Striker pwns EVGA with Q6600 G0

[ganzir]

Yes I thought so, too, unfortunately the asus tool won´t let me downgrade to 1303, so I am going to do it from the dos prompt. The problem I am facing here is, that i do not have a FDD at hand. Until this changes I am stuck where I am. Thx for the advice no the less.

Greetz
Ganzir

[nugzo]

u do not need a floppy. put the unzipped 1303 bios on the C: or on a thumb drive. Reboot, go into bios and update from there. there is an Asus bios tool in the bios. you do not need to boot from floppy. The 1303 or 1301 bios will probably fix your issues. 1305 suks. I started with 1303, sometimes on high OC system wouldn't post about 20% of time. With 1301, i get same OC and it boots every time.

[ganzir]

Thx, I have not recognized this yet. I try an older bios but may be you can give me a rough estimation of what should be possible with the configuration I am using.

Edit: I have been able to downgrade to BIOS 1301. Now I running at 3000MHz with an FSB of 333 and 9x Multi. with Vcore 1,45V (BIOS) PC Probe show 1.39V und CPU-Z shows 1,312V

Under Prime I have a max temperature of 62C

Could you explain to me what these two values are?

1.2v HT Voltage

CPU VTT Voltage

Greetz
Ganzir

[NKD]

guys sadly my striker got hit by a the famous "CPU INIT" bug, tried for 3 hours to get it to boot but no go, i was absolutly in love with the board but i guess 680i is not very faithful to me, so i have my second 8800 ultra sitting away and i will probably wait for the next highend chipset from nvidia in november until than my ip-35 will do. hopefully nvidia will make that one right.

[REVHEAD]

guys sadly my striker got hit by a the famous "CPU INIT" bug, tried for 3 hours to get it to boot but no go, i was absolutly in love with the board but i guess 680i is not very faithful to me, so i have my second 8800 ultra sitting away and i will probably wait for the next highend chipset from nvidia in november until than my ip-35 will do. hopefully nvidia will make that one right.

Umm wtf ?

Mine is still cracking along @ 3.6 on air ,I think the problem may be deeper than passing it off as the boards fault ? though I could be wrong, I just dont understand how you can have a board running fine and then dead the next ,unless you pushed it 2 far.


Edit ### I remember having CPU init on my lcd post a few times from a failed overclock ,and a cmos reset was all that was needed to get my system booting again,did you try a cmos reset? I am guessing you did.

[Leeghoofd]

Well NKD I have had the same CPU INIT and DET IDE issues rather much lately, only thing that helped me was to pop the battery out for a few hours and then tried ot boot again with one stick , till now it has come always back alive, but my dealer is gonna look for one with a fixed bios chip and then I am able to swap it...

My Striker is very tricky t build in , out of the case all is fine, once I put it in the case due to the numerous blocks it is end all over and I have to carefully and slowly put it in the case otherwise CPU INIT 4 sure....

Hope you can resurrect it mate

[ganzir]

@REVHEAD:

Your are the guy I´ve been looking for, you say you have the Q6600 on 3,6 with Aircooling. May I ask you to post your BIOS settings, so I can copy them, for It appears, we have nearly the same system, I am even using the same RAM.

Greetz
Ganzir

[REVHEAD]

@REVHEAD:

Your are the guy I´ve been looking for, you say you have the Q6600 on 3,6 with Aircooling. May I ask you to post your BIOS settings, so I can copy them, for It appears, we have nearly the same system, I am even using the same RAM.

Greetz
Ganzir

Here are my settings >


FSB Memory Clock - Unlinked
FSB(QDR)mhz - 1800
MEM(DDR) - 800

Multiplyer - (8)

Vcore - 1.60000v
MEM - Auto
1.2 HT Voltage - 1.80
NB - 1.4
SB - 1.60
CPU - VTT 1.45

SLI Aperature - Auto
NVGPU EX - Enabled
Change the tras of your ram to 8 and your trc to 18(or 10 & 20 respectavly) if you like ,but any other alterations on the ram we have wont boot or be stable ,and RAM voltages are AUTO
I hope this helps

#edit allso makeshure your running the 1303 bios

[ganzir]

Hello,

1.6Vcore that sounds much, what temperatures do you have when you using prime? What CPU Cooler do you use?

Thanks so far.

Greetz
Ganzir

[REVHEAD]

Hello,

1.6Vcore that sounds much, what temperatures do you have when you using prime? What CPU Cooler do you use?

Thanks so far.

Greetz
Ganzir

1.6 is fine even 1.65 is fine allso providing you run a good aircooler and my CPU and HS are both lapped,the cooler I am running is Thermalright Ultra 120 eXtreme with Scythe 120mm.

My temps here go up to about 55 deg c idle im down to low 34 deg c.

The NB tems are what have been worying me so I have ordered some aftermarked SB NB AND MOFSET cooling from Thermalright because summer is comming here in Australia and it can get very hot.
But so far no problems.

[ganzir]

@REVHEAD

Thanks a lot for your kind and fast replies. One more question, which programs do you use, to read your CPU Temperature?

The Problem I have is that Core Temp for some reason does not work, I get a lot of error messages and I have to close it using the taskmanger.

So right now I am using PC Probe to read the temperatures, but I don´t know if this tool is to be trusted.

I´d like to run the system with a multi of 9 und and FSB of 400 (1600 quadpumped) is this also possible or does this not work for some reason?

Greetz
Ganzir

[Don_Dan]

For temp monitoring I use Everest, because it does not only give you the CPU temp ( that's what PC Probe tells you ), but also the temperatures of Core1 and Core2. I think you should test it.

[NKD]

na its the mobo, i put in my old ip-35 pro and it booted right up.

