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I got frustrated just -reading- that article, because I am in an almost identical situation.
Bought a new X8, and of the 3 weeks I've had it, it has been out of commission for 2. I've already had to RMA a faulty video card to EVGA, and now the SAME EXACT memory problem mentioned in the review...
I just grabbed a new 680i SLI board for my gaming system and after running fine for a week, I'm all of a sudden getting a single loud beep that continues endlessly on startup, accompanied by a "C1" flashing on the board.
I know for a fact that all 4 sticks of 1gb Corsair XM2 DDR2 are fine...
How would I go about turning off Speedstep then, or even accessing its controls. I see that I have to manually bump the multiplier up to 9, and I'm definitely going to do that now.
Here's all the information I have on the Board:
EVGA
122-CK-NF68
Version 2
BIOS: Pheonix Technologies, LTD
BIOS Version 6.00PG
When I talk about overall speed, I mean that raising the FSB from 266 to 333 didn't change the reported Core Spped in CPU-Z at all.
I know this sort of...
...or perhaps I'm just doing something wrong. I just tried to overclock my C2D watercooled machine using this page as a guide: http://pc.ign.com/articles/747/747606p3.html , but so far I've had almost no success. I can raise my FSB to 333MHz, but it seems to have no effect on my actual overall...