Love your socket 754?

[quadnad]

Clock speeds on my video card give major results, the suicide run was at 632 Core and 836 Mem. I know the 7900GT can probobly do 700MHz, but I'm afraid to add any more voltage (stock is 1.2v and I'm allready at 1.4v) and there's no way the heatsink I have on it (Zalman vf700Cu) can handle any more heat load.

Grab a VF900 then! I'm running 1.5v, but I don't have much of an overclocker...I'm running 24/7 at 660/840 ATiTool+game stable. I'm loving this card....whenever they arrive, I'm going to slap a heatsink on the vregs to ensure a nice long life for my card.

 

[uzum4ki]

Got my parents to upgrade some parts out of their old rig...

Sempron 2800+ (E6)
ASRock K8NF4G-SATA2
Enhance 4140GH

So far it's been running amazing for them, though I am a bit jealous, the mobo is a nice little overclocker and the power supply (silverstone are rebadged enhance) is dead silent even with the side-fan off.

 

[Unknown-One]

Grab a VF900 then! I'm running 1.5v, but I don't have much of an overclocker...I'm running 24/7 at 660/840 ATiTool+game stable. I'm loving this card....whenever they arrive, I'm going to slap a heatsink on the vregs to ensure a nice long life for my card.

How much does the VF900 go for? Is it as quiet/quieter than the VF700? What size fan does it have (80, 92, or 120mm)? If I can find one for cheap I might bite...but then what do I do with the VF700-Cu-LED I have now?

Edit: Oh yea, I tried adding that extra 0.05 v (total voltage of 1.45v) and my card will indeed do over 750MHz...until it overheats and starts artifacting like hell . Its fine until it hits 68c (no artifacts as reported by ATI Tool), think the VF900 can keep it under that temp?

 

[quadnad]

How much does the VF900 go for? Is it as quiet/quieter than the VF700? What size fan does it have (80, 92, or 120mm)? If I can find one for cheap I might bite...but then what do I do with the VF700-Cu-LED I have now?

Edit: Oh yea, I tried adding that extra 0.05 v (total voltage of 1.45v) and my card will indeed do over 750MHz...until it overheats and starts artifacting like hell . Its fine until it hits 68c (no artifacts as reported by ATI Tool), think the VF900 can keep it under that temp?

You should be able to find it for about $35. It has the capability of being quieter than the VF700 mainly because it cools better. I believe it's the same size fan (I'd have to compare with my old 6800GT to be exact) but the overall cooler is a bit wider and flatter. You could always sell the thing...but save one of the RAM heatsinks to stick on to the VREG on the back that gets warm.

The VF900 would most certainly keep it under those temps; I'm running at 1.5V and my load temps haven't gone past 63C, no artifacts.

 

[tsuehpsyde]

Got my parents to upgrade some parts out of their old rig...

Sempron 2800+ (E6)
ASRock K8NF4G-SATA2
Enhance 4140GH

So far it's been running amazing for them, though I am a bit jealous, the mobo is a nice little overclocker and the power supply (silverstone are rebadged enhance) is dead silent even with the side-fan off.

The day that I'm jealous of my parents' rig is the day I quit hardware.

 

[Unknown-One]

You should be able to find it for about $35.

I'll look around, most places are selling it for $50 though. Edit: Monarch has them for $35

save one of the RAM heatsinks to stick on to the VREG on the back that gets warm.

Where exactly is the vReg chip? I want to get a heatsink on that ASAP (don't want my card dieing an ealy death).

 

[W4ngsta]

...

 

[quadnad]

I'll look around, most places are selling it for $50 though. Edit: Monarch has them for $35

Where exactly is the vReg chip? I want to get a heatsink on that ASAP (don't want my card dieing an ealy death).

Glad you found it

As for the voltage regulator, I believe it's only the memory vreg that gets hot, and thats if you do the vmem mod (which I didn't do) to push more current through it. Also, I don't think it's an issue with the newer revision cards.

I'm just going to stick a heatsink on it even though I didn't do the vmem mod, but I wouldn't worry about it if I were you.

 

[Unknown-One]

As for the voltage regulator, I believe it's only the memory vreg that gets hot, and thats if you do the vmem mod (which I didn't do) to push more current through it. Also, I don't think it's an issue with the newer revision cards.

I'm just going to stick a heatsink on it even though I didn't do the vmem mod, but I wouldn't worry about it if I were you.

Meh, I'll put a heatsink on it anyway, not like its going to hurt it

BTW, that vReg chip also heats up when you increase RAM clockspeeds. It’s recommended that anyone wishing to run their RAM faster than about 900MHz put a heatsink on it.

