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is the SBridge fan running ?
are all your temps looking right ?
how bout booting into linux if you have linux does it do the same thing ?
got a spare HD laying around you can load windows on and see if that works ?
I would say call msi and see what they say, and then RMA it. The neo2 is almost NOT worth RMA'ing but for guys like us who cant afford it we almost got no choice.
Can anyone please tell me how to increase the voltage to the northbridge? I've been told that raising the AGP voltage also increases the voltage to the northbridge, is this true? If it is what the max safe AGP voltage you can use? (I have a 6800GT).
Thanks muchly.
there is no northbridge on an AMD64 system. the northbrodge is part of the CPU itself/
what you see on the motherboard is the southbridge.
It's a big discussion about if raising the apg voltage helps in overclocks.
Frankly and i say this with 100% honesty and becuase i have tested it many many many times. there is no difference if you raise the AGP voltage.
BUT some people claim it helps i say it dont but thats on my motherboard and thats with MY testing.
if you raise the AGP voltages its not gunna hurt your video card cuz the videocard only uses a very very minute amount of what you set in the bios. In fact 8x AGP only uses 0.80v if i remember correctly. where as 4x AGP uses 1.5v and 2x uses 3v.
go ahead raise the agp it might help.. for me it doesnt do anything but make my southbridge chip get hot lol.
MSI messed up DFI has a seperate setting for "Chipset Voltage" well MSI didnt wanna do that.
it's a general thought that 1.7v is the max you wanna go.
so anyone try these new bioses? I'm wondering which I should use :P
1.B3 Beta
1.B3 Beta Mod by Murdok
1.B3 Beta XMOD by Murdok & Sideeffect
1.B3 Beta Mod by Sideeffect
1.B3 Beta Mod by Syar
1.B2 Beta Mod by Syar
tuff to say id start with 1.B3 Beta Mod by Sideeffect.
unless you have tccd ram i dont think the Gold is tccd isnt it Hynix ?
either way start with that bios and see how far you get.
yeah I believe its hynix
yeah use that bios i mentioned it should be just fine. if not use a different one until you get the right feel.
how far have you been able to go with that Gold hynix.
my last hynix was PC4000 Gold Rev 2 which totally sucks unless you slam it with 3.4v or higher then lol i was able to run 290 2.5-4-3-10 but without that much voltage it didnt overclock very good. but i have never tried the 4400 it may be different.
my highest that I ever tried was this
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8.5 multi makes the ram not 300mhz
thats an old version of cpu-z that wasnt showing real ram speed.
a 8.5 multi and 300 HTT would make the ram like 280mhz i believe. UNLESS the FX-53 doesnt do that with the 1/2 multipliers i thought all A64's did that.
Hmm Left pc off all night got up today put it on and its been on for 3 hours no problems. Was playing games for 2 hours of that time.
Yesterday it wouldnt boot with stock settings and 3 different sticks of ram i tried in single channel. I think its gotta be something with the sensors or something with the power supply.
Yesterday it wouldnt save anything to the bios. Like it would curropt the bios everytime i changed a setting. Had to clear cmos all the time. I really hate problems like this which arent easy to diagnose. :slapass:
It happened to me once before this issue and it fixed itself after pc being off for a night. After that it didnt glitch again for like a month and a half with pretty much 24/7 usage. Last time though it worked when i used 1 stick of ram thats why i thought it had really broken this time when not even 1 stick of ram would work.
just weird.
Prime95 on X2 for both cores :
- just download the last version
- install it twice in two different directories
- launch both Prime95.exe and start a torture test on both (CPU usage should be at or near 100%)
Then you can tell the OS to run one instance specifically on CPU0 and the other one on CPU1, to do that ctrl+alt+del to the task manager, process tab, highlight one of the Prime95.exe with a right click then chose "define affinity" (should be near that, my WinXP is a french one) then tick CPU0 only. Do the same to assign the other Prime95.exe instance to CPU1.
