rig advice.

[DooMeR]

I'm looking to upgrade this time next year, new mobo cpu, ram and so on.

I am happy with my current rig it can run all my games maxed out at 1920x1200 so should last me a year (i hope).

The 1 problem i have is my ram and mobo, My mobo seems a bit unstable with 4 gig a problem which seems common with asus boards.

I'm temped to get a new mobo however all the other ddr2 sli mobos are all asus on ocuk and report simliar problems to the ones i am having.

So i have a few options get a new mobo and ddr3 ram which would properly cost me 300 quid or more, whcih seems a bit of a waste with the new sockets out.

Drop down to 2 gig of ram, how much in game performance would i lose ?

Or buy some new ram and hope it works with 4gig.

Or just put up with the random crashes, since i can usally get many hours of gaming in before i get a crash.

I dont know what to do so any advice suggestions will be welcome.

 

[DooMeR]

Do any of the p-45 boards have sli support, seems like they support crossfire rather then sli

 

[DooMeR]

If you are running 4x sticks of ram have you tried increasing the NB voltage a notch or two? The reason being that 4x sticks generally put the NB under more pressure, especially if overclocking.

I havn't tried this, i have the nb volts set to auto i have no clue what the default nb voltages are so i wouldnt know what to set it too, shall i jsut check what its set to auto and increase it a notch or 2?

I check the asus webstie see if the voltages are on there.

 

[DooMeR]

I have set it 2 1.35 it was running at 1.33/1.34 in auto

I'll give me pc a good hammering tonight see if i get any problems.

 

[DooMeR]

After a long gaming session i was gaming all night, i got a bsod after playing gta 4 for about 3-4 hours. the temps of my ram, mobo cpu and graphics cards all seemed fine.

my mobo was auto volting at 1.53 volts by the way i have now increased it to 1.60v so hopefully that will help.

 

[DooMeR]

1.6v is a lot to be putting through the NB. It must be getting very warm. Have you set the correct voltage and timings for your ram?

Yeah reccomend ram timings is 2.1 v maximum 2.4 v, i have set them slighty higher for 4 gig, its at like 2.15 or something.

Like i said my nb was auto volting at 1.53 volts, My sb was also at the same voltage. You think thats whats causing the problems maybe ?

Any idea what they should be at ? after i got my crash i checked the mobo temp in the bios and it was at 33c
i would have thought if the mobo was getting hot or over heating it wouldnt be that low right after a crash.

I'm gonna look into it more on google.

 

[DooMeR]

I have set the nb to 1.45v and my sb is at the lowest settign at 1.5v and so far so good . I ran prime for 1-2 hours and it was fine. Also tryied various games and benchmarks and no crashes as of yet

Does a small change in volts really make that much of a differance?

My mobo has a habbit of settign the volts to high on auto it did the same with my cpu.

 

[DooMeR]

My cpu is set at 1.35 volts its the lowest i seem to be able to get it to get my overclock stable.

I'm still having problems booting with 4 gig of ram, If i turn my pc off for any length of time i have to take a stick out, increase ram volts put the stick back in then lower the volts back, to get it to boot its annoying having to do this everytime. Any ideas what might be causing this? I suppose i could live with it if the crashes stop. I had this ram working fine for many months before it started doing this.

Maybe its something to do with the bios as i had to update it a few months back to get my cpu working.

But so far no crashes allthough it has been very cold recently so that might be helping a little.

 

[DooMeR]

I was playing the new legendary demo and my pc jsut turned its self off, no crash or bsod or anything, its never done that before, increased the nb to 1.50v

Going to play tf2 for a few hours see how it holds up.