Hi guys,
So the the Ex58 Extreme has a lot of LED lights on the motherboard to help you diagnose why your computer is on the fritz. Mine is completely fine, however I can't run my ram at rated speeds anymore. It seems that my motherboard has been slowly denaturing in its quality.
WHat happened was about 3 weeks ago I purchased some DOminator GT 8-8-8-24 6GB memory at 2000 Mhz. It ran great at 1.65 and no overclock on the CPU, until recently.
I would like to document that I couldn't run my Old Dominator 8-8-8-24 1866 MHz 2x2GB kit on this board at 1.8v even if I had tweaked the other settings accordingly. (Just giving a bit of history) but I kind of expected this as the "voltage safety" was 1.65V and so all we see is kits of this voltage or less.
Yesterday I got greedy. I haven't overclocked my i7 965 yet, with this memory and having my CPUs and GPUs under water you ought to think I've tried. Nope... I haven't.
After playing wow and getting annoying ass BSODs that are very new (still the same settinsg that worked fine for weeks prior) I was like "whatever, time to overclock this bitch if I have to go in bios".
So making sure all my other temps were safe I just dicked around and I saw that I had 4.0ghz at 1.45v on my i7 working great at an QPI/VTT voltage of 1.515... No big deal I thought, right?
Well the diagnostic LEDs went red indicating the MCP was "Too hot" (above 69 degrees) and it shut down. I just have that heatpipe apparatus attached to my motherboard and it's not watercooled (I didn't really think it'd need to be since i could run my memory at 2000 MHz 8-8-8-24 fine on no cpu overclock) and I thought that'd be enough. Lots of shutdowns ensued and tons of boot loops (prior to posting, indicating instability on previous settings, but this one worked well I could boot in and do stuff etc).
I was so wrong, so now I cannot even run my memory at 2000 Mhz with everything else on stock settings. If I try to up my memory to the rated speed and keep everythign else the same the MCP hits 70 degrees so fast that I can't even get in windows. Everything else works fine at 1333 MHz. I'm pretty sure my board is on the fritz though.
Thoughts?
EDIT:
So to sum this up:
I was running all stock speeds for my setup. I had the volts on auto and I had XMP enabled for my memory. I got a BSOD, and I went into bios and overclocked. I had the settings 1.45v CPU and a 1.515V QPI/VTT. It posted and ran ok, the board got hot and shut down.
I tried going BACK to stock settings (Exception of ram, running at 1.65V and 2000 MHz and I'm getting a shutdown with red lights).
So the the Ex58 Extreme has a lot of LED lights on the motherboard to help you diagnose why your computer is on the fritz. Mine is completely fine, however I can't run my ram at rated speeds anymore. It seems that my motherboard has been slowly denaturing in its quality.
WHat happened was about 3 weeks ago I purchased some DOminator GT 8-8-8-24 6GB memory at 2000 Mhz. It ran great at 1.65 and no overclock on the CPU, until recently.
I would like to document that I couldn't run my Old Dominator 8-8-8-24 1866 MHz 2x2GB kit on this board at 1.8v even if I had tweaked the other settings accordingly. (Just giving a bit of history) but I kind of expected this as the "voltage safety" was 1.65V and so all we see is kits of this voltage or less.
Yesterday I got greedy. I haven't overclocked my i7 965 yet, with this memory and having my CPUs and GPUs under water you ought to think I've tried. Nope... I haven't.
After playing wow and getting annoying ass BSODs that are very new (still the same settinsg that worked fine for weeks prior) I was like "whatever, time to overclock this bitch if I have to go in bios".
So making sure all my other temps were safe I just dicked around and I saw that I had 4.0ghz at 1.45v on my i7 working great at an QPI/VTT voltage of 1.515... No big deal I thought, right?
Well the diagnostic LEDs went red indicating the MCP was "Too hot" (above 69 degrees) and it shut down. I just have that heatpipe apparatus attached to my motherboard and it's not watercooled (I didn't really think it'd need to be since i could run my memory at 2000 MHz 8-8-8-24 fine on no cpu overclock) and I thought that'd be enough. Lots of shutdowns ensued and tons of boot loops (prior to posting, indicating instability on previous settings, but this one worked well I could boot in and do stuff etc).
I was so wrong, so now I cannot even run my memory at 2000 Mhz with everything else on stock settings. If I try to up my memory to the rated speed and keep everythign else the same the MCP hits 70 degrees so fast that I can't even get in windows. Everything else works fine at 1333 MHz. I'm pretty sure my board is on the fritz though.
Thoughts?
EDIT:
So to sum this up:
I was running all stock speeds for my setup. I had the volts on auto and I had XMP enabled for my memory. I got a BSOD, and I went into bios and overclocked. I had the settings 1.45v CPU and a 1.515V QPI/VTT. It posted and ran ok, the board got hot and shut down.
I tried going BACK to stock settings (Exception of ram, running at 1.65V and 2000 MHz and I'm getting a shutdown with red lights).
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