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    ASUS M5A97 R2.0 FSB max @ 300 Mhz?

    Hello, I have managed to overclock the ASUS M5A97 R2.0 to a bus speed (FSB) of 300 MHz using the phenom x6 1045T. But the second I try and set the bus speed (FSB) a bit higher like 305 MHz, windows keeps crashing! Would this be a limitation of the board since it's a 4+2 power...
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    FP241VW downscaling to 1680x1050

    Hello, I have a FP241VW connected to my MAIN pc using a DVI cable and 1920x1200 is sublime. Now i built a new linux pc with a PCI-E MSI N210 (geforce 210) card with a HDMI port and I connected it to the LCD with an HDMI cable. My LCD is at 1:1 setting But it won't display at...
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    Low Benches with my XFX HD 4890

    Yeah I HAZ A BEAST you think you are cool with you're big talk idiot. I am using DDR2 , and everyone knows adding more of anything will boost performance genius. And at least I am not using a crappy 80GB IDE hard drive lol.
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    Low Benches with my XFX HD 4890

    You got RMA from XFX or your Vendor? I am still waiting for a response from XFX to see if I will RMA it as well.
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    Low Benches with my XFX HD 4890

    I confirmed at these timings 4-4-4-12 the speed has to be lowered to 400Mhz and I saw no increase at all in the benchmarks. Oh yeah I also confirmed the Rops = 16 and shaders = 800 so that too is ok. :frown:
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    Low Benches with my XFX HD 4890

    Oh sorry my current mem timings are: 5-5-5-16 are those better? or they have to be tighter? I will try using 4-4-4-12
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    Low Benches with my XFX HD 4890

    Ok I will check the shaders and ROPS tonight. And for the Winrar speed, well i got 2 new Seagates 7002.12 500GB and I formated a 60gb partition on 1 of them and installed a fresh Vista install with SP1 *********** My original tests were with the 2 drives in raid0 on a 60gb partition...
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    Low Benches with my XFX HD 4890

    Ok the energy savings are off in bios, and in WinRAR I am getting around 2074 Kb/sec. AA/AF in the ATI control panel are disabled. My CPU Temp at 3.6Ghz is 60 degrees celcius on the hottest core the other cores run cooler around 58. The CPU voltage is at 1.52 to 1.536v when...
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    Low Benches with my XFX HD 4890

    Ok I will double check all that but I am sure it's all good.
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    XFX HD4890 Voltage Regulator

    By just looking at my HD-489A-ZDFC , it doesn't look like the same pcb as the powercolor or the amaze. ARGGGHHHHHH !!!! :disgust:
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    XFX HD4890 Voltage Regulator

    Any idea on how to do any hard volt mods on the xfx card?
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    Low Benches with my XFX HD 4890

    Ok I will accept that 3D Mark is too old for my card , but in 3D Mark Vantage test I only get around P7450 points , with my CPU at 3,6Ghz and i know THAT score is way too low for the 4890. Am i right?
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    XFX HD4890 Voltage Regulator

    Great, from all the 4890's I had to buy one that doesn't have the reference design hence NO Voltera 1165 chip. Does anybody know what chip this crappy XFX card uses? and if it's possible to raise the core voltage? Thanks! :|
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    Low Benches with my XFX HD 4890

    The only reason I bought the card really is to bench it. The game I play 90% of the time is online chess, and that doesn't required a hd4890 :D
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    Low Benches with my XFX HD 4890

    Now I know it can't be my CPU This bench is very close to mine: http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=862717 and his CPU score is lower than mine, but his 2 GPU scores are way higher So it has to be an issue with the card, or drivers or chipset, wow it's gonna be a long night...
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    Low Benches with my XFX HD 4890

    Hello, I just started testing the waters with my new HD 4890, but the scores seem low I am guessing my CPU is the bottleneck but need to know for sure. So i have the 2 new Seagate 500gb's in Raid0 I have a Q6600 clocked at 3.78Ghz and 2GB of Patriot Ram running at 1008Mhz DDR The...
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    Silverstone FM121 fan and Pot Controller

    Ok i calculated the pot included with the FM-121 fan it's range is : 0 Ohms to 10K Ohms Now i calculated the resistance of the fan at 30 Ohms and for me to get the fan down to 7VDC (it's starting voltage) I need to add about 22 Ohms So i guess a Pot of 20 Ohms should be perfect...
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    Silverstone FM121 fan and Pot Controller

    Hello, I find the stock Pot on the FM121 not too precise. Hence I want to change it with a potentionmeter that is more precise, can anyone tell me what potentionmeter I will need for this, like what range? Thanks Chris
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    Silverstone FM121 fans on Fan Controller

    Hello, I have 4 Silverstone FM121 fans, that i want to use with this controller: Scythe KM01-BK "KAZE MASTER" 5.25" Bay Fan Controller - Black These FM121 fans have their own controller. Can I just cut the wires to the fan's included pot, and solder it to the Scythe's pins...
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    Power Supply and amperes

