perhaps amd's yeilds are better than expected.
I reduced my vcore to 1.456V (2.55GHz) and i get an error in prime instantainously.
now running prime at 1.504V
Is it worth it buyiong another chip in the home of 2.7GHz? I have the necesary cooling for it.
I have a winchester 3000+ in an ASUS A8N Deluxe.
I have had prime and hl2 stable operation at 300x8.5 1.55V (2.55GHz) I just managed to bood into windows at 2.7GHz (300x9 1.55V)
when i vmodded my board to have a vcore of 1.66V, however i had the same unstable-ness at 2.7GHz as i have had...
neither was I.
The datasheet for BH-5 says the absolute maximum voltage is 3.6V (same for d43). but if your BH-5 likes 3.8V, then good for you :)
yes my vdimm is running at 3.39V. Whe 3.3v rail is directly soldered to the dimm slot at the back of the mobo. (best vmod ever, guys!) :p
the reviewer should give it some more volts, like 3.2V-3.4V. most ram can withstand 3.6V.
I think these arn't much better than d43 chips. Almost any d43 can do 2.5-3-3-7 at 230 2.85V
and corsair XL is most certinally not the best ram in the world, BH-5 still is and will be for a long while.
Here i am using my generic d43 at 2-3-2-11 236. it will pass memtest at 240-245 same timings. but my chipset is maxxed so gameing etc is unstable. my chipset is stable up to 236, anything over fails prime no matter what multi.
my ram is fed by the 3.3V rail voltmodded to 3.39V
no matter how far i back off i get errors.
however at 400 MHZ 2.5-3-3-7 i can play halo and it won't crash. but memtest still fails.
I can't RMA the RAM because i bought it off aother dude about 6 months ago.
my mobo is abit NF7-S
I've tried lots of bioses, right now i'm using trat's...
geil golden dragon pc3700 ram keeps crashing out of games at 200MHz 2-3-2-6 2.9V. I ran memtest and it produces a handfull of errors at the end of test #5.
I then tried some of the 'preset' timings like 2.5-5-5-9 2.5-3-3-7 2.5-4-4-8 2.5-3-3-6. All of these give errors in memtest at any speed...
for some weird reason whenever i connect to the net (dial up) scvhost starts to use up all the cpu power.
I know this because i plressed ctrl+alt+del and went to the processes tab.
If i shut it down the system shuts down. :(
my OS is XP SP, my mobo is abit nf7-s, latest nforks drivers installed.