 

[quadnad]

Meh, I'll put a heatsink on it anyway, not like its going to hurt it

BTW, that vReg chip also heats up when you increase RAM clockspeeds. It’s recommended that anyone wishing to run their RAM faster than about 900MHz put a heatsink on it.

Good stuff! Well, be sure to either PM me or post here with your results at 1.5 or 1.55.

 

[Qwertyman]

I need some help here. I upgraded my hard drive and might have touch something in the bios and saved it. Weird problem happened there after. I initally loaded the SATA2 HD in 150 mode, it worked fine, but didn't realize it. Synopsis:

1: Bios Froze
2: Had to reset Bios to default
3: Clawhammer 3000+ DTR regular specs at 9x fidhammer, 4xhtt(?, should it be two, 3, froze too,) 1.5v, freezes the system (the chip is designed to run at 1800mhz)(Previously O/C to 2.4ghz on air)
4: Default at auto fidhammer, 800mhz, 4x htt, is the only thing that works, 1.1v
5: Upgraded bios, still nothing.

Is it agp clocking problem? Does my board (Nforce3 Chaintech) lock the agp? I am I scaling the voltage too quickly?

It was running at 2.3ghz for over a year until something happened.

I feel like such a noob, because I haven't touched anything in a year and forgot everything I knew about this chip.

 

[Xilikon]

I need some help here. I upgraded my hard drive and might have touch something in the bios and saved it. Weird problem happened there after. I initally loaded the SATA2 HD in 150 mode, it worked fine, but didn't realize it. Synopsis:

1: Bios Froze
2: Had to reset Bios to default
3: Clawhammer 3000+ DTR regular specs at 9x fidhammer, 4xhtt(?, should it be two, 3, froze too,) 1.5v, freezes the system (the chip is designed to run at 1800mhz)(Previously O/C to 2.4ghz on air)
4: Default at auto fidhammer, 800mhz, 4x htt, is the only thing that works, 1.1v
5: Upgraded bios, still nothing.

Is it agp clocking problem? Does my board (Nforce3 Chaintech) lock the agp? I am I scaling the voltage too quickly?

It was running at 2.3ghz for over a year until something happened.

I feel like such a noob, because I haven't touched anything in a year and forgot everything I knew about this chip.

Check memory timings as well. Set to auto if it looks messed up and see if it boot now.

I had a similar thing happening to me while doing some overclocking tests and it will freeze over and over. It turn out the bios has messed up the memory timings and resetting everything worked.

 

[quadnad]

Check memory timings as well. Set to auto if it looks messed up and see if it boot now.

I had a similar thing happening to me while doing some overclocking tests and it will freeze over and over. It turn out the bios has messed up the memory timings and resetting everything worked.

I'd suggest the opposite if the defaults don't work; I'd set it to their correct values, and NOT auto just in case the bios is defaulting to the wrong settings. I'd reset the CMOS and try the default settings, and if that doesn't work specify all the settings manually.

 

[Qwertyman]

I'd suggest the opposite if the defaults don't work; I'd set it to their correct values, and NOT auto just in case the bios is defaulting to the wrong settings. I'd reset the CMOS and try the default settings, and if that doesn't work specify all the settings manually.

i actually tried that and still nothing. He's what i have done:
1) 3x htt, fid 9x, cpu voltage 1.5v, x 200mhz
2) 4x htt, ""
3) 4x htt, fid auto start, cpu voltage 1.1v, ram 2.8v
4) 4x htt, fid 3x, cpu voltage 1.2v, ram default

arr its annoying...

i manually put it back to where it should be. Should i just pull a ram stick and see if it'll work. I'm befuddled.

 

[unclewebb]

cpu voltage 1.1v

Are you kidding? Give that CPU some juice. No wonder you're having problems.

The default for the newer 90nm chips is 1.40 volts and the older 130nm chips had a default setting of 1.50 volts.

Then there are the crazy people that like to feed the 1.40 volt chips 1.70+ volts and make them really come alive!

 

[Unknown-One]

Are you kidding? Give that CPU some juice. No wonder you're having problems.

He said it was a DTR chip, aka a Mobile Athlon 64.

Its supposed to work fine at 1.1v...thats why people like them for overclocking, if they work stock at 1.1v, imagine what they could do it 1.6v!

 

[Jeeper94]

Here are my two s754 validations:

A64 3000+ Venice

Sempron64 2800+ Palermo

 

[Qwertyman]

He said it was a DTR chip, aka a Mobile Athlon 64.

Its supposed to work fine at 1.1v...thats why people like them for overclocking, if they work stock at 1.1v, imagine what they could do it 1.6v!

well phase two. If I even change my boot devices and save the bios freezes. I think it may be a problem with the hard drive or something. I can't seem get it past the inital boot stage. It only works if i reset the cmos and run from those defualt settings.

