TPU's F@H Team

[(FIH) The Don]

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All working ATM will re-install Windows tommarow.

finally

 

[[H]@RD5TUFF]

finally

6th time seems to have been the charm for me.

 

[Josh154]

6th time seems to have been the charm for me.

Well glad you got it working good! Just played some black ops on the rig, i love it! Started up a little smp work unit and some gpu work units. Running at stock clock though right now, i need to go OC this dam beast!

 

[[H]@RD5TUFF]

Well glad you got it working good! Just played some black ops on the rig, i love it! Started up a little smp work unit and some gpu work units. Running at stock clock though right now, i need to go OC this dam beast!

Black Ops is awesome!

 

[(FIH) The Don]

speaking of BO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4IsZv-nSEg

 

[Josh154]

Hey just a quick question. What should i be setting cpu PLL at? All these options have me so confused!

 

[[H]@RD5TUFF]

speaking of BO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4IsZv-nSEg

The music was just meh IMO.

 

[Josh154]

Running IBT at 3.6ghz right now. 1.232 v core, getting 43 gflops in IBT and max temp of 75C on my h50.

When should i start calling it a limit with my temps?

 

[Josh154]

Whew! My middle finger hurts like a bitch right now! So i was running a stability test on my i7 at 3.6 and all of a sudden it just shut off. I was like weird, my temps were less than 75C, and usually when a OC is unstable it locks up or BSOD's not just a hard shut off. So i walk over to the PC and something smells hot. Not burning but just hot. Poked the VRM with my middle finger and holy crap! That thing is scortching hot! I read reviews stating that the vrm cooling and NB cooling on this board was absolutely terrible, and ya know what'? I'd have to agree. Im barely pushing the CPU at 3.6 and it's thermaling because the VRM's just about caught fire. I was just hoping my board wasn't toast. Let it cool for a bit, went and grabbed my little 40mm fan off my 750i, and have it setting their blowing air on the NB heat sink.

Now with heat pipes and the design of my boards cooling, if i am taking this right, if i cool the north bridge with a fan and the north bridge is cool, the heat will flow from the VRM's to the north bridge sink correct? Because the North bridge is cooler and the heat pipes try and equal the heat between the two sinks? So i don't really need a fan on my VRM's just have good air flow on my north bridge? It's tough with my setup because the VRM heat sink is almost completely hidden behind my h50 fan and rad.

 

[theonedub]

The fan will help keep both temps under control. Def give it the finger test on your next stability run and see if the sink is cooler. Hover over it rather than touching it to prevent burning yourself (if it is that hot still).

 

[[H]@RD5TUFF]

Grab a spare fan for spot cooling, a 40mm might not cut it.

 

[Josh154]

The fan will help keep both temps under control. Def give it the finger test on your next stability run and see if the sink is cooler. Hover over it rather than touching it to prevent burning yourself (if it is that hot still).

What do you recomend for the finger test? I remember on our R/C electric motors if you couldn't hold your finger on it for 5 seconds or more it was running too hot and you needed to change up your gearing.

The fan definitely helped, but im having problems with stability even at stock speeds now. But here's the thing, i started folding on both gpu's so both are loading at 100% and then i tried running IBT on the cpu and it had a BSOD. All my clocks are at stock and everything in my BIOS is at auto except for the ram that i have configured myself.

I think i need to manually set the CPU vcore and that's why im getting instability or it could just be that my PSU isn't enough now.

Grab a spare fan for spot cooling, a 40mm might not cut it.

What do you mean another spare fan? I have a few 120x38mm delta's lying around Should i pick up a antec spot cool? The 40mm fan is larger than the actual north bridge heat sink already, but i need to somehow fabricate a way to mount the fan.

 

[[H]@RD5TUFF]

What do you mean another spare fan? I have a few 120x38mm delta's lying around Should i pick up a antec spot cool? The 40mm fan is larger than the actual north bridge heat sink already, but i need to somehow fabricate a way to mount the fan.

Surely you have a spare fan or 2, not saying put a delta on it and go deaf, but a spare 80mm, or 120 mm fan would do quite well at making this a non issue.

 

[Josh154]

Surely you have a spare fan or 2, not saying put a delta on it and go deaf, but a spare 80mm, or 120 mm fan would do quite well at making this a non issue.

I run my cards at 80% fan speed and i've never heard a fan louder than my cards. I could possibly rob a 80mm from my other rig and throw one of the deltas in there for intake.

 

[theonedub]

Id say 7sec min, pref longer.

Surely you have a spare fan or 2, not saying put a delta on it and go deaf, but a spare 80mm, or 120 mm fan would do quite well at making this a non issue.

Location of the VRM sink with the H50 rad right above them really limits what he can stuff in there.

 

[Josh154]

Id say 7sec min, pref longer.



Location of the VRM sink with the H50 rad right above them really limits what he can stuff in there.

I'll post up a pic tomorrow of the room i have to work with. Im off to bed though now. Im hoping to get these few issues ironed out tomorrow and get this rig running some -bigadv's soon!

 

[mstenholm]

[H]@RD5TUFF, I've heard that memory on Gigabyte AM3 systems should be on the outer bank.

About TPF, I got a stupid idea on the 29th and started SMP Folding on my 4400+. It just finished. P6701 53-55 minutes per frame.

xbonex, ask Buck for OC'ing info for that 8800GS. Should give you 4K+ average, unless the 494's come back. Right now, I'm getting 4272(450) and 4448(587) on my 9600GSO's(same as the 8800GS) clocked at a conservative 600C/1782S/799M.

When does this Asus competion end?

 

[TeXBill]

You should never neglect your daily exercise

Do some Cross-fit as a form of punishment

Good one Bog.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

When does this Asus competion end?

Jan. 17th. I will be sad if I come back empty handed, but this is the ONLY way I'll get to upgrade my Folding equipment. BTW, I was stunned when I got a bonus for that SMP. It was beyond the preferred deadline.

 

[Josh154]

Hey guy's im stress testing 4.0ghz right now on my rig In my asrock's bios it doesn't give me a place to set qpi/uncore voltage? Also what should i set my QPI to? It's at 6.4gt's right now which is the lowest i can set it.

Im running intel burn test right now and at 4.0 it's only getting 43 gflops. I remember on my q6600 i was getting about 36 once i was finally completely stable.


Shit just got a BSOD it said IRQL something..

 

[Josh154]

Okay so i found out that VTT is the same as QPI voltage. I have it set to 1.340V in BIOS right now but i keep getting rebooted with no BSOD. That usually means not enough vcore correct?

Edit: One more thing, with uncore, it says set it to 2x ram speed. Do i set it of total ram speed? So if i have my ram running at 1600mhz i set my uncore to 3200mhz? Or is it each stick? So each stick runs at 800mhz and do i set uncore to 1600mhz?

 

[Josh154]

Check it out guys! Brandon helped me get my i7 to 4.0 stable! I will be running a smp work unit and once that's done and if it passes stable i'll add the -bigadv flag and score big!

 

[mstenholm]

You have to obtain a passkey first, enter the passkey, and run 10 SMP units and then you can run for the big points.

 

[Josh154]

You have to obtain a passkey first, enter the passkey, and run 10 SMP units and then you can run for the big points.

Lol i already have a passkey. This isn't my first round with folding.

Here's some shots of my BIOS at my stable OC. Pretty low voltages on everything isn't it?

 

[[H]@RD5TUFF]

Some quick numbers, going to have to futz around with this 430, because that's about 1/3 of what I was hoping for, though this was after the CPU also running SMP so it may be a bandwidth problem.