XS HWBot Team

[Linuxfan]

Great, do some damage!
Are you testing on UD3R again?

I will for sure. Just got it set up, once I turn er on I'll load W7 32bit...
Its a cool looking setup today because I have it on a homemade bench all nice and neat...
I'll get some pictures and post them later.
Yeah I'll be running on the UD3P again(sold my UD3R a few weeks ago....) so I can try out 5970 and 5870 Xfire right? If so I'll hope to get 160+ in 03 with tri-fire...

[chew*]

I will for sure. Just got it set up, once I turn er on I'll load W7 32bit...
Its a cool looking setup today because I have it on a homemade bench all nice and neat...
I'll get some pictures and post them later.
Yeah I'll be running on the UD3P again(sold my UD3R a few weeks ago....) so I can try out 5970 and 5870 Xfire right? If so I'll hope to get 160+ in 03 with tri-fire...

Drivers might not be the greatest in hybrid but multi card results are better than No multicard results. Just try to match the clocks on all cards as they will get downclocked to the lower denominator anyway.

[Linuxfan]

Drivers might not be the greatest in hybrid but multi card results are better than No multicard results. Just try to match the clocks on all cards as they will get downclocked to the lower denominator anyway.

I know... Should get 900mhz core on both at least with the voltage tweak...
I'll probably get better Xfire results with the i7 platoform.. we'll see!
Thanks man.

I'm eagerly waiting for some pics!
5970+5870 should work in Xfire, yepp.
What PL are you running when pushing your E8600? And how did you overcome the 500MHz FSB limit you encountered last time? MCH ref voltage or something else?

The motherboard apparently has an FSB hole which I was running into when I tried to take baby steps from 5.15ghz to 5.3ghz in the OS. All I do now is boot it at 5ghz and then set it to 5.5ghz with ET6. Works great and is very stable at 5.5ghz.
Same settings as I used to use for my Wprime, SuperPi, and Pifast runs at 5.6ghz. Didn't change ANY settings other than the MCH core and the CPU core.
Anything I should change that would help the temps, stress the CPU less, or make it more stable?
Its running stable enough right now at 5.5... since I'm board limited and can't go over 5.61ghz with the board, it might not matter to change anything else...

[Don_Dan]

The motherboard apparently has an FSB hole which I was running into when I tried to take baby steps from 5.15ghz to 5.3ghz in the OS. All I do now is boot it at 5ghz and then set it to 5.5ghz with ET6. Works great and is very stable at 5.5ghz.
Same settings as I used to use for my Wprime, SuperPi, and Pifast runs at 5.6ghz. Didn't change ANY settings other than the MCH core and the CPU core.
Anything I should change that would help the temps, stress the CPU less, or make it more stable?
Its running stable enough right now at 5.5... since I'm board limited and can't go over 5.61ghz with the board, it might not matter to change anything else...

You sure you are board limited? The only thing I can think of is MCH ref voltage, it helped me on my board, though I was on air and couldn't test that far.
Besides that I can't think of anything else.
Have fun!

[Linuxfan]

You sure you are board limited? The only thing I can think of is MCH ref voltage, it helped me on my board, though I was on air and couldn't test that far.
Besides that I can't think of anything else.
Have fun!

I figured it was the board... give me a great excuse to sell it and get a Rampage X48 board and some DDR3 anyway!
Thanks for the help, I will try it and see if it does anything.

[Linuxfan]

I figured it was the board... give me a great excuse to sell it and get a Rampage X48 board and some DDR3 anyway!
Thanks for the help, I will try it and see if it does anything.

Been trying to get the CPU to be stable at 5.4ghz+ once again but it didn't happen...
Wonder if the board is just cold after installing windows and setting up things at stock speeds with the cascade running on it or if I tightened the bracket too much and the board is bent a little without its backplate...
Maybe I'll let it dry and warm up and try again tomorrow.
Been test all kinds of settings in the last two hours to get it 5.5 stable again.....
Maybe the Vaseline in the socket is doing something?
The last thing I did with the board was P4 testing yesterday when it got all confused about the voltages and all...

[Don_Dan]

I used OCX spi tweaker, 1200MB from 1 to another partition. and at it's peak with resources i start 32M. im running 1.65 vdimm, i know it can do 1000mhz 32M @ 1.70 +- , it's not really an awesome set or so

dont know what els i can try regarding the tweak part?

Higher mem frequency will boost your 32M for sure, did you tweak RTLs already?
1200MB is too big imo, try something smaller, like ~680MB.

I figured it was the board... give me a great excuse to sell it and get a Rampage X48 board and some DDR3 anyway!
Thanks for the help, I will try it and see if it does anything.

The board may just have taken enough torture and just is not up to the clock speed any more. It's possible you killed your NB with high NB voltage too!

[Don_Dan]

I will for sure. Just got it set up, once I turn er on I'll load W7 32bit...
Its a cool looking setup today because I have it on a homemade bench all nice and neat...
I'll get some pictures and post them later.
Yeah I'll be running on the UD3P again(sold my UD3R a few weeks ago....) so I can try out 5970 and 5870 Xfire right? If so I'll hope to get 160+ in 03 with tri-fire...

I'm eagerly waiting for some pics!
5970+5870 should work in Xfire, yepp.
What PL are you running when pushing your E8600? And how did you overcome the 500MHz FSB limit you encountered last time? MCH ref voltage or something else?