    I want to sooooo much, but i probably won't, I don't want to lose the chip and I need to start packing to move anyways, so I guess I'll wait.
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    Power Supply and amperes

    Ok, I raised the voltage back up to 1.744 V, and cranked the FSB to 420 Mhz for a cpu speed of : 3.78 Ghz I booted into Windows and launched Prime95 on all 4 cores, ran it , and wow to my surprise it did not reboot. I ran it for about 5min, with no errors, hence maybe i have something good...
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    Power Supply and amperes

    Ok, I am back, it took a while but I finally bought myself a new PSU with a single 12V rail. I got the Corsair TX750W PSU. 60A on the single +12V rail. So i had to switch that and 4 new fans , which took a while so I did a quick overclock test to see what happens. Hence I ran Prime95...
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    ---------- Quad Overclock Thread! ----------

    Ok I'm working on Prime 95 stable. It's stable at 3645 Mhz, I will try and get Prime95 stable closer to the 4Ghz, but I finally believe my PSU is blocking me since it's 12v rails aren't giving me the Amps I require AAAARGH!. IT has 1 dedicated rail @ 18 Amps for the cpu, and per the...
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    Power Supply and amperes

    Yeah I know, I have to solder a potentionmeter to get it lower , but that's another story. The strange thing is that I have a wattage meter connected to the pc's power cable, and the max amps that I saw on the meter was only 3.04 amps, does that make sense? Is there any such thing as ac...
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    Power Supply and amperes

    I am overclocking my Q6600 and have hit a wall staying stable at 4Ghz. The voltage I'm feeding it is 1.744 I can run stable at 3.6Ghz , but anything over that, the system will boot into windows up to 4Ghz, but any attempt to run Prime95 the pc restarts automatically closer to the 3.8 -...
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    Idle voltage is way too low on my +12v psu rails!

    Thanks Zepper, I'll hunt for the Gigabyte app. to verify the voltages.
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    Idle voltage is way too low on my +12v psu rails!

    I have the Antec Phantom 500W psu. It has 2x +12v rails, one is at 18A the other at 17A. Now I am in the process of overclocking my Q6600. It's stable right now at 3.6Ghz. But when I load windows and I check the voltage on the +12v rail, I get a reading of about 3.46v. I get the same...
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    ---------- Quad Overclock Thread! ----------

    Hey swtethan, how do i update the list ? , I want to be ontop of the list with my 4GHz.
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    Yet another Q6600 OC thread...

    My Q6600 G0, will do 9X400 easy. on a gigabyte P35-DS3R I set it to 1.6 volts in the bios. north bridge at +0.3v FSB at +0.3v The ram I set it to 2.5 multiplier, and voltage at +0.7v And at 3.6 Ghz it's orthos stable. UPDATE (last night) I ran Orthos X4 for each core , it...
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    ---------- Quad Overclock Thread! ----------

    Well the post never said that it has to be prime stable. I too doubt it will withstand prime testing. But I can get into Windows and do my surfing , play yahoo chess, listen to music, post on this forum, etc. and it doesn't crash. Below is some proof url's: WPrime...
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    is it worth lapping ur CPU?

    I think it's worth it, but it's not as clear cut as they say on the websites. I lapped both my q6600 & my ultra-120 extreme. And my load temps reduced by 5 degrees celcius for each core. I think it's worth it. But the problem in this lapping business is that I believe if the surface...
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    Q6600 owners... what is your VID

    Mine is a G0 w/ a VID of 1.3000v
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    Gigabyte P35-DS3R missing cpu voltages

    Can anyone confirm if they have the following CPU voltage options in their P35-DS3R BIOS: 1.7v & 1.9v In my Bios I have up to 1.6v, then it jumps to : 1.8v and the next one is 2.0v. I do not have any 1.7v or 1.9v selections, and they should be there. I really want to try...
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    Q6600 "GO" processor system build

    I have my Q6600 G0 running at up to 3.87 Ghz 430 FSB, it's not Orthos stable but i can do all my windows stuff so it's ok. at that speed i have the chip running with 1.6v MOBO --> Gigabyte P35-DS3R rev. 1.0
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    Gigabyte P35 Motherboard Thread

    Hey Maxtr0sity, the exact same thing hapenned to me after i set the cpu voltage to 1.8v. Same stupid loop. but 1 of the following 2 things fixed it (I can't remember which one) : I cleared the bios for about 1-2 min. then rebooted. or I cleared the bios for about 1-2 min...
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    Gigabyte P35 Motherboard Thread

    Yup, I got the P35-DS3R and the Q6600. And I am very pleased with the results. To give you an idea on how far you can push FSB with the 9x multi, I can go to 430 mhz and it will boot into windows and not crash unless i run orthos or play a game (for a while). I usually will keep it at...