Recent content by ShadowFlareX

Ok, I found a real picture of the motherboard under Tom Hardware's review... and shockingly the manual and that link to the picture I posted above are WRONG! Comparison, BIOS Chip on top left-corner of motherboard: On Manual: http://i.testfreaks.co.uk/imag...ima-series.1030269.jpg...

Thanks rac, I'll look forward to it.

Hi all, I felt I've just had the worst day.... Long story ahead... if you don't feel like reading, please just read the last 2 paragraphs. I have bought this Shuttle SX48P2 Deluxe along with a gigantic GTX 285 to go with it. It was a really tight fit but I managed to get it in... then I...

Q9550 is 8.5x, it's Q9450 that has 8x multiplier :)

Really have to live out my Q9450 @ 3.6GHz, so I'll take maybe whatever is after Nehalem probably.

Note that Vista will hurt your fps compared to XP though.

Yeah, we need power saving measures when we overclock as well. Heck, is there any other reason to get an expensive ASUS mobo other than to overclock it? :D I run Vista64 too, AISuite kinda worked, just that it blue-screened my system randomly whenever I enable the power-saving features. System...

Hmm, my understanding is system RAM wouldn't cause graphical glitches, but your graphics card's RAM would. If your system RAM can't handle certain overclock, your PC would just BSOD/freeze/crash. What OS do you use? It could be some graphical settings causing it and not your overclock. Or...

I've just checked my DRAM Controller Voltage REF, it's set to "DDR2_REF" and in-BIOS Hardware Monitor reads 0.992V. A little 0.048V difference shouldn't cause problems, right? Although... I was reading This Anandtech review, and at the bottom of that page, last screenshot, you'll see the DRAM...

Got the same memory on my Rampage Formula, 4 sticks of them at 1080MHz 5-5-5-15 2.0V, stable and runs just barely warm, love them.

Q6600 was only up to 3GHz with safe temps due to high ambient room temp (30C+ / 90F+). My rank in TA is probably somewhere in the 4 digits zone, been skipping crunching for a bit since my system eats up some 340 Watts whenever crunching and it's not so good for the electricity bill :( But I...

If you really think it's the RAM, try running memtest, maybe some bad memory address.

I have the same mobo and used the PC2 8500 Ballistix Tracers Crucial RAMs too on the mobo, 4 sticks too. Basically you can manually set the DRAM Command Rate to 2N, RAM timings in the 1st Information to 4-4-4-12 and let the rest of the RAM timings to Auto, pretty much applies to any RAM. Don't...

Just dropping by :) Been crunching for SETI@Home since 2003, finally got psyched up with Q6600... and even more with my Q9450. Using the 64-bit BOINC and 64-bit optimized science app AK v8.0 SSSE3x. Runs satisfyingly fast, completing each WU between around 30-45 mins, running 4 processes...

I'm doing SETI@Home right now, trying to catch a glimpse of what's out there :laugh: I have been looking at Folding@Home but thought I stick with S@H for now since I've been crunching for S@H since 2003 :D Thank you for the offer though, I'll stop by the Distributed Computing forum :)