A7N8X humming along now - better seti WU times!

[MoFunk]

Hope the 11.5x178 worked. then maybe you can get up there a bit more.

 

[MoFunk]

Hey I started having a wierd issue that I hope has been solved. I would get home from work and the PC would be very sluggish. I would try to open something and it would take like a minute. The first few times a reboot solved it but then it started doing it regardless. So I thought it might be ram, so I relaxed the timings (seti went slower though) and it still did it. So the last thing I remember doing a few nights ago was downloading the latest drivers for my video card. So I uninstalled and went back to the ones off the cd. So far so good, but the real test is when I get home. Also looks like my other stick of ram should be here today! Yipeee!!! So I may have another stick of crucial for sale soon. Or I may keep it and put it in the 8k3a+ when I get that back.

 

[Wiz]

I have mentioned in a few posts here and in OC the thing about video drivers, specifically a bad interaction between a newer detonator driver and office apps & windows help system. Exactly the same effects as you are seeing too.

here's one of them in which I mention a couple other threads that don't seem to want to come up at the moment when I click them (weird).

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=39&threadid=1001982

 

[MoFunk]

Hmmm. Interesting. I guess we shall see later when I get home! I hope that solved everything. But I am sitting here at my desk, getting ready to go to lunch and staring at me is a beautiful blue stick of hyperx ram. This stick really looks sharp. Let's hope that it performs as good as it looks! 😉

 

[Shimmishim]

i think seti does like higher fsb speeds...

upped my fsb from 209 to 218... seti WU times dropped a few minutes...

 

[MoFunk]

218!!! Wow you got that thing hummin! Did you keep your mult at 11.5? Or did you have to drop it?

 

[Shimmishim]

Originally posted by: MoFunk
218!!! Wow you got that thing hummin! Did you keep your mult at 11.5? Or did you have to drop it?

of course i dropped it!!! 11.5 x 218 = 2.5 ghz!!! hehehe... that'd be nice...

i'm EXPECTING at least 2.5 when i get my water setup tomorrow...

so it's hummming along at 11 x 218.35 = 2401 🙂

 

[Assimilator1]

Insane!:Q 😀,what WU times are you getting now?

 

[soni]

Just got finished on my first Ars WU 🙂

2h29.29m for my 1700@11.5x180 2-2-2-5

Pretty nice, since my best so far have been 2h50 for a 0.417 WU 😛

 

[MoFunk]

That is a nice time! I am waiting until I am sure that my sluggish issue is solved. Plus I got my new ram today to I will burn it in a bit and try it this weekend.

So we getting close to 3 pages yet? LOL

 

[MoFunk]

On a side note, I have been thinking of doing that voltage mod, but really don't want to take the risk. However I found this http://www.coolmods.com/product_info.php?cPath=51&products_id=70 does anyone know where to get one in the states? I have done a google on it and tunred up squat!

 

[XBoxLPU]

Shimmishim, how did your Epox 8RDA + Die ? And what board are you using now ?

If I had a motherboard that allowed VDD voltage changes in the bios, I would up my FSB from 185... but I have problems at 190 or higher. I know my ram is hitting its limits.

Though I am perfectly pleased with 185fsb/2.23ghz with this 1700 + B chip

🙂

I am averaging 2hr24 min times... some recent results

2003 Apr 17 01:17pm 14.061,20.81 2.807 telcontar 2:07
2003 Apr 17 11:08am 13.995,6.21 0.054 telcontar 2:37
2003 Apr 17 08:30am 4.236,28.58 0.754 telcontar 2:28
2003 Apr 17 05:57am 8.588,25.26 0.75 telcontar 2:29
2003 Apr 17 03:22am 11.645,26.92 1.002 telcontar 2:19
2003 Apr 17 12:56am 20.195,8.11 0.63 telcontar 2:29
2003 Apr 16 09:27pm 4.224,13.64 0.471 telcontar 2:26
2003 Apr 16 06:31pm 18.175,17.21 0.419 telcontar 2:27
2003 Apr 16 03:57pm 17.17,8.4 8.035 telcontar 2:07
2003 Apr 16 01:30pm 10.848,8.2 0.868 telcontar 2:17
2003 Apr 16 11:11am 11.135,12.95 0.428 telcontar 2:26
2003 Apr 16 08:45am 14.061,20.81 2.807 telcontar 2:08
2003 Apr 16 06:34am 17.841,25.28 0.615 telcontar 2:28

 

[Assimilator1]

Nice times😀

Thanks for the link Mofunk🙂

 

[Shimmishim]

Originally posted by: XBoxLPU
Shimmishim, how did your Epox 8RDA + Die ? And what board are you using now ?

If I had a motherboard that allowed VDD voltage changes in the bios, I would up my FSB from 185... but I have problems at 190 or higher. I know my ram is hitting its limits.

