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Just in case you guys aren't in the habit of checking the deals section you still have a few hours before the ABIT IP35 Pro LGA 775 $100 after MIR is over.
meant to ask you Ace, is this the idea spot for the 40mm fan for the PWM?
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/1...tip3gf0.th.jpg
OR, should I place it on top like you have yours?
Will this board work ok out of the box with a Q9450 Yorkfield?
any suggestion for a quiet SB cooler, it tends to get warm to the touch...I know its subjective...that's why this n00b is asking :D
http://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggIma...127-030-03.jpg
should I stay on the 40mm fan, or
go 80mm?---most 60mm are too loud, unfortunately
if you have good CFM fan on the PWM and NB heatsinks, you should not need one on the SB...besides...you do not need any higher voltage higher than 1.05 or 1.09 on the ICH, which is the core voltage for the SB chipset!...that is separate from the ICHIO which is your Input/Output voltage for the SB
I can beleive this thread is almost to 400k :eek:
anyway, I had a couple questions as every now and again like to play with the clock settings on my system.
what would you say is the upper limit on the voltave for the northbridge and MCHIO? I have gone as high as like 1.56 and 1.8 respectivly and im wondering if trying them that high is causing any damage to the board. just to be clear they are not running that high all the time but I have taken them there to see what the top end of my overclock is. i do have a fan on the northbridge but i haven't done that bolt mod yet. the fan btw is a cpu cooling fan from a P4 so i know its getting good airflow.
also in trying to overclock it seems that above 500fsb my e6550 seems to work but in a strange way, when I run orthos the cpu spikes to 100% but then drops like a second later to like 6 percent. orthos doesn't stop and the system laggs like it is under load but the control pannel does not indicate its under load nor does the temp go up in core temp. any ideas on that?
and lastly my system has around 6100hours of runtime, most of that is 24/7 every now and again the board hangs on post, either displaying nothing at all or showing my cpu as a single core. is this indicative of a failing board?
my system specs are in my sig. for reference.
what is your vcore?
Vdimm?
I have gone as high as 1.6 on my vcore and I have taken the memory as high as 2.425
my current 24/7 stable voltages are
Vcore 1.49v
DDR2 2.275v
MCH 1.25v 1.48v
ICHIO1.5v 1.70v
CPU VTT 1.31v
DDR2 REF 0%v
ICH 1.05V 1.25v
freq right now is 458x7 for the cpu and ram is on the 1:1 ratio so its like 916mhz
btw the ram is the Supertalent T8000UX2GC4
i have the latest bios
also I have the latest UGURU and it still freaks out at low temps where it goes from like 17c to 128c core temp shows it to be running at 14c idle. i have generaly found UGURU to be about 10 degrees off when its actualy displaying temps.
and the total up time i mentioned before is actually 6920h
the spikes in core % from 100% down to 6% and then back up is probably telling you that you are on the ragged edge of having enough vcore to support your overclock at 100% core engagement...OR...your FSB is outstripping the vcore available
your ICH is way to high...the most you should use is 1.09v
is your Vcore read from Uguru?
yea im getting them atm from Uguru
the live reading from Uguru is 1.46-47
I just turned the ich down to 1.09
also dunno if it matters much but the ram configuration is 4 sticks@1gb each
3.8 ghz is a respectable overclock...stay right where you are.
JMICRON JMB36X RAID Controller drivers version 1.17.33
http://www.station-drivers.com/page/jmicron.htm