What issues are you talking about?? I use everest and havent had any problems...that I know of...Quote:
Originally Posted by Teratism
What issues are you talking about?? I use everest and havent had any problems...that I know of...Quote:
Originally Posted by Teratism
a guide or a known issue / overclock report would be awesome
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Originally Posted by raj_kemp
I'll try witting something up tonight, I'll post a word doc here so that you all can poke at it and add your own thoughts. Hopefully we can create some form of living document that becomes a concise knowledge base of everything.
The screen freezes up when you want the to know the temps on the CPU, GPU and so on. It won't happen at stock speeds but only when overclocked.Quote:
Originally Posted by chaotic646
Doesnt happen to me, it shows my temps just fine OC'd from 2.4 to 3.2.Quote:
Originally Posted by badboy
On another note, what stress testing does everyone use to determine if your OC is stable? Anything over 3.2 fails in Orthos for me no matter how much I raise my voltages but 3.4 was stable on the free stress test that comes with IDU. I ran it for 20 minutes with no errors on memory or ram but Orthos fails after 2 seconds.
for stability nothing is better than Orthos Large FTT for at least 1 hour but 8hour is needed. If it fails before it can mean that vcore is too low,or.. vfsb, vmch, vdimm. Memory timings... Memory Strap... Physical limmit of the cpu...
So who's got all four memory slots populated on the BX2 and how's it going? I am thinking about adding two more Mushkin sticks for a grand system total of 4gb.
Runnin 4x1024 OCZ now, no issues, cept i cant get it stable at 400fsb, no matter what i seem to try... Anything over 380fsb, and the temps go sky high under load, i may need a new cpu block to compensate though too...
I was hoping I could get some help from you guys. I am not sure as to why but my build looks to have gone wrong. I am new at computer building so I may have misplaced cables or missed something but any help is appreciated. I made a thread in general but I thought this would be a better place to ask for help.
I just put together my first computer.
Intel bad axe 2
E6600
Scythe infinity
Super talent ddr2 800
x1900gt
xfi-gamerxtstream
antec p180b
corsair hx620
2 seagate 320 gb 7200.10
1 floppy drive
1 sata dvd RW drive.
benq 20.1 widescreen
klipsch promedia 2.1s
I finally got it all done and put together took me about 5 hours yes I know very long but I got confused on certain parts (1x4 pin power connector which doesn't fit from power supply to the connector directly, the computer hd led and such connections a few don't fully fit or have no space.)
I boot it up and all I get is the my screen flashing a few words, scrambled and then it repeats I can't see what is wrong. When bios does load for a few seconds it will show but then a minute later it will go black, then pop back up. I am trying to trouble shoot it but so far no luck and I am getting tired. Any help on it would be appreciated. Hell step by step instructions from any of you would be perfect in my mind. On a good note my chip isn't concave or convex. So my infinity mounted fine and spread decently.
I may have fixed the screen issue but I am not sure. I changed my cable from dvi to vga with a dvi adaptor and it is doing better, still a bit glitchy.
My p180b has a case lead for hd led 2 and I have no place to put it, my case power led can only fit two out of its 4 prongs and the 1x4 power slot I can't fit my 1x4 for power so should I just hook up a molex adapter to it? I have gotten to install windows but my bios screen flips by in less than a second.
I wonder why Intel did'nt build an eSATA port with this board ???:confused:
the marvel*s red sata port is for e-SATA. with a retail versin you must have got a cable to take the e-sata to the backQuote:
Originally Posted by alpha0ne
Everest Ultimate only works for me at stock speeds. It freezes as soon as I try to see the temps.Quote:
Originally Posted by chaotic646
Well Everest seems to have :banana:ed me over pretty badly.Quote:
Originally Posted by badboy
On a setup that was memtest and ORTHOS stable for upwards of 10 hours--now is constantly crashing and restarting.
e6600 @ 3.495 GHz with 1.425 volts, memory at 667/default reference freq, 4-4-4-10, 2.2 volts. (along with an 8800GTX, 3 HDDs, few pci cards, and 600w PSU).
This, as I said, was completely stable under all circumstances.
I installed Everest v3.50.761 a few hours ago to see what benchmarks I could run. It forced a restart one me during one of the memory benchmarks, and a second time while checking other system specs. Ever since then my system has been about as stable as a faberge egg. I left the computer alone for a half hour and came back with all my windows closed, after it apparently randomly restarted, while having nothing open that would stress it.
ORTHOS now tells me this
Just recently trying to run a stress test caused a restart.Code:Using CPU #1
Beginning a continuous self-test to check your computer.
Press Stop to end this test.
Test 1, 800000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M172031 using 8K FFT length.
FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4
Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file.
Torture Test ran 0 minutes 1 seconds - 1 errors, 0 warnings.
Execution halted.
It seems to be impossible to tell how much voltage the cpu is getting, but I have a feeling mine is somehow now getting less: the idle temperature has dropped from around 30-33 to 20-21C now, after the whole everest debacle. Intel Desktop Utilities pretty much freezes and chokes when I go to the "Hardware Monitor" section, but it's telling me "CPU Core 1.129v" and "CPU I/O (+1.5V) 1.628".
