My Dual Harper - Asus Z7S WS living review *56K warning*

[STEvil]

Stevil,

how can you strap a 120mm to the memory, as I can not find any possible way of doing that. May if you can show with some kind of picture.

What is your temperature on your if fbdimm. I wonder if a 4gb stick does run hotter due to using higher density memory?

Hair ties, zip-ties, rubber bands. Clip the fan to the tabs that hold the ram in.

The produced heat will depend on what the controller chipset of the FB-DIMM is. Older chipsets on 333mhz memory was less efficient. Newer ones are better but still use a lot. My FB-DIMM's run approximately 40-60c in 20-30c ambients.

[Madman666]

I just used the Asus fan bracket, replaced the 70mm with a 80mm and used glue to attach another 92mm fan also cooling my northbridge.
My temps are at 25C room temp, 55C.

see my earlier post:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...92#post3518292

[minhgi]

Hair ties, zip-ties, rubber bands. Clip the fan to the tabs that hold the ram in.

The produced heat will depend on what the controller chipset of the FB-DIMM is. Older chipsets on 333mhz memory was less efficient. Newer ones are better but still use a lot. My FB-DIMM's run approximately 40-60c in 20-30c ambients.

Thanks for the advise......I will try to rig up sopmething like that.

[minhgi]

I just used the Asus fan bracket, replaced the 70mm with a 80mm and used glue to attach another 92mm fan also cooling my northbridge.
My temps are at 25C room temp, 55C.

see my earlier post:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...92#post3518292

I do have an Asus MEM Cool and may try to strap a 120mm fan if possible.

One question, what did you do to get up to 3.0GHZ. I was not able to push up 400FSB. Do I have to up my volt on my L5420? When I run Everest stress test at 400FSB, it would fail right away. Normal setting is ok.

[Movieman]

I do have an Asus MEM Cool and may try to strap a 120mm fan if possible.

One question, what did you do to get up to 3.0GHZ. I was not able to push up 400FSB. Do I have to up my volt on my L5420? When I run Everest stress test at 400FSB, it would fail right away. Normal setting is ok.

start at 1.25v and slowly work your way up step by step until stable.. Stay under 1.4v max..
1.3 should do you fine.

[minhgi]

I give a try when I get off work...I was starting to get worry that I was getting some defective processors.

[Movieman]

I give a try when I get off work...I was starting to get worry that I was getting some defective processors.

remember, you have L5420's not E5420's..
lower voltage cpu's, probably better binned than the E5420's..
Now, when you want to go REALLY fast PM me..

[Madman666]

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One question, what did you do to get up to 3.0GHZ. I was not able to push up 400FSB. Do I have to up my volt on my L5420? When I run Everest stress test at 400FSB, it would fail right away. Normal setting is ok.

Had the same issue, with me it was the memory. I had Kingston (fully compatible according to Asus).
Bought some other mem from jcool.
Now I get up to 429 FSB i.s.o. 396 before with the Kingston mem.
No special settings required, just a slight increase of the Vcore .

[jcool]

remember, you have L5420's not E5420's..
lower voltage cpu's, probably better binned than the E5420's..
Now, when you want to go REALLY fast PM me..

My E5420's did FSB 430 = 3,2Ghz stable on the Z7S, stock Vcore/undervolted. After that it's VTT limit, no amount of Vcore helps.

[Tecman]

Are we going to get a new BIOS soon?

[Tecman]

Had the same issue, with me it was the memory. I had Kingston (fully compatible according to Asus).
Bought some other mem from jcool.
Now I get up to 429 FSB i.s.o. 396 before with the Kingston mem.
No special settings required, just a slight increase of the Vcore .

I have Kingston pc2-6400 ECC ram and I'm running @436 FSB I have Active cooling on the FB-DIMMS tho.

[Movieman]

My E5420's did FSB 430 = 3,2Ghz stable on the Z7S, stock Vcore/undervolted. After that it's VTT limit, no amount of Vcore helps.

Yea, but what would a pair of X5460's or X5270's do on that board?

[s0lid]

I have Kingston pc2-6400 ECC ram and I'm running @436 FSB I have Active cooling on the FB-DIMMS tho.

WTF, look at Slot5's mem: 127Mb. Dead ram or just not correctly pushed in it's place?

[Tecman]

Its probably a glitch in the program Both Windows7 and CPUZ confirms that I have 12GBs installed.