Though I am perfectly pleased with 185fsb/2.23ghz with this 1700 + B chip

🙂

I am averaging 2hr24 min times... some recent results

2003 Apr 17 01:17pm 14.061,20.81 2.807 telcontar 2:07
2003 Apr 17 11:08am 13.995,6.21 0.054 telcontar 2:37
2003 Apr 17 08:30am 4.236,28.58 0.754 telcontar 2:28
2003 Apr 17 05:57am 8.588,25.26 0.75 telcontar 2:29
2003 Apr 17 03:22am 11.645,26.92 1.002 telcontar 2:19
2003 Apr 17 12:56am 20.195,8.11 0.63 telcontar 2:29
2003 Apr 16 09:27pm 4.224,13.64 0.471 telcontar 2:26
2003 Apr 16 06:31pm 18.175,17.21 0.419 telcontar 2:27
2003 Apr 16 03:57pm 17.17,8.4 8.035 telcontar 2:07
2003 Apr 16 01:30pm 10.848,8.2 0.868 telcontar 2:17
2003 Apr 16 11:11am 11.135,12.95 0.428 telcontar 2:26
2003 Apr 16 08:45am 14.061,20.81 2.807 telcontar 2:08
2003 Apr 16 06:34am 17.841,25.28 0.615 telcontar 2:28

well...

i was attempting to do the vdd mod 🙁 everything was hooked up right...

next thing i know... i look into my case.. i see a BRIGHT orange color and a resistor next to the vdd resistor is burning...

so board dies... oh well!

now i am running a abit nf7-s 2.0 ... runs great... did the vdd mod to this board...

involves a pencil so it was much nicer to me... and everything worked out great!

i MIGHT try to see if this thing will boot up at 228... but i don't know if it will.. may need better ram first...

 

[MoFunk]

228? Man best of luck to ya! I am trying to get to 200, but will wait till I get my vantec onthe northbridge.

 

[Shimmishim]

well good luck to you!!!

water is coming tomorrow!!! woo hoo....

it'll be fun to mess around with water... uh oh... 🙂

let's see if this baby can do 2.6 to 2.7 🙂 that would be nice... i'd like to see some sub 2 minute WU times for the .417 ARs

 

[MoFunk]

Well I could not wait. I have a fan on the northbridge so I thought what the heck. I am at 200x11.5@2300. Now we shall see if it lasts the night. My new hyperx is running 2-2-2-6. So far so good. Looks like I will be selling this corsair and getting a matching stick to run in dual. Will I need to relax the timings a bit to run in dual? I hope to be close to that 2 hr wu mark now.

 

[soni]

MoFunk, what VCore are you using to get to 2300 ?

 

[Wiz]

Mofunk, is the sluggishness gone now?

Shimm 228??

 

[Shimmishim]

228 🙂

i need better ram i've determined...

i relaxed timing to 3-4-4-8 and it wouldn't boot...

pretty sure it's the ram...

dang...

i can't get new ram though...

went from pc 2700 ---> 3000 --> 3200 .....

man... i can't... must.. resist... pc.... 3700...

🙂

 

[MoFunk]

I put that stick of hyperx in last night, it purred at 200x11.5 2-2-2-6. Was smokin! Then I started getting that sluggishness, so thinking it was something I may have installed, I ghosted back to an image I made last week. Still did it! I was kinda pissed. So not knowing what else to do I closed setihide just to see. Well the computer perked up! So I started it back, slowed down. So I opened up aida32 and looked at my power. My +5 rail was all the way down to 4.68v plus the others were a little wacky. So I turned off setihide again and the +5 went up to 4.85. System ran great. So I put everything back to stock, except running at 166fsb and with full load the system ran great, +5 was running 4.85 and all was stable.

I have an enermax 350 I am going to try. This was the PSU that I bought when I was overclocking my 8k7a, then I had to buy the 430 watt I have now because it ran tha +5 rail too low on my 8k3a+. Now it looks like the 430 does not like the 8rda+......MAN! So I am going to try the 350 tonight and see if that helps, otherwise O need to buy a new psu. This board has cost me more money than I wanted between having to get a new video card because it would not work with the kyroII card I had and now possibly a new psu.

This board reminds me of my ex girl friend, picky and has no clue what it wants to make it happy!

 

[Assimilator1]

lol

Btw don't relie on the bios to show accurate voltages ,use a multimeter to check voltages before you write the PSU off.

 

[MoFunk]

OK how would I go about doing that. Also I am not putting too much into the readings, but I see enough to know that the +5 rail while my system is overclocked and under full load is too low and causing issues. But I will try the multimeter thing, but how do I check........I took electronics years ago and forgot most of it. 🙁

 

[Wiz]

With a voltmeter, or multimeter check between a red & black for +5v DC & between the yellow and black for +12v DC (red & yellow are + black is ground)
I just take one of the plugs that isn't connected to anything and insert the probe ends in the corresponding holes - from the back on a male plug & from the front on a female plug. If you have things connected to all your connectors then just check in the back of one of the plugs.
That sounds a bit weird, 😉 but that's how I do it.

 

[MoFunk]

So I assume this is with the computer on right? I do have a couple of free plus, I just stick the prong in the hole? Thanks