Hi,
Was wondering if anyone else has experienced something similar:
P4@ 3600, 1.7v Core (ish, see below), 170MHz FSB
GB Mobo, Asus P4G8X Deluxe
2x 256MB Twinmos 3200 at 2.5v, SPD timings.
Crucial 9700Pro v1.1 card, stock speed (since upgrade).
Enermax 430W PSU (about 2 years old)
Prometeia cooling (running off mains, no effect on voltage).
Under no load the 12v rail is 11.6 and under load it drops to 11.3v. I consider this to be rather disturbing as the same system with the Abit BE7 Raid (845PE and 1 stick of 512MB TM 3200) was getting 11.6 under load. The 5v rail is always over 5v.
With the previous 845PE mobo I was able to clock the 9700 to 380Core, 350Memory, with the GB mobo Im only getting 5% over stock speed and even that is dubious. Every now and then the display in Windows freezes, blank screens, reappears at 4BIT color and tells me "Hardware Failure, reboot". I have a niggling feeling the power supply problems are related to this.
Finally, the core voltage on this motherboard seems to fluctuate: Set to 1.7 in BIOS, boots a 1.7v, idle at around 1.7v, then when load is applied it hops to 1.82v, then floats around randomly after that between 1.69 and 1.85v!?
Any opinions these 3 (but maybe related) issues?
matt
PS: I have plugged in the ATX12v connector and forced the AGP to 4x in the BIOS!
Was wondering if anyone else has experienced something similar:
P4@ 3600, 1.7v Core (ish, see below), 170MHz FSB
GB Mobo, Asus P4G8X Deluxe
2x 256MB Twinmos 3200 at 2.5v, SPD timings.
Crucial 9700Pro v1.1 card, stock speed (since upgrade).
Enermax 430W PSU (about 2 years old)
Prometeia cooling (running off mains, no effect on voltage).
Under no load the 12v rail is 11.6 and under load it drops to 11.3v. I consider this to be rather disturbing as the same system with the Abit BE7 Raid (845PE and 1 stick of 512MB TM 3200) was getting 11.6 under load. The 5v rail is always over 5v.
With the previous 845PE mobo I was able to clock the 9700 to 380Core, 350Memory, with the GB mobo Im only getting 5% over stock speed and even that is dubious. Every now and then the display in Windows freezes, blank screens, reappears at 4BIT color and tells me "Hardware Failure, reboot". I have a niggling feeling the power supply problems are related to this.
Finally, the core voltage on this motherboard seems to fluctuate: Set to 1.7 in BIOS, boots a 1.7v, idle at around 1.7v, then when load is applied it hops to 1.82v, then floats around randomly after that between 1.69 and 1.85v!?
Any opinions these 3 (but maybe related) issues?
matt
PS: I have plugged in the ATX12v connector and forced the AGP to 4x in the BIOS!