely 3.2GHz is 8x400, you wrote 210? In your boots I would start again, and I would 'manually' set most the of the voltages to a low value and off you go, slowly crank it up.

You need to find out how fast your motherboard can run, how fast your memory can run and finally how fast your processor can run, its not a good idea to try to find this out all at the same time!

It's easy to get the impression that overclocking is a doodle and I guess it is when you know how, but when your starting it isn't easy, best to read up what other people are doing and take lots of notes.

[edit] oh btw don't worry about the details when Orthos Prime fails (I noticed you were pasting lines and lines of results from that program). If it errors you just know something is wrong deep down!

Thanks for replying.

I think im stable at 3.279Ghz (410x8.0) and 1.3250v. Been running Orthos for an hour now.

 

[Big.Wayne]

surely 3.2GHz is 8x400, you wrote 410?

Edit, oops I wrote 210 when I meant to say 410.