This way you can identify which core will limit your overclocking (my CPU0 limits me to around 2610 MHz, while the other had no problem to reach 2700+ MHz stable -X2 4200+ at 1.53 v). BTW last 1.0B bios is OK, but I miss the possibility to have higher vcore : anything above 1.45 v in bios led to no more than what the 1.45 v option gives - around 1.42 v for me - , +10% gives between 1.53 and 1.58 volts (core voltage seems to be quite instable if I believe CPU-Z).
2,5
.................... After writting post above pc restarted and wont boot again now ....YAY. So it wouldnt crash at all while gaming at heavy load but it crashed when im idling.
That makes no sence. Removed all my diskdrives and dvd drive. Still wont save the bios settings and crashes again ...
It could be a cold boot problem i guess but strange time for that to emerge after 3 months usage at sub zero.
mine is crashing all the time to SE... for no reason it just started doing this yesterday ? maybe day before ?
i can NOT even with older bios hold anything above 2.5ghz my cpu is dieing or the motherboard is dieing.
i cant afford this crap... dam it i cant afford this to be happening....
Lestat and sideeffect
Sounds very much like the problems I had with this dam mobo. Got sick off getting it stable fine for some time then problems with the overclock - did it with the winnie I had so got a venice and that did then the same. The NF3 really does have some issues on the AGP mobos when overclocked long term. I have two 2500bartons sat right next to this system, which run overclocked long term with an issue hit 65degrees Celius on a hot day and still run on no problems.
the NF4 from what I have read does seem better but I dont want to fork out for a new graphics card as well as a mobo yet!
Hope u guys get it sorted as I have like others been watching your hard work trying to get this sorted with all the bios mods. In hope that when u do I am only a flash away from a decent stable overclock. until then I am in STD blues
Keep up the work and thanks for all your words of wisdom
Zeus
I tried the 1.B3 bios modded by sideeffect and it seems to give me much lower memory b/w than 1.9 does, tried fiddling with the timings but I'm not exactly sure what setting caused it to be so low.
Also I have a question for anyone with an X2, after overclocking in bios and loading up in windows, I'm using clockgen inside of windows to overclock higher but when I run sisoft sandra it seems to not update the cpu speed and the results although cpu z displays the updated speed and fsb, I'm wondering if clockgen isn't overclocking correctly within windows for anyone?
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i had a similar problem its was because condensation was forming on circuits in the cpu area and around it i just put grease around it and no probs since
also with my new ram im 3gig stable
wow guy awesome!!!!!!
whats your ram setting 2.5-4-4-10 ? 2.5-?-?-?
vcore ?
vdimm ?
my damn mobo is almost dead,,, it will barely run anymore overclocked.
the corsair xms bh-5 wont even run 250mhz so i know for a fact now its the motherboard.
i cant deal with this anymore aarrrrggggg
what specs?Quote:
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and lestats I can't wait to get a DFI :P
yeah no doubt man you set that chip and ram on a DFI NF4 and its gunna explode youget more than 3ghz i bet
and yes i mean what specs are you at right now
HTT
vcore
vdimm
ram cas timings
cpu multiplier
Thanks msimax i think ill take the clamshell off and reinsulate around the socket tommorow. See if that helps at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by msimax
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still gotta prime for a longer period of time
dude are you running your ram at 246 3-4-4-10
god man tighten that ram up
2.5-3-3-8
thats just silly to run the ram at that low with just loose timings your performance will be better if you do it. thats hynix though it will not run any lower than 2.5-3-3-5
I will later, I just don't like having to reset my cmos when having it too tight
you dont have to reset the cmos guy
that ram will run 2.5-3-3-10 i guarentee you. if you have to reset the cmos i will start a thread witha formal apology for making you go thru that.
drop that ram down
what you really need to do is drop the cpu multiplier down 2 steps and then raise the ram and run memtest until you get errors then back the ram down until it works.
ok then check your cpu speed, and raise the multiplier up 1 step and lower the ram so its the same as when you ran memtest..