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Originally Posted by hifiking
yeah you go ahead and set your vcore to 1.775.. you might as well just walk over and throw your cpu in the garbage.
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Originally Posted by hifiking
yeah you go ahead and set your vcore to 1.775.. you might as well just walk over and throw your cpu in the garbage.
I just did. 1.775 vcore It's reported as 1.74 in speedfan.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lestat
Memset beta for 680i. Seems to work asside from a little glitch in some fsb freq reporting.
http://rv.page.cegetel.net.perso.ceg...mSet31beta.zip
Naw don't need a new Vcore Mosfet heatsink. The base just needs to have thew bow taken out of it. If you put a straight edge on the base of mine the middle is about .040" higher than the ends lol. I just talked to one of my customers and he said his MB eVGA MB was the same way. Kinda dumb to put a heatsink on with the base so bowed out it clears most of the mosfets it was supposed to cool lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roger_D25
Viper
Reported is usually a long way from actually metered.Quote:
Originally Posted by hifiking
Viper
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Originally Posted by icon57
I thought that too. I can drop the volts and still boot windows. This spu is a monster. The board is limiting me right now heavily. I finally got this board to run 410FSB and I'm doing it on stock volts. 3.7Ghz no bump. It's wierd. I can boot windows and benchmark and game no problem. If i go to 1650 on the evga i stop posting immediately no matter what I set my volts to. I'm running the P21 Bios. Here are my settings.
CPU Core: 1.325V
CPU FSB: 1.2V
Memory: 2.10V
nForce SPP: 1.35V
nForce MCP: 1.525V
HT nForce SPP <-> MCP: 1.35V
the HT voltage at 1.35V and all the other voltages low finally let me get to 1600Mhz (400Mhz) + FSB.
Now I'm at the next brick wall. 410Mhz FSB
No matter which voltages or combinations of voltages I make changes to I can't get past this......
Any suggestions from anyone or is this pretty much the peak of this board. I read some great reviews and thought I'd surely hit near 500Mhz FSB.....
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Originally Posted by Lestat
:eek:
I have a test E6600 from hell...type 'A'Quote:
Originally Posted by easyrider
Max vcore out of my evga (when set to 1.8v) is around 1.71
ran the same chip at 1.75 for benching on other boards
ran the type 'A' 6600 at 1.75 for 3 months straight. So if it dies in another 6 months, it'll probably cost $100 to replace....
Been up to 4.7Ghz with this chip at times
Poor cpu....to have found such an abusive owner...:stick:
That's pretty good, I set mine to 1.8v and it only gets to 1.74 reading in BIOS.Quote:
Originally Posted by hifiking
:rolleyes: You really have NFI do you mate :nono:. You need at least 1.84vcore to get to 5.5Ghz.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lestat
Uh, did you miss my reply that responded directly to your original post??? :(Quote:
Originally Posted by pablo906
heh, maybe you've got me on your ignore list :D
I've refined the idea further anyway since then, try this.
Changing tRC to as high (loose) as possible may be required too.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLi_dog
All maxed in bios....mem. ok @ 2.45/2.5...Still with BFG and my resident ram Team Xtreem OPB ed...
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/4532/1yo7.jpg
I can set all volt to auto, but vcore at 1.5 and get 3.4 GHz, but if I set multi to 6x, I cant raise the FSB before vcore is raised. Even though it's running at 2.4 GHz. Why is that? The only factor in high FSB on my board is vcore. Even if i set all other volts to 1.5 and 1.55 i cant raise the FSB without raising the vcore.
Here's my oc and notes so far.. Havent pushed the cpu and board much 'cause my cabi is really crammed and has bad air flow.
Specs:
EVGA 680i SLI
E6600 Watercooled
8800GTX
All Spread Spectrum are disabled.
HPET Function = Enabled
CPU Multiplier = 9x
SLI-Ready Memory = Expert
FSB - Memory clock mode = Unlinked
FSB (QDR) = 1699 mhz (at 1700+ a higher strap kicks in, ie lower performance)
MEM(DDR) = 1066 mhz
Timings: Expert 5-5-5-15-2T - Rest are Auto
VT and Speedstep are diabled.
CPU Core = 1,5650? (if i recall correct..)
CPU FSB = 1,30v (1,20 should do fine up to 410. Some say it doenst post @ +1,40v)
Memory = 2,20v
nforce SPP = Auto (i think linkboost ups it to 1,35v)
nforce MCP = 1,600v (these chips are like cpu, they might require more or less volt)
HT nforce = Auto (i think linkboost ups it to 1,45v)
FSB=424,75
CPU = 3822mhz
Mem = 1066mhz
One more thing, Linkboost is enabled and active. PCIE=125, HT=250.
hifiking,
CPU @ 3000mhz with high fsb requires more vcore than CPU @ 3000mhz low fsb.
