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So I plan on investing in an Antec Phantom for my dad's computer. He's a musician and has a pseudo-recording studio in his room here. His computer is in the same room as he records everything digitally. I'm doing everything I can to make his setup as quiet as possible and the time has come for...

I never got posted. I have a 4400+ at 2.8Ghz stable for months now ^_^

2.8Ghz appears to be the limit cause I tried to do 2.9Ghz and Orthos crapped out at a few minutes. I'll just have to accept it unless anyone can guess why Orthos fails at such variable amounts of time. But, it is doing much cooler and I am still very happy with the jump from 2.2Ghz. ^_^

My dad is big into audio production and recording. He's currently using a P4 in a Sonata II case but the thing is still pretty loud. I'm wondering what fans, PSU, and case y'all would recommend. I'd prolly go the next step and get as much sound dampening material that I could. Then when the...

It's every major socket. 775, 939, 940, AM2 and 754.

Up to 52 at max but 57 minutes until 1 day of Orthos stable! Edit: Orthos stable!

Did you have a brand name power strip? If so, look it up and see if they have any insurance on it. That might be able to get you free components, otherwise do what Arc said and I'd go with the Intel systems. They just have so much potential!

I remounted it with my AS5 and am priming 2.8Ghz. I just wanna say thanks to Quad for all his help. Damn! 10 degrees cooler (50° C). He was right :D

Never remounted but right now I kicked the OC back to 2.9Ghz. I'm happy on the encoding spectrum and I'm gonna try Orthos after it is done. Orthos would fail around 12-13 hours at 3.0Ghz, is that stable or unstable? Sure, message me with your SN.

I apologize for resurrecting the thread but I gotta figure this out. Occasionally, my computer will freeze my processes one by one. One program will stop responding, then I'll try opening Task Manager. If I already have it open, I can't end anything. It really sucks. My question is: is it...

Check my sig :)

And what's this stuff for Socket F? It's been a server socket forever, they probably figured that the architecture for it made the most sense for Quadfather. I would prefer Quadfather over Kentsfield anyway because K8L Quad-cores will fit in the sockets meaning.... Octofather :)

They max out at 63° C which I'm comfortable with cause my processor is rated for up to 70°. At 1.5V, it failed at 3 hours. I'm gonna kick it back down to 1.475V and call it stable.

The aforementioned 1.475V which makes it even weirder. :p The things we do to OC!

I decreased the voltage cause I think it was too much down to 1.475V and turned the fans back up so it's sitting comfortably around 60° C. Orthos had errored out at 13 hours. Should I try and get to 24 hours or is it inevitable that I'll error? EDIT: And one of the instances of Prime errored...

Hmm. The last two Orthos runs have errored out somewhere around 12 hours... I'm gonna try dual instances of Prime95

They maxed out at 62°C but are sitting comfortably at 60°C across the board. I'm using a Zalman CNPS9500 AM2, it matches me case theme (Green lights) and looks great. Amazingly enough, I just used some Dynex thermal grease from Best Buy because I forgot my AS5. I couldn't be happier! ^_^

Thanks, Quad. I had gotten though 3 passes of MemTest but going up to 1.5V on vCore and 3x multi for HT has helped. I'm 6 hours strong in Orthos.

HT is at 1092 but I figured that wouldn't be a big deal. I'll kick it down a lil bit. Also, RAM is rated for 4-4-4-12 at 800Mhz but is okay at 5-4-4-10 at 860Mhz.

Blah. Now it seems like one core is failing Orthos after about an hour. What does that mean? Will I have to scale back my OC? EDIT: Now it's stable at almost two hours... EDIT 2: And it failed at two hours on a different core. Hmmm. Maybe a higher voltage?

Haha. Yeah, 5-4-4-12 at 3Ghz (DDR2-857) and I can do almost 1GB/s for the Memory Read Benchmark. Now I just gotta tighten up my timings and then see how low I can get my noise. It gets to 60° C at load on each core but considering it can go all the way to 70°, I'd say it's good. Stable with 4...

I am stuck at 281 for the HTT. I can't get it up to 3.2Ghz but I am resting comfortable at 3Ghz. My problem now is my RAM. I have to clock it down to DDR2-684 from DDR2-880. It won't POST otherwise. I think I can make it post at DDR2-880 at 5-4-4-10, would that be better than the DDR2-684 at...

I'm at 2.8Ghz stable rocking a 1.475v vCore. Now I just gotta figure if I can push it to 3.2Ghz and be done with it. ^_^

Doesn't the regular CNPS9500 support socket 775?

They're at 275 after rebate. Considering I paid a little less than that for my XMS, I'd say it's a good deal.

Ok, I bumped up the Vcore to 1.38 and it seems stable enough. What's an easy way to determine the absolute minimum voltage for the Core so as not to do too much?

I know it's not my RAM cause it passed several rounds of Memtest. The HTT is low considering that [H] was able to make it go upwards of 300. Is it possible to change my RAM divider? Currently mine is CPU/6, so if I can make it CPU/7 I wouldn't mind. I'll try upping the Vcore later. At 1.425, can...

So I've got the rig included in my sig. I can't tell what's at fault but I'm pretty sure it's hardware at this point. I get random freezes and reboots. I suspect either my mobo, RAM, or proc. My rig is stable at 2.45Ghz stock core but the problems start to occur at 2.5Ghz with stock Vcore...

Also keep in mind that this is meant for extreme enthusiasts. And that most AM2 Mobos will be able to drop in Quad-Core procs when the time comes.

So now that my system is definitely stable, I wanna push it and see what I can get out of it. The parts are in my sig and I've got the processor OCed by 200Mhz (2.4Ghz on each core). My RAM divider is CPU/6 and so I'd like to keep this lower latency while pushing the RAM. Also, I'm only using...

It's closer to 333Mhz and yes it can reach 400Mhz (DDR2-800) if it's good enough. It's not worth it though to not just get DDR2-800. Overclocking RAM comes down to decreasing latencies or increasing clock speed because there is no standard (Higher than DDR2-1066)

The L3 is to eliminate the issues that Intel is having with Kentsfield. Basically, it's a much more streamlined manner for the cores to communicate with one another AND push the necessary info to the Northbridge and up. Least, that's how I understand it.

AM2+ will natively support K8L and HT3.0, but K8L will still work on AM2 but have "limited" bandwith. I'll see how big of a difference between the versions of HyperTransports make before making the jump to a new mobo. I would not mind just dropping a Quad-Core into my current setup and putting...

I thought 4x4 would either be two Socket Fs on a mobo or two Socket AM2s on a mobo. I am under the impression that a native quad-core will be available on Socket AM2 in the next year or so. Correct?

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I am looking into a set of Z-5500s but am not sure if the optical inputs and outputs are compatible. So I've got a few questions: 1. Are they? http://www.tweaknews.net/reviews/z5500/index8.php http://usa.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=101&l3=300&model=1163&modelmenu=1 2. Is...

Shake it and hit it against your leg. Make the heads crash hecka hard.

http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/store_access.do?template_type=product_detail&product_code=EX332AA%23ABA I find it hard to believe that HP would make a mistake like that. That would be considered false advertising and could lead to a very large lawsuit.

The m7580n (The 4400+ HP) is actually AM2 and uses DDR2. Also, it's just a 4400+ as opposed to 4800+.

Found it. It's in JumperFree Config and then you have to put it to manual OC and change the CPU Freq to 218. Thanks for the help :) Any ideas though why the OC wouldn't stick through nTune?