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Originally Posted by mach82
Just solved my problem by removing the card and putting back again. Now works like a charm - i can shut down and cold boot, restart from windows and it always stays at 16x. Also my pcie freq is set to 103 don`t know if that matters, though.
Got my 3dmarks05 up to 7200 on stock card (was 6k before). Quite happy now. A little ocing on card yields 7500, nicey!
Well, I solved a number of my problems by doing the following
1. Put a fan on the NB
2. Moved soundcard to PCI slot closest to PCI-E
3. Changed PCI-E freq to 105
4. Turned off ALL advanced thermal throttle/performance enhancements in BIOS. Including any extra's I was not using (like serial/parrallel ports)
Basically all of the recommended stuff.
I think the biggest change was the cooling on the NB, my pic on the previous page you can see its just a temp fix, but now the NB HS is cool to the touch, whereas you would not have been able to keep your finger on it before.
System is totally stable now (well I only ran orthos for about 2 hours) but I could not get it anywhere near that before the fan on the NB.
Using F5 btw.
**Edit, oh yeah, anyone else have a board with NO heatsink on the south bridge? Mine is nekkid.....
heheQuote:
Originally Posted by GAM
1. The heatpipe is from a Zalman vga HP Cooler.
2. Yes, I drilled through the fins on the BT and the n/b too.
3. I havent used anything to aid the transfer of heat between pipe and fittings other than very tight fitting assembly. I was considering using paste as the original vga suggested, bit messy though imo.
A few more picks
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Ingenious mod.
Thats from one of the 'silent heatpipe coolers'?
Have you noticed a difference in temps?
Also, was there much trouble getting the heatpipe bent correctly so it would be the correct length/orientation?
You have a good understanding of whats involved DG, to look at, not many would pick the need for crucial alignment of the heatpipe. If not the right height, it would kickup the BT or pull up on the n/b cooler if too short, same with angle. I added 2 fibre washers to pushpins on n/b to help pull it in tighter, prolly a good help by itself. The original gunk on the n/b had dried up within a week or two, so it should be replaced asap. I dont seem to be able to o/c better, not that ive spent much time with that, im happy at 3.5 until the RD600 is on the shelves. :)
Edit] Yeah its from the Zalman HP80 vga silent cooler.
Temps seem better but i really need to test properly with and without. Was hoping to see a obvious diff, but not at this stage.
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This is my more "obvious" mod to keep my DS-3 cool.
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Yeah thats the cooler I was thinking of.
Liek the side vent thingy lol, is that taking air from an a/c unit?
BTW, I was thinking maybe some thermal adhesive might help with conductivity from heastink-heatpipe-HSF
That would have been one of my concerns alright, the pipe applying undue pressure or tension toward either the NB HS or the CPU HSF.
Seems like you got it spot on, must have taken a little tinkering and a LOT of patience!
Yeah sort of, 2x vantec stealths taking air from outside my house through 90mm ducting. In Tasmania we enjoy pretty low ambients, maybe 5c at night to 16c on Spring days atm.
Might try that paste and see if it has any effect.
not too dissimilar to the ambients I'd have here in Ireland.
the only think is its generally very humid here, so in order to do something similar, I would have to have something like silica gel packets in place to take some of the moisture from the air.
weird, because even if i set my VDIMM to 2.2V, Windows is not stable at all. at 2.1V its ok, but and 2.2 and higher it freezes right after Windows is loaded.Quote:
Originally Posted by tresis
There's a whole new realm of custom heatpipe modding floating around my head now. Thanks for the info Cranky (DB). :D
my DS4 keep failing dual prime ...everything is on stock settings (stock speeds etc) and temps are fine.
i have a E6300 and 2x 1GB 6400 Geil ram. the ram passes memtest, just the system fails prime (after 3 hours) and i dunno wot to do cuz everything is stock atm. any ideas?
Maybe can't run you Geils with 1.8V error free.. Set you Vdimm +0,1 of +0,2v and prime again. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by a5h
Where u get the x8 from? Cpu-Z?Quote:
Originally Posted by Philosophy
I have x16 in Cpu-Z with by 7900GX2, but the performance is totally crap.. My freind had the same config as i had, only 2x 7900GT 512MB in SLI and a P5W-DH, and he got about 800 points more in 3DMark '05 and about 600 in '06! I was a bit shocked to be honest.. Thats not what i expected! I think i will/must get a other board soon, to get the full power of my GX2..
Found one odd bug in the ds3 f6b bios. If you enable all the power saving options in the bios (eist etc) and turn on speedstep in xp it lags the 2d desktop redraw speed. Reverting back to f5 final everything is back to normal.
Just read the first post. Is it really true that this mobo won't boot with Fortron psus? I happen to have an FSP Bluestorm 500W. I shouldn't even try or what?
Works fine with bluestorm...(f4 bios)
Can somebody tell me, does Scythe Ninja Plus/Infinity/Mine rev.B fit to DS3?
Not true, using a Blue Storm 500W here and all is fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by joshua7
I ve post this question in another thread already but maybe here is more suitable..:
Where are the measure points for the Vcore on DS3?
What happens if I put ECC memory in DS3? Will it work or don't even start?
Just thought I'd chime in w/ an update. I picked up a NEO HE 550 from Fry's and it's working fine. I remember folks having issues with this PSU not so long ago. Also, this one's a rev A4. The biggest difference from the NEO 480...MUCH cooler running PSU. It no longer cooks my room. :D
Is it possible to get through POST at full speed with the DS3? My DQ6 cannot,
so I need to ditch it and must purchase another mobo.
I agree this peice of shi doesnt like my GX2 at all..Quote:
Originally Posted by funkflix
And yes a new mobo is definately on the list of things to do..
Right now Im almost getting 10k in 06, and with the whole system using stock cooling I think thatll do pretty good until I can save up for another board..
Infinity fits...easily.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coolfire
Ok, I'm getting really annoyed with this build now.
I'm at 3.2Ghz, ram at ddr2-800 (with loosened timings also), ghetto fan on northbridge.
Can run 3dMark '05 & '06 no probs, 32m Super Pi no probs, 8 hours + in Orthos blend, stoppped manually.
But I play BF2 for a couple of minutes and it completely locks up. I get a monotone 'beep' coming through my speakers, it says 'there is a problem with your connection' and the screen just stays locked up. No BSOD, no reboot, cant ctrl-alt-delete, requires a hard re-boot (in which it will boot up just fine)
Anyone else getting issues like this?
BTW, using latest chipset / sata / NIC drivers from gigabytes website, and Cat 6.8 for vid card.
Also, I have a SB Live! using the x64 drivers from Creative's site.
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Originally Posted by periquitos
ECC will work. Registered will not.
I am currently using a pair of Samsung DDR2 200MHz (DDR400) which overclocks around 110% (840MHz) 32M SuperPi stable (I get 2 single bit errors in S&M).
ECC DDR400 fully stable at 800MHz, with 2.1V and 5's.
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