For everthing below E6700, i would recommend keeping default multiplier. Dropping the multi and cranking fsb above 424(1699)mhz gives considerable performance drop.
Above 424mhz the strap speed is changed. Lowering multiplier also drop perfomance..
From a fellow danish overclocker (Hessi):
424,75 (1699) x 8, Super Pi 32M @ 15:39,281
430,50 (1722) x 8, Super Pi 32M @ 15:56,390
424,75 (1699) x 9, Super Pi 32M @ 14:29,360
430,50 (1722) x 9, Super Pi 32M @ 14:36,969
411,25 (1645) x 9 = 3701,25 Mhz. Super Pi 32M @ 14:39,563
462,50 (1850) x 8 = 3700,00 Mhz. Super Pi 32M @ 15:01,219
So on an E6600, 9 x 424mhz is optimal. If you drop the multiplier, you need a FSB of atleast 475mhz to compensate.
Thanks, so it's normal then.Quote:
Originally Posted by illuminati-hwt
I can't even get my ASUS P5N32E with E6600 to boot above 375fsb. This is my first Intel in over two years. I've been toying around with DFI boards on the socket 939 for too long.
I've tried adjusting voltages, and I've disabled/enabled different settings. Their has to be something huge that I am overlooking. Even at 3375mhz I could get Orthos stable, but crash whenever I tried to reboot. I thought that was pretty damn strange.
i was wondering if anyone has this problem with the motherboard shutting off on cold boot. i have been running fine on this mobo for almost a month and getting great oc. just yesterday night i turn off the comp to add some fan and when i turn it back on it wont boot. it turn on for like 2 second getting ready to boot and then shut off. the only way i can get it to boot is keep trying until i get lucky. if i do get lucky and get it to boot completely, it can restart very easy there is no problem and it can boot to window. it only happen when i turn it off. I try everything to figure what the problem. i changed voltage, cleared cmos, took it out of the case maybe due to grounding issue, took out the drive, ram, fan.....everything and still have the same problem. only thing i havent try is replacing the psu, but i really doubt that is the problem. i hope someone have an idea what is causing the problem. also i really hope i dont have to rma the board cus i can get 500fsb on it now and i would hate to get another board that doesnt oc as well.
@ Dumo, whats highest that ram can do as 1T using 2.5vdd / 4-4-3-3 on
680i chipset.....
So far...DDR2 932 4-4-4-1T @ 2.4V, faster than DDR2 1244...Quote:
Originally Posted by Dynasty
http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/558...shot204ed9.jpg
And 1300@ 5-4-3-5 + single GTX...
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/3...shot049qe3.jpg
thanks for testing :toast: ...
killer bandwidth with 1T @ DDR2 1000 with more vdd...
Check out the growing community having problems getting any kind of stability with the RAM...
http://www.evga.com/community/messag...TOPIC_ID=21665
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Originally posted by gurnio2
I'm running 2G OCZ PC2-8500, and can't complete 3D Mark 06 unless I underclock to 800MHz. In fact, it locks up at the same frame each time (when the scary dragon jumps over the blimp)
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Originally posted by Vernius
EXACTLY my problem man.
Most of my 3Dmark06 lock ups happen on that Canyon Flight test.
The dragon jumps out of the water and everything hangs up. Unless I underclock my ram.
x6800
evga 680i
a-data 1066+ 8500 Extreme
2 x 8800GTX SLI
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posted by mda96bjh
Thats exactly my problem to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've managed to get my rated speed though now.....but i don't know if it is really giving me much of a performance boost.....
try disabling SLI memory......run the memory "linked" on the 4:5 divider...
set your timings manually & make sure the Vdimm is sufficient..
that may help
most of them seem like a bunch of n00bs that just have no clue how to run memory in a modern system
NO they are not plug and play even at stock........you have to make sure your RAM is stable before even installing windows.......................
but THIS IS NOTHING new.................i feel sorry for DFI Street, Abit USA and other forum mods and staff trying to help out all these impatient n00bs....well i don't feel sorry for Angry_Games or is he hippie Happy_Games now :rolleyes:
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Originally Posted by dinos22
well i am not a n00b.....& know for a fact that very little is plug & play.....but i can confrim the bug discussed in the post above
using both the adata 1066+ RAM & the OCZ 9200
no amount of tweaking will stabilise that system using unlinked settings or the 1:2 divider above 1000mhz.....
I did just finish a 3DM06 run with my OCZ6400 5-5-5-15 at 1000mhz 5-5-5-15. FSB at 1500. EVGA680i, P21 bios.
