Asus 680i, P5N32-E Sli Results.

[alexanderhuzar]

lol no no, i know that. The scratched part is actually near the CPU notch towards the middle edge though.. Where the green seemed to be picked off and its yellowish ; / But then again its only about .1 to .2 mm

This is what a CPU should look like (except for the text in the middle which was photoshopped in).

Hmmm.. Im not sure whether I should plug in the 8 pin then.. I mean if it was made for Xeons/Opterons I dont see why I should for the Dual Core.. Everything has been running pretty stable so far.

I have all 8 pins being fed power. I don't know if 4 of them are actually using that power, but it's perfectly fine on my system.

Ahhh ok ... I didnt rattle it though hehe, all i did was turn it upside down/ side to side very slowly and I could hear something moving around.. I also opened the tray and tried to see if i could see anything moving around in there but I couldnt see it at all. Regardless Ill go ahead and ask newegg if the lite on's rattle just to be sure then.

Yeah stuff moving around is a bad thing.

I have suspend disabled in windows. I only have the monitor to shut off after 10 min and then Hibernation to activate in 15 min. And I also put the power button to go into hibernation when I press it. Maybe this could have been a BIOS issue as well? Il go ahead and put it into Hibernation now that I flashed it. Hopefully it wont turn on again on its own.

I never did like hibernation. I tried it when I had windows 2000, but I noticed that a regular startup was only like 5 seconds slower than a resume from hibernation. I haven't used hibernation or suspend mode ever since.

The tests I ran for Quicktech and PC-Check werent in Windows it was in DOS mode.

Try using "Ultimate Boot CD" http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/. It has a built-in prime95, memtest, and a whole wad of other extremely useful things.

Im gonna install the 3 dimms that work since i know my 4th one isnt working. Then il test out the other channel as well. Il keep updating as soon as possible.

Try testing one DIMM at a time in each memory socket. Then try 2 DIMMS and do every combination possible. After than move on to 3.