Is my rig stable?

[KKiller]

I have been running prime 95 on it for about 8 hrs now. No problems yet.

I have been having huge problems with stability (as you might have read from previous threads). I am running a athlon 1800+ at stocks speeds with a 10% increase in voltage.

See: Linky


So, is my rig finally stable?

 

[Antoneo]

I believe unstable systems usually fail the Prime95 test within the first couple of minutes... hence if it lasted 8 hours without a hitch, I think its pretty stable then 🙂.

 

[Duvie]

I think 8 is fine....

At that length of time you should have ruled out heat.

Now what is disappointing is the fact a stock xp won't run stabily unless given a vcore boost...Is that right??? Now remember prime95 will test ram and memory subsystem...but the fact a vcore boost gave you the stability is pointing to cpu or the mobo...What is the actual vcore being given to the chips...I mean actual ot what is set in bios??? Also look at fluctuation from idle to load in vcore to see if the power supply is undersupplying and not giving the 1800 enough to run during load...

 

[KKiller]

The PS is is giving 1.950V to Vcore. I see little fluctuations in the voltage. At 5V, the bios is reading 5.05 V. At 12 volts, the bios is reading 12.48V. At the other 5 V rail, the bios is reading 4.910 V. At the 3.3 V rail, the bios is reading 3.360 V.

I don't know if its the PS or heat. I am running my rig at 60 deg. C.

What do you guys think?

 

[jar5tyle]

Originally posted by: Duvie


Now what is disappointing is the fact a stock xp won't run stabily unless given a vcore boost...Is that right???

In some cases, but he also has a Gigabyte board. Some require extra voltage to run stable.

 

[KKiller]

thanks again jar. I think you're absolutely right.

 

[Duvie]

screw that!!! 1.95vcore is more then just a little...Just a little is like the asus p4 mobos overvolting .06v...not .2v!!!!

If that is the bset gigabyte can do then I see I will avoid them in the future.....


I am not sold on this...

 

[KKiller]

duvie,

Hard to believe I know. But its true. Gigabyte boards ver. 1.1 have a flaw in them that requires an upvoltage of 7.5%.

Hundreds of people are having the same problem. Gigabyte will replace to board and fix the problem, but that requires 2 weeks.

I can't live without a computer for that long, so I guess I will live with the increased voltage.

Many thanks to Jar for finding this out!!!!

Kanti