BH-5: A succes, frustration, improvment tale

[Malves]

All right, here's the story.

I had a NF7-S that maxed out at 233 @ 8,4,4,2 with my HyperX 3200. I decided to do the v-mod on it and end up killing the poor thing. :(

Got another one and nailed the mod. :) It went to 240 @ 8,4,4,2 @ 3.2v. But I wanted more and did the NB volt mod, too. But, when checking the voltage, I fried the NB. :( Another one down!:rolleyes:

Now the frustration came, when I got another mobo, v-modded it and...couldn't even get to 240 @ 8,4,4,2, pumping 3.25v and, the poor NB @ 2.4v!! To my surprise even 210 wouldn't pass P95. I blamed the board and got rid of my AMD setup.

Got an Intel setup: IS7 + 2.4C. Loved it when it was in the box. Put everything together, just to find out that I couldn't run my BH-5 chips at 210+ @ 5,2,2,2. Damn thing! It's my freaking memory. It wasn't my AMD setup.

So only thing I could do was a v-mod to my IS7. Found it here, actualy for the IC7, but it works the same way. :) Also, I did the mod on my PSU's 3.3v rail. P95's been running for 2 hours @ edit: 245 (not 250) @ 8,2,2,2. :D Success...so far!:rolleyes: But I have questions, of course. ;)

Is it normal to pump 3.5v to get that speed? And why in God's name I could get my 2.4 to 300 and now I can't even get 260 out of it?!:mad:

BTW, thank you for those who showed how to do the mods on the IS7 (IC7) and on the Truepower 430. :thumbsup:

[afireinside]

I think its gona die pretty fast at 3.5V... And B?H5 loves voltage I think.

[STEvil]

3.5 should last quite a while.

How many volts are you running into the CPU?

[Malves]

Default.

[Evil_Spork]

why are you using such slacked timings on the ram? you should be able to do 250+ @ 2-2-2-5 with 3.5vdimm!!!

[Malves]

Well, I guess I should. But it's just not going. Something gotta be wrong with my mem.:(

Trying 240, now. :rolleyes:

[Evil_Spork]

have you tried a "burn in"

myth or not think as you like but try max voltage you can use and run something liek sandra mem test for like 6 hours at teh highest known 100% stable speed. you might get more out of them by doing this. cant hurt to try.

[Malves]

I thought about it, but my sticks are more than 6 months old. I thought it wouldn't make any difference.
But they got 3+ voltage only for a few days, between frying mobos and waiting for a new one to be delivered.
I'll try that and see how it goes.

[Evil_Spork]

that seemed to work with mine. at first i tried 1.88vdimm(max on my epox mobo) @ 225 2-2-2-11, no go, then i put them in my AN7(now dead and going back) with 3.25 in them for about a week and ran the system alot and did mem benches all i could. now i can run 225 on my epox no problem. so it seemed to work for mine.

[Techmasta]

Are you considering going back to AMD or sticking with your Intel?

[Malves]

I miss those unlocked multis, but I love watching 3+ Ghz everytime I boot up. ;) No, I am not. :)