PC70/120.3/Mach II - Lots of pics

[crmaris]

Very impresive job!The pics speaks by themselves!!One question,what is your temp at idle and full load with the 4400 X2 at 3150 with 1.7 volt.? Because i dont think that a normal mach 2 can hadle a x2 with 1.7 (you will definately see positive (and high) temps at full load)..

[cinOxen]

Thanks!

I can't remember all that well. I think it was around -6 Celcius idle by the Mach II sensor, 5-10 with the mobo sensor and +10 over that under load.

If there are no problems over the next couple days I'll try it that fast again.

[crmaris]

Thanks!

I can't remember all that well. I think it was around -6 Celcius idle by the Mach II sensor, 5-10 with the mobo sensor and +10 over that under load.

If there are no problems over the next couple days I'll try it that fast again.

as i thought the temps are pretty high. If the mach sensor which is very optimistic shows only -6 at idle and you havent changed its original position then you have very high temps(i wonder how the mach doesnt shut down the system by itself for precaution reasons,you must have set very high the shutdown limits). In full load you must have big problems with temps.. I think this is the reason for the instability you have..An unmodded mach simply cannot hold the watts of a X2 at 3150 with 1.7 vcore..

great job again for the whole built..

[cinOxen]

The shutdown temp wasn't changed, it is still at 0 Celsius so I guess it never went over that temp in the evaporator because it never shut down. My memory probably didn't recall the right temps (it's faulty ), maybe those were the temps under load.

I only had this overclock going for a short time (few days) and as I said the only effect was that I got more hardlocks than at stock. It still had hardlocks when everything was at stock. I still think they were being caused by the bios/cmos because the last time I cleared cmos and re-flashed the bios there has been only the one problem. Before it would hardlock every couple days.

The strange thing as well was that all the hardlocks occurred at the desktop while I was browsing the internet - they have never occurred during super-pi, 3dmark or gaming. Maybe something to do with the ethernet controller. I changed to the marvell so maybe that could have solved the problem too.