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dustyshiv · Aug 14, 2009, 02:51 PM

Nice Workstations Heath!! Lil cable management and ur rigs would be nothing but excellent!!

Hows the performance of the Koolance Exos that u have in there? Had plans to buy one!!

HammerON · Aug 14, 2009, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by bogmali

Your workstation (desk) needs a cable-management makeover

Nice upgrade though bro

I spent time on the i7 rig as far as cable managaement, however when I put together the E8500 rig I was tired and just wanted it up and crunching. Plus that AeroCool case sucks for cable management, but I will work on it a bit down the road.
Sorry - just realized you were talking about my ugly cable mess in the back

It is in serious need of some management

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Originally Posted by dustyshiv

Nice Workstations Heath!! Lil cable management and ur rigs would be nothing but excellent!!

Hows the performance of the Koolance Exos that u have in there? Had plans to buy one!!

Thanks

I am not really happy with it, but it does keep the E8500 between 37 C and 55 C while crunching at 4.0 GHz. So it does the job. It is a little expensive for what you could build.

Velvet Wafer · Aug 14, 2009, 09:37 PM

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Originally Posted by HammerON

Okay ~ here are some pics of my recent upgrade

i spot a thermaltake fan... how do you like them? i use 4, but i think theyre too loud and underpowered..

Chicken Patty · Aug 14, 2009, 10:13 PM

good stuff hammer, just some cable managment, thats all

Aug 14, 2009, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Chicken Patty

yeah, usually happens when rig is unstable. I had my e7200 return a whole bunch with errors, but I got it to a stable setting already.

The BSOD wasn't from BOINC, it was when I was tinkering with OC (BOINC starts up automatically upon bootup) LinX failed after 15 minutes, since fixed.

Chicken Patty · Aug 14, 2009, 11:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Duxx

The BSOD wasn't from BOINC, it was when I was tinkering with OC (BOINC starts up automatically upon bootup) LinX failed after 15 minutes, since fixed.

good!

I had some issues with my E7200 rig. Flashed to latest BIOS, running awesome

FordGT90Concept · Aug 15, 2009, 12:04 AM

All the motherboards I got in recent times had crap BIOS--I think it is a plague spreading across the industry.

p_o_s_pc · Aug 15, 2009, 12:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Chicken Patty

good!

I had some issues with my E7200 rig. Flashed to latest BIOS, running awesome

thats great.

i am going to have to flash my board back to the older bios i am having problems with my ram with the new bios.(i have tried 4 known to work sets and all of them give errors)

Chicken Patty · Aug 15, 2009, 12:31 AM

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Originally Posted by FordGT90Concept

All the motherboards I got in recent times had crap BIOS--I think it is a plague spreading across the industry.

The BIOS the board was sent to me was back from 2007, the newest one was from 2008 I believe. Fixed lotta issues like instability at same clock, BIOS settings will say 400*9, but on the POST screen it'll say 422*9. then windows said something else. So at least now everything reports the same. Very happy with the results now.

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Originally Posted by p_o_s_pc

thats great.

i am going to have to flash my board back to the older bios i am having problems with my ram with the new bios.(i have tried 4 known to work sets and all of them give errors)

when I had my ASUS M3A79-T 790fx board for my phenom 9950, I also had to use an older BIOS. the three newest ones just were crap.

p_o_s_pc · Aug 15, 2009, 12:38 AM

@CP the oldest bios wasn't much better(had better voltage options

) but the 2nd one after that (the 4th bios) is the best for my needs.Good balance of voltage,stablity,overclocking out of the 5 or 6(i think) BIOS's

Chicken Patty · Aug 15, 2009, 12:39 AM

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Originally Posted by p_o_s_pc

@CP the oldest bios wasn't much better(had better voltage options

) but the 2nd one after that (the 4th bios) is the best for my needs.Good balance of voltage,stablity,overclocking out of the 5 or 6(i think) BIOS's

yeah I remember for my board it was the 0403 BIOS, oh man I loved it. I'm sure there are better ones now, but as long as I had the board, 0403 worked the best for me.

HammerON · Aug 15, 2009, 03:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Velvet Wafer

i spot a thermaltake fan... how do you like them? i use 4, but i think theyre too loud and underpowered..

They are all right, but I like my Antec fans better. The TT are loud

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Originally Posted by Chicken Patty

good stuff hammer, just some cable managment, thats all

Yeah - I still need to work on both rigs. I was in a hurry on the E8500 rig plus I bought a non-modular PSU because I wasn't paying attention when I bought it

.
I do feel though that the i7 rig looks pretty good. Still could use some minor tweaks. But I am going to wait until I water cool that bad boy

I just realized that I have the DO stepping for i7!!! I wasn't sure what I was going to get

Mindweaver · Aug 15, 2009, 05:58 AM

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Originally Posted by HammerON

Okay ~ here are some pics of my recent upgrade

http://img.techpowerup.org/090814/Capture007211.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/090814/Capture008935.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/090814/Capture010246.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/090814/Capture011.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/090814/Capture012.jpg

Wow, Very nice brotha!

