Losing what little hair I have left

[manimal]

I was able to get my e6600 to 3.5 with this exact setup for more than a year, I recently got a Q6600 from frys and was all happy to enter the world of quads.


Well things started off shaky but after 2 cmos resets things stabilized at stock, I was able to run it at below stock voltage all the way up to 3 gigs. I had to basically pump it up to 1.385 to get 3.2

I was able to get it stable at 3.2 with very loose ram timings with the 4 gigs, but anything higher I would get into windows and it would reboot at anything over 3.2. I raised voltages to 1.4 and to 1.45 and 3.3 was not wanting to be stable. I raised MPP and ram voltage up a notch and tried again switching out values to isolate what was holding me back. I finally pulled out 2 gigs of the 4 and tried again thinking it may be the ram issue that alot of people were having with these board but nothing doing, it still crashes out of 3dmark06 during the first test.

I can back off and be relatively stable at 3.1 right now but going from 3.4-3.5 everyday seems like bs to me with this quad. I know the board is stable and I know its not heat from the quad holding me back since its idleing at 35ish and loading at 55ish at 1.4.

evga 680iA1
q6600G0 slacr
8800gt
silverstone TJ09
Corsair HX520
windows XP pro sp2
Zalman 9700NT
2x500 Seagate 7200.10s
4x1 gigs of ocz ddr2800rev2 plats-also have 2x1 OCZ ddr1066 sticks I may switch in

1.385V
1400fsb
1.4fsbV
2.0 ram V
rest of volts on auto
5-5-5-16 2t-loose till stable

Just ran a OCCT 30 mins run to test 3.2 again and its stable, it only crashes on 3d apps now, and by crashing it reboots, help plz I am at a loss....


M

 

[VirtualLarry]

You won't be able to get a quad-core to as high as FSB as a dual-core, so don't expect that.
The 680i mobos have "issues" with quad-core stability as well.
3.2Ghz with a G0 quad-core is pretty good, IMHO.

 

[manimal]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
You won't be able to get a quad-core to as high as FSB as a dual-core, so don't expect that.
The 680i mobos have "issues" with quad-core stability as well.
3.2Ghz with a G0 quad-core is pretty good, IMHO.

I understand that 3.2ish is pretty good but today I cant get stable at 3.2 anymore, I have checked all my temps in everest ultimate and mpc temps never get over 50 on load, I am stable in orthos and OCCT but 3dmark and any game crashes the system, I dropped down to 3.0 and it gamed fine for a bit but ended up crashing in a big explosion in crysis.

Running memtest right now to see if its my ram, I dropped down to 2 gigs to see if it was the 4 slots being populated that is giving me fits, but it still unstable. Gonna switch in my micron D9s to see if its any better.


Thx for the reply

M

 

[jmmtn4aj]

Just because a board is stable with a dual doesn't necessarily mean the same will apply to a quad. Quads need more power, and boards with a less robust powersupply (4 or 6 phase) won't cope as well.

 

[manimal]

My board may be dying, I switched out the ram, running 2 sticks, now it wont even boot at 3.0, I cleared the cmos again and started over, I can run at stock but it barely gets to 2.8 now with different ram. I am at a loss, if anyone is a expert with these 680 boards please help me, I dont want to RMA the board but I am getting close to calling evga.......

 

[TC91]

you might need 1.5v on the spp, mpp and the other chipset voltages in the bios if i missed any. i only hav the 680i LT so im missing a few voltage settings. perhaps more voltage on the vcore could help, but make sure you check ur temps in check.

 

[manimal]

Originally posted by: TC91
you might need 1.5v on the spp, mpp and the other chipset voltages in the bios if i missed any. i only hav the 680i LT so im missing a few voltage settings. perhaps more voltage on the vcore could help, but make sure you check ur temps in check.

Thx for the reply, I bumped SPP and MPP and fsb to 1.5 to see if I would be stable at all, I could actually post @3.6 but it would still crash on any 3dapp. I went ahead and started rapid RMA since playing crysis at 2.4 on this quad made me realise how much a difference that extra clock speed helped things.When I talked to the tech I told him the motherboard seemed to be slowly degrading and he advised RMA so I got a new board coming sometime next week.

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[BonzaiDuck]

Some others had problems with those boards, and problems after running the quad-core up that high. I had speculated that it may have been chipset temperature. Your processor may only show cores in the high-40's and 50's under stress-testing, but there's no thermal sensor built in for the chipset and few people are measuring it with tape-on sensors. For cooling, chipsets with elaborate factory-built "heatpipe-necklaces" can be overlooked.

But again, I'm just guessing. You should be "on your way" with the RMA, and you can then ascertain if something else caused your trouble, or it was due to the mobo. But for the G0 stepping, -- yeah -- I'd think there's a problem there, alright. . .

 

[TC91]

good luck with your new board

 

[manimal]

thx guys, playing crysis on my amd x2 box with a 8800gts, **shudders** all settings on medium ^^