Okay, I got the striker II extreme. I picked up a Q9450 and an eVGA 9800gx2.
What RAM should I get?
Printable View
Okay, I got the striker II extreme. I picked up a Q9450 and an eVGA 9800gx2.
What RAM should I get?
IMO 1600Mhz with tight timings (ex:7-7-7-21)
I'd say go for some kit that works perfectly with the S2E, a guaranteed one I might add.Quote:
Originally Posted by extremis
Mine's rolling fine with the CellShock DDR3-1800 CL8 kit and the Super Talent W1866UX2G8 ( 2GB Kits )
It didn't look like it was a refurb. All the stuff in the box was intact and nothing looked like it had been opened before.Quote:
Originally Posted by slim142
What do you think about this?Quote:
Originally Posted by slim142
OCZ (7.7.7.24) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227297
or should I go with:
G.Skill (7.7.7.18): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231167
Super Talent (7.7.7.21): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820609287
Hi guys , its just taken me a few hours of fiddling to get my evga 790i stable with cpu at stock (!!!) but Im new to ddr3 and most of my problem was all of the ram settings defaulted way off the mark . My ram defaults to 1333-7-7-7 1.5v so I assumed that would at least work for a baseline , this memtested fine (after increasing vdimm a little) but when it failed prime I started working on the cpu and increasing voltage made it worse . Increasing ram to 1600 made auto timings go to 9-9-9 and it still failed. In the end I manually set ram to 1600-7-7-7 and tried 1.8v and it primed for 2 1/2 hours before I powered down for the night.
Has anyone else had these hassles or is it my n00b-ness causing problems ?
With unlinked mem/cpu does that mean that when I get my ram stable I can leave it alone and trust it while I work on cpu clocks ? I never got the potential out of my L737B on my MF so Im hoping the 790i will help.
Any help would be great.
:up:
For those with sigs turned off its : EVGA 790i Ultra L737B Q6600 OCZ platinum 1600-7-7-7 2GB
.
i don't know your RAM but i assume they are micron based so you should not have trouble clocking them to what you require at reasonably low volts....i would however use whatever stock volts OCZ gives you so if that is 1.9v stick to thatQuote:
Originally Posted by aussie-revhead
also beware that my boards undervolt vdimm a bit so 1.95v gives me 1.91v loaded
if you want to have a go at my settings have a look at this video i did during 2133MHz RAM OCing session
just my stock settings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNX3imOCQ_o
also ALWAYS run your RAM in black slots
Thanks Dino , they are in the grey slots atm so I will change them later . The OCZ website shows max voltage at 1.95 but doesnt really say what stock voltage should be , they seem to work at 1.8v but why would bios default to 1.5v ? You would think defaults should work when everything is stock , what happens to poor noobs or stocker pcs ? Do they all fail at stock settings ?
I have 11 days to get this rig cracking (before new vid cards hit the streets) and I have a qx9650 coming too .....
:up::up::up:
Thanks for the video , you said to enable P1 and P2 for greater efficiency , what does that do ? ie will it help me too ?
Also - n3wbi3 just told me I might need 2.1-2.2v for 1T but my rams defaulted to 1T so thats where I left them , is this causing problems ?
.
P1&P2 are some mysterious chipset timings that nvidia doesn't want to talk about but they tighten RAM performance like crazy.................790i is faster in superpi than any Intel chipset once you max out board and RAM which is a good indication what it doesQuote:
Originally Posted by aussie-revhead
however >> P1 and P2 will also make your OC unstable quicker particularly if you don't have the right mix of volts.... i usually start at auto settings and then change to enabled once i am happy with auto
give you RAM 1.9v in bios man it's fine
i would be very surprised if you cannot run that RAM at 1000MHz 8-7-6-20 1T at 1.9 or 1.95
Sweet , I will see how it goes later when I get back into it .
:up:
Thats nice, some people get used boards sometimes...Quote:
Originally Posted by tekjunkie
Check PMQuote:
Originally Posted by extremis
I prefer G.Skill. Gave me no problems at all with this board. The other two are good too from what I heard but I never purchased them.
Another happy user here :DQuote:
Originally Posted by mcoffey
While we're on the subject of RAM.
I have the TWIN3X2048-1066C7 from Corsair (im cheap i know, but it was better memory or a second graphics card, guess what i chose), which is apparently 1.5v, i was wondering how much volts i can actually push through it without damaging it. What voltage would be the safe line, surely its not just 1.5v, because the S2E wont even run that low, its always sitting 1.52 ish anyway.
Some people have been getting more stability with different RAM voltages, and i cant really move it up for fear of over volting it, and the S2E doesnt allow anything lower then 1.5v, so i cant undervolt it.
I do have a RAM fan as well, if that helps at all.
Unless you are absolutely sure you will never need 4GB, get 2 x 2GB memory now. This board does not like 4 x 1GB at high speeds. My Corsair is running fine at 1800MHz at 8-7-7-18 2T on stock voltage, I can only get 1800MHz in the white slots.Quote:
Originally Posted by extremis
OK guys , I got this thing stable at stock clocks but now anything higher and it wont boot , sometimes even freezes during POST . Even a tiny 8x400 wont boot , am I missing something ? I bumped vcore way higher than my last mobo needed and tried increasing all voltages a little but didnt go overboard. I will try 9x333 and see if that helps .
