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X-Connect = POS

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Suspicious-Teach8788

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So my friend brings in a Prescott 3.0 with a Soyo (VIA i dont know what chipset) board and an X-Connect PSU. It's broken. Then he wants to tell me his Prescott 3.0 beats my 3700+ cuz my actual clock speed is 2.2 only (and 2.64 on 24/7 use).

Anyways, I want to smash him for getting such crappy hardware. I stick a voltmeter into his power supply and guess what?

12V rail: 12.64V
5V: 5.18

These are all idle voltages.

Uh yea and my Seasonic gets 12.01, 4.98 respectively. Wow. Even my OLD@$$ Antec gets 11.90 and 4.87 and that's cuz I put hella load on it with 3 hard drives, 2 opticals, etc etc. In terms of %, sound sbetter than the XConnect.

The board's burned out, so we buy the exact same one. It doesn't even detect it as a Prescott 800FSB. Forces us to 100FSB and only allows us to run at 1.5 GHz. I turn the "overclocking" switch on and it only allows 132 FSB max. I try 132. No post, need to clear CMOS. Try 110, nothing. Piece of crap. I'm about to throw his case against the wall.

Anyways. Don't get a piece of crap power supply and burn out your motherboard and complain.
 
Originally posted by: DLeRium
Then he wants to tell me his Prescott 3.0 beats my 3700+ cuz my actual clock speed is 2.2 only (and 2.64 on 24/7 use).
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hahahaha I love that bit

So the CPU is dead too? Why can't the new motherboard recognize it?


Yeah tell your friend, there's No way a Prescott 3Ghz is gonna beat even Venice 3000+ at 1.8Ghz

and more importantly

PSU is the most important hardware in the whole computer and everyone dare to save money on crappy ones. They will get what they deserved

 
The board doesn't detect the processor correctly and to fix this you try to overclock it?

Update the board BIOS.
 
Soyo got taken over by ECS (king of crappy boards) last year which might have have something to do with quality as well.
 
You're friends with this moron?

He thinks Intel outruns AMD AND he purchased an X-Connect? He deserves his misery until he does something about his massive ignorance. Let him wallow.
 
"X-Connect = POS" So what's new??? And of the two numbers you posted, only the 12.64 is out of spec than only by 0.04V. But the X-Connect has to start high as it drops off smartly under load due to the cheap parts (e.g. only 20 ga. wire connects the PCB to the back of the modular connectors)...

And ECS, Soyo and Chaintech are now all a part of the PC Cheaps group.

.bh.
 
Originally posted by: Insomniak
You're friends with this moron?

He thinks Intel outruns AMD AND he purchased an X-Connect? He deserves his misery until he does something about his massive ignorance. Let him wallow.
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He's not wrong! I was told so by Tom's Hardware

😛
 
Seems that you need a little education on Power Supplies. As previously posted, the voltages are not that far off. The 12v line is used to drive motors, that really have no problem with the voltage being high. When the mobo uses the voltages, they are used as input to precision voltage regulators. What you can not see with you VM is the ripple on the line and the precise voltage fluctuation under load. Also as pointed previously, the gauge of the wire and the quality of the connectors. Many connectors are spec'ed for a limited number of insert/remove. For that matter, you can not measure the conducted emissions or the EMF/RMF. The PS may be a piece of cr@p, but a voltmeter ain't going tell you much. If you guessed that I once had to be involved in the certification of Power Supplies with UL and CSA your correct.
 
Voltage Values
CPU Core 1.39 V
+2.5 V 1.82 V
+3.3 V 3.31 V
+5 V 5.08 V
+12 V 12.22 V
+5 V Standby 5.00 V

That is what my stuff says is that bad? according to everest.
 
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