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...dle/HSAssy.jpg
This TC almost has a chewing gum/putty texture to it (no I am not saying it's chewing gum/putty)
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...ipsetgoped.jpg
The PCB on this chipset looks a bit damage doesn't it? You can see an outline on the PCB itself. What could have happen is unknown but that's not how a chipset on a PCB should look I tell you that much.
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...ipsetgoped.jpg
The TC looks like chewing gum/putty texture look, IMO (no I am not saying that it's chewing gum/putty). Can this really help reduce heat? The outline isn't as bad as the other chip set.
It might be the best stuff on the planet. Folks lets be honest here...does this look like this will keep your N/S Bridge chipset cool or, can this increase the heat? Please take board and remove these HS and clean the TC from the HS and chipset and apply some AS5. I suggest removing the TC with at least 90+ Rubbing Alcohol or AS5 Cleaner.
It looks just like the gum used on the 8800GTX core, it's more like foam. Had it been heavy and strong smelling I would give it a chance, but this stuff is too puffy.
Ok - SO
I'm looking to go with a 680i board.
If i go Asus, it will be NON Striker with P5N32-E SLi
I've tried reading over all the forums, but so far, it's going back and forth, adn I see a LOT of bad press. So, summarize - what are the pros and cons with the major leading 680i mobos. And i guess right now that comes down to the ASus P5N32-E and the eVGA.
If the CPU vlts displayed in your pic is correct, you may want to reduce it. 1.6X v seems way to high for stock speeds. Try 1.35v and run test. If stable, reduce to 1.3v. This will help CPU run cooler too.
Khaotic,
Back when I bought my eVGA 680i there wasn't as many other 680i boards available as there are now. With that said I would probably have gotten the Asus 680i (non-Striker) but not sure? It's a tough call since all these boards are faily new and havn't been sorted yet?
I see from your specs that your running an Asus P5B-Deluxe with an E6400 @ 3.6Ghz, how is that system working for you? I've heard many good things about that board, infact I was even thinking about scrapping the eVGA and trying that board out but I'm going to give the 680i some more time!
Eastcoasthandle,
Thanks for posting those pictures, much apprecaited! What 680i board are those pictures taken of, it looks to be one of the refernce versions? At the moment I've got my E6600 and my G80 watercooled but the N/S Bridges are still under stock cooling which isn't great especially once you start increaseing the voltage and frequencies!
I recenlty purchased DD's new 680i specific northbridge waterblock along with Evercools VC-RE southbridge cooler (which installs perfeclty using the eVGA's southbridge mounting holes)! I just hope that my Thermochil PA120.3 will be able to keep the CPU, GPU, and Northbridge at resonable temps?
I'm very curious if my N/S bridges will look similar to yours once I remove them? In any case I will take pictures of everything when I remove the stock coolers and install the new hardware. Plus I will post the before and after temps as accurately as I can using TAT, CoreTemp, and my DMM's non-contact temp probe. It will be difficult to accuratly monitor the N/S bridges temperatures because their not activly monitored in Windows, at least I don't know how to monitor these temps yet?
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/1413/strikerea8.jpg
so far this is where i am at stable.
Hey Tyler,
It seems that I may be having the same problem with my E6600. I was oc'ing my CPU. Everything seemed stable at 3.7Ghz. I was able to run Orthos as well as 3DMark06 etc. I was playing 2142 for about 2 hours when my CPU heat alarms start sounding. when I exited 2142 the CPU showed 85C... in the ASUS PC Probe. I quickly shut the machine down and rebooted resetting my BIOS to all defaults. I ended up repairing XP due to what I believe is something totally unrelated (installed MBM just prior to the issue above, didn't reboot, so when I came back in windows would not boot.) I did a XP repair install and ever since windows only sees 1 CPU. Orthos, CPU-Z only show 1 core. no OC in BIOS now, although I can, same results. Bios says 2 cores, windows hardware in the control panel device manager shows 2 CPU's but my performance as well as CPU-Z and Orthos show only 1 CPU.
Did you ever get your issue corrected? Maybe it is the CPU itself that has a failed core?
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Originally Posted by tylerw13
Run->msconfig -> boot.ini -> advanced options -> numproc set to 2 and the restart...
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36448
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Nvidia issues Nforce 680i data loss fix
BIOS bodge
By Theo Valich: Monday 18 December 2006, 22:04
SOMETIMES, IT TAKES just a bit of a nudge to get things really moving. Sometimes a particular hardware component may come with a bit of a curse. Nvidia for example, didn't have much luck with now ever-present S-ATA standard. The first nForce4-SLI chipsets on the market came with corruption of data on hard drives. And history repeated itself.