[ShoNuff]

Here are my settings >


FSB Memory Clock - Unlinked
FSB(QDR)mhz - 1800
MEM(DDR) - 800

Multiplyer - (8)

Vcore - 1.60000v
MEM - Auto
1.2 HT Voltage - 1.80
NB - 1.4
SB - 1.60
CPU - VTT 1.45

SLI Aperature - Auto
NVGPU EX - Enabled
Change the tras of your ram to 8 and your trc to 18(or 10 & 20 respectavly) if you like ,but any other alterations on the ram we have wont boot or be stable ,and RAM voltages are AUTO
I hope this helps

#edit allso makeshure your running the 1303 bios

I read your post and thought...there is no way anybody is doing 1800 FSB on the Striker...especially with a Quad! Well, I was wrong big time.



I couldn't touch your speed at the volts you listed above for my Quad. I used the following:

Bios Version: 1303 (Would not work on 1305)
FSB Memory Clock - Unlinked
FSB(QDR)mhz - 1800
MEM(DDR) - 800
Multiplyer - 9
Vcore - 1.5
MEM - Auto
1.2 HT Voltage - 1.75
NB - 1.7
SB - 1.7
CPU - VTT 1.55

Testing for Orthos stability now. Set a new personal best for 3DMark06. Thanks for the inspiration.

[REVHEAD]

I read your post and thought...there is no way anybody is doing 1800 FSB on the Striker...especially with a Quad! Well, I was wrong big time.

insert cpu-z screen shot here

I couldn't touch your speed at the volts you listed above for my Quad. I used the following:

Bios Version: 1303 (Would not work on 1305)
FSB Memory Clock - Unlinked
FSB(QDR)mhz - 1800
MEM(DDR) - 800
Multiplyer - 9
Vcore - 1.5
MEM - Auto
1.2 HT Voltage - 1.75
NB - 1.7
SB - 1.7
CPU - VTT 1.55

Testing for Orthos stability now. Set a new personal best for 3DMark06. Thanks for the inspiration.

Nps ,1800 fsb seems to be the sweet spot for these quads on Striker.

[NKD]

tried the battery removing step too, had it out for about 2 hours and still got the same code, everything was running cool because i have great airflow in the case. i will just wait for the next sli chipset. hopefully some x38 boards will end up supporting sli if they are allowed to use the nvidia's chip.

[nugzo]

tried the battery removing step too, had it out for about 2 hours and still got the same code, everything was running cool because i have great airflow in the case. i will just wait for the next sli chipset. hopefully some x38 boards will end up supporting sli if they are allowed to use the nvidia's chip.

Put the battery in upsidedown for a few minutes. I know it sounds funny but it worked for me. Found it in asus forums.

[nugzo]

Nps ,1800 fsb seems to be the sweet spot for these quads on Striker.

agreed. I'm completely stable at 3712, but i've been crunching 24/7 @3600mhz 1800fsb 1.45v. I'm 8-12c cooler this way. CPU has been at 100% load for past 4 days with absolutely no issues.

[ganzir]

Hello,

nugzo could you post your current settings besides from vcore?

[Leeghoofd]

they were posted on page 1 Ganzir, original quad master is Linflas, who told us his "magical settings"

Are you the guy from hardwareluxx.de ?

Here are Linflas' settings; good luck !!!

AI Tuning: Manual
Nvidia GPU Ex: Disabled
LinkBoost: Disabled

FSB - Memory Clock Mode: Unlinked
x FSB - Memory Raio: N/A
FSB (QDR), Mhz: 1700
Actual FSB (QDR), Mhz: 1700
MEM (DDR), Mhz: 850
Actual MEM (DDR), Mhz: 850
Vcore Voltage:1.625 for actual of 1.52
Memory Voltage:2.05
1.2v HT Voltage:1.75
NB Core Voltage:1.5
SB Core Voltage:1.7
CPU VTT Voltage:1.5
DDRII Controller Ref Voltage: auto
DDRII Channel A Ref Voltage: auto
DDRII Channel B Ref Voltage: auto

Mind you they all use SLI so the SB was really high too, 1.6 might do just as fine but you have to try

[ganzir]

@Leeghoofd:

Yes I am also registered in the hardwareluxx forums, although I do not know to which guy from hardwareluxx you are refering, if you´re meaning the one nicknamed Satan your guess is correct.

I am refering to nugzo´s last post where he is running with 1,45 Vcore maybe he has changed the other settings too.

What really gnaws at me, is the question if these setting can be run with air cooling, revhead says no probem, so I tried his -> result I had to remove the battery to get the system booting again.

Do I have to adjust MEM Voltage if I let the ram run on default settings?

Greetz
Ganzir

[Leeghoofd]

all depends on ya ram ofcourse, if it's happy to run at 1.85 volts then you won't have to change those settings, my ram need 2.3 volt, so I set 2.2 as the board tends to overvolt the ram , so please verify what voltage your ram needs and it would be much easier for us if you put all of your hardware in your signature so won't have to guess what you are running...

Greetzz

[ganzir]

Hi,

I added the information you requested to my signiture.

[REVHEAD]

Hi,

I added the information you requested to my signiture.

Hi ganzir

I notice your running bios 1301,you want to run 1303 and then try again ,hope this helps .

[nugzo]

@Leeghoofd:



I am refering to nugzo´s last post where he is running with 1,45 Vcore maybe he has changed the other settings too.




Greetz
Ganzir

I'm still using linflas settings. Worked great so no need to change much. About the difference between 1301 and 1303 bios, 1301 seems better for me. 1303 wasnt bad though. Maybe try 1303 like REVHEAD suggested, see if that helps.