My Badaxe XP-rience

[The Byter]

I got the Badaxe rev304 for my E6600 ES conroe.

I played with it for the last dayz, here is my impresion:
BIOS 1304

- The Bios will freeze somtimes when hitting Y to save.
- running speedfan will reset the vcore to stock.
- running sandra will reset the vcore to stock.
- if I run cpuz, Intel temp monitor will no longer work.
- if I run speedfan, Intel temp monitor will no longer work.
- clockgen, systool dont work 100% for fsb oc, clockgen will not work right, and sys tool will freeze somtimes even if the speed is stable.
- not all fsb/mem combo work at firsy try.

I will add more as I find them.
If you know any work around for any of those, plz let me know

[eva2000]

never used intel temp monitor.. use coretemp for readings

Dual Stressprime 2004 idle and load temps:

Room ambient: 25.3C
CPU idle: 33C/34C
CPU load: 59-60C for both cores

@9x416fsb = 3750Mhz

vcore = 1.441v
mch = 1.725v
fsb = 1.395
vdimm = 2.2v





never had the freeze issue in bios.

[Pete]

Man thats sounds odd. yet to get them problems but i have a diffenrent one for you

Plealing. my bord has pealed apart just running air @ 3.7 ghz with my E6700. having to RMA it

[The Byter]

I use E6600 ES B0 step4.

stock bios temp: 56C

I can get upto 3.4ghz~ with ninja plus cooler + ac with very high temp on load 80C~

thanks for the core temp tip.

[eva2000]

oh yeah step 4 runs hotter than step 5 according to FCG.. his step 5 ran 20C cooler on than step 4 on phase change!

[bmg]

I've occasionally had the "freeze" after changing something in the bios. For me it never actually freezes completely, just takes a significantly longer than normal time to do the reboot. When I go into the bios after that happens I can see that the updates were ok.

[mdzcpa]

I've also had the BIOS freeze up a few times. Not on the "Y" but just being in the BIOS.

Yes, there are problems running CPU Z and Intel hardware monitor. CPU Z crashes the Intel HW monitor (I use Crystal CPUID now and it prevents the Intel HW from crashing).

I don't use speedfan and sandra.

[The Byter]

This is what I get when running Core temp:

[eva2000]

lol 5/14C something wrong there unless that avatar is your cooling temps -66C heh

[The Byter]

my ss is not on yet
the pic is with air and the real temp is 50C~