9800GX2 Hammering: Round 2 = 29.5k 3d06, 36k 3d05, 92k 3d03, 110k 3d01, 314k AQ3

[dinos22]

now the board is acting weird on air! hahahahaha so let me see if i can get pass that. dont think its a board thing.. maybe cpu or memory but yea i'm getting reboots just when it loads windows. dont know why but will update!

@dinos somehow the board, a rev 1.1 or my cpu dosent like high fsb . i mentioned in my first round of testing. no idea why yet but i think its a strap issue so i will try again

yeah get a hair dryer and give it a really nice half hour dry mate

then let it sit for a day before starting to bench again

it's ya board


in terms of FSB try to boot with loose tCL in bios and then tighen it in windows
i had that problem and would max out at 400 until that setting and after that 450 was not an issue

[BenchZowner]

in terms of FSB try to boot with loose tCL in bios and then tighen it in windows

Are you sure you wanted to type tCL ?
Because AFAIK CAS Latency can't be changed within windows.

[dinos22]

Are you sure you wanted to type tCL ?
Because AFAIK CAS Latency can't be changed within windows.

sorry i meant to say
Static tREAD value

[NightRaven]

nope guys. cpu is gone

tested on 2 other boards. same thing.

weird stuff....

[dpa]

these 45nm are weak.. my died at 2v.. sorry for your loss man!

good scores, rma the cpu.

[T_M]

Definately dead from volts, just like mine did.

[NightRaven]

these 45nm are weak.. my died at 2v.. sorry for your loss man!

good scores, rma the cpu.

haha mine died at 1.15V. even better EH!

but thanks yes i will ... for the forth time...............................

first and second had stock fan probs... third was dead.. forth WAS good now being sent off again.............

what's intel doin!

[NightRaven]

Definately dead from volts, just like mine did.

worse thing is its not TOTALLY dead huh~

[BenchZowner]

worse thing is its not TOTALLY dead huh~

I'm sure a quick run with the stock heatsink at 2.35V will revive your CPU

Sorry for your loss m8... good things go... for better things to come

[NightRaven]

haha amen to thaT!

great now i'm stuck with another chip that is hopeless. -100 cold boot. sheesh..

[dinos22]

pffft you guys are sticking 2.1v into these 45nm chips and expecting them to survive lol

[NightRaven]

hell i didnt stick tt much into mine! hahaa just 1.9

i have NO idea how the 2.1V came about! haha~

[eva2000]

ouch man R.I.P. to the cpu

[nachthymnen]

Great results NR
I'm wrong if I say that in Aquamark this vga is a little bit weak?
I got 320k with my GTS liquidcooled and 5595mhz on the QX.

Also a really good cpu
Cold bug @ ...?
Sorry for his dead
...Short but really intense life

[Zannema]

Congratz for the score NR

[NightRaven]

Great results NR
I'm wrong if I say that in Aquamark this vga is a little bit weak?
I got 320k with my GTS liquidcooled and 5595mhz on the QX.

Also a really good cpu
Cold bug @ ...?
Sorry for his dead
...Short but really intense life

Thanks bro... haha yea.. i think it was aq3 tt killed my cpu also. imo aq3 is very cpu based now

coldboot is -130
cold bug at -160 to -170

I AM SO SAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratz for the score NR

thanks man! ur doing very well too!

[nachthymnen]

Thanks bro... haha yea.. i think it was aq3 tt killed my cpu also.

coldboot is -130
cold bug at -160 to -170

I AM SO SAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Uh, sad to hear that

OMG, cold bug @ -160, just a dream for me
Also cold boot is amazing, I need an X48 board

[k|ngp|n]

I said a prayer last night for your cpu ...how is it?
Great going so far on the OC'ing.

[dduckquack]

early retirement for a cpu, you know what they say, it's not the age that counts, its the mileage

[cowie]

s.o.b that sucks...sry to hear that NR.

[NightRaven]

I said a prayer last night for your cpu ...how is it?
Great going so far on the OC'ing.

Thanks vince. haha well gone is the 9650 but thanks for your prayers vince cuz somehow it turned into a retail 9770! hahaha L803B328. retail C1.

Got a friend of mine in the retail business to help me out so topped up for that.

so will be testing that cpu that soon as i get done with work

s.o.b that sucks...sry to hear that NR.

thanks bro

[NightRaven]

early retirement for a cpu, you know what they say, it's not the age that counts, its the mileage

haha thats true! thanks

[chispy]

Great going NR , amazing scores bro , sad thing about your cpu die on you , but its just another casualty of war (hwbot points :b) another one will replace that one and so on. I have not fully recovered from the death of my beloved Asus P5K-Deluxe Board that i loved so much but its has been replaced already. Hey bro as soon as you get your 9770 bless him and say a lot of prayers for him not to die soon ,(joke). Keep pushing it my friend, great going.

[BenchZowner]

NightRaven, you should get a Intel Core 2 QX9770 VX Edition [ Voltage Xtreme ]

Best of luck with your new QX9770 C1 m8

[NightRaven]

hey thanks guys! guess what....

this is the one of the worse QX i have ever tested! hahaha.. -70 cold boot.. -95 cold bug... WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!

sigh............................. 5.4ghz is barely stable...