Chicken Patty · Aug 15, 2009, 08:22 AM

very good hammer, very good. Overclock it a bit. with that current voltage you can do easily I would say 3.8-4.0GHz stable.

Also, do that edit file I linked you too, I see you got a WU waiting to report.

FordGT90Concept · Aug 15, 2009, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Chicken Patty

Fixed lotta issues like instability at same clock, BIOS settings will say 400*9, but on the POST screen it'll say 422*9. then windows said something else.

Windows always claims my processor is running at 1.6 GHz. The only way I can check the speed is to run CPU-Z. I'm not sure why Windows can't get the correct speed on Core i7.

Chicken Patty · Aug 15, 2009, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by FordGT90Concept

Windows always claims my processor is running at 1.6 GHz. The only way I can check the speed is to run CPU-Z. I'm not sure why Windows can't get the correct speed on Core i7.

my i7 is fine, its my e7200 rig that was giving me issues.

Still is, I think I have a stick or a few sticks that might be bad (RAM)

I'm off to running mem test on it and i'll post back my findings.

Chicken Patty · Aug 16, 2009, 01:03 AM

mayday mayday

i'm down a rig and this is not good because as of tomorrow night, my i7 will be down a few days also.

one of my tracers in the e7200 rig gave an error during memtest. Its not supposed to give any correct? ANyhow, im installing a fresh copy of XP on it and I took out two sticks of tracers. See if it still fails memtest. If so then i'll alternate the sticks to see which one or ones are bad

Mindweaver · Aug 16, 2009, 01:06 AM

are you running memtest in windows or straight from the boot disk?

Chicken Patty · Aug 16, 2009, 01:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Mindweaver

are you running memtest in windows or straight from the boot disk?

boot disk.

I loaded all defaults and ran it. ran about six hours, just one error. But it should be zero correct?

Mindweaver · Aug 16, 2009, 01:11 AM

Cool. I know you can receive error in windows because you have to set some of the ram to test and if you set it incorrectly then you get errors.. but I'm sure you know that..

Hmmm one error.. i would check temps on the ram and nb.. and run it a few more times to make sure. Do you have a multimeter to check the temps?

Chicken Patty · Aug 16, 2009, 01:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Mindweaver

Cool. I know you can receive error in windows because you have to set some of the ram to test and if you set it incorrectly then you get errors.. but I'm sure you know that..

Hmmm one error.. i would check temps on the ram and nb.. and run it a few more times to make sure. Do you have a multimeter to check the temps?

no I dont. But the case is opened, it was all default settings. Not ruling it out, but probably not the cause I would say.

once windows is installed and everything is god, drivers etc. Ill run it again. try to monitor temps somehow.

Mindweaver · Aug 16, 2009, 01:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Chicken Patty

no I dont. But the case is opened, it was all default settings. Not ruling it out, but probably not the cause I would say.

once windows is installed and everything is god, drivers etc. Ill run it again. try to monitor temps somehow.

Cool bro just trying to help you cross out the simple things first.. hehehe

I know how frustrating RAM can be... My dominator chips over heat and BSOD the machine... I'm think'n about getting a cooler master V10. Maybe then I can run 4GHz steady...

Also, I'm thinking about getting a 780i or p45 board to replace this p35.. I have a E6400 I can install on this P35... I need to ask on the Buy and trade section.. if anybody has a ASUS 780i for sell or trade.. Good luck with the install!

Chicken Patty · Aug 16, 2009, 01:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Mindweaver

Cool bro just trying to help you cross out the simple things first.. hehehe

I know how frustrating RAM can be... My dominator chips over heat and BSOD the machine... I'm think'n about getting a cooler master V10. Maybe then I can run 4GHz steady...

Also, I'm thinking about getting a 780i or p45 board to replace this p35.. I have a E6400 I can install on this P35... I need to ask on the Buy and trade section.. if anybody has a ASUS 780i for sell or trade.. Good luck with the install!

yeah RAM can be frustrating bro. These tracers i've had for a bit and they were great, but I had them out of use for a while, they were moved around a bit and stuff so you never know if they could have been damaged then. But anyhow, i'll get it sorted out.

Good luck finding a board dude

msgclb · Aug 16, 2009, 01:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Chicken Patty

yeah RAM can be frustrating bro. These tracers i've had for a bit and they were great, but I had them out of use for a while, they were moved around a bit and stuff so you never know if they could have been damaged then. But anyhow, i'll get it sorted out.

Good luck finding a board dude

I always use Memtest86+ v2.11 pre-built ISO. I run it for two passes for a minimum test or all night if I'm concerned. If I get a sea of red then my RAM gets RMA'd if it's still under warranty.

Am I correct you have 4 sticks of RAM? If so then isolating the bad RAM is a good idea.

Chicken Patty · Aug 16, 2009, 01:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by msgclb

I always use Memtest86+ v2.11 pre-built ISO. I run it for two passes for a minimum test or all night if I'm concerned. If I get a sea of red then my RAM gets RMA'd if it's still under warranty.

Am I correct you have 4 sticks of RAM? If so then isolating the bad RAM is a good idea.

thats what i'm working on doing, finding out which stick caused the error.

...and yes I have four sticks, only two are in the system now.

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