Could someone give me a helping hand?

[phillx800]

After going a little nuts...

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I decided to settle things down and get it stable as a decent speed, without having a huge temp problem... So I opted for:

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Now apon doing all of this, I started up my cancer research program and within 20 secs one of the tasks failed for some reason (I thought orthos was meant to be the bees knees??) anyways, here's my idle and load temps:

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Now when I try and do a memory test (sandra etc) it came up with my timings being rather loose (5-5-5-15) so I've looked through CPU-Z and I saw my memory should be able to do 3-3-3-9 at 200Mhz. Well, here's a screenie of it at 4-4-4-12 as when I try the lower one, my board wont boot and says it has a bios error, please put in a floppy in to re-flash the bios.. (After this happened, my heart sank, but now I just clear the bios and start again..) Anyways, the screen shots...

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Now am I doing something very wrong or is something set up wrong somewhere as I still think I should be able to get faster timings than what I got..

Can anyone please help me??

 

[orion23]

Try using a 400+ fsb

401 to 405 should be fine and test again.

It is said that the board works the hardest near the 400 mhz FSB speed.

 

[phillx800]

Originally posted by: orion23
Try using a 400+ fsb

401 to 405 should be fine and test again.

It is said that the board works the hardest near the 400 mhz FSB speed.

Would I be best to lower the multiplier down then as with 9x401 that gives me 3.61Ghz, but it wont pass Orthos blend test.. Should lowering my ram timings help as well? I think that I had set it by the SPD so I assume it would know whats best for it anyway?

Any thoughts?

 

[orion23]

You were already running 382+ so 401 is not that much of a stretch.....

What are your voltages anyway?

FSB V
RAM V
CPU V
MCH V

Try increasing the MCH and FSB Voltages a bit since those are needed once the FSB is overclocked near or past the 400 mhz mark!

Also, set your RAM timings and voltage, manually, to what the manufacturer says it should be.

 

[phillx800]

I'm rock stable (10hrsplus of Orthos) at 9x390 @ 1.45vcore.

My ram is set to 2.1v, my MCH is set to 1.62v..

If I go past 3.6Ghz with 1.55vcore its not stable, even with upping the MCH voltage and possibly the ram as well. I'm just looking for the moment, the best possible speed from the CPU and the best temp as well..

I can post and do a super pi test at 4Ghz but cooling amoung other things lets it down...

 

[Shimmishim]

doing blend test on the aw9d-max is nearly ... impossible above 400 mhz...

i've only seen about 4 people do blend test above 400 mhz.

it's a bios issue, nothing is wrong with your board or cpu.

 

[phillx800]

I've got a newer bios, one that allows me to have a 1333 CPU strap, I thought that would help? I used to be able to run a 380FSB at 1066 for the CPU, but since I've flashed the bios, its not worked since. Weird...

But do you think I could get 3.6Ghz stable without the blend test??

 

[Shimmishim]

Originally posted by: phillx800
I've got a newer bios, one that allows me to have a 1333 CPU strap, I thought that would help? I used to be able to run a 380FSB at 1066 for the CPU, but since I've flashed the bios, its not worked since. Weird...

But do you think I could get 3.6Ghz stable without the blend test??

yes. i bet all other tests will be fine except blend test.

 

[phillx800]

I'll give it a go with my Cancer research program as for some reason 10 hours and more of Orthos and it failed within a few seconds of the Cancer research program!! :lol: Still trying to work out why I wasted over 1.5days using that program for that to happen, but still!!

Thanks for the tip