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lopaka_q
07-19-2003, 05:48 AM
I'm so frustrated with the performance of my IC7 with corsairs xms 3700's, please tell me if you would return both the board and memory or just switch out the memory?

My sound on the IC7 has issues, which is one of the reasons i opted for this board which included sound, but its not all that great I have a 5.1 pci soundcard i could put in, and a LAN since it doesn't have one, but i'm not sure if i should just go for Asus p4c800. Newegg gave me rma's for both the board and the memory, but i'm not sure what moboard to go with. i'm leaning on going with ocz 3700 golds (2x256) as these xms 3700s suck, i can't get them to bench even though i can run windows all the way to 3.6 with my 2.4c cpu. my benches keep hanging and i tried for a whole week, not sleeping a few nites. I might get thru a few benches, but never consistently.

should i just scratch this board and go for the p4c800 or just scratch the sticks and try again??? what would you do? Also the kingston 400's are out now, are they good?

Amoeba Assassin
08-17-2003, 04:33 AM
get a data pc4000:D

Major
08-17-2003, 05:15 AM
lopaka_q welcome to Xtreme systems ! :) glad to see you here !


The sound issues with you IC7 are from running the pci bus higher than 33mhz ! Lock it at 66/33 and I bet you sound problem goes away ;)

what GAT settings are you using ??
what timings on the memory ??
Vcore ??
Vdimm ??
etc..etc..etc.. hehe

luihed
08-20-2003, 10:56 PM
If youre not gonna lose too much cash then I would do the P4C800 and OCZ 3700 gold.... Its a totally bias opinion cos thats the mobo/ram that I have but Ive been very happy with it... also the easy vdimm mod is almost worth the extra cash your gonna spend .....

kingassasin
08-21-2003, 04:35 AM
Well, now that abit has promised a bios fix for the 255fsb bug, you may elect to try it and see if that helps. Goodluck

DeForce
08-21-2003, 04:52 PM
looks like the 255fsb bios will be out in just a few days. I think some memebers already have the beta, might be worth PM'ing them to see if you can get it. I had to give my corsairs some voltage before they kicked in.