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2005 · #181 Post by **2005** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:12 pm

Man that case if FUGLY...

Im in a big dilema for a case here. I dont want something thats a peice of shit and made of cheap material. I dont want something that looks like shit either and at most cost 100$.

Seems like no such case exists.... and ones that are close have no 120mm slots.

#182 Post by **palmboy5** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:51 pm

just spend more on case, its important

#183 Post by **palmboy5** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:32 pm

kinda to 2005:
the RAM likes lower voltage, still running at 265x8, and 2.65V was far more stable than 2.7-2.9V, one of the primes still failed after 18 hours though, but it was the non-RAM using one so i dunno whats going on, my CPU?? cant be..

well im trying 2.6V and so far its doing better than 2.9V's record of crashing in 2 minutes

2005 · #184 Post by **2005** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:29 am

If the rams the problem then dont run it at 265. Use that A64 divider program I gave you and run it on a divider. Anythings thats OC'ed will need more juice after so much. I think the reason that your X2 is failing is due to heat. I would wait until you get the 9500 and just run at a modest OC for now. Personally the bandwidth difference isnt that great and it losens the timings (something that AMD's are supposed to thrive upon).

#185 Post by **palmboy5** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:31 am

http://www.gigaram.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=62

"I have since lowered voltage to 2.5 and it is now finally running at 3-4-3-8 DDR500 without any errors. "

lmao, Auto is the only voltage i can choose below 2.6V...
and that means i already am providing more juice

2005 · #186 Post by **2005** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:44 pm

maybe its mobo fault..... T_T

#187 Post by **palmboy5** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:57 pm

T_T maybe, still trying, right now im doing 265x7, to make SURE its not the CPU, DIMM voltage at Auto was bad stuff, running 2.65V at that speed i got a crash in like 2 minutes, but it seemed fine starting it again... ugh dunno, only stable setting seems to be stock

I7Iz490N · #188 Post by **I7Iz490N** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:38 pm

#189 Post by **palmboy5** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:33 pm

lol

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Toledo core (250x10 @ 2500mhz)
ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe (BIOS 1009)
Gigaram mach1000 PC4000 2x1024MB (1:1, 250mhz 3-4-4-8 1T)
MSI 7800GT (stock: 400/1000)
Tagan TG480-U22
Western Digital 160GB 8MB cache 7200RPM SATA
Seagate 200GB 8MB cache 7200RPM IDE
Seagate 200GB 8MB cache 7200RPM IDE
AMD Stock cooler, non-heatpipe
Case: Antec P180

Aquamark3 88,137 <== yeah its higher, by like 2k... and wanted to post with the 'new' spec format seen here:
http://forums.amd.com/index.php?showtop ... 0&p=639217

currently trying to find out why my RAM transfer speeds are 200-300MB/s slower than others with similar setups

#190 Post by **palmboy5** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:13 am

lol NOW i know why the PC always crashed whenever i went anywhere above 250MHz FSB XD XD the HT multiplier was 4X, at 250MHz thats a nice 1000MHz... but thats 1040MHz at 260MHz... HT cant OC very well XD this makes so much sense now.

9x260 stable so far, priming. then gonna try 9x270 ^^ if i can do that im set for the RAM

2005 · #191 Post by **2005** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 9:30 am

T_T tisk tisk PB... one of the most basic rules of OC'in a 939. Never let the HTTxCL get over 1k (or 2k DDR but you dont like that ; ) ).

And why did you lower mutli to 9... I would leave it at 10 that way your FSB doesnt max out, that and it would make things easier on the ram if you dont want a divider. You know tighter ram timings are more important then bandwidth on 939.

#192 Post by **palmboy5** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 11:44 am

CPU stress failed 7:13:51
RAM stress failed 1:32:28 & 1:07:21 before that

i dont get your lower part of your post.. um, 10x260 = 2.6MHz on a non-heatpipe stock cooling?

neuralmop · #193 Post by **neuralmop** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 6:15 pm

I just wanna color.

2005 · #194 Post by **2005** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 7:10 pm

The bottom part is like this

Some mobos have a problem with higher FSB's, DFI boards being some of the only ones that will go over 300FSB.

You clocked your multi down and raised the FSB up, makeing me thing that the issue could be tha t the bus speed is too fast and that the CPU could handle 2.6ghz without too much of a problem (maybe temps to high for your likeing). So if you raise the mutli up you can lower the FSB while keeping the same clockspeed.

For instance

9x290=2610mhz

10x260=2600mhz

Thats 30 off the FSB which is quite a bit and may make the system stable at 2600 where it wasnt at 2610. My feelings being that it wasnt the 10mhz makeing you unstable but the higher FSB speeds. Just my thoughts

#195 Post by **palmboy5** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 8:58 pm

I was not testing the CPU's overclocking capabilities. My goal was to see how high the RAM can go. To make sure only the RAM can be the issue during these tests, the CPU was clocked down to known safe speeds. Besides, currently I do not have the cooling capabilities to overclock the CPU any further without suspecting high temperature to be the culprit of instabilities.

I have finished testing the system at 10x250 w/ 2.6V RAM instead of 2.65V, it is stable. I will try again with 9x260 w/ 2.6V RAM soon. Sadly I do not have the 2.5V setting that a certain person on the GIGARAM forums said worked perfectly with.