ncch-dl not hitting 200 mhz fsb - any ideas?

DaveB said:

I'm running my Vcore modded 1.6LVs at 3.12 GHz in a PC-DL with a 6800 128MB AGP, 2 x 512MB PC3200 DDR, a SATA 80GB hard drive, DVD-ROM, and DVD Burner from an AMS Mercury EPS12V PS. The AMS has split +12V rails with 18A dedicated to the motherboard and CPUs. It runs rock stable, no problems. The BIOS reads the +12V potential at +12.20V. The other +12V rail has 15A available for drives.

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mbentley said:

i do have a fair amount of hardware in this rig...

the ncch-dl with 2 x xeons, 4 x 512 mb ram, 1 x dvd-r/cd-rw drive, 2 x sata wd raptors, 2 x ide hdds, and about 8 fans.

as for the vmod, yes by wires i used 1 per socket.

if all goes, well i am going to get my hands on a pair of 1.6 d1's to see how that goes...

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CRFIII said:

Enermax 660

Mine own experience with this mobo is that if you use all 4 RAM slots, the power demand goes way up... and it's already very high... with all 4 slots filled it's enough to sap common power supplies... I found this out early on building gemini(my best "common" power supplies couldn't even fire it up with 4 sticks) and look at how Gemini's power scheme came out as a result of my frustrations, lol...

Enermax 660 just for the mobo and main drives(I finally got this when I decided to quit messing around after 2 failed attempts to save money with lesser power supplies:~)... and a 300+300 to power everything else(optical/backup/fans/Koolance unit)... and marine battery backup to top it all off... lol... the first time I tried to fire the system it blew the breaker in the shop... and kept blowing it every time I tried, until I replaced the wore out 20amp breaker with a new 30 amp... lol, Gemini uses some current(electric bill went up $30-$50 this month, I'm turning things off now to try to compensate for it:~)... but the fun part is that in a little over a month we made it to the top 75 on the Overclockers.com SETI Boinc team...

I recommend the Enermax 660... it's built for this mobo in my opinion... and it looks good to... very expensive, but if you're investing in a server/workstaion that you're going to be depending on, the power supply should the first order of busyness... even ahead of the CPUs/RAM... gotta start with a good foundation...

Good luck with your endeavor. :~)

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diehrd said:

I am telling ya even the people at OCZ told him the PSU was not right for this system,,Ummm check out the nightmares fishy had,,Then ask him how his OCZ 600 worked out for him lol..I think you will find he was not to happy with it

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