1.5v doesn't even work. My bios is f'd or something. I even upgraded to the lastest one.

Is there anyway to default sata to 150 automatically in the bios?

 

[DarkSide50420]

im going to miss s754 anyways or you s754 lovers.. a64 3400+ venice in my fs thread.

 

[Xilikon]

I just ordered a Epox 8npa and XFX 7900GS Extreme (480 MHz core, same as the one [H] reviewed). Before they arrive, i wanted to be well prepared and avoid wasting time on some possible issues others got before.

So basically, what is the things to watch with this motherboard, what to expect and what nVidia motherboard driver to use (also, what to not install like the nV firewall app).

I just love how I can extend the life of this lil 754 baby

 

[Volkswagen]

Stay or Leave ? That is the question to be answerd....I have something that bugging me and i need to upgrade my pc....I guess I havent bought anything in a while...I am happy with the system in my sig it just that I wanna fresh it up a little....My current cpu will do 2700mhz @ 1.65V but I run it @ stock speeds @ 1.3V because i can turn down my hsf fan and the 300mhz dosnt seem too noticable to be worth the extra noise or heat.......I was thinking of the 3400+ Venice combo on newegg where i would swap out my cpu so my sister would endup with the nForce 3 biostar mobo and me with the 3400+ Venice

I also have been thinking about S939 Dual Core cpu with a Msi Neo 2 PLT AGP Mobo ( I can get this for $50 locally ) but idk if it worth it to make the jump to 939 this late in the game......

Or just keep what I have and get a segate 320GB Baracuda 7200.10 HD ( running low on space on my 37GB raptor ) and some nice headphones for CS Source the game I play most.....

I mostly game on my system ( CS Source ) surf the net , music, burn cd's and a dvd once in a while and that is about it......

I will be probably upgrading the whole system once Vista, Dx10, K8L and all those other goodies show up and become somewhat mature

So what do you guys think ?

 

[tsuehpsyde]

If you're going to upgrade mobo + CPU, you might as well grab AM2 since it has a lifespan ahead of itself. However, I'd hold out on a full-on upgrade until Vista comes out (that's what I'm waiting on videocard-wise).

 

[Volkswagen]

yeah i think am gona go for the hd and the headphones.....Why go 939 now if i went with 754 2 years ago when i had the choice between them 2

 

[BitchBreaker]

If you're going to upgrade mobo + CPU, you might as well grab AM2 since it has a lifespan ahead of itself. However, I'd hold out on a full-on upgrade until Vista comes out (that's what I'm waiting on videocard-wise).

your waitin g on me to send you new hardware...tell the truth!

 

[Unknown-One]

If only I had known prices on 939 and AM2 hardware were going to drop so far...I would have about $100 less in my pocket and an X2 right now.

Oh well, I'm on PCIe and s754 now, I'm going to ride this train untill I see an Athlon 64 X8

 

[noobtech]

ohhhh yeah!??? I'm waiting for AMD and Intel to merge and make the Athlon Extreme X9999 20Ghz CPU!

 

[Unknown-One]

Uh...I was being serious; I'm really waiting for an affordable 8 core processor...lets see if I can realy hold out that long.

 

[GreenMonkey]

Now that my Corsair RAM is back from RMA and I had time to put it back in, stepped back to my 1GB Valueselect. Ram checked out OK on a few cycles of memtest at 220mhz/cas2.5. Decided to try overclock again.

Trying to stabilize my 2.700ghz (225x12), htt 2.5x, +0.1v chipset. Multiplier leaves the ram at 210mhz. Left it doing prime95 overnight. Ran for about 6 hours OK but I found it locked up hard this morning. Power cycle, but no video. Left it off for some hours while I was at class. Came back and it still wouldn't give video on bootup *sigh*. Crawled onto my side and reset the CMOS.

After CMOS reset and everything's cool. Trying again today, left it running prime95 again (at class now). 225x12, 1.55v, 1.5x htt, 210mhz RAM, reduced chipset voltage.

My board seems very finicky with any sort of reasonable HTT setting when it is overclocked. But it's not like the HTT really does anything anyway (benchies show absolutely 0 impact of HTT speed).

I just want 2.7 dammit!

 

[BigMacAttack]

More fun with my 3400+ Venice

Who needs skt 939/AM2?

 

[unclewebb]

Great work BigMac! I might try a SuperPi run a little later but the way your memory is smoking, I think you got me beat.

My Athlon has been hanging out over on another thread giving an overclocked X2 at 2600 MHz a run for its life.

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1029950004#post1029950004

Met-AL and I have the same video card but he has his cranked up an extra 40 MHz and he also has an extra 1 GB of memory.
Don't worry. My little Athlon 3000 s754 is doing us all proud.