:shrug:
This is getting weird and more weird..... :shrug:
I was stable on BIOS 0603 playing Crysis for 1 hour or so, without any issues.
Then i upgraded to BIOS 0704 with same settings, when i start to play Crysis in a minute or two (some times even in the gane menu) a have the famous screen blicking and the message "display driver as stopped working and was recovered". :mad:
I´ve tried about 10 times and same result all the times:
"display driver as stopped working and was recovered"
I can´t play more than 1 or 2 minutes. Than again back to BIOS 0603 and i play four 1 hour again with no issues.....
I think this might be related to how BIOS 0704 handles the memory controller, but i´m not sure.
I think my BOARD is in love with BIOS 0603!!!:rofl: It´s just worst if i change to a newer BIOS.
Dinos, I have alot of issues running my ram in synced mode, Since i'm running at 1800 FSB, When i try 1800mhz, 8-8-8-24 2T (Since No matter what speed besides 1333mhz, I can't run 1T) I get memory errors like crazy, So what do you recommend me trying since You got DDR3 to run at 2133mhz. And I did all the right volts and everything, But couldn't figure out whats the problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by dinos22
My latest result:
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/186/40ghzwm8.th.gif
Enermax Infiniti 720W
Q6600 step g0
Nirvana NV120
XFX 790i Ultra BIOS P05
2GB OCZ DDR3 PC3-1440 1800MHz@1600MHz 8-8-8-24 1.90V
XFX 9800GX2 Black Edition
4.0GHz air cooled :)
I'm pretty sure it will come down to finding the sweetspot with your gtlrefs. My q6600 worked great all the way up 4.1ghz on auto settings, but chips really do vary.Quote:
OK guys , I got this thing stable at stock clocks but now anything higher and it wont boot , sometimes even freezes during POST . Even a tiny 8x400 wont boot , am I missing something ? I bumped vcore way higher than my last mobo needed and tried increasing all voltages a little but didnt go overboard. I will try 9x333 and see if that helps .
I'd setup your volts at 'more than enough' settings, like you currently have. Then try experimenting with different GTLref values. Maybe using identical figures for the first two. I would say you can probably leave the last two gtlrefs at zero.
I found that I could actually find the sweetspot in memtest. So for instance with the QX -90mv would crap out after a minute in memtest, and then -95mv would get me all the way through.
Not sure what figures to recommend, because as I say they really do vary. It could be positive figures up to 100 or negative figures. (Maybe someone here can give some better pointers)
To give an example my qx9650 seemed to top out at 4.22 ghz stability testing wise. I would then start increasing volts and getting very little result. I then set my GTL refs to -110mv for the first two and bingo. 4.25, 4.30 priming nicely.
This is a little test I managed, that surprised me today with those GTLrefs. Mem at 1.975v
http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/957/485x95bv1.jpg
RLM
Thanks RLM , Im just playing with my q6600 for daily use and to sort this rig out until the new video cards come out and my qx arrives , but I dont have good feelings about this mobo so far.
I saw another guy mention that he cant get past 1450 mhz fsb and mine seems to be doing that too , it will clock up to 3200 and be stable , but wont boot at 3330 . It needs heaps more vcore than my MF needed too .
I havent even touched gtlrefs , I dont understand them at all .
:shrug:
Edit: Are dual cores easier to work with on these mobos ? If so an E8600 might be in order.
Edit2: Does htt multi need to be changed ? (like when clocking AMDs?) I tried 4x but it didnt help . I just keep getting FF diagnostic and no display , I tried linked , unlinked rams , different slots , more voltages , less voltages , I guess I will just keep pushing glvrefs a bit more. Sometimes it gets to the windows startup options screen and freezes there .
.
.
Stick with GTLRefs dor the moment.Quote:
Edit2: Does htt multi need to be changed ? (like when clocking AMDs?) I tried 4x but it didnt help . I just keep getting FF diagnostic and no display , I tried linked , unlinked rams , different slots , more voltages , less voltages ,
When it doesn't freeze, you're getting close:DQuote:
I guess I will just keep pushing glvrefs a bit more. Sometimes it gets to the windows startup options screen and freezes there .
RLM
Maybe these things do prefer 45nm processors .
:horse:
maybe thats the answer...Quote:
Originally Posted by bjorn3d website
:shrug:
have you tried unlinking the RAM?Quote:
Originally Posted by [cTx]Warboy
i'm not really familiar with that asus board to be honest
Last comment, I know there are some genuinely dodgy 790i's out there, but don't jump on the bandwagon and write off the q6600 to soon.Quote:
Maybe these things do prefer 45nm processors .
Quote:
Originally Posted by bjorn3d website
Well after much searching, I have fond out this is a bios issue which only affects the Q6600 GO and the 790i. None of the other Kentsfields have this problem.
It wouldn't be so bad if I could find a Yorkfield 45mm some where, but they are very scarse ATM.
maybe thats the answer...
_________
I've got more out of my q6600 with this board, than any of the other board it's been in. A bit of patient tweaking that's all.
RLM
OK , thats what I was hoping for .
:up: