Testing / comparing : Intel D975XBX2 / Asus P5B DX ***56K WARNING***

[hotchoc]

Btw, my intel desktop utilities v3.0.11.16 hangs once in awhile when i click on the hardware monitor section to view my pc temps. It will be ok only after i reboot my comp only to happen in a couple or hrs later Anybody experiencing this ?

[slagdemon]

mine does the same thing..

Also, my sound sometimes goes out.. only by rebooting does it come back. This happens once every week or two.

Aside from that, very happy with the board.

E4300@3.3ghz

Everything else is rock solid stable except the monitoring tool and thats only sometimes. I can play WoW for 12 hours straight without any issues.

[Forceman]

Oh btw, besides orthos and superpi. what other stability tests can i run ?

Try OCCT, it is pretty stressful as well.

http://www.ocbase.com/perestroika_en/index.php

[theonlybabyface]

Btw, my intel desktop utilities v3.0.11.16 hangs once in awhile when i click on the hardware monitor section to view my pc temps. It will be ok only after i reboot my comp only to happen in a couple or hrs later Anybody experiencing this ?

This happens if you open cpu-z. Once you open cpu-z, the hardware detail in IDU hangs. It has been stated in this thread several times....

[gtj]

to GTJ - thanks for keeping this thread alive. it's rare one person is so dedicated to one board for so long. with that said, i need help!

I have raid enabled in the bios and i'm on the intel controllers.

i originally installed windows with the RAID drivers as I knew that I would be adding 2x36GB Raptors as RAID eventually.

However, in windows, I do not see my newly created "raptorraid" volume.

When I use intel matrix storage console, the raptors show up as being in raid, the status is normal, system volume says "no"... and this is what i can't figure out. Shouldn't system volume say "yes"?

Well if you could help me find my missing raptor raid and possibly move my windows from my 250GB to my new raid array, that'd be great as well.

thanks!

System Volume: "No" is fine. Just means that Windows didn't boot from there. Use Windows Disk Management to see if the volume shows up. It probably will but you'll need to create a partion on it for the rest of Windows to see it.

I'm not sure if I can help with moving Windows XP (assuming that's what you're running). With Vista it's easier because you can boot from the CD to a command prompt and do a massive xcopy. Have you looked at tools like Ghost?

[shimmishim]

System Volume: "No" is fine. Just means that Windows didn't boot from there. Use Windows Disk Management to see if the volume shows up. It probably will but you'll need to create a partion on it for the rest of Windows to see it.

I'm not sure if I can help with moving Windows XP (assuming that's what you're running). With Vista it's easier because you can boot from the CD to a command prompt and do a massive xcopy. Have you looked at tools like Ghost?

thanks. windows disk management worked!

but i went ahead and just reinstalled windows on to my raided raptors.

glad i didn't sell this board. it's a nice 24/7 setup.

[gbeans99]

[QUOTE=ChaosMinionX;2095363]Well heres a screeny of my most recent 24/7 setup with temps and whatnot.

Chaos.. what kind of load temps are you seeing with the Enzotech?

[hotchoc]

shimmishim, how do check out ur latency using everest? which section ?

[ChaosMinionX]

[QUOTE=gbeans99;2097131]

Well heres a screeny of my most recent 24/7 setup with temps and whatnot.

Chaos.. what kind of load temps are you seeing with the Enzotech?

never breaks 55C with TAT. 34C idle of recent. about 23-25C in my room.

Chip is fully lapped, I lapped the base of the enzotech over. and properly applied the thinnest layer of AS5 i could to the pipes and Al heatsink. Liquid Pro was used for the processor though. Delta fan is on low-mid. Full speed I can hit 30-31C.

[hotchoc]

For Orthos, what's the best priority level to set when testing it? All this while i have been using 1 as a testbed. IS it possible to do an Orthos test in the background while i'm surfing the net, games, etc ?

[shimmishim]

shimmishim, how do check out ur latency using everest? which section ?

i'm not sure if 3.50 is compatible with BX2. I use beta 3.80
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/...-Edition.shtml

As for checking latency, someone else might be able to help you out as i do not have the program here.

For Orthos, what's the best priority level to set when testing it? All this while i have been using 1 as a testbed. IS it possible to do an Orthos test in the background while i'm surfing the net, games, etc ?

1 is fine. others say to use 9. and yes it's possible to surf and game. the only thing that happens is that clocks cycles are taken away from orthos and used by the game / whatever ap you are using since orthos usually gets lowest priority.

