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    Gigabyte GA-P35 DS3L, BIOS problem won't boot (black screen)

    I posted this in the Motherboards Forum but it went unanswered so I figure this is a more appropriate forum for this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ lets start from the beginning, Recently I had a stick of RAM go bad on me and had to RMA with OCZ...
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    Gigabyte GA-P35 DS3L rev 1.0, BIOS went POOF! (no post black screen)

    lets start from the beginning, Recently I had a stick of RAM go bad on me and had to RMA with OCZ, since OCZ requires you to send back both sticks in dual channel kits, I decided it would be a good time to upgrade to 4GB so I wouldn't be without my desktop while waiting on the RMA. the memory...
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    Delusion and General Stupidity

    I'm with Idontcare on this, one, someone needs to buy AMD's chips so that Intel has to price competitively, just as long as it's not me. though I'd be just as floored if AMD released a higher end offering that could compete with Penryn and Nehalem
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    Building a new e8400 rig need massive advice!!UPDATE!!!

    I notice you mention wanting to play games like COD4 and crysis on high settings, In my personal experience with the XFX 8800GT 512MB, Processors seem to bottleneck the 8800GT at or around 3.0Ghz, I notice no real difference playing these games between 3.0Ghz, 3.2Ghz and up, since I don't...
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    can't get FSB stable

    I'll try notching up the vcore until i can get a blend test to run for a few minutes.
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    can't get FSB stable

    still looking for input, BUMP
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    can't get FSB stable

    Ok so I ran the overnight FSB testing using the prescribed settings, HARDLOCK, after approx 40 minutes, went to bed around 12:45am, came in this morning and the clock was stuck at 1:20am so this morning I tried to up the MCH and FSB voltage as suggested and now when I run blend it reboots...
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    Suggestions, please

    I would say get the E8400 if it's for gaming, right now probably the best dual core out there and at a really good price. best bet if you're not wanting to or don't feel comfortable OC'ing will get the most out of an 8800GT at stock speed of 3.0Ghz, from my experience, I was bottlenecked at...
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    Thoughts on this budget computer gaming setup

    Yes unfortunately the way video cards are now, you pretty much need a proc to run at 3.0Ghz or close to get the most out of them, I was running my Q6600 Quad at stock settings of 2.4Ghz when I first got it with my 8800GT and could play crysis, but had to tune the settings down a bit. once I'd...
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    What PSU should go with my new system? Do I really need a lot of watts?

    I've got the HX520 and I'm glad I paid a bit extra to get a modular PSU, makes a big difference with cable management, even SLI ready assuming your cards aren't power hogs.
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    PSU choice

    do you know which Antec power supply it is, they seem to have a 500w model available for 3 different product lines, if it's the earthwatts, you should be ok, dual 12v rails at 17.0a
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    can't get FSB stable

    everything seemed to be blowing when I found it, it's an Antec Nine Hundred, with 2 front fans mounted in the top and bottom positions, top to provide air flow to the CPU heatsink and mobo components. bottom to cool the power supply. side window intake to help cool VGA, 200mm top fan as...
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    Eve worth it?

    I played Eve hardcore for about a year racked up around a million skill points, before I quit I was a director in the corp I was in we had something like 150 members, though now I hear they are defunct and it's just a handful of original members left look em up ingame, they tend to be pretty...
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    can't get FSB stable

    sounds very doable I'll report back with results
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    can't get FSB stable

    [ FSB -- Put CPU/RAM at stock, and raise FSB. Test with Prime95 Blend overnight. -- If you get errors here, raise MCH/FSB voltage, and possibly RAM voltage and retest FSB When you say this are you saying that I should raise the FSB to the speed I plan on using for my OC then set CPU and...
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    can't get FSB stable

    Has anyone had issues with their antivirus or some other from of scheduled maintenance either freezing up or rebooting their PC on an overnight stress test. I started Prime95 25.5 last night to finally get my 12 hour run out of the way, so far had done, 10min, 2hour, 6hour, and when I came...
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    Can`t pass the 200MHz barrier ;(

    no problem, both of those boards are all solid state capacitors so they can take a bit more of a beating than most, they have a 1333 Mhz FSB which unless you want to fork down big money for 1600Mhz FSB, will give you plenty of headroom, and they're based in the intel P35 chipset which support...
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    E4500 first overlock :-D

    Thanks It's probably the best card I've ever had, I was playing Crysis last night on very high with xp dx9 tweaks very solid frame rates. I actually ended up bumping the FSB down this morning to 333 to give me 3.0Ghz because I can run that at stock VID of 1.2875, having trouble getting...
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    Can`t pass the 200MHz barrier ;(

    according to the specs on that link the FSB tops out at 200Mhz, my DFI PS83 socket 478 board that I built a system around in 2003 topped out at 200 also, that's not really an overclockers board. Bet this board will get you there only 60.00 after rebates, I would have got one myself but they...
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    Q6600 What's a more stable overclock

    Actually I can give you that right now but I can remote to the rig and give you both Ok I just loaded up CPU-Z and here's what were looking at, currently OC is tuned as such I've been stress testing it since last nght using prime 25.5 so I gave it a few minutes to let the cores cool...
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    Q6600 G0, Abit IP35 PRO, 2x2GB G.Skill RAM

