p4 1.8@2.4ghz stable after night of prime

[Duvie]

I am running it at fsb 133 with pc2100ddr set to be also at 133...

voltage is set to 1.65 in bios though reports as 1.54-1.58v

The board I am using is MSI 845 ultra ARU...IMO so far...CRAP!!!!!

I don't trust actual voltage and temperature readings...They jump like a pogo stick...temps swing 6-10c in 1sec...vcore voltage fluctuates .04-.05v though all other rails hold perfectly steady...

I think there is an obvious need for a bios upgrade and this thing does not fully support northwoods....


If I restart I have 50/50 chance of failed restart resulting in 2-3 hits of the reset switch and then a 50/50 chance it shoots me to bios and resets everything...Reboot issues occur whenever voltage is modified or when you get to about 120fsb.


I am confident it will run all nigt without issues and it is stable in any program I use on the cpu...however I have the annoying reboot issue...

Bios fix soon??? Unlikely...That is why I am returning this and paying the 15percent restock and getting the sis645 asus board. I will also get some pc2700ddr and new avc sunflower fan....

On the right board this may go higher, but I would be estatic to run 2.4ghz with memory at 333mhz to get the high memory bandwidth. Ain't going to happen on this POS....

 

[RickH]

Good luck with the overclock!! So the MSI stinks? Last week we discovered the Gigabyte also had problems. Perhaps it's a chipset thing. Any Asus owners outthere with this problem?? Maybe they just won't admit it. RRRRRR

 

[Duvie]

Another owner says his reboot issues went away once he got to 133fsb....


I would think that means to things for me:

1)psu: which I doubt cause I can't see a flaky ps unit running prime that long...I run into problems at 1.525v at default speed, while I ran 2.4ghz and prime at 1.65v....MSI shows vcore as 1.54-1.58v actual...it does jump around alot along with temps with I think points to flaky board....voltage can jump .05v in 1/2 second...temps have jumped 6-10c in same time....

2)ram being dumped: which again I doubt as I dumped the pc2100 ddr down to 200mhz ram for a 1:1 ratio so the ram should be running pc1600 or pc2100 with the fsb add-on. Does anybody know if you select 200 does it lock it...the memory scores seemed better then pc1600 or 200mhz set at 100fsb in bios....


These are all issues that make this board untrustworthy...I am going to order asus p4s333 board tomorrow and take the 15percent restock fee from newegg....

 

[RickH]

Keep us posted on the Asus board. I have been waiting to buy a new MB, but everytime I think I have a "winner", there are problems with someting. R.

 

[RickH]

One of the main reasons I like the P4 is the Intel chipset. Are you sure you want to go with SIS?? The lame chipsets are reason I want out of the AMD club. R

 

[Duvie]

I know what you are saying...I liked my sis735 chipset after via attempts...

I also read reports where the 333ddr and sis chipset when oc'd can offer near rambus quantity bandwidth....

 

[christoph83]

No problems with the Asus P4B266 board here. Running 20x127 and my memory is at 172FSB with 2500/2500 memory scores in sandra 2002 which is faster than standard PC800. Running past PC2700 speeds on this board. And this thing unofficialy can support 533FSB northwoods as it locks the PCI and AGP bus up till 133FSB.

 

[resinboy]

this Asus board was SOOO damn easy setting up it was BORING not spending a bunch of time ironing out the bugs!!!!!!!!
(WOW, did I really say that ???).





Resinboy

 

[Challenger]

<< this Asus board was SOOO damn easy setting up it was BORING not spending a bunch of time ironing out the bugs!!!!!!!! >>



That's why I'll pay a few extra buck for Asus boards,I know they'll work the first time!