Ultimate PC Build....

[Dr Who]

any1 else think this could be to do with the operating system
its been known to have its problems
professionalx64
any1 else agree??

Well its cooking my noggin at present...

Just random total lockups... no warning, no load, no heat... Just bosh... total screen freeze, mouse freeze etc etc...

And I had to buy the only pc case without a reset button on it... sheesh...

 

[Dr Who]

Been stable now for about an hour while downloading and playing itunes....

Have ordered XP32bit and XP Media Centre, both of which I need now I have so many PC's.. lol, will try them when they arrive...

Things I have noticed are that the V-Core voltage is extremely unstable, but I have no familiarity with AMD cool and Quiet, so was wondering if that may be the software cooling? it varies from about 1.35 to 1.45 which seems extreme to me...

Managed to get a few minutes on B&W2 running everything to the max last night, just awesome quality, hope to try half life 2 lost coast as well once Steam has finished downloading it... lol

Another worry is the amount of IRQ sharing on the system...

IRQ 0 System timer OK
IRQ 1 Ideazon PS2 Zboard OK
IRQ 6 Standard floppy disk controller OK
IRQ 8 System CMOS/real time clock OK
IRQ 9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System OK
IRQ 9 SCSI/RAID Host Controller OK
IRQ 12 Microsoft PS/2 Mouse OK
IRQ 13 Numeric data processor OK
IRQ 14 Primary IDE Channel OK
IRQ 15 Secondary IDE Channel OK
IRQ 17 ULi PCI to USB Open Host Controller OK
IRQ 18 Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition OK
IRQ 18 Intel(R) PRO/1000 MT Desktop Adapter OK
IRQ 18 ULi PCI to USB Open Host Controller OK
IRQ 19 Radeon X1900 Series OK
IRQ 19 Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS (WDM) OK
IRQ 19 ULi PCI to USB Open Host Controller OK
IRQ 19 Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller OK
IRQ 20 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller OK
IRQ 21 Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller OK


18 and 19 seem very busy... you are then very reliant on the drivers sharing properly, which I have never trusted, and was one reason why I went back to intel, as they seem to share so much less...

Anyway, I am keeping my fingers crossed now, if it all goes belly up I will get one of the new 580 boards as soon as they are instock and try that....

 

[Dr Who]

Ran Some numbers on the system with Sandra...

HTT is running at 1000mhz x2

D/S 25263 mips
W/S 9401/10696 mflops

Integer x16 38790 it/s
Floating X8 59972 it/s

RAM Bandwidth Int Buff'd iSSE2 : 4762 MB/s
RAM Bandwidth Float Buff'd iSSE2 : 4784 MB/s

Int Buff'd iSSE2 (Integer STREAM) Results Breakdown
Assignment : 4665MB/s
Scaling : 4624MB/s
Addition : 4881MB/s
Triad : 4881MB/s
Data Item Size : 16 byte(s)
Buffering Used : Yes
Offset Displacement Used : Yes
Bandwidth Efficiency : 74% (estimated)

Thats with everything stock, just downloading 3dmark 06, 05 keeps quitting out, but I guess thats down to them not supporting x64 properly yet, 06 probably do the same, but we will see...

 

[KizZ]

You should try FarCry, max res-maxed out with the 64 bit patch

 

[djunknown]

cant wait to see the numbers you get of this thin
let us know what you get - cheers

 

[Dr Who]

3DMark Score 8709 3DMarks
SM2.0 Score 3883
HDR/SM3.0 Score 4250
CPU Score 1922

Thats at 1280x1024

 

[Dr Who]

3DMark Score 9229 3DMarks
SM2.0 Score 4078
HDR/SM3.0 Score 4730
CPU Score 1926

At 1024x768

Peachy

 

[KizZ]

Sweet! With some mild overclocking you should break 10K

 

[Dr Who]

dont do overclocking anymore...

did the whole phase change thing, watercoolin, TEC's etc, and got some pretty good scores with an old p4 2.26 and an Athlon 2700, but after killing a few chips and mobos with experimental volt mods, and constantly buying mobos to get the chip faster and more stable, I decided to just spend the cash on the best hardware....

More Stable, less hassle (usually) and less worries



And it wouldnt boot at 14x, so may need to up the voltage... Thats where I draw the line

 

[Dr Who]

well it didnt last, day 3 and its all gone belly up again...

Endless lockups and freezes...

Removed the Audigy 2 after reading the asus forum, still no better....

This is so frustrating, gonna start looking for a new mobo I think...

Shoulda gone with the DFI like I first thought... Never had any luck with Asus mobo's

 

[KizZ]

Its so fast that it cant stay stable!

 

[benjo]

Asus Crossfire > DFI Crossfire

if youre having that many problems with the Asus board, the DFI would be worse.. the Crossfire chipsets atm are shocking.. should have have got the quad sli like naffa said

 

[Dr Who]

quad sli is as much use as a healed fanny...

unless you wanna run 8 monitors (ghey)



Think I have narrowed it to USB devices... hadnt noticed that when it crashed either my ipod or my smartphone were plugged in, so have removed both USB interfaces, disabled usb, and gonna try now...

Doesnt help that the alarm keeps going off to say vcore has dropped to 1.30v or gone over 1.40v...

 

[Dr Who]

Just stayed stable overnight for the first time, No USB enabled...

Tells a story

 

[Dr Who]

Been running all day now, 24hrs nearly with USB disabled...

Farcry looks the dogs doodahs at 1280x1024 with the detail maxed out...

 

[Dr Who]

Asus Crossfire > DFI Crossfire

if youre having that many problems with the Asus board, the DFI would be worse.. the Crossfire chipsets atm are shocking.. should have have got the quad sli like naffa said

That I doubt, as the problem appears to be linked to the Uli part of the board not the ATi part of the board...

DFI and Sapphire use the ATi southbridge...

 

[Dr Who]

Another update, pc is now stable for 3 days, no reboots/crashes without USB enabled..

HL2 Lost Coast stress test runs 120fps at 1280x1024 with max detail 4x AA

schweet

 

[KizZ]

Been running all day now, 24hrs nearly with USB disabled...

Farcry looks the dogs doodahs at 1280x1024 with the detail maxed out...

Screenshot please

 

[Dr Who]

Screenshot please

I took some but they look cack... nothing like what they look like on screen... must be the jpg effect