Recent content by jakegub

I've gone 1.6V on air so I would think you can do at least that. Good luck!

the xp-90c does very well and even though it only accepts up to a 92mm fan, it is not exactly outdated. If the heatsink fits the new socket types and the heatsink keeps the processor cool, then I think it is not outdated.

I was having really bad performance with my Thermalright SI-128 and all I did was remove it and add a lot more thermal paste. My heatsink/cpu must be very badly lapped because I could see it was only making contact in a very few places. When I put on more than I thought I needed, I am now at...

You want to keep your (HTT x FSB) very close but typically not over 1000. So with an HTT multiplier of 4x, 250FSB is going to be approximately your upper bound. If you want higher than 250 FSB, use a 3x HTT. The instability in SuperPi or SiSoft Sandra is just an unstable overclock more...

no that shouldn't be an issue. If using one stick doesn't help, then the problem isn't with dual channel. take all components out and reseat them (probably not the cpu)

Are you using two sticks or one? try just using one stick to see if maybe one of them is bad

twjr, for 160 US, I would just get someone in the US to buy it from Newegg for 105 and then ship it to Australia for approx 20? and then just give them 10 for the hassle? save yourself $25 maybe? Not sure what it costs to ship to an Aussie.

I haven't seen one for either board but why would the 1.0 mod not work on the 3.3? Also, the voltage is still your problem. If a 1.5V gives your 1.42, then it is just the same as a 1.42V that gives 1.42 so I wouldn't worry too much about voltages over 1.5. Cooling is your only real problem.

first convince yourself it isn't an overclocking problem. Next if you think it is a hard drive problem, disconnect all your hard drives and keep booting up from a Bart's PE disk or Ubuntu or something like that. If it boots every time without the hard drives plugged in, then i would first try...

if it is the intel stock fan, then it is not uncommon for it to not boot up immediately. As for your memory, you could try a different brand or just one of them at a time if you are using two sticks. keep us up to date with how things go

No i'm serious. Other than the box or on the IHS itself the Bin number is not recorded. That is why it is so important to get the information before you do any lapping of the cpu or throwing the box away

X-Ray Glasses or Psychic Readings would work. Other than that I'm at a loss.

I would check the 5th number. Supposedly these modules run 4-4-3-5-24 but I have found that the 24 is often too low except at stock speeds so I upped mine to 40 and it eliminated some stability problems. Some people have reported that higher voltages cause instability with these PROMOS chips...

I am using this memory currently. I bought it when it was 199 at newegg, and although it is now 105 at newegg, i'm very happy with the RAM. At stock (2.1V) I can run 450MHz at 4-4-3-5 timings. If you loosen the timings i have gone to 505MHz at 5-5-5-15. Right now I am running them...

No, Windows XP. I meant to mention that.