Back in the High Life

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Well the French would call it "chantage". It's kind of like blackmailing... in spirit.

Went to the shop that sent off my DS3 to Gigabyte. Asked if the board had come back yet. They said "No... another 2 weeks. ...or you could have a new one for another 20 euros."

I don't think that offer's even LEGAL in France... or most other countries. But, ah... what the hell? I've come to expect that sort of treatment from the grim denizens of the Rue Montgallet.

So the DS3 is back. Overclocks to follow...

[Evilsizer]

jw but what was the max oc you got on the vista?

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jw but what was the max oc you got on the vista?

ZERO.

Even setting the friggin memory on the VSTA was a GIGANTIC pain in the ass. I made some thread about that already. It simply couldn't be done. You can change the timings... but the timings don't MEAN anything. There's something called "flexibility mode" and all kinds of weird stuff. I tried enabling and disabling the flexibility mode... I tried every RAM timing you could think of. I tried EVERYTHING. No dice.

Now we'll see if it was the board or my power supply unit.

[Evilsizer]

wow that bits...

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wow that bits...

Yeah... The other thing is I was getting some CRAZY voltage drops. So far the DS3 has been (surprisingly) solid.

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Just killing some time waiting on my landlord.

E6400/DS3. Stock volts. Basically nothing changed in the bios. Just playing around with SetFSB. PARTICULARLY stable. Ran 1M Pi just fine and temps are absolutely normal. 290 FSB. I could probably go higher with everything at stock but it locks at 300FSB. And it's not because of the heat, obviously, as you can see. I'm thinking I probably just need to add more volts to mch and so on. But I don't have time to be rebooting and all that right now. I'm just waiting around and then I'll take a nap.

...already better than the Asrock though.

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Landlord just left.

.2 to Dimm
.1 to MCH

And I bumped the CPU up to 1.28. Temps still very reasonable. Haven't run Pi again yet. I'll see how high it goes.

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326FSB Pi Stable. Haven't changed anything from the last time. Temps peaking around 50. I think I'll go up to 350 and stop there until I get my water cooler back up and running.

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So I actually think my power supply is fine. The Asrock board is simply unreliable. Now of course it was able to at least run the video card I have at 4x while this board is running it at ONE. But hey... who are we to judge?

I'll probably take the video card back to those crooked black market desperadoes I got it from.

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326FSB stock vCore. +.1 MHC +.2 Dimm. Standard memory timings.

FORTY SIX DEGREES! (With intel Heatsink and fan...)

Wow... Can't wait til I start actually TRYING to overclock this thing... Setting memory timings and such. Then the water cooler will be the coup de grace.

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HA! Temps went DOWN at 352FSB!

[Daleon]

Nice, looks like its cranking up well. Also isn't stock vcore for the E6400 1.325?

Which bios you on?
Run Orthos or Dual Prime yet?

[hitbyaprkedcar7]

Why did you have to wait untill your landlord left? lol

otherthanthat, nice clocks :)

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Nice, looks like its cranking up well. Also isn't stock vcore for the E6400 1.325?

Which bios you on?
Run Orthos or Dual Prime yet?

I don't know. I always ran the E6400 at 1.232. That's what I've seen other people run it at. That's actually what the Asrock board auto detected it as. Maybe the E6400 IS supposed to be 1.325. I'll have to read the manual :)

It certainly isn't crying at 1.232. I think this processor could probably do a 10x multiplier, so 8x is nothing for it. Either way I don't think it's harming the CPU because I've been running it like this for about a week or two now. Low temps... no problems.

hitbyparkedcar: I had to wait for my Landlord to leave so I could take a NAP! I had just gotten off of work and I was up all night the night before installing the DS3.

A couple of DS3 notes:

An error with a lot of P965 boards had the first video card I was running (an Asus 6200) going at 1x PCI-E instead of 16x. Nothing can be done about that. So I switched to a Gigabyte 7600GS (did an EXCHANGE actually, with the crooked lords of the underworld that all my adventures came from) and it runs at 16x PCI-E. Go figure.

Other than that I'd say I'm one of the lucky ones. I haven't run into HALF of the DS3 nonsense I've heard about with other people's boards. (No overclocking with a USB mouse. Problems with 7600GS. Ram problems.) I think I must have a newer revision or something...

Edit: Running Bios F3 btw...

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Nice, looks like its cranking up well. Also isn't stock vcore for the E6400 1.325?

Which bios you on?
Run Orthos or Dual Prime yet?

Don't actually KNOW how to run dual prime. I was looking for options to select a cpu core but didn't find any.

[Daleon]

Don't actually KNOW how to run dual prime. I was looking for options to select a cpu core but didn't find any.

http://sp2004.fre3.com/

[PWatterson]

Don't actually KNOW how to run dual prime. I was looking for options to select a cpu core but didn't find any.

First off, install two instances of Prime.

Go to ADVANCED > AFFINITY. You can select which core the program will run off.

[sicloan]

or just google ORTHOS beta and you can get a dual thread version of prime.

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Thanks.

Just went through HELL ON EARTH trying to get the network drivers installed on the DS3. I can't even understand how so many people got this board up and running... let the buyer beware...

And for the benefit of full disclosure... Tried to install the drivers... which aren't on the CD btw... an INSTALL PROGRAM for the drivers... I.E. no inf file... was on the disc. And when you ran said installer it installed the drivers to the TEMP folder... then pretended to install your HD.

I had no idea where it was actually installing so I had to search the computer and luckily found them there.

Assorted craziness.

That said:

[Daleon]

I ran install from cd, rebooted and worked like a charm :)

Been working on my friends VSTA board. God, it has the worst memory settings I've ever seen. The lowest speed I could get it to run was at 1:2 which put the memory in the 570mhz range... otherwise all the others put it up in the 760mhz range! Nothing would give me 1:1.

Have it running at 293 fsb, and seems to be Orthos stable atleast.

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I ran install from cd, rebooted and worked like a charm :)

Been working on my friends VSTA board. God, it has the worst memory settings I've ever seen. The lowest speed I could get it to run was at 1:2 which put the memory in the 570mhz range... otherwise all the others put it up in the 760mhz range! Nothing would give me 1:1.

Have it running at 293 fsb, and seems to be Orthos stable atleast.

I threw my hands up with trying to deal with the VSTA memory settings. Watch out with your friends computer: We got a man down with Gautam. My own memory was doing 700... ie DDR 1400! Might not have lasted another week at that speed.

NOW of course I have to deal with the fact that Windows doesn't want to work with my IDE to SATA CD rom drive on the DS3. I've twisted and turned it every which way and no dice.

I swear... This motherboard is the biggest pain in the ass since my last Abit. Only the memory timings were a problem on the Asrock. THIS thing I've had to fight every inch of the way. First I had to fight to get the chipset drivers installed... then the Lan working... then I'm sure there was something else. And I absolutely can't get my DVD drive to work in XP. I've tried drivers... I've tried everything. Updating to a beta bios will be my last resort.

Doesn't make any sense because it works just fine in 2003 Server... but not in XP.

Sigh...

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Found what I hope will be an EXTREMELY temporary solution:

Switched the IDE to Sata thing from the CD drive to the hard drive. I was betting that windows would HAVE to be able to run itself. I think XP just expects everything on the SATA line to be a HD. Heh... Don't know what they're going to do when everybody starts having SATA DVD and HDdvd writers...