The NForce 680i is without a doubt, better and more complete chipset than the 975X or P965. However, the whole "better" argument took a pasting when users started to report data corruption on SATA drives. And even worse, on RAID arrays, regardless of the type (0, 1, and 5).
It all came crashing down when Kylie penned an editorial at HardOCP.
Nvidia reacted quickly (just like they did in nF4-SLI time) and the fix has just been released.
Joe Darwin and Jacob Freeman from eVGA are working around the clock to explain everything to users which might need help.
The fix is nothing more than a beta revision of the BIOS with new RAID logic inside. If you have an EVGA 680i motherboard and experiencing data corruption on SATA drives, you can download the BIOS using our complementary L'INQ.
However, if you do not experience any problems, wait for the official BIOS rev which is coming in next couple of days. µ
The new bios didn't help me one bit. I officially give up on 680i. On to RD300 or 965 rev2.
Did you format and do a fresh install after the flash?Quote:
Originally Posted by xgman
After weeks of struggling witch the EVGA reference and toying with a few sticks of ram i finally got the thing as stable as it for now will get ;)
I'm getting more stability from the black memory banks than from the blue.
For some odd reason i can run very nice speeds up to DDR1000~1250 with my D9GMH and seem very solid/stable but it will freeze time after time .... :stick:
Today i got this result DDR850 1T @ 3-3-3-10 timings wich gives more bandwith then i got @ DDR1250 ;)
The only thing im going to do in the bios when i reboot again is saving my frikkin profile ;) :cool:
http://img15.imgspot.com/u/06/352/17...1166567195.JPG
Hello guys,
My first post in this thread - I'm having some really annoying problems with this motherboard. I've spent way, I mean WAYYYY, too many hours trying to overclock this board to anything comparable to what I had before - I keep running into problems. This has been the hardest thing I've ever done, trying to get satisfied with this board. I used to have an Asus P5W DH, on which I was stable at 4.3 Ghz (orthos stable, benches, games, etc.). So far, the highest stable OC (hours of orthos, 32M superpi runs, etc.) I've been able to attain on this motherboard is 4.0 Ghz, and even then I had an odd freeze this morning that got me suspicious again.
My specs:
X6800 on Jinu117 phase change single stage (V2000).
EVGA 680i SLI, P23 Beta Bios
2 GB Gskill 800 HZ
2 8800GTX SLI
Xfi music
Boot drive: Raptor 74GB
PSU: PC Power Cooling 1 KW
Areca 4 port pcie RAID controller, with 4 300 GB Seagate drives in RAID 0
LG DVD burner
Like I said, I know my CPU can do 4.3 GHZ. However, if I select 4.2 or higher ghz on this EVGA, I run into weird problems. It seems to NOT matter what FSB I choose, I still run into the problem. For awhile last week, I thought I got stable at 4.2 ghz after I ran Orthos for several hours, and completed a couple of 1M Superpi runs. However, I was then playing Battlefield 1942 and the comp froze on me after 20-30 mins of play. Other, more graphically intense games (including 3dmark06) were no problem for me, but this old game froze the system. The only other program I've found that could easily recreate the freeze is Superpi, doing an 8M run or higher - something that takes a little while. The freezing is the problem I have at any of these higher overclocks. If I try 4.3 ghz, what I had before, it freezes much sooner, most of the time before windows can even load). When I use the term freeze, I mean it just stops dead, even during Windows load screen - the bar just stops. No restart, nothing. It just sits there.
I have tried dozens of voltage combos - some work better than others, but in the end the system still freezes. I have all spread spectrum settings disabled. I have thermal control and virtualization disabled, but disable bit enabled (as was mentioned earlier in the thread as a helpful setting).
The closest I've gotten to a stable system at 4.2 ghz (i'm even settling for 100 mhz less now than I had before) is with the following settings:
spread spectrum disabled
9 multiplier
1868 FSB
Memory - 800 mhz, auto timings (Playing it safe, if I ever get the system stable I'll mess with these)
Vcore - 1.7125 (This is overvolted. I only needed 1.7 for 4.3 ghz on the Asus, but I want to make sure CPU is not the problem here. Cpu heat is not the problem, as it stays well in the negative C's)
VFSB - 1.5
Vdimm - 2.1
Nforce spp - 1.55
nforce mcp - AUTO (seems to work best somehow, I've had NO LUCK with high MCP voltages)
HT spp-mcp - 1.55
With this setting, I was able to run 2 8M Superpi runs, but when I tried a 32M superpi run, the system froze after the fourth loop.
I upgraded last night to the P23 bios hoping it would help, that maybe I had the SATA bug and that was causing it, but the result I just mentioned was this morning and the freezing is still happening.
