well i managed to pull of a run with 2x512mb (my beloved khx) at 306mhz fsb -Quote:
Originally Posted by dqniel
used to be impossible with pat partially enabled before - now it works, thanks
to the tips quoted in my post #707 in this thread.
i do have some mushkin (2x256) 3500 lvl2 lying around, but i'm not going to
use them.. this rig is meant to be a gaming monster and 2x256 just don't cut
it ;).
anyway, what i did was drop the dram latency to 01 from 00 and i disabled
fastwrites for the card. that way i could run at said 306mhz fsb with the card
clocked at 400/1150, which is not bad after all. any higher and i had to in-
crease the agp/pci lock to 36/72 mhz to stop the rig from going into ultra-
crawl mode.
@bhoward
i know what you're getting at, being that i own a bunch of phase change
units myself :). i know you need to insulate and be careful about it not to
create any breaches in the insulation around the socket. with my bit about
the added layer of pcb & 2 sockets (bottom of adapter & regular socket on
the board) i meant that those will have a weakening effect on the overall
cold transported to the back, especially considering there is air inside that
socket (without you taking care of it with some dielectric grease or vaseline),
between the socket and the pcb, etc etc.
this wasn't meant to be questioning the fact that we need to insulate every-
thing within close proximity of the cpu(-socket). it may have questioned the
use of the heater if anything, since some old mach1 units didn't come with
that heatpad (mine didn't) and are nevertheless capable of running a system
24/7 for ages without condensation. so i was wondering what good it prob-
ably would do (if any) unless you live in a very humid place, which most of
us probably don't.
:toast:
