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BrainEater

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I've just finished some overclocking tests on my new rig ;

Asus striker extreme
c2d e6600 w/thermalright XP-90c
1 Gb Mushkin redline pc-8000 (2x512Mb)
BFG 8800 GTX
Silverstone 750 W psu
etc..


I overclocked it to 3.375 Mhz/1.35v/ 54 degrees C loaded ;all other values stock.


- 2 instances of prime95 for 24 hours , no errors.
- 2 instances of orthos/small fft , 24 hours , no errors.
- 1 instance orthos/1 instance prime 95 , 24 hours , no errors.
- Memtestx86 no errors.

-11100 on 3dmark06/14 second superpi.

-Everything I've thrown at it for testing purposes says it's stable.

Stable !? .... well no....Not for everything.

It's doing the same thing my p4 did ;

CRC errors/data corruption on harddrives and dvdroms. :(

Now , I don't use rounded IDE cables , and the dvdroms/hdd's are new , so I can only assume the southbridge can't take it , or I've got a bad setting somewhere.

I backed the OC off to below 3 Ghz , and was still having issues.I am now running at stock speeds , and the issues are gone , everything is fine.

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Any Ideas on the best way to test the southy ?

Opinions ?
 
can you actually post screens of these errors and what is running when they occur?im sure it can be narrowed down this way. I see no reason why your southbridge would be so unstable.
 
BrainEater said:
I've just finished some overclocking tests on my new rig ;

Asus striker extreme
c2d e6600 w/thermalright XP-90c
1 Gb Mushkin redline pc-8000 (2x512Mb)
BFG 8800 GTX
Silverstone 750 W psu
etc..


I overclocked it to 3.375 Mhz/1.35v/ 54 degrees C loaded ;all other values stock.


- 2 instances of prime95 for 24 hours , no errors.
- 2 instances of orthos/small fft , 24 hours , no errors.
- 1 instance orthos/1 instance prime 95 , 24 hours , no errors.
- Memtestx86 no errors.

-11100 on 3dmark06/14 second superpi.

-Everything I've thrown at it for testing purposes says it's stable.

Stable !? .... well no....Not for everything.

It's doing the same thing my p4 did ;

CRC errors/data corruption on harddrives and dvdroms. :(

Now , I don't use rounded IDE cables , and the dvdroms/hdd's are new , so I can only assume the southbridge can't take it , or I've got a bad setting somewhere.

I backed the OC off to below 3 Ghz , and was still having issues.I am now running at stock speeds , and the issues are gone , everything is fine.

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Any Ideas on the best way to test the southy ?

Opinions ?
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Running the newest bios? i thought nvidia fixed all the 680i issues, look in the mobo forum for more info on it.

Otherwise it looks good
 
I don't have screens , but I can certainly describe it in more detail.

The first and most annoying error , is when , after rebooting , windows decides a drive that was perfectly fine 30 seconds ago is corrupt and needs a scandisk , then scrambles the damn thing into irretrievable garbage.

The second error , is the failure of certain software installers .My camera software won't install with any more than about a 10% OC.

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Nope , it's not the latest bios , it's the stock 'outta the box' bios (0701 bios).At this point I'm just doing baseline OC's with stock drivers/bios everywhere.

Yes pci and pce are locked.

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The thing about these kinda errors is they might not occur immediatly....it could be a month down the road....it's an odd issue.It's not like anything isnt working , but 100% stable would not be true.

My old p4 rig did the exact same thing , and I tried multiple bios' / drivers etc....I never could get rid of the issue with that rig , and ended up removing the OC.....It ran error free after that.
 
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