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    New Card setup

    Got the fraps working last night. Slamming 60 FPS on F.E.A.R. 2. :) If I were to turn off v-sync I'm sure it would be higher but 60 is fine for me. Tis awesome. Thanks your your help and advice guys.
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    New Card setup

    That's a good point Denithor. In my research on the 280 before I bought it I read that the new drivers had work wonders for it but, like you said, the original drivers weren't doing the card justice. I bought F.E.A.R. 2 last night and with a res of 1680x1050 and everything maxed out it was...
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    New Card setup

    Denithor, I got the GTX280 in a day early (thanks tigerdirect) and put it in last night. Now, I can play Crysis in DX10 with everything on 'very high' and get 25-40 fps where before I could get that same performance in DX9 with setting on 'high' with the 8800GT cards in SLI. I would get 40-50...
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    New Card setup

    So maybe this setup: The 280 in the top x16 slot running the center monitor, the 8800GT in the bottom x16 slot doing nothing more than the physics, and the 7800GTX in the x8 slot supporting the other two monitors? Sounds good in theory. Thoughts?
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    New Card setup

    Just a little confusion here. . . Lopri, your first line is in direct conflict with your second. You state that I should leave the second x16 slot empty to allow the full x16 bandwidth on the first slot. Your very next sentence says to put the 8800 into the bottom x16 slot which, technically...
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    New Card setup

    My intention was to use 2 cards to power 3 monitors, the third card was a last minute 'aha' thing and I was curious if it would benefit me anything... which is why I asked. The reason why I posted here was to get advice on how to setup things so I can get the most from the stuff I have. Any...
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    New Card setup

    Hello all! I just purchased a BFG GTX 280 from Tigerdirect and it should be arriving tomorrow (4/8/09). I currently have two BFG 8800GT installed but because I use 3x 22" monitors I don't run the cards in SLI. When it's all working right, like in Crysis, I use the center screen for the main...
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    Tricky question

    I have a laptop I'm going to put in the livingroom and a desktop in my office (a room in my house). I'm getting a bluray dvd player for my computer in the office. I want to be able to access the bddvd drive that will be mounted in the desktop over my wireless network and watch movies on my...
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    Can't run 4 sticks. :(

    Thanks rgallant. I got it all running. All four sticks at stock voltage including the sli-memory thing as well. I do intend to up the volts on the ram a little but just thought I'd mention that it all works. Bios version1503. 1601 wouldn't work right regardless of whether I used the asus update...
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    Can't run 4 sticks. :(

    Updated bios, which I hate doing with Asus boards cause of all the hassle, and now all four sticks are working. Running memtest now and so far everything seems fine. I know updating the bios seems like one of the first things a person would do but when I originally had this problem, before I...
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    Can't run 4 sticks. :(

    Ok, I've learned a few things since my last post and I return to find you've already touched on it. 1 is that my settings on my ram are 5,5,5,18 2T 2 is that the settings on the crucial website for these sticks are 4-4-4-12 3 is that if I go to http://www.crucial.com/systemscanner/index.aspx...
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    Can't run 4 sticks. :(

    I forgot to mention that I have NOTHING overclocked or overvoltaged now. OV didn't seem to make a difference so why run my stuff hot if it wasn't going to help? I would like to OC everything but I'll worry about that after I get this memory thing licked.
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    Can't run 4 sticks. :(

    Salute! I have an Asus P5n32 sli motherboard, q6600 processer and 4gig (4x 1gig) of Crucial ballistix ram. bl12864AA804 For some reason my computer wants to crash if I put all four sticks in. Runs fine with 2 or three in any slot configuration but anytime I put all four in it wants to give...
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    Interesting Memory problem

    http://hcidesign.com/memtest/ A link to the homepage of the program I'm using. My fiance will be here in about an hour and we're going to go to dinner. Probably an hour and a half to two hours after that before I get home. I plan on letting it run until I get back.
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    Interesting Memory problem

    It's been running for almost two hours, both copies are currently at 89% with no errors.
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    Interesting Memory problem

    A quote from the memtest FAQ page Does MemTest support Hyperthreading or dual CPU machines? Yes. Just run two copies of the program, and divide the amount of RAM tested between the two of them. When I run it with only two sticks I click the 'test' button and it goes. When I run it with...
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    Interesting Memory problem

    I went ahead and increased my cpu to 3ghz, linked the ram so it runs at 900mhz and bumped up the mem and NB volts again. I am running the windows based version of memtest. It's been running for about twenty five minutes now and both copies are at 27% with no mem problems. In truth I'd like a...
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    Interesting Memory problem