As I said before, the FSB doesn't seem to matter. I can run at 1780 FSB at 4 GHZ with mostly auto voltages, no problem. However, if I try 1720 FSB (with 10 multi) to get 4.2 Ghz, it will get into Windows, but will freeze during the superpi's, no matter what settings/voltages I try.
At this point, I am guessing there is some kind of heat issue in the chipset that is killing me when I overclock the CPU speeds. The issue doesn't seem to be related to the FSB, but just to the clock speed. In addition, it can pass Orthos with ease. Orthos doesn't elicit the problem, neither does 3dmark, netiher do most modern games. Only LARGE Superpi runs and a long time of playing Battlefield 1942. Does this make any sense to anybody? I highly respect how knowledgeable many people are on these forums, and I am sincerely hoping someone can help me. PLEASE, anybody with ideas, help me out. I am getting extremely frustrated by this board.
Thank you for reading my post, and I sincerely hope someone can help me.
There is a great vdrop in the higher volts of the vcore. When i set 1.5, only get 1.46. And 1.775 gives 1.74. But you have tried them all i belive. Let us know if you find out anything, I have hit a wall too, but with 1.775 vcore I got to 4 ghz on my E6600.
Hi guys :) Sorry my first post is leeching info from your brains, rather than helping out - but you all are disturbingly skilled at PC hardware. I'm hoping you can shed some light on this, its been a long long time since I overclocked, so I'm probably missing something. I can't go over 395Mhz FSB, any higher and its just not stable. I've tried all sorts of voltages and timings, and it makes no difference.
Spec:
E6300 B2
Zalman 9500 LED
EVGA 680i P23 BETA BIOS
2GB Corsair Dominator C6400C4D
MSI 7900GTO (flashed to GTX)
OCZ 520W
3x Maxtor DiamondMax 10s 200GB (2x in RAID 0, one on its own)
Spread spectrums disabled. C1E, Speedstep, CPU thermal are all disabled.
I've set the main RAM timings manually, as well as the voltage; subtimings are all on auto (tried manual relaxed timings, made no diff). Currently I have all the voltages at stock (not auto), except for RAM at 2.1v, and CPU FSB at 1.3v. If I go to 1590 (397Mhz FSB), no matter what the voltage (any voltage, or combo of voltages) it's not stable.
I just don't understand it. Increasing SPP voltage (and/or CPU voltage) should increase the overclock surely? Even if its a small jump. But no, its like there's some sort of gremlin thats saying 'sorry - no more'. It doesn't fail Orthos, or any other stress test - it just freezes hard. Most times it'll reboot (no BSOD), other times it'll just freeze.
Any ideas? Thanks!
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Originally Posted by boogle
My EVGA has of whole areas/ranges of FSB settings that will cause the MB to boot into safe mode or to crash while loading/running Windows. The entire range from about 412Mhz (1648QDR) to about 425Mhz (1700QDR) would cause those problems. Above and below that range my MB work okays. There is another range of FSB settings lower down, that I know of, that causes the same issues for me.
I am at 429 x 9 now and working good and I can go up or down some on the FSB and have the MB still work. I did have to do the SPP volt mod and bumb the SPP volts up to 1.60 metered to run a 429fsb and change the NB/SB coolers to Viper custom units.
I also found the SPP runs (meters) higher than your bios setting. On my MB it was .048 higher than the bios SPP setting. I also found the 1.55 volt SPP setting in bios did not work. While 1.50 in bios gave 1.548 metered SPP volts the 1.55 setting in bios dropped the metered SPP volts clear down to 1.448..at least with the P21 bios. I did not check the P23 bios 1.55 volt SPP setting as I was already SPP volt modded at that time.
Makes it kind of hard to find your OC's when you have whole ranges of FSB settings where the MB won't work!!! You think you have hit a wall on the FSB that you can't go past but you can if you jump over (either up or down) the range(s) of FSB settings that give problems it will work.
Viper
Is there a question in that post?
Which post are you refering too??? If mine then no...just information on why you thinkQuote:
Originally Posted by sdumper
you might be hitting a FSB wall.
Viper
Thanks for the info :) I tried 1716Mhz but it was no go :( Tried 1800, 1820, 1850, 1900, 2000 (no POST on this one). Both 6x and 7x multipliers. I'm really starting to gain an intense dislike of this board. It won't even fail Orthos, just freezes or reboots without BSOD. Gotta love the corruption that goes with that sort of sudden stop. Voltage doesn't matter whatsoever, other than too much SPP at certain speeds stops POST.Quote:
Originally Posted by ViperJohn
I tried knocking the RAM down to 667Mhz (unlinked). The result? Wouldn't even POST, and that was with manual timings set to what I have at 800Mhz. vdimm was 2.1v (again DDR2-800 speed). Its rediculous. Should have got a 965/975 mobo, then I could have just put in an FSB value, increased the MCH voltage and been well away.
