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Processor | Intel C2D E8500 @ 4.25GHz (1.36V) |
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Motherboard | Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 |
Cooling | (Temporary) Tuniq Tower 120 |
Memory | 2GB Transcend aXeram 1200+ |
Video Card(s) | HIS HD3870 CF Volt modded |
Storage | 3 Seagate 320Gb Barracuda in an Intel Matrix Raid array |
Display(s) | Sony GDM-FW900 24" Widescreen CRT (a.k.a "The Shiznotch") |
Case | Ultra Aluminus Full Tower |
Audio Device(s) | onboard Intel HD audio |
Power Supply | PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 |
Software | XP MCE + Vista (HP) dual-boot |
Well, my foray into overclocking my Intel board with ClockGen and SYSTOOL has not gone well...
Long story, short: Was able to get somewhere will SYSTOOL but none were stable (ORTHOS failed after 2 seconds @400 FSB & TAT 100% load shot temps directly to 60C and shutdown even @ 1.475V)
I was also noticing that my card was running exceptionally hot. I have been juggling between ATITrayTool, ATITool and CCC. I like ATITrayTool the most, but it was giving me issues in Far Cry and Call of Juarez demo with some similar graphical anomalies (colored geometric shapes all converging at the center of the screen.) Then made the move to ATITool. Don't know what the issue is, but something about this will not let me overclock worth a nickel......next. Then I went back to CCC but Overclock (of whatever they call it) has too low of a maximum for me and no provision for voltage adjustments, but I didn't have the issues in Far Cry and CoJ. Not a fair enough trade-off. Back to ATT.....
Now on to the temps...
Last week I put a Thermalright HR-03 w/120mm fan and some Swiftech MC-14 ramsinks mouted w/AS5 & AS adhesive mix. All was good and I achived and personal best on 3DM06: 7372 @ 716/990. Temps were borderline but now that I've gone through some major hard reboots and CMOS resets and dinking around with SYSTOOL this thing gets fricking hot ina hurry! It's now 'round 40 idle @ 1.45v GPU and lock/reset within a minute of running an artifact scan!
The only other thing I can think of that may have some impact would be that I tried to get some more cooling on the Vregs by removing the thermal tape and sanding down the risers/feet on either end so that the Vreg sink would touch the chips and applied a minimal ammount of AS5 to the underside of the sink. Then I attached the surplus Thermalright ramsinks that came w/HR-03 on the Pulse chips next to the Vregs. These came in contact with the Vreg sink.
Could I have made some sort of bridge between some components so as to make some unwanted volt mod? Maybe some AS5 or metal filings made there way inbetween some resistors?
Woud there be any particular places to test the resistances or voltages to try and find the source of a "short"?
I know my CPU temps are running high as well, but hopefully I can wrangle those in. I'm just curious if anyone else has experienced sudden attacks from the Heat Gremlins after some failed overclocks.
Would anyone suggest reflashing the BIOS in the mobo? the card? both?
Thanks in advance for any advice!
Cheers,
Bryan
Long story, short: Was able to get somewhere will SYSTOOL but none were stable (ORTHOS failed after 2 seconds @400 FSB & TAT 100% load shot temps directly to 60C and shutdown even @ 1.475V)
I was also noticing that my card was running exceptionally hot. I have been juggling between ATITrayTool, ATITool and CCC. I like ATITrayTool the most, but it was giving me issues in Far Cry and Call of Juarez demo with some similar graphical anomalies (colored geometric shapes all converging at the center of the screen.) Then made the move to ATITool. Don't know what the issue is, but something about this will not let me overclock worth a nickel......next. Then I went back to CCC but Overclock (of whatever they call it) has too low of a maximum for me and no provision for voltage adjustments, but I didn't have the issues in Far Cry and CoJ. Not a fair enough trade-off. Back to ATT.....
Now on to the temps...
Last week I put a Thermalright HR-03 w/120mm fan and some Swiftech MC-14 ramsinks mouted w/AS5 & AS adhesive mix. All was good and I achived and personal best on 3DM06: 7372 @ 716/990. Temps were borderline but now that I've gone through some major hard reboots and CMOS resets and dinking around with SYSTOOL this thing gets fricking hot ina hurry! It's now 'round 40 idle @ 1.45v GPU and lock/reset within a minute of running an artifact scan!
The only other thing I can think of that may have some impact would be that I tried to get some more cooling on the Vregs by removing the thermal tape and sanding down the risers/feet on either end so that the Vreg sink would touch the chips and applied a minimal ammount of AS5 to the underside of the sink. Then I attached the surplus Thermalright ramsinks that came w/HR-03 on the Pulse chips next to the Vregs. These came in contact with the Vreg sink.
Could I have made some sort of bridge between some components so as to make some unwanted volt mod? Maybe some AS5 or metal filings made there way inbetween some resistors?
Woud there be any particular places to test the resistances or voltages to try and find the source of a "short"?
I know my CPU temps are running high as well, but hopefully I can wrangle those in. I'm just curious if anyone else has experienced sudden attacks from the Heat Gremlins after some failed overclocks.
Would anyone suggest reflashing the BIOS in the mobo? the card? both?
Thanks in advance for any advice!
Cheers,
Bryan
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