    Looks like I got too excited. Memtest has found 8 errors so far on the second copy I have running. But like I said earlier it wouldn't even run before I upped the voltage. 8 more errors popped up just since I've been typing this post. May have to bump it a bit more.
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    Interesting Memory problem

    Before when I had the 4 sticks in and ran the memtest it would stop seemingly before it started and tell me I had mem problems. After increasing the voltages I'm running two copies of memtest and so far no problems. :) Woo hoo! Thank you gents. I'll let you know if I have any more problems.
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    Interesting Memory problem

    I'm going to increase the northbridge volts by .02 and increase the memory voltage to 1.9 and give it a shot. I'll let y'all know how it turns out. Thanks.
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    Interesting Memory problem

    I'd like to mention that I have nothing overclocked and all my voltages set to auto. You still think I should increase my northbridge voltage?
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    Interesting Memory problem

    I have 4 gig of crucial ballistix ddr2 800 ram. With all four sticks in I get random bsod's, erratic software problems and it fails memory tests such as memtest and vista mem test. If I take out the second two sticks I have no problems and pass memtest. I swap out the two pairs and still pass...
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    Ready to overclock

    ok, I've overcome some technicalities and believe I'm ready to do some serious overclocking. The components of my system are listed in my signature. Here is the list of the 'extreme overclocking' tab of my bios AI Tuning - Manual System Clocks -----PCIEx16_1 Freq (100) -----PCIEx16_2...
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    Overclocking q6600 lockup

    Got my new bios chip in this evening, got it installed and overclocked my system to 3.01ghz by doing nothing more than changing the fsb and leaving the memory linked. Didn't have much luck at any fsb over that but haven't felt like messing with it much this evening. As my original post stated...
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    Overclocking q6600 lockup

    I flashed my bios last night from 1205 to 1303. . . Flashing my bios fried my bios. Called Asus and after literally 45 minutes waiting for tech support I got a nice lady who is sending me a new bios chip. Should be here tomorrow. I was using bios version 1205 and tried to flash to 1303. When...
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    Overclocking q6600 lockup

    I'm sooo sick of seeing superpi tell me 'Not in round' or 'Not convergent in SQR'. Grrrrrrr. I'm overclocked to 3.37 and the first thing I do is run a 1meg superpi and no matter what I do I get the same result. Here's my setup now FSB 1500 Mem in synch mode at 750mhz with loose timings vcore...
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    Overclocking q6600 lockup

    By Darwin I swear (I'm an athiest) I'll never buy another Asus motherboard for as long as I live!
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    Overclocking q6600 lockup

    I pulled two sticks and lowered the voltage down to 2.12 with no luck. Swapped the two I pulled with the two I left in with identical results. Considering most of my oc's are unlinked with mem at 800 with lax timings, confirmed by cpuz, I'm fairly certain the problem is not with the ram. Here's...
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    Overclocking q6600 lockup

    This is my second rosewill and they have both given top shelf performance as far as I could tell. Plus, I bought this PSU with the intent of buying to 8800GTXs so it has four 12 Sli power plugs. Since I bought 8800 GTs instead it's twice what I currently need.
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    Overclocking q6600 lockup

    I understand what your saying Mondoman and it makes sense. I have another small fan designed for those radiators and will look into installing it. XJohnx, I have SOO been over the whole clearing the cmos issue as well as the timings. I've been doing most of my OCing with the memory unlinked at...
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    Overclocking q6600 lockup

    I appreciate your help BD. I haven't messed with my timings at all but I do know that the timings are more lax than the recommended Max. Something like 4,4,4,4 2T at 12 and they're running at like 5,5,5,5,2 at 16. <this is just an example of how the timings are lax and not actual. Something...
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    Overclocking q6600 lockup

    I'll search for that thread you mention BonzaiDuck. My max voltage on my mem is 2.2v. Krnmastersgt, I added an Asus Arctic Square CPU cooler plus I already have 5 120mm fans mounted on my case. (I said seven in first post but was miscount) Plenty of airflow. Plus the overclocking problem...
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    Overclocking q6600 lockup

    Salute and howdy! I'm having a bit of a problem. . . Here are my system specs: Q6600 G0 stepping Asus P5N32 e sli (680i) 4gig Crucial Ballistix ddr2 ram x2 BFG 8800GT in sli 850w Rosewill PSU Vista 64bit Ok, I've been running this system overclocked at 2.8ghz for about two months...