TPU's Core i7 Overclocking and Feedback

[Conflict0s]

Finally got into my BIOS on my i7 rig (thanks to Fit) the problem is though, I cant boot into windows at the moment. Now I don't know weather that is because my other board died on me (meaning my hard drive still has all my old mb drivers on and what not) and for some reason isn't letting me boot into it? but yea after one dead G33 board and my new DFI x58 Dk that died on my today. I finally picked up a new one and have it kind of running (it has been along 2 days for a novice like me lol)

Could anyone give me some advice in what I need to change in BIOS or what maybe the problem in why I can't boot into windows.

I am running 6gb DDR3 1600Mhz Patriot Ram on a DFI dk board with 920.

At the moment when I turn it on and just let it try and boot up it gives me this message...

"AHCI Option ROM BIOS Revision: 01.06.70 Date : 08-13-2008
Copyright (c) 2006-2008 Phoenix Technologies LTD

AHCI BIOS not installed!!

CMOS checksum error - Defaults loaded"

And then a flashing underscore underneath that.

 

[Thrackan]

You switched mobo's on the same Windows install?

That hardly ever goes smoothly afaik... Good luck.

 

[Conflict0s]

I had no choice, It was a weird day yesterday. I was just shutting down my old system to place my new hardware into the case, to start my wire management and everything whilst I could still run my old pc in another case.
As soon as I booted down, my pc booted back up on its own and then shut off. Anyways long story short it appeared I had a faulty switch in my PSU, so that board is dead, so then I set up my new DFI mb with that PSU (not knowing at the time that it was faulty) and surprise, surprise. That was dead (It may have been dead before but I am putting my money on the PSU).
So today I sent it back and got another board and a new PSU (I am now moneyless) and I have it booted into BIOS, but my stuff is still on my hard drive that I can't access. I think if the worst comes around I have an IDE to USB adapter that I can rip my data off.

But my problem still stands at the moment

 

[PaulieG]

You switched mobo's on the same Windows install?

That hardly ever goes smoothly afaik... Good luck.

It works fine within the same chipset.

 

[Conflict0s]

HAHA! Who says DFI BIOS is difficult OMG I love it. I just had a quick look threw the BIOS, looked at "restore CMOS" hit "y" and it boots!!!!

 

[Thrackan]

It works fine within the same chipset.

Got a point there

Conflict0s, gratz

 

[trt740]

here is a decent voltage setting guide

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=100494809&mpage=1&key

 

[Tatty_Two]

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=100494809&mpage=1&key

Thanks Tom.... a useful read.

 

[Chicken Patty]

very useful, I'll be reading this tonight

 

[trt740]

Gotta love the Rampage Extreme II (and I believe the Gene does it as well), you can choose the 21x multiplier just like the rest of the multipliers, with the new 1204 bios, even if the turbo is turned off.

 

[Chicken Patty]

Gotta love the Rampage Extreme II (and I believe the Gene does it as well), you can choose the 21x multiplier just like the rest of the multipliers, with the new 1204 bios, even if the turbo is turned off.

isnt turbo that only? If so its pointless to have a feature like that

 

[trt740]

isnt turbo that only? If so its pointless to have a feature like that

no I think asus thought turbo is pointless , why not just let you pick the 21x

 

[Chicken Patty]

no I think asus thought turbo is pointless , why not just let you pick the 21x

so its either or? I mean if turbo only enables the 21x multi, it'll be pointless to have the turbo option if you can manually select the 21x multi.

 

[trt740]

so its either or? I mean if turbo only enables the 21x multi, it'll be pointless to have the turbo option if you can manually select the 21x multi.

Why even have turbo in the first place? Just set the multiplier if you want it and C.P. my new cpu sucks dog dicks in both boards for overclocking. Seems my local micro center has a bad batch. It needs a bunch of voltage to go over 3.7ghz (DFI or Asus didn't matter at all). It runs cool as hell but sucks overclocking wise. I may ebay it but kinda sick of Fxxking with this.

 

[Chicken Patty]

Why even have turbo in the first place? Just set the multiplier if you want it and C.P. my new cpu sucks dog dicks in both boards for overclocking. Seems my local micro center has a bad batch. It needs a bunch of voltage to go over 3.7ghz (DFI or Asus didn't matter at all). It runs cool as hell but sucks overclocking wise. I may ebay it but kinda sick of Fxxking with this.

mind sharing the batch #.

I get your point, and thats what I meant as well. Choossing the multi is just much easier and thats it.

 

[trt740]

mind sharing the batch #.

I get your point, and thats what I meant as well. Choossing the multi is just much easier and thats it.

let me get back to you on that being lazy here.

 

[Chicken Patty]

let me get back to you on that being lazy here.

k dude, go ahead...

 

[Chicken Patty]

man wtf, I looked at my tubing and the tubing wasnt round, it was like squeeze together. I opened the res, a big burst of air came out and the tubing went back to normal, wtf

 

[N4cot1c]

Is a MCR320 a good rad for i7?

 

[Binge]

Is a MCR320 a good rad for i7?

I wouldn't trust it. Swiftech couldn't cool my dick with their puny rads.

 

[Tatty_Two]

Why even have turbo in the first place? Just set the multiplier if you want it and C.P. my new cpu sucks dog dicks in both boards for overclocking. Seems my local micro center has a bad batch. It needs a bunch of voltage to go over 3.7ghz (DFI or Asus didn't matter at all). It runs cool as hell but sucks overclocking wise. I may ebay it but kinda sick of Fxxking with this.

It has been shown that turbo enabled is quicker from what I have read at the same speeds.

 

[Chicken Patty]

It has been shown that turbo enabled is quicker from what I have read at the same speeds.

thats intresting. Any reason why the rumor says turbo is faster? I mean if its just a multi then it shouldn't make a difference. Maybe turbo mode has some sort of HDD acceleration or something I dont know

 

[Tatty_Two]

thats intresting. Any reason why the rumor says turbo is faster? I mean if its just a multi then it shouldn't make a difference. Maybe turbo mode has some sort of HDD acceleration or something I dont know

I'll see if I can find the article I was reading, it actually had a number of benches at 3.6gig and 4gig, speeds acheived by a straight multiplier and another with using the Turbo, out of about 8 benchmarks which included PC Mark, Vantage, 2006 etc... 7 of the 8 were faster with Turbo enabled.

 

[Chicken Patty]

I'll see if I can find the article I was reading, it actually had a number of benches at 3.6gig and 4gig, speeds acheived by a straight multiplier and another with using the Turbo, out of about 8 benchmarks which included PC Mark, Vantage, 2006 etc... 7 of the 8 were faster with Turbo enabled.

cool, look forward to reading that article. Thats an interesting test though.

 

[N4cot1c]

I wouldn't trust it. Swiftech couldn't cool my dick with their puny rads.

What about two?