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Sleeping Giant · 08-17-09

CoreTemp is good for, well, core temps. Everest is also supposed to be a good one.

Brutuz · 08-17-09

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Originally Posted by Sleeping Giant

I got mine in the first week, too 8[. I just suck at luck.

Unless I'm doing something wrong when trying to unlock, but I'm pretty sure I'm not.

AFAIK ASUS mobos don't unlock cores well.

Dopamin3 · 08-17-09

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Originally Posted by Sleeping Giant

I got mine in the first week, too 8[. I just suck at luck.

Unless I'm doing something wrong when trying to unlock, but I'm pretty sure I'm not.

What is your batch number? You can find it on the CPU. Here is a list of what steppings fail and which pass. Flash to your newest bios and set unleashed mode to enabled and ACC to auto (leave everything else on default). Then if it doesn't POST, increase CPU voltage upwards to 1.4v. If it doesn't POST around there then you definitely have bad cores.

ocfanboy · 08-17-09

Hey guys, I'm a bit stuck...
I've managed a stable overclock at 3.9...
19x206
vcore-1.4625
nb vid- 1.2125
ram voltage-2.1
I've ran it stable for several hours and it's very stable

only worried bout ram voltage as stock is 1.8 and warranty is 2.1...
Not sure if these volts are making it stable or not, ram is only up by 24 MHz...
My main problem is I can't seem to hit 4.0 ghz with several different changes.. Vcore up till 1.5125 and nb up till 1.2250...
Is vista 64 holding me back or could it be my volts on my ram?
I keep getting bsod and I've read that it is ram related if it's the bsod?
Any help will be appreciated..
Really wanna try hit 4.0 even though it's not much of a dif

3.9 idle- 34c
3.9 load-42c
thanks guys

**thlnk3r** · 08-17-09

Ocfanboy, great job so far. What is your NB Frequency and HT speed at? The 24Mhz overclock on your memory may or may not be a factor at this point. Try lowering the divider and bring that frequency down to see if that effects anything.

3.9Ghz at 1.46 is pretty darn good in my opinion!

Good luck

Tonicblazer · 08-17-09

hey i got a question, would i have a better chance unlocking my cores if i had a 64bit OS?

Also when i try to unlock the cores now, i get to the loading screen of Windows XP and then it just freezes or just sits there, any idea why it would do that?

Im so close to being able to get it to work its ridiculous lol almost teasing me haha if there's any help u could recommend that would be nice but im thinking its a lose cause haha

Just gonna have to save up for a quad core i think

**thlnk3r** · 08-17-09

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Originally Posted by Tonicblazer

hey i got a question, would i have a better chance unlocking my cores if i had a 64bit OS?

Also when i try to unlock the cores now, i get to the loading screen of Windows XP and then it just freezes or just sits there, any idea why it would do that?

Im so close to being able to get it to work its ridiculous lol almost teasing me haha if there's any help u could recommend that would be nice but im thinking its a lose cause haha

Tonicblazer, I believe unlocking the "disabled" cores is on the hardware level so I don't think the operating system matters. Have you tried upping the Vcore on the processor to 1.4volts to see if that helps?

Good luck

Tonicblazer · 08-17-09

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Originally Posted by thlnk3r

Tonicblazer, I believe unlocking the "disabled" cores is on the hardware level so I don't think the operating system matters. Have you tried upping the Vcore on the processor to 1.4volts to see if that helps?

Good luck

yep i have, no luck oh well, it sucks too because the first 550BE i bought unlocked to a quad and ran decent, still had some errors but was stable, but i hated the errors coming up so i thought i'd trade it in and try a different one and now no luck haha oh well pretty fun though to see if i could get a quad core for half the price pretty much

Dopamin3 · 08-17-09

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Originally Posted by Tonicblazer

yep i have, no luck oh well, it sucks too because the first 550BE i bought unlocked to a quad and ran decent, still had some errors but was stable, but i hated the errors coming up so i thought i'd trade it in and try a different one and now no luck haha oh well pretty fun though to see if i could get a quad core for half the price pretty much

What do you mean it was stable and had errors? That is a contradictory statement... I believe on that Biostar board you have to set HT Link to 1600mhz to get it to work right so try that.

Tonicblazer · 08-17-09

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Originally Posted by Dopamin3

What do you mean it was stable and had errors? That is a contradictory statement... I believe on that Biostar board you have to set HT Link to 1600mhz to get it to work right so try that.

ok i will try that, i'll try the 1.4v and 1600 ht and see what happens

thanks for the help i'll be back in a bit to let you know how it went.

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