[likewhoa]

I only used it to get enough load to show that it was running 3600mhz 400x9 and have it stay that way, since C1E is dumb on this board... Id be glad to give you a 24hr orthos though if youd like

How is C1E affecting your overclocking? I just got my BADAXE2 today, since my Infinity died on me. Looking forward to see what this baby will do with my X6800 under phase.

[hotchoc]

i'm not sure if 3.50 is compatible with BX2. I use beta 3.80
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/...-Edition.shtml

As for checking latency, someone else might be able to help you out as i do not have the program here.



1 is fine. others say to use 9. and yes it's possible to surf and game. the only thing that happens is that clocks cycles are taken away from orthos and used by the game / whatever ap you are using since orthos usually gets lowest priority.

man thks. then how did u check out ur latency ?

[gtj]

man thks. then how did u check out ur latency ?

In Everest, it's Tools/Cache and Memory benchmark.

[ChaosMinionX]

How is C1E affecting your overclocking? I just got my BADAXE2 today, since my Infinity died on me. Looking forward to see what this baby will do with my X6800 under phase.

C1E is disabled in bios, yet is still on. So if I were to take that screenshot without something doing a load. It would have been 400 x 6 for 2.4ghz.

Nothing to do with teh OC only for the screenshots purpose did I want 3.6ghz 400x9

[STaRGaZeR]

C1E is disabled in bios, yet is still on. So if I were to take that screenshot without something doing a load. It would have been 400 x 6 for 2.4ghz.

Nothing to do with teh OC only for the screenshots purpose did I want 3.6ghz 400x9

I use hiden Prime95. CPUZ shows 3700Mhz and there is nothing more on screen

[likewhoa]

C1E is disabled in bios, yet is still on. So if I were to take that screenshot without something doing a load. It would have been 400 x 6 for 2.4ghz.

Nothing to do with teh OC only for the screenshots purpose did I want 3.6ghz 400x9

so in other words, you need to keep a load when doing screenshots or else it underclock on idle. as long the frequency down scale is stable I really wouldn't mind it, as it will save processing power when idle. I myself will always keep a load on the rig as I run folding when pc becomes idle.

[shimmishim]

so in other words, you need to keep a load when doing screenshots or else it underclock on idle. as long the frequency down scale is stable I really wouldn't mind it, as it will save processing power when idle. I myself will always keep a load on the rig as I run folding when pc becomes idle.

yes, that is exactly it.

or you can use cpuz 1.38, TAT, and some other programs that only show the "loaded" cpu speed.

i just use RMclock to disable C1E at a software level in windows and that fixes everything (assuming i'm not folding).

[ChaosMinionX]

so in other words, you need to keep a load when doing screenshots or else it underclock on idle. as long the frequency down scale is stable I really wouldn't mind it, as it will save processing power when idle. I myself will always keep a load on the rig as I run folding when pc becomes idle.

Right, I however dont like the idea of throttling Id much rather it running at max the whole time.

[Blacklash]

It would be nice if C1E would truly disable, that said, it hasn't gimped my OC or had any adverse effects on it. I do lose a hair off my 1m time because of the time it takes the CPU to jump up to full speed from idle @ a 6x multi.

On other motherboards I could toggle power management on and off in windows by switching between "always on" to defeat it, and "minimal power management", to use it.

[likewhoa]

Well hopefully Intel will release a BIOS with this fix and possibly others that we like not to deal with anymore. Yes you Intel; BIOS update plz, kthx

[ArcticOC]

Well hopefully Intel will release a BIOS with this fix and possibly others that we like not to deal with anymore. Yes you Intel; BIOS update plz, kthx

Well, just keep on mailing the Intel support staff like the rest of us
This C1E issue really sucks and should be fixed ASAP

[likewhoa]

has anyone had any issues with mushkin redlines and the bad axe2? I think one of my sticks is DEAD, since the board will only boot with one of the sticks and beeps 3 times with the other, which tells me it can't properly detect that stick. I wish had another pair of DDR2 ram. I guess it's time to buy a cheapo pair for testing purposes.

[shimmishim]

It would be nice if C1E would truly disable, that said, it hasn't gimped my OC or had any adverse effects on it. I do lose a hair off my 1m time because of the time it takes the CPU to jump up to full speed from idle @ a 6x multi.

On other motherboards I could toggle power management on and off in windows by switching between "always on" to defeat it, and "minimal power management", to use it.

that jump shouldn't really take too much off your time as the load causes the cpu to get to max clock instantaneously.

as i stated before, just use RMclock to diasble C1E before you bench or run pi or whatever else u want to do.

[slagdemon]

This happens if you open cpu-z. Once you open cpu-z, the hardware detail in IDU hangs. It has been stated in this thread several times....

This happens to me without using cpu-z so its not related just to that.