BonzaiDuck
Lifer
Trying to be methodical here, although I'm already gambling on educated guesses.
We bought two Gigabyte mATX LGA-775 motherboards in early '08 to rebuild two "mainstream-user" PC's. We fitted one with an E2140 C2D, and the other with an E2180.
One of them had an HDD failure after the upgrade. Keep that in mind . . . But it was an older SATA-150. Same with the other machine -- but any HDD failure occurred before the upgrade -- the failed drive was IDE, and the replacement was SATA-150.
I say "keep it in mind" because I'd eagerly embraced the over-clocking features of those mATX mobo BIOS'. Even so, they omitted certain features:
-- no setting for the PCI-E bus speeds, which need to be "locked" at 200 and 100 with boards that have "Auto" as a default option
-- no way of changing the RAM voltage. You could only change the VCORE, bus and memory speeds, and the latency timings.
I replaced the processor on the E2140 with an E6700-Wolfdale, and haven't overclocked it. The E2180 was bumped up from stock 2.1 to around 2.6 -- also, no problem (so far).
It belatedly dawned on me that any OC settings on these boards MIGHT . . . COULD . . . increase the PCI-E speeds and cause hard-disk corruption or failure. But I must also ask "Why would anything change, if there weren't BIOS settings for these features that add "Auto" to the list, and you only can change the FSB and RAM speeds.?" Those settings are in "Unlinked" mode.
Anyone there with deep insight into this?
We bought two Gigabyte mATX LGA-775 motherboards in early '08 to rebuild two "mainstream-user" PC's. We fitted one with an E2140 C2D, and the other with an E2180.
One of them had an HDD failure after the upgrade. Keep that in mind . . . But it was an older SATA-150. Same with the other machine -- but any HDD failure occurred before the upgrade -- the failed drive was IDE, and the replacement was SATA-150.
I say "keep it in mind" because I'd eagerly embraced the over-clocking features of those mATX mobo BIOS'. Even so, they omitted certain features:
-- no setting for the PCI-E bus speeds, which need to be "locked" at 200 and 100 with boards that have "Auto" as a default option
-- no way of changing the RAM voltage. You could only change the VCORE, bus and memory speeds, and the latency timings.
I replaced the processor on the E2140 with an E6700-Wolfdale, and haven't overclocked it. The E2180 was bumped up from stock 2.1 to around 2.6 -- also, no problem (so far).
It belatedly dawned on me that any OC settings on these boards MIGHT . . . COULD . . . increase the PCI-E speeds and cause hard-disk corruption or failure. But I must also ask "Why would anything change, if there weren't BIOS settings for these features that add "Auto" to the list, and you only can change the FSB and RAM speeds.?" Those settings are in "Unlinked" mode.
Anyone there with deep insight into this?
