Hello all,
Has anyone ever had prime95 run solid w/o errors for hours on end but other apps (specifically ut2003 and america's army) crap out?
I have an Asus A7N8X pcb 2.0 (bios 1006), paired with a 2500+ barton, and kingston 3200 ram. I can run at 200x11.5 (stock voltage) and not have any errors in prime95 for 9+ hours. If I run UT2003 at that setting it'll crap out after an hour or so. If I run the game at stock speeds it works fine. It also seems to be fine at 180x11. I'm convinced it's a problem with the mobo because if I lower the multi to 9 and run the fsb at 200 I get the same results as 11x200. So... it seems to be the fsb that is the problem. Correct me if I'm wrong but if I run stable at 180x11=1980Mhz but not 200x9=1800Mhz it's not that the CPU can't handle the OC but rather the mobo doesn't like to be run at higher fsb speeds...... Hopefully that makes sense.
Is this reasoning correct or am I missing something here?
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
p.s. I've also tried to up the voltage at the higher fsb speeds to no avail. This is also a refurb from newegg so that is one more reason to think it's the mobo.
Has anyone ever had prime95 run solid w/o errors for hours on end but other apps (specifically ut2003 and america's army) crap out?
I have an Asus A7N8X pcb 2.0 (bios 1006), paired with a 2500+ barton, and kingston 3200 ram. I can run at 200x11.5 (stock voltage) and not have any errors in prime95 for 9+ hours. If I run UT2003 at that setting it'll crap out after an hour or so. If I run the game at stock speeds it works fine. It also seems to be fine at 180x11. I'm convinced it's a problem with the mobo because if I lower the multi to 9 and run the fsb at 200 I get the same results as 11x200. So... it seems to be the fsb that is the problem. Correct me if I'm wrong but if I run stable at 180x11=1980Mhz but not 200x9=1800Mhz it's not that the CPU can't handle the OC but rather the mobo doesn't like to be run at higher fsb speeds...... Hopefully that makes sense.
Is this reasoning correct or am I missing something here?
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
p.s. I've also tried to up the voltage at the higher fsb speeds to no avail. This is also a refurb from newegg so that is one more reason to think it's the mobo.