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feyd83
10-10-04, 02:53 PM
I'm finally seeing some results on the mem in my sig :clap:
Before I could barely get it past stock. I finally decided to try a new bios, D26 Splitfire, and I my BH-5 is kicking. 230 Mhz 2-2-2-11 @ 2.9v so far without any errors. Can't wait to see how far it goes :attn: :attn:
pwnt by pat
10-10-04, 03:02 PM
On manda ray 26, my ram maxes 225, I believe, 2.9 2-2-2-11. It does 230-235 at 2.9 2.5-3-3-11 depending on if it's a good day or a bad. Both are cpc-disabled.
HousERaT
10-10-04, 03:07 PM
I'm finally seeing some results on the mem in my sig :clap:
Before I could barely get it past stock. I finally decided to try a new bios, D26 Splitfire, and I my BH-5 is kicking. 230 Mhz 2-2-2-11 @ 2.9v so far without any errors. Can't wait to see how far it goes :attn: :attn:

that will be a sweet overclock if you can keep it stable in prime..... I found the D26 Splitfire to be one of the best bios with BH-5. But i was using a gig so the best I could get with the cpc on version was 218.
feyd83
10-10-04, 03:17 PM
cpc is off with this one, I'm actually seeing a pretty good performance increase though. It no longer takes hours to finish the first test in the prime95 torture test. :D
HousERaT
10-10-04, 03:51 PM
i hope you're just being funny... the first section of the prime95 blend test should take just about 20 minutes.
feyd83
10-10-04, 04:12 PM
I'm not :-/ I've had it fail @ 45min and still be on test 1. I've had it running longer, but I got the blue screen of death.
HousERaT
10-10-04, 04:16 PM
do you have some type of "ram-cleaner" running? it does that if you're using that kind of software... I have to disable mine when I start priming.
ropey
10-10-04, 04:22 PM
that is some unstable system then
feyd83
10-11-04, 08:13 AM
ram-cleaner? I was just shocked when I started my centrino priming and it blazed through a bunch of tests bf my amd even finished the first one. New bios definitly has made my ram rock-solid stable though.
enduro
10-11-04, 10:09 AM
Are there other programs running while Prime is running? If I forget to turn off F@H before I prime, it can take forever to get through the first section of Prime.
feyd83
10-11-04, 12:31 PM
I run F@H. 235mhz so far @ 2-2-2-11, stable so far :D
enduro
10-11-04, 12:35 PM
That'll do it. Just kill F@H before running prime. It will help anyway, because there is a good chance that you will corrupt the F@H data anyway. It's happened to me several times, and I lose a good WU. It will start up after you restart you computer anyway, so you don't lose that much.
feyd83
10-11-04, 01:15 PM
I've got F@H running along with prime95 to help test for stability, I'm not going for speed.
enduro
10-11-04, 02:23 PM
It won't help. I've run F@H for days on a setting that would fail 3DMark in seconds. F@H just plods along like nothing is wrong. It will just keep Prime from hitting tests that will stress your system more, and just keeps it at Test 1 or 2......
Cyrix_2k
10-11-04, 03:26 PM
Ok, I just flashed to the Splitfire D26, and now it won't let me specify my own multi/FSB speeds... I had to choose (133)1800. How do I fix this? (And the chip is NOT multi locked)
enduro
10-11-04, 03:32 PM
That is seriously odd. Have you flashed to Taipan or some other bios? Is it just this one?
Cyrix_2k
10-11-04, 03:42 PM
That is seriously odd. Have you flashed to Taipan or some other bios? Is it just this one?
Sorry... I forgot to select "User Define" :bang head :bang head
johan851
10-11-04, 04:00 PM
Doesn't this belong in the Abit section? Unless we've found a way to flash the firmware on memory modules...:p
feyd83
10-11-04, 04:16 PM
I wasn't sure, I'm just really really happy with my BH-5 that I thought was crap :clap:
enduro
10-12-04, 09:45 AM
Sorry... I forgot to select "User Define"

LOL!!! Oh, man I got a good laugh out of that one. That would make it a little hard to change the fsb and mult. :p

Yeah, I guess this is in the memory forum huh. I never noticed.
Skeen
10-13-04, 10:56 PM
Well since we're already discussing it...

I found the Taipan to work very well and I may have gotten around the CPC off/1 GB problem. When I had two Dimms of 512, the most I could get with CPC On was like 218 - 220. Now that I have one 512 + 2x256 my computer runs fine at 232 with CPC On.
enduro
10-14-04, 10:07 AM
Yeah, I'm going to be needing cpc off once again. I'm going back to a gig here pretty soon. Running 2*256 was horrible. Finding my max fsb was fun, but I really miss the gaming performance.
feyd83
10-14-04, 02:09 PM
My ram maxed out rock stable @ 233mhz 2-2-2-11 2.9v
Going to place with it more to see if I can get that 11 down, or my chipset voltage.
235mhz works, but it fails prime95 after about an hour.