    I was able to push my Q6600 to 3.0Ghz stable on stock Vcore which with my Gigabyte P35-DS3L was 1.2875V, I would think your board could do the same thing if not better since it's a bit pricier of a board and one of the one's I considered when building my rig. leave the multiplier at 9 but...
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    Finding a new Processor

    He's right about that, your system is based on hardware a few generation older than the current mainstream, I looked up your basic specs real quick, and for one that board runs DDR1 which is getting harder and harder to find and you could get double the performance from DDR2 for a lot less...
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    Q6600 What's a more stable overclock

    I'm going to leave it to auto for now, because atm I can't run prime for more than a minute or two without an error, that's with C1E and EIST off. might trying a few more small increments though
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    Q6600 What's a more stable overclock

    just finished a 2 hour run of prime no errors, with C1E and EIST on, though I suppose I might not see the effect of this while torture testing. the highest reading I get from CPU-Z is 1.344V and it constantly jumps from 1.344 to 1.328, I'm stilling planning on doing an overnight stability...
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    Q6600 What's a more stable overclock

    Well I just ran almost 3 hours of Prime with voltage at auto no errors no warning highest temp was 61 about 20 minutes in, then after that it leveled off around 58 for the for the rest of the run. currently running with memory tweaked from 5-5-5-15 to 4-5-5-12 still 9x355 multiplier So...
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    EU conducts antitrust raid on Intel and retailers

    I'm always conflicted by this argument, I know if I buy intel I'm contributing to them taking an even larger percentage of the market share. But at the moment and for a while now Intel has been unbeatable in the performance spectrum, and AMD even toe to toe at clock speeds still doesn't...
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    Q6600 What's a more stable overclock

    Well I realized I wasn't stress testing correctly, installed prime95 25.5, was running 24.1 and it wasn't loading me at 100%, I get an error in 1 thread after about 30 minutes at 1.312v however if I leave Vcore at auto it's stable for at least an hour. is there any harm in leaving it at auto...
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    E4500 first overlock :-D

    what kind of temps are you getting from coretemp also if you go to the SPD tab in CPUZ it should have a table showing you what the timings are at different frequencies.
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    Q6600 What's a more stable overclock

    Sorry to Bump, still looking for additional input
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    Q6600 What's a more stable overclock

    Well, I work and I'm married, so the most I use my PC is about an hour when I come for lunch, then maybe 2-4 hours at night, I might use it a bit in between, just web browsing etc, but it only gets loaded maybe 5 hours out of the day, maybe a bit more on weekends. I'm going to try setting...
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    Q6600 What's a more stable overclock

    would C1E and EIST essentially make up for lowering my vcore anyways, since they throttle down those settings when the system is under idle conditions?
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    Q6600 What's a more stable overclock

    I looked around the boards and didn't see anything specifically addressing this. Ok so this weekend I got the GA-P35-DS3L and the ASUS Arctic Square from frys, I've installed them and was able to push to 3.0 by simply locking the PCI-E at 100Mhz, setting my ram multiplier to 2.0 and pushing...
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    Recommend me a Heatsink from Fry's inventory

    http://shop4.outpost.com/searc...=pDisplay&from=0&to=24 willing to spend up to $50 for a heatsink, would prefer to spend a bit less, not looking for extremely aggressive overclock, will be using GA-P35-DS3L that I"m also buying today. looking to reach 3.2Ghz on a Q6600 G0 stepping, so easy...
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    Recommendation for Mobo to OC, going to Fry's today.

    Well I sold my P4 2.6ghz Northwood box, via craigs list last night, and am now about $200 richer, I don't want to spend all $200, but I was planning on spending about $150 for a motherboard and cooler. I've got a Q6600 Core 2 Quad SLACR G0 Stepping, so I was hoping to push up to 3.2Ghz...
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    Q6600 Stock HSF ECS mobo overclock

    I'm well aware that the Q6600 chips with SLACR stamped onto the chip, are typically of the G0 stepping, which happens to be my chip, and both coretemp and CPUID show it to be G0 as well. and that these are some great chips to OC. Overclocking is definitely on my to do list, however recently...
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    Best case in town? Antec 900?

    actually I've heard 3.2 stable on air, trust me it's on the to do list, the mobo was part of a combo deal and I Know it sucks, right now I've got 2 GB of OCZ DDR2 800Mhz Dual Channel Matched pair, nerfed down to 667Mhz on single channel, eventually going to get a nice P35 board, probably...
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    How to choose a Case?

    I work in the IT industry and I just completed the build in my sig, which only has a single quad core processor and 2 of the hard drives were frankensteined from the previous build, so lets break it down and see if this is doable. CPU the q6600 which is intel's starter quad is going to...
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    Best case in town? Antec 900?

    I've got the 900, it does tend to collect a bit of dust, but fortunately it usually seems to gather on the outside grills, as opposed to inside the case, which my POS raidmax case I had before, used to assume I wanted to store dust inside of my case. personally I barely notice the noise, I've...
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    corsair hx520 for a gtx sli?

    I think he's implying that he had previously purchased the HX520 and it's in his current system based on his sig. so he probably has to buy a whole new PSU if his isn't sufficient
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    corsair hx520 for a gtx sli?

    just a thought, for the $500 you'd spend on another 8800GTX, you could get 2 8800GT's which only have 1 PCI-E power connector give or take $40, and run at lower wattages, with smaller amperage requirements then sell the 8800GTX on ebay you could easily get $450 for it won't be quite the...