Yeah, mine will pass prime95 for hours (>8) one day and fail within 10 minutesOriginally Posted by krulin_m
Well I tried to set the RAM at 4x4x4x12 but no boot/post at that FSB although I was able to go 5x5x5x15 fine. After some more tweeking last night I was able to go to 450x9 with 1.325v idle (1.35v in BIOS iirc), 5x5x5x15@2.2v. I didn't however know about the strap so that is set to auto I believe. I did set the 2.2v for the RAM manually due to what you said earlier about some of the V-settings might be set too high when running on auto.
When I get home I'll try to set the RAM back to 4x4x4x12@2.2v again with that strap. If it's a no-go then I'll start lowering the FSB in increments to get a good config.
In other news, I did also notice that even on "stock" settings, for some reason I couldn't ever get past about 10 or so minutes in Prime95. So I know I'm missing something here. Although I must say that even though it hasn't been Prime95 stable (even on stock) I have had no issues when playing any games for hours periods. Not to mention while playing games at the OC settings my temps in RealTemp never went above 43c. I guess my games aren't as much of a load as I thought. Granted the junk VidCard I have doesn't help.
the next day or so. However Like you I have not see a single problem in anything else (games, video encoding, etc.) so I'm getting less concerned with
the prime stable thing. I run my FSB @ 440mhz that's all my PC6400 will handle
@ 4x4x4x12 timings (actually 445mhz works ok but I like to have a stability
buffer) anyhow I am very happy with the performance like it is, as it blows
any stock pc on the current market away!!!
EDIT: If you are having to notch your FSB down too much because of your mem, try 2.3v on the mem, it should
be fine, but you may want to do a touch test on it while running a game, if it seem way hotter that it was @ 2.2v
you may need some active cooling on it (i.e. a fan).
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