I had to head down to the basement to wring out some numbers like these:

Athlon 3000 - 2806 MHz
ATI AIW X800XT 549 MHz core / 589 MHz memory

 

[unclewebb]

BigMac: I needed a pile of volts and a pile of MHz to keep up with your Crucial Ballistix memory.
Maybe we should start the 32 second SuperPI / s754 club!

 

[Unknown-One]

Holy crap, nice freeking SuperPi times, the best I've ever done is 34.811s

My processor is only running at 2.6GHz (RAM at DDR 517) though.

What kind of RAM are you running again, BigMac?

 

[BigMacAttack]

Unclewebb - Nice Superpi! I tried late last night to see if I could go to 2.8 but it became unstable and crashed hard. I spent the next hour reconfiguring. Didn't get to bed until 1:30 this AM. I'll have to try again Thursday evening. I have gotten to 2.8 before and run Superpi succesfully but I seem to recal it being on the 12x divider so I'll try that this next time. When I go to the 12x multi (235x12) I can run the ram at the DDR466 divider. I tried 275x10 on the DDR400 divider last night but it would not boot so its back to square one for me. Once I get it sorted out again I'll give it some gas and see what happens.
32 Sec. Superpi Club it is! I'm going to see if I can get into the 31's. It seems to me I remember a 31.98 some time back but never took a pic of it. I was running over 2.8 at the time also. I'll see if I can do it again and this time get a pic!

Unknown-One, the ram I'm running is Crucial Ballistix and can be found here
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820148007
It used to be $95 but since DDR is fading out it seems to be going back up a little bit. This is about what I paid for mine about 6 months ago. You can't beat it for the money IMO.

 

[Unknown-One]

oh...two 512mb sticks, that explains it.

I've only got two slots to work with, and I think 2GB is more worth it than running my RAM 20MHz (40MHz DDR) faster.

 

[BigMacAttack]

Yeah - my Abit NV8 only has 2 slots also but the 1mb I'm using doesn't seem to hurt my performance any. I never seem to run out of ram and have a page file hit, unless HL2 does it to me. My biggest problem seems to be my X800Pro video card. I should flash the bios and unlock the 4 extra pipelines since its a VIVO card but to do that I'll need to get a better hsf for it. I'm running it at 520 mhz core and memory through ATItool at bootup. ATItool is a great utility which allows you to tailor your fan speeds to your personal custom preferences, plus it works not only with ATI cards but some nVidia cards as well. I guess I could just flash the bios to X800XT levels and set ATItool to run the fan at 100% sooner. Sounds like a weekend project sometime soon.
EDIT 10:00 PM
No dice on getting to 2.8 no matter what I did. I tried just about every possible combo of cpu multi, vcore, vdimm and ram settings with zero success and a LOT of Win XP repairs and reboots. Very disappointing because at one time it would run there for a while. I guess 32.60 is going to be my personal best Superpi run for some time to come.

 

[Unknown-One]

1GB is usualy fine...then there's Oblivion. I can run every game I own (includeing F.E.A.R.) maxed out except Oblivion, and its mostly due to stuttering (which is a RAM issue).

 

[GreenMonkey]

I think this is the best/stable I'm gonna get. I had it stabilized at 2699.xx once (I think it was 235x11.5) but I'm happy with this for the time being. This is the stock AMD cooler BTW that came with my 2800+ newcastle.

I noticed my 2 512MB sticks are running at a command rate of 1T? Guess it reset back to that after a cmos reset. Ran prime stable for almost 24 hours, no complaints, I guess. Didn't think I could get away with that.

Got it running at 222x12. My board doesn't like high HTT speed when overclocked, though, but HTT speed doesn't really affect anything anyway.

Voltage is inconsistent - BIOS says 1.55, Gigabyte Ntune says 1.58, cpu-z says 1.552.

 

[Unknown-One]

My VF900 came today! I've got it installed and turned up my voltage mod from 1.4 to 1.5v.

Edit: Well...that was a waste. A new cooler and 1.5v only gained me 30MHz (ATI Tool stable), that puts me at 645MHz Core, 830MHz Memory.

I guess 1.4v is the sweet spot for this 7900GT

 

[quadnad]

Edit: Well...that was a waste. A new cooler and 1.5v only gained me 30MHz (ATI Tool stable), that puts me at 645MHz Core, 830MHz Memory.

I guess 1.4v is the sweet spot for this 7900GT

awwwww

thats a pity..

 

[Unknown-One]

I did manage a 3DMark05 score of 9991 (8 points shy of 10K), thats close enough for me

I turned my voltage mod back down to 1.4v and clocked the core back down to where it was before. The 7900GT puts out so little heat at 1.4v that I'm not sure my new VF900-Cu even needs the fan turned on, I'm running the fan at 5v now just to be on the safe side though.