David's Learning and Rambling Thread

[David]

Must ... make ... PiFast ... run ... before .... Windows .... cr .. BAH!

EDIT: Woot!

 

[Seebs]

Must ... make ... PiFast ... run ... before .... Windows .... cr .. BAH!

MOAR VOLTS!

 

[David]

MOAR VOLTS!

I'm going to get through all the tests I can without increasing volts.

Then I'm going to set it for 1.7 V and pray to <insert deity of choice> that I don't get left with a gaping charred hole in my desk.

 

[Seebs]

I'm going to get through all the tests I can without increasing volts.

Then I'm going to set it for 1.7 V and pray to <insert deity of choice> that I don't get left with a gaping charred hole in my desk.

1.7 on air? Been there done that.

 

[David]

Sod it... here we go then...

EDIT: Balls. Boots, complains of over-voltage, says press F1 to continue, shuts off.

 

[Seebs]

Sod it... here we go then...

EDIT: Balls. Boots, complains of over-voltage, says press F1 to continue, shuts off.

What board are you using? You should be able to turn off Voltage Monitoring in BIOS to prevent that error from popping up. I know I had to do it on my Asus P5Q-E to get past 1.6V

 

[David]

Asus Rampage Formula, with the latest BIOS.

1.65 V behaves itself, got UCBench to run at 4240

EDIT: Got PiFast and wPrime32M to run at 4240 as well. Score.

 

[Seebs]

Asus Rampage Formula, with the latest BIOS.

1.65 V behaves itself, got UCBench to run at 4240

In BIOS:

- Go to POWER Section
- Go to HW Monitor
- Go to CPU Voltage: You should be able to set it to IGNORE in there.

 

[Bobnova]

Can always just push F1 as well. My P5Q Pro left the voltage applied even if it complained.
As a note, throttling on P4s starts around 70c if I recall correctly, so you may need some more cooling.

 

[David]

Cheers!

Looks like HWBot is buggy again, it's not putting my results into the right rankings... ugh.

Anyway, should manage a few boints out of this lot. Now I know how to ramp up the vcore ...

 

[David]

Editing gubbed submissions to 2x CPU then back to 1x fixes the rankings issue.

Actually picked up some HW points so I'm very happy.

 

[Bobnova]

Woot! That's a very satisfying point to reach
Congrats!

 

[David]

Cheers! I'm getting some better scores than I expected (perhaps its the RAM).

 

[David]

The P4 530 is being a pain. I can adjust FSB up to ~ 285 (with various FSB straps) but after that it misbehaves - the CPU speed goes down not up ... I don't think SetFSB goes past 250 MHz so I don't think it'll help.

EDIT: 1.65 V on vcore, HW monitor says 40C idle in BIOS.

 

[Bobnova]

SetFSB might need the "advanced mode" options changed. Alternatively you can hit the "turbo" checkbox. Either way will let you extend the slider bar dramatically.

 

[David]

Cheers I'll give it a shot tonight.

I also need to disable my own 'Newb Mode' ...

 

[David]

4277.56 out of the P4-530, but that needed 1.7 V. Anything higher and SetFSB ****s itself 10 seconds before the machine crashes.

Going to see how high I can get some of these benches to run at: I'll not come first in all of them, but I can hopefully fill in the gaps.

 

[David]

530 done with. Back to the C2D to see what I can get for the NVS285 on some 3D.

EDIT: Even with 1.75 V (low temps - 40s under moderate load) it wont go past 470 MHz FSB. 475 causes the whole thing to freeze up. Going to see if I can complete the benches at 3290 MHz

 

[Janus67]

for more FSB you need to use more MCH/NBcore (northbridge)

 

[David]

I was at 1.49 V (on air, fan aimed at NB). I'll try bumping it up a little tonight.