As you can see it shows slot 5 as 2048MBs Even tho the CPUZ validation page lists slot-5 as 127MBs

(BTW. Brock Samson is an animal! I hope a new season of Venture Bros comes out soon! -Off topic)

[s0lid]

(BTW. Brock Samson is an animal! I hope a new season of Venture Bros comes out soon! -Off topic)

Yep waiting for 4th season too =P
Venture Bros is little compared to mainstream, yea a "Little".

[ZIO]

So, now mine died, running 2x C0 Harper Quads.

Upgraded from 4x 2GB to additional 2x 4GB, total 12 GB a couple of weeks ago, perhaps that took it over the edge?!

Was working fine until Saturday. Powered up, RAM count, and suddenly the ugly smell of burnt electronics... Looks like the digital VRM went up in smoke!

Took a photo of the burnt area: http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/130/dsc01187j.jpg

RMA'ed to Ingram Micro AB in Sweden; hoping for a quick swap.

That looks like a VRM cooler allignment issue, mine had the same issue when I got it back from RMA, I had to reallign it, because they had bent the heat pipe and caused a missallignment of the VRM cooler. It detaches from the VRM chips easily if the heat pipe is bent even a tiny bit.

[ZIO]

Had the same issue, with me it was the memory. I had Kingston (fully compatible according to Asus).
Bought some other mem from jcool.
Now I get up to 429 FSB i.s.o. 396 before with the Kingston mem.
No special settings required, just a slight increase of the Vcore .

Two sticks on my board went up in smoke (died) 9 mos after firing up, I can't say that kingston's RAM is worth the cheap price- My mom says- You get what you pay for. Next time, no kingston for me. I was running large copper cooling sinks with heat pipes, and dual 80mm fans blowing over the top.

I have since upgraded my northbridge heatsink to a forced induction tower and have had NO problems with my board.
[img=http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/5153/ziomachine.jpg]

Has anyone been able to revive their boards? Mine required a Bios Reset, and a RAM replacement to function again correctly after RMA.

[Tecman]

Yep waiting for 4th season too =P
Venture Bros is little compared to mainstream, yea a "Little".

Well they did spoof mainstream shows. ie. Johnny Quest,Scooby Doo,Fantastic Four to name a few And dont get me started on the "Villains" (The GUILD of Calamitous Intent/Monarch) They are hilarious!!

[Movieman]

Well they did spoof mainstream shows. ie. Johnny Quest,Scooby Doo,Fantastic Four to name a few And dont get me started on the "Villains" (The GUILD of Calamitous Intent/Monarch) They are hilarious!!

Feel like an experiment?
Seeing if that Z7S WS of yours will turn a couple of special cpu's up to 4578..
You said you can get 436 on the memory so with 2- 10.5 multi chips thats 4578..
You game to try?

[Tecman]

Feel like an experiment?
Seeing if that Z7S WS of yours will turn a couple of special cpu's up to 4578..
You said you can get 436 on the memory so with 2- 10.5 multi chips thats 4578..
You game to try?

Sure Am!!!! Only thing I dont like is removing and installing those thermalright heat sinks (HR-01-X) They are a pain in the arse to work with!!

[Jaco]

Sure Am!!!! Only thing I dont like is removing and installing those thermalright heat sinks (HR-01-X) They are a pain in the arse to work with!!

I hear ya loud & clear. It's a fuc*ing PITA to install those HR01-X ...
takes at least 1 hour to mount these suckers.

[Tecman]

They just suck the life out of you dont they lol And installing their Northbridge cooler HR-05/IFX also adds to the fun


So much "fun" installing this family lol

[jcool]

I hear ya loud & clear. It's a fuc*ing PITA to install those HR01-X ...
takes at least 1 hour to mount these suckers.

Tell me about it.. I went to water because I didn't want to have to remount them even one more time

[Movieman]

Tell me about it.. I went to water because I didn't want to have to remount them even one more time

And I remember WAAAAAAAAY back a certain someone telling another certain someone what a pain in the balls they were but did he listen to the wise older person?
NO!

[jcool]

And I remember WAAAAAAAAY back a certain someone telling another certain someone what a pain in the balls they were but did he listen to the wise older person?
NO!

Dave, you said it took you 16 hours or something. It takes about one so
And I would have been happy with those HR-01 once installed. Little did I know then that these freaking mobos die all the time!
I went to water so I could swap CPUs easily (in 30 seconds), and ebcause it was my plan all along. otehrwise I would have stuck with the Thermalrights.