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Fa11ou7 · 1 Week Ago

finally working on increasing the ram speed. I got it up to 166 so far and then I ran S&M memory test and it came up with 1 single address error and 1 multiple bits bus error. Any idea what that means?

blitz6804 · 1 Week Ago

Your RAM is running too fast, too tight, or has too low of voltage. Can you show us a screen shot of your CPU-Z memory tab and CPU-Z SPD tab?

Fa11ou7 · 1 Week Ago

After that test I was able to push my ram up to 188 and still get it to boot into XP. at 150 and higher it locks up with continual long beeps (I stopped counting at 12). If I hit the reset button it will boot normal, at least untill I restart again.

here are the CPU-Z tabs you mentioned at 188mhz

blitz6804 · 1 Week Ago

You are right now running DDR-392 at its spec for DDR-400. If you bump the HTT another one or two megahertz you should be fine. However, you cannot run any higher of divider at present. If you want to try, you will (at the very least) need to loosen CAS latency to 3.0.

Hueristic · 1 Week Ago

Try CL 3.

pioneerisloud · 1 Week Ago

Well guys for the time being, I don't have ANY Socket 939 hardware anymore (or any at all for that matter). I would like to keep my CPUz links on the rosters though if possible. I'm hoping that I can still save my old main rig.

**thlnk3r** · 1 Week Ago

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Originally Posted by blitz6804

I would recommend NOT running the HDD test unless you have a reason to. Else, you are just shortening their lives pointlessly.

Blitz6804, is the S&M HD test just a surface scan? Sorry I've never ran the application extensively on any of my machines.

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Originally Posted by Fa11ou7

After that test I was able to push my ram up to 188 and still get it to boot into XP. at 150 and higher it locks up with continual long beeps (I stopped counting at 12). If I hit the reset button it will boot normal, at least untill I restart again.

Fa11ou7, that's weird that it's locking up at a lower frequency. The VS512MB400 kit is rated at 2.5-3-3-8 so I don't see any problems there. All though CAS 3 wouldn't be a bad thing to try. Try bumping your VDimm (memory voltage) to 2.6volts. It looks like cpu-z is saying 2.5volts.

Let us know

Hope that helps

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Originally Posted by pioneerisloud

Well guys for the time being, I don't have ANY Socket 939 hardware anymore (or any at all for that matter). I would like to keep my CPUz links on the rosters though if possible. I'm hoping that I can still save my old main rig.

Pioneerisloud, no worries man...we'll keep them listed.

Fa11ou7 · 1 Week Ago

Thanks for the advice guys.

I got burnt out on overclocking for this weekend so I dropped the ram speed down to 140 mhz to be safe. Then I bumped the HTT back up to 278, I kept the HT at 4x (if i put it at 5x it wont let me put the HTT above 240ish) and put the multiplier at 9x. I wanted to play some games with my new gear and so far its running stable. I ran the S&M test on the memory and it still had those errors even at 140mhz but everything is still working fine. I'm almost curious if I should just bump it back up to 180mhz and see if it works fine, especially if I'm still getting the same errors at lower frequencies.

I'll go back and mess with the memory some more later this week or weekend. I did try bumping the cass up to 3 but then it wouldn't post at all. I did forget to point out that I have 2 different pairs of memory in the system, one corsair and the other is a generic.

**thlnk3r** · 1 Week Ago

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Originally Posted by Fa11ou7

I'll go back and mess with the memory some more later this week or weekend. I did try bumping the cass up to 3 but then it wouldn't post at all. I did forget to point out that I have 2 different pairs of memory in the system, one corsair and the other is a generic.

Fa11ou7, that may explain why you're having problems. For any type of overclocking it's recommended that you run memory that is matching either it be 2x1GB or 4x1GB. Make sure it's the same brand, sub-timings ect ect. A dual-channel kit like this is what I am referring to. We know what the Corsair memory is rated at but what about the other stick of memory? Try also looking into Memtest86+. This diagnostic tool is great for evaluating the memory after you have made changes to it (sub-timings & frequency). I recommend tests 5 and 8. Try shooting for at least 3 loops per test.

Good luck

Kryton · 1 Week Ago

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I'm not sure if I maxed it out or not. There's a lot of voltage setting that I'm not 100% sure as to what their exact function is. From what I've been reading over at the GD70 club is there are some other voltage settings that help stabilize higher RAM frequencies. So I'm still not technically done, but my current configuration is 7.5 hours stable, I'm sure it could pass 24+ hours of prime. Although I am thinking of changing my stress test software back to Orthos. Prime doesn't stop loading the cores that didn't fail.

At the moment the i7 is the king of the hill, althoughthe mew AMD's are no slouch either. At stock settings even my 720 will beat out an i7 at stock (at least in 3dmark06). But once the overclocking begins is when it really starts to pull ahead.

BUT it all depends on what you use your rig for. If you don't really do any intensive encoding or video editing there's really no point in getting an i5 or i7. In gaming there is really no noticeable difference between an Phenom II AMD or the Intel i7. And amazingly enough even my 720 in reviews has beaten the i7 and AMD quads because of its L3 cache size.
Although the Intel i7's do benchmark considerably better, the i5 doesn't do nearly as well.
So as you see it really depends on your uses for the computer. If you mostly game and do very little encoding, 3dmodeling or video editing then an AMD will be plenty for you. Now if you do a lot of encoding, 3d modeling or video editing the i7 is the smarter choice (notice I didn't say i5).

I don't know where you are right now in terms of getting your RAM settings squared away but here's something I did earlier with my MSI before my RAM began acting up.
I'm hoping this will give you an idea how far you could push things but remember I was running PC 16000 RAM when I did this. With the timings I used doing this, yes I was really pushing it at the time.

Maybe this will give you some ideas....

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