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N2Gaming · 01-21-09

That never happened to me so I was a little shell shocked and freaked out right when the heatsink come off the board and I looked at where the cpu was suppose to be and saw that it was not there . I can laugh now but when it happened I though to myself what the ***K. So then I quickly turned the heatsink over to check the pins. wiped forehead and breathed a sigh of relief...

All was ok. That just happens to be the mobo and cpu that I posted the 3dmark06 scores with a few post's ago.

blitz6804 · 01-21-09

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Originally Posted by thlnk3r

Blitz, does tRP and tRAS always have to equal tRC?

No. When tRP + tRAS = tRC, you are in the realm of the "ideal" setting. If tRC is tighter, you risk instability. When looser, you lose bandwidth. Some speeds will require a looser tRC. (As we saw with my nForce3 chipset. 3-4-4-8-2T-12-16 @ 200:133 would not POST for 11x255. On the other hand, 2.5-3-3-8-2T-19-22 @ 200:166 worked fine in excess of 11x260. Oh well, the best-laid plans...)

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Originally Posted by N2Gaming

Is amd virtualization required for running x64 based OS's or is it more for energy effeciency?

I never found a reason to shut it off. The setting is if you wish to run a guest OS in a Host OS. If you do not do that, you do not need it.

I am glad to see the PC is not dead. Also glad to see that the SLI-bridge replacement fixed both cards working in SLI. It is incredible how much your CPU score shot up from such a small tweak. Very creepy.

pez · 01-21-09

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Originally Posted by N2Gaming

pretty good imporovement for only using one card...

cpu was upped by 500mhz. maybe that has a little to do w/it.

Yeah, the CPU is the biggest factor in 3DMark06. I mean, if I had a quad clocked to 2.8, I'd most likely have a score of at least 16k. My CPU does slow me down in some games (namely CSS) b/c of Vista and it eating up CPU usage while playing a CPU intensive game like CSS. That's the only reason I miss XP.

BlackOmega · 01-21-09

Ok so Ive starting messing around with my CFX3200 board, and as I should, I started with testing the FSB limit. So far got it to around 290. Now this was the whereabouts of where I needed to up the chipset voltage on my NF4 board. So I go into the BIOS and come to find out there are 2 NB voltage settings. 1 says NB Analog voltage and the other says NB Core Voltage. Im honestly at a loss here, which do you change? Core? Analog? Both?

nzbleach · 01-21-09

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Originally Posted by N2Gaming

That never happened to me so I was a little shell shocked and freaked out right when the heatsink come off the board and I looked at where the cpu was suppose to be and saw that it was not there . I can laugh now but when it happened I though to myself what the ***K. So then I quickly turned the heatsink over to check the pins. wiped forehead and breathed a sigh of relief...

All was ok. That just happens to be the mobo and cpu that I posted the 3dmark06 scores with a few post's ago.

Ohh man I've done that before! Scary stuff. So whenever I take off the heatsink I twist now.

**lemans81** · 01-21-09

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Originally Posted by BlackOmega

Ok so Ive starting messing around with my CFX3200 board, and as I should, I started with testing the FSB limit. So far got it to around 290. Now this was the whereabouts of where I needed to up the chipset voltage on my NF4 board. So I go into the BIOS and come to find out there are 2 NB voltage settings. 1 says NB Analog voltage and the other says NB Core Voltage. Im honestly at a loss here, which do you change? Core? Analog? Both?

I have sig rig running 320fsb.

N2Gaming · 01-21-09

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Originally Posted by blitz6804

I never found a reason to shut it off. The setting is if you wish to run a guest OS in a Host OS. If you do not do that, you do not need it.

I am glad to see the PC is not dead. Also glad to see that the SLI-bridge replacement fixed both cards working in SLI. It is incredible how much your CPU score shot up from such a small tweak. Very creepy.

Thanks for the AMD virtulization answere. I just disabled it and seems like the system runs fine w/o it.

So your saying a 500mhz OC is a small tweek?

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Originally Posted by pez

Yeah, the CPU is the biggest factor in 3DMark06. I mean, if I had a quad clocked to 2.8, I'd most likely have a score of at least 16k. My CPU does slow me down in some games (namely CSS) b/c of Vista and it eating up CPU usage while playing a CPU intensive game like CSS. That's the only reason I miss XP.

I guess it does not help that your mobo limits you to 4 gig of ram.

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Originally Posted by nzbleach

Ohh man I've done that before! Scary stuff. So whenever I take off the heatsink I twist now.

I would have done that but the cpu socket what completely surrounding the heat sink so the only thing I could do is try to pull it up while leaning it to one side but the whole thing just poped off like the toast was done...

pez · 01-21-09

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Originally Posted by N2Gaming

Thanks for the AMD virtulization answere. I just disabled it and seems like the system runs fine w/o it.

So your saying a 500mhz OC is a small tweek?

I guess it does not help that your mobo limits you to 4 gig of ram.

I would have done that but the cpu socket what completely surrounding the heat sink so the only thing I could do is try to pull it up while leaning it to one side but the whole thing just poped off like the toast was done...

yeah, that's true, but I'll be upgrading soon enough.