You may just have a MB that will not run. Even the ones that do are "twitchy" at best lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by boogle
Your NB may simply need more SPP volts than you can get out of bios. I had to run 1.60 SPP (metered after Vmodding) to get to 429 (1716) on mine. Seems to be hugh amounts of FSB OC ability from one NB chip to another.
Viper
Update on my situation: Even though I didn't receive any direct responses in this thread, some kind soul sent me a Private Message suggesting I try some other FSB:RAM ratios. While the ratios didn't seem to solve the problem, playing around with the RAM DID help.
Specifically, I changed around some of the "advanced ram settings" in BIOS and I am able to run 32M Superpi runs pretty easily. Now, I have no idea what I'm doing with those settings. I'll tell you what I did first: I left the main timings at 4-4-4-12, with a 933 ram clock at 2.2V. Then I changed the advanced settings to 2-14-5-7, leaving the last setting Auto (7.8us). This was the change that allowed me to pass the 32M superpi runs. I've ran them repeatedly and I don't experience any more freezes! However, then I froze up while doing some odd things - When I opened Outlook and CPU-Z at the same time, it froze. Later, I was sending a message through ebay, and right after I clicked "Submit", it froze. I don't know what caused this, but I changed my settings again to see if it helps. My new settings for "advanced memory settings" are 2-11-5-6, leaving the 7.8us setting alone on auto.
I'm going to test these new settings for stability, but I'm surprised I had to change these memory settings around so much. Does this make sense to anybody? Why did this help me? I did not need this before on the Asus P5W.
Also, only at my new settings am I able to boot into Windows at 4.4ghz (something I could not do before, it would just freeze). However, I can't get superpi off, it just freezes again, so I think it's a similar situation again.
What should my advanced settings be for my 2 1GB Gskill 800 HZ sticks?
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks for the reply - and sorry mine is so late.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roger_D25
My P5B WiFi Deluxe has been an AWESOME board. I understand all the "issues" with the vDroop, but the funny thing is, with the MANUAL overclock setting AND using AUTO as the vCPU setting - the voltage goes UP to the CPU as i increase the front side bus. Of course, CPU-Z stops reporting the correct voltage pretty quick, but the Asus probe shows that its at 1.55 +/- when I'm running with a 450-500FSB.
I've got an E6400 that will handle the high FSB just fine and I'm on Air cooling - Scythe INF series with a fairly quiet 120mm fan on the sink. I can get a 500Mhz front side out of the board/chip combo IF i lower the multi of the CPU. All in all, its been a REALLY fun board to play with.
I've got a eVGA 7950GX2 slapped on it, and I use it mainly for my LAN rig.
I'm looking to put a 680i into my MAIN rig to replace the P5W DH - becuase I want SLI without the mess of hacked drviers. AND i want a nice stable overclock to go with it. I have a Xeon 3060 on the way that has been sold to me by a fellow forumsman who says it will do 3.6 I expect that an Asus P5N32-E SLI or Asus striker Extrme should give up enough FSB to get a 6600/Xeon 3060 to 3.6 with little to no trouble while at the same time holding up an SLI setup. Is this a true statement everyone? I hope so - becuase that is the plan. I could REALLY R E A L L Y use some feedback on this one.
what happens in memtest86+ when you try those FSB ranges ? do you reboot or error out ? probably easier and safer to test in memtest first if the results would correspond with the windows crashes or safemode ?Quote:
Originally Posted by ViperJohn
Memtest will run until I shut it down as will P95.Quote:
Originally Posted by eva2000
Viper
Maybe I missed it but has anyone posted a superpi yet at 4.5 or higher with the Striker or the EVGA board?
My striker was crippled with only one bank of DIMMs working so I never had a chance to push it for speed before I RMAed it. The replacement is due here in a week or so but I was hoping for some goals to shoot for.
can anyone here help me please? I have an evga 680i with an e6300 and I cannot get paft 1660 on the fsb. some settings wont even try to boot but others will boot to the windows screen and the scrolling thing just keeps scrolling. I have tried numerous settings and voltages with no luck. I think I may have a defective board.
I am also new to intel so I dont know what all the things are in the bios. can anyone display screenshots of their bios settings or tell me what their settings are?
Thanks
INFRNL
qk4723Deluxe, how does that time compare to other boards like the P5B Deluxe and the P5W Deluxe...
