Recent content by slashandburn

Yup. Quite happy at 3.8ghz, Ram at 1866and northbridge 1800mhz. Thanks for all your help!

Sorry I replied before seeing your comment. Black socket is usually rear speakers (for a surround sound configuration). I'm guessing windows is trying to output to 5.1 or 7.1 when you really want 2.0 (stereo). Glad you're hearing things now. If you're not happy with leaving the dummy jack in...

Try disabling spdif, then uninstall your realtek/Asus audio drivers and reboot. Goto windows update, let it check for updates and look for an audio driver. Install it. Reboot. There's some "general" realtek HD audio drivers on their webpage that might be worth a punt if that desnt help you...

Control panel>hardware and sound>sound Whats being listed as default under the "playback" tab? If that isn't turning up any clues, how many Audio devices are you seeing listed in Device Manager? Same info on DXDiAG. (Sound tabs) The fact that if you boot to Linux it just works suggest...

Thanks, that's pretty much what I'm at now. 1.320v all seems fine and well. Fingers crossed. I'll report back.

Does that board have an HDMI out? It might be sending the audio there. I don't mean to suggest you might not have checked the default audio device.

I'm with the OP in being suspicious about the SSD. (But agree you should rule out the ram first). First time install went fine. Reboot after driver install, no work. 2nd attempt, getting drivers from web rather than CD, same issue. I'm not familiar with the win 8 install process, so can't...

I'm not familiar with that one. Google doesn't seem to be either (though I haven't had a thorough search, just a glance). Can it really be relied on to pick up on errors that HCI memtest and Memtest86 might miss?

RAM has been pretty thoroughly tested at 1866, 9-10-9-27. No errors reported by Memtest86 OR HCI Memtest86. It's Corasir Vengeance. Strangely there is no JDEC timings on the timings table for 1600Mhz, just 1333mhz (9-9-9-24) and below.Then the XMP profile for 1866mhz. But as I say. No errors...

A10-7700k - 924/2656 at 3.8Ghz with DDR-1866.

Thanks again. I'll definitely look into that. Having to run something like that after every reboot reminds me of my old Phenom 950. I'll probably be looking to push this 7700k a bit when I getmore free time. My only persisting problems are when I try to push the multiplier past 38x. That's...

That's good news then! No pressure on me to get my head round this "voltage offset" way of doing things. I think I have it sussed but I'd rather be confident this rig is stable before playing with unfamiliar voltage options. Could be the difference between "it's broken" and "I broke it". One...

I've literally just dismantled our old 939-DualSata2 system. Been running under the stairs as a file server for years.

So far so good. I'm still suspicious of this machine though. I think there's almost a part of me that actually wants it to be defective so I don't need to spend anymore time wondering if its functioning properly. But benchmarks all seem in the right ball. I'm poking around Aida64 now trying...

Now then. So far it seems okay. One thing though. My BIOS, besides the NB frequency option tells me to "maintain a NB:VRAM frequency ratio of at least 1.25:1 for proper operation". This higher speed RAM sort of breaks that ratio. Should I be running it at 1333 to get maintain this ratio? Or is...