As I understand it, everest resets the voltage to defaults, but mine are the same as they've been beforehand in BIOS settings, and this problem persists.
Any ideas here?
okay,maybe noobish question:D
But is is true there are 2 vesrions of the badaxe2?one with with only 4 Sata ports?And one with 8 ports??i believe i read it somewhere,but forgot where:stick:
i can help out with a few of these.Quote:
Originally Posted by Teratism
-You don't need the hd led II, most boards don't support this
-power led, there should be another connecter up and to the right, or was that the power switch?
-you don't need the supplemental 1X4 power connector at all. I know there was a discussion earlier, but this is only to provide supplemental power to PCI/PCIe slots on the board. If you have a video card that needs a direct line to the power supply, then you are fine as it gets all the power it needs through there.
Did you completely remove power from the MB until the little green light goes out? That's what it takes to reset the voltage regulators after everest does its thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by uberwurst
Yes, I switched the jumper to maintenance mode, thinking that might reset it, and in so doing unplugged the PSU. So yeah, the power was completely off. And...Quote:
Originally Posted by gtj
The issue is gone now. Hopefully this will help someone others who encounter the same problem. Thanks ;)
Indeed thats what I read in the manual but it wasnt in my retail box :mad: I called Intel, and they said go to ur seller.Quote:
Originally Posted by heikis
I called the shop, but they simply cant give me that part, they dont have such things to sell seperately. Geezz... stupid intel.
I just figured out why I couldnt go past 3.2 from my own post and gtj's post (below). Because Everest was indeed screwing my voltages up. It didnt matter how high I set my voltages, 3.4 would not be stable in orthos. I thought something was kind of strange when my temps didnt ever go above 50 at full load no matter how high my v-core was. In my case merely uninstalling everest didnt work - I had to actually uninstall and clean my registry out. Now Im stable at 3.4 and later I'll try for 3.6.
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Originally Posted by chaotic646
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Originally Posted by gtj
The Bios 2395 is ok!:)
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Gents,
I'm looking for a little advice. I'm a heavy Photoshop user and also run some digital sim tools that are very CPU intensive. So... I decided to replace my aging P4 box with a dual core. Looked at purchasing a MacPro (dual/dual core) box but gagged at the price. Besides Steve already has a bunch of my $$ in Ipods. I decided to roll my own and purchased a BadAxe2 ($199 at TigerDirect), and E6600, Nvidia 7600 and 2 G's of Corsair 800 MHz mem. Stuck it all together with XP Pro and it works great out of the box. Cranked up the front side bus to get 3Ghz (400 MHz Mem) and it seems very stable at stock voltages. With stock cooling it idles at about 95F and zooms to about 115-119F at full load. Never having been one to settle for the easy way I'm looking for advice on how much I can push this with stock cooling. Im not a big FAN of noisy PC's so I like the gentle hush I get now. What is reasonable to expect with this setup and whats the best method to dial it up? All I dod was crank up the frontside bus and drop the memory divider to get where I am. I have no experience with overclocking so I'm flying by the seat of my pants here. Can you guys offer up some words of wisdom on an approach (voltages, bus speeds, acceptable temps etc). Thanks in advance. Great forum BTW.
Doug: be sure to test your overclock with orthos large ftt priority 9. It will load both cores at 100% and will simulate the load temperature you will have to face with your digital sim tools. To keep a good safe margin because you have the stock cooler, i would say to not raise vcore if it loads in orthos higher than 65-70c. Some chips run hotter than others so thats why i wont give you a specific vcore margin. The higher vcore, the higher the temps are... with stock cooler id say it should be around 1.45vcore if you have a 6600 with the batch number LXXAXXX and 1.4vcore if you have a LXXBXXX (with stock cooler).
so. Raise fsb, keep memory 1:1 with loose timing just to be sure you are not attacking two things at the same time. do 10minutes orthos, if it passes, raise Fsb. To help you can raise vfsb and vmch but not needed alot, just a bit more if you see that it is unstable. When you have reach a limmit where the cpu fail orthos and your load temps are over 65c.. just lower it up.
Then try to tight the memory timings with some more voltage, depending on your memory but shouldnt go over 2.3v for 24/7 without active cooling...
To test the memory you can get memtest from hci desing , it works in windows and its a great test. Try also orthos blend test...
Thank you for the advice. I'll give your suggestion a try and report back.
Get used to working in Celsius as well :)Quote:
Originally Posted by doug goldberg
Celsius smellsius. Sorry but my mthbd monitor defaulted to F. OK I have raised the CPU's up to 3.2 GHz, stock voltages across the board (so to speak). With two copies of Orthos cooking I get 59C (yes sir that is cell see us). Im not sure I want push this bad boy any harder as its very stable. I also ran flight simX and some MatLab DSP code and it all ran very well. I might try to eventually push to 3.4ish but I'm loath to raise the core temp beyond 60. Im really impressed that its so easy to push this processor this high. Obviously lots of timing margin in the design. This motherboard is very nice and seems much more stable than any of the A's (ASUS/Abit) that I have had in the past. Bravo Intel..