Hi Guys,
Had any off you luck with the new evga p23 beta bios? I can't test it right now :(
Im still waiting on my new WC parts :slobber: post order needs a bit :slapass:
It seems on the evga forum that it fixes a lot of problems :clap: but im more interested in the OC improvements :cool:
DDR 1000 4-3-3-4 2t
1M :toast:
http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/8...g2jpg32tf5.jpg
what vdimm was that at ? memset screenie ? :)
DDR2 1000 4-3-4-4 2T
1M
http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/9387/1m4344zp0.jpg
Is there a way to use MS SM Bus drivers or should I be use Nvidia one's :confused:
qk4723Deluxe -
is 400 Mhz FSB (1600) 24 / 7 stable on that RIG?
Are you utilizing SLI?
I'm sure that having an SLI video card setup has to take away SOME amount of overclocking headroom. Just not sure HOW much.
I'm looking to run a 400MHz FSB with an SLI setup. Still debating on a board.
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Originally Posted by Khaotic
Having no problems running sli with my evga 680i on mysystem OC to 3.83 24/7. Click compare link in sig for specs.
does anyone know where the voltage measure points are for ram and cpu volts ???????????
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VR-Zone has some.Quote:
Originally Posted by billdavis
Viper
Quote:
Originally Posted by ViperJohn
yeah just found them
http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=4215&s=18
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hmm tested the vmem and it shows 1.95~ the bios says 2.5
and i have 4 gigs running @900mhz
so what gives
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can someone confirm the vmem measure point for me, Please
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The Vmem metering point indicated at VR-Zone is correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by billdavis
Viper
Yea you are right.This is not correct.If I remember right,this is the right spot to measure vmem(I dont have the EVGA board anymore).Quote:
Originally Posted by billdavis
The leg you are indicating as correct is the mosfets Gate Drive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil The Greek
Viper
PTG the 1 u say to use gives me 2.21v
viperjohn the 1 u say to use gives me 2.01v
bios is still 2.5v
ive been running my d9 ram @850+ with 2.4vmem bios which is 1.91 at the measure piont
with a pencil mod the vr-zone measure point shows 2.39vmem but when booting it is up to 2.7vmem
with no pencil mod on boot up the vr-zone measure point shows 2.01 but when booting 2.4vmem with 2.5 vmem in bios
so what im trying to figure out is what is the right measure point if the vr-zone one is correct the high vmem during boot could be what is causing the ram issues on this mobo
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Quote:
Originally Posted by billdavis
When you say "Bios Shows" are you refering to what you have set in bios as that can almost
meaningless sometimes if there are errors in the target VID pin tables in the bios. On board
sensors can also be grossly inaccurate. That is why you should always meter with a known
accurate DVM!
On my eVAG680i the actual memory voltage ran .048v HIGHER with the P21 bios and runs
.025v higher than bios setting with the P23. CPU Vcore is consistantly .040v lower than
bios setting. Every MB will be different and things can change with a bios flash if the new
bios has different VID pin tables than the old bios. That is one of many reason why people
loose or gain OC on a bios change. If there was a change/correction in the target VID pin
tables in the new bios then the voltages you think you are running have changed and your
OC react accordingly.
The test point indicated at VR-Zone traces to the Vdimm final filter caps and onto the VDD
input contacts on the memory sticks so it is correct.
Also make sure your DVM is reading accurately. Cheap VDM's that read to only two decimal
places (if it only reads to one decimal place then use it as a paper weight and nothing more)
can be even more inaccurate than on board sensors!!! You can check DVM rarely easily with
a BRAND NEW, UNUSED triple A Alkaline battery. It should between 1.605 and 1.610 volts
if your DVM is reading accurately.
Viper
My DVM is right on!
so then i guess it is just a bad mobo. that sucks!
where do i find the measure point for my vcore
new overclock
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m316/wcd26/ok-1.jpg
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Probably not "bad" but definately different.Quote:
Originally Posted by billdavis
I know where the Vcore metering point it is on the back of the MB but that won't do you any
with it installed in a case. Not sure there is even one on the front side of the MB...at least
that you could hit with a CPU cooler installed.
Viper
Stability at 450 where it has been reported a hole exists...
If noticed that some boards have holes where others don't. One guy from OcUK was reporting holes between 405-408 where is board refused to boot. Mine works fine at these FSB.Quote:
Originally Posted by sdumper
Very strange I had a problem on my first Striker between 490x10 and 453x10. I have not seen any holes in the higher ranges on my new board and ran a SuperPi 1m last night at 4601 without issue. Ill play around and see if I can find some holes this weekend and then document my findings.
