Anemic
10-09-2008, 10:04 AM
Im hoping I could get som help here!
Got a brand new XFX 790i Ultra SLI board a couple of days ago and I took it out for a spinn with my Q6600 G0 chip. I had no problem hitting 3.6 Ghz (took about 3 minutes) but then I figured I could take it higher (never had it higher than 3.3 before with a 680i chipset). No go what so ever! Tried a bunch of diffrent settings but no go at all. Ok, figured that the chip is no good.
Then I swaped the Q6600 for my E8400 and tried it out (had it stable at 4.2 with the 680i board) but to my suprise it was impossble to go above 3.6 Ghz! The computer wont POST no mather what settings I try! I tried to set the FSB to 401 Mhz but still no POST.
Is this a board error, should I RMA? I really hate RMA....
It has the latest BIOS
The rest of the setup is:
Two 8800GT SLI
Creative X-Fi Elite Pro
A small PCI-Express RAID card (dont remember the name of it right now)
150 Gb Raptor Disk
4 Gb (2x2) Corsair Twin3X 1600 Mhz DDR3 9-9-9-24
Cooler Master 700W Power Supply
Got a brand new XFX 790i Ultra SLI board a couple of days ago and I took it out for a spinn with my Q6600 G0 chip. I had no problem hitting 3.6 Ghz (took about 3 minutes) but then I figured I could take it higher (never had it higher than 3.3 before with a 680i chipset). No go what so ever! Tried a bunch of diffrent settings but no go at all. Ok, figured that the chip is no good.
Then I swaped the Q6600 for my E8400 and tried it out (had it stable at 4.2 with the 680i board) but to my suprise it was impossble to go above 3.6 Ghz! The computer wont POST no mather what settings I try! I tried to set the FSB to 401 Mhz but still no POST.
Is this a board error, should I RMA? I really hate RMA....
It has the latest BIOS
The rest of the setup is:
Two 8800GT SLI
Creative X-Fi Elite Pro
A small PCI-Express RAID card (dont remember the name of it right now)
150 Gb Raptor Disk
4 Gb (2x2) Corsair Twin3X 1600 Mhz DDR3 9-9-9-24
Cooler Master 700W Power Supply