Not the greatest SuperPi in the world but not too far off the 975x mobos either...
http://thumbsnap.com/t/dFNQNBiw.jpg
what vdimm used for 450mhz 1T ?Quote:
Originally Posted by sdumper
too much... 2.4volts :( I have a fan blowing on it but it still makes me nervous.Quote:
Originally Posted by eva2000
I went to 2.5 for the 4.6 benches here:
http://thumbsnap.com/t/dFNQNBiw.jpg
trc = 12 and trfc = 18
And for normal use I use 2.25 to 2.3 ... depending on the timing (i used 2.3 for the orthos run just as a stability precation)
http://thumbsnap.com/t/GfWJfZpI.jpg
is that with team 6400c3 or gskill ? seems about same vdimm i need for gskill 6400 hz for 450mhz 1T
Team Xtreem: TXDD2048M800HC3DC
http://www.tankguys.biz/ddr2-3338-p-...60618fed6297ed
Note: I also have the G.Skill HZ but haven't tried them yet....
Likewise, I still haven't found my sweet spot yet so im still hopefully for a sub 10s superPi maybe at 4.65??
Are you running linked or unlinked? I am running => linked / synch mode.
I wonder If unlinked 1100/1200 5-5-5-15 2t would get me a faster time.
I just got my Evga 680i board today but I have some problems.
Bios won't boot upp with my settings, it loads default settings all the time.
2.66Ghz E6700
Any idea what can be wrong?
What are your settings?
Fsb (QDR) 1500 boots 1066.7
Mem 4-4-4-12 1T boots 4-4-4-11 1T
Vcore 1.675 boots 1.64v
Fsb 1.2v
Mem 2.2v
nForce SPP auto
nForce MCP auto
HT nForce SPP<->Mcp auto
Try changing to 2T.
Boost FSB voltage to 1.4
Found the problem I can't boot up with Fsb memory ratio on 1:1, I need to set iy on auto. Anyone know why I can't set it on any other value?
And is someone using Scythe Infinity on the board? Might as well ask what cpu coolers you are using are using.
Here is an 8x500 on the evga i680.
CPU-Z has errors opening the driver.
http://premium1.uploadit.org/skiman/bench/8x500.JPG
Here's something for you. I found that getting this fsb could only be done immediately after a bios clear/reset. Going right into 8x500 is no problem; however upon reboot POST CODE 11 happens, and into that OC Warning message.
i was using the infinity then went water as stuff were getting hot.. especially here where ambient temps are 32 to 36 degrees celcius..
@ gas try unlinked.. anyway i found the p23 bios extremely unstable for clocking.. sick of it.. went back to p21.. and got my 4ghz screen
530MHz FSB on EVGA 680i SLI (Vspp voltmodded to 1.66V) :banana:
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=151702
SuperPi1M @ 513 MHz:
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/4...2duohi7.th.png
Just wondering why u guys lower the multiplier on the 6600's? is it just to get more FSB?, I think u actually waste some performance doing that on the 680IQuote:
Originally Posted by S_A_V
just a question ,dont flame me cause i kill u ok
btw this is my 680I 444x9 so far on air , going water this next week
hmm can u run the temps into the high 60s with no problems ?? im currently in the high 50s and that kinda worries me
Yes it worries me too, i only dhad it @ 4G for a few just to do the screenshot , Id like to keep it under 50 underload at that speed if i can, iam reading about watercooling at the moment so i can go water , i think my cpu need to be lapped too , one core temp is higher than the oter one, at least is better now after i applyed the artic silver , b4 that my temps were crazy with regular thermall paste (didnt have artic silver at that time) the diferents are very highQuote:
Originally Posted by jetjaguar
I lowered mine just to see if it could do a 500.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ajfina
Hey guys!
What is the HT multiplier setting?
It is set to 5X right now. Should I thouch this at any point when overclocking?
What about Linkboost?
mines at 3x
Maybe you can tell us how you did that ?Quote:
Originally Posted by S_A_V
What bios you use ?
What cooling ?
And what settings ?
i turn off linkboost when i go over 3.6 . right now im at 3.4 and linkboost is onQuote:
Originally Posted by orion23
Hi !!! got a friend that recently bought a 680i in concrete the Evga one. Problem lies on overclocking capabilities, once he set everything in BIOS and wants to save changes appears the message Checksum error.
Any thoughts on that, can some one tell me what to do to solve that .
thanks in advance!!!
I'm not sure FEEXX but I would try flashing the BIOS to the newest version? Even if he already flashed it recenlty I would do it again. It sounds like something probalby went wrong during a recent BIOS flash!
well, this afternoon i was testing a q6600 ES and was a complete failure, i dont know why i couldn't change de multiplier of the cpu in bios, well it changed but when booted doesn't change it, and i couldn't pass the 3.3ghz wall doesn't matter voltage increments. weird.
the 680i makes my q6600 and a e6600 failed in super pi, in all test, but they do past prime and other test, what do you think the problem could be.
i'm using p23 bios final. the MB is evga.
off topic but the Striker 0701 bios has vCore holes...
Testing different settings this weekend but have found 2 confirmed holes so far.