Disapointed in my Epox mobo so far

[|3ourne]

the almighty BT man so that is probually on of the best HS you can get for air cooling. I may get another sckt 754 cpu just cuz they are cheap enough still....what kind of ocs are the 3000+ venice getting?

Did you lap the BT mate ?? Your temps dont sound right with the BT. With the BT on my opteron 146 ( hot chips ) , I was getting around 50C load with IHS on at 1.52V and 2.9 Ghz. Try lapping the cooler if you havent. It definitely helps. Also see if you can land up with an A64 IHS. Lap the top of it , and put some AS5 on the core and put on the IHS. That will give you a better distribution of heat and will help enhance BT's Cooling abilities since it has a bigger area to gather heat from. But make sure you lap both the base of ur HSF and the top of your IHS if you are going the IHS route. And then apply a very very fine layer of AS5 and watch the magic unfold.

 

[watertown1978]

Did you lap the BT mate ?? Your temps dont sound right with the BT. With the BT on my opteron 146 ( hot chips ) , I was getting around 50C load with IHS on at 1.52V and 2.9 Ghz. Try lapping the cooler if you havent. It definitely helps. Also see if you can land up with an A64 IHS. Lap the top of it , and put some AS5 on the core and put on the IHS. That will give you a better distribution of heat and will help enhance BT's Cooling abilities since it has a bigger area to gather heat from. But make sure you lap both the base of ur HSF and the top of your IHS if you are going the IHS route. And then apply a very very fine layer of AS5 and watch the magic unfold.

The problem is finding the time and the peice and quite to do such things. For those of you that have little children you can understand what i mean. I cant even pull out the computer without the flocking fo ym 2 children

I may just get a a difrent core chip.

O and for the person thatsaid that claws were usually good ocer's, I just got my 2800+ claw mobile to 301x8 Its not 100% stable ( prime hoses after about 1 hour or so ) but its great enough for folding.

I also took out a stick of ram and was now able to get an extra 5 on the HT. So i have come to the conclusion its either my ram, cpu, or even the sata raid. I may remove the HDs and keep the IDE one in to see if that makes it more stable

 

[Raven]

Tbut its great enough for folding.

if the computer isnt completly 110% stable then the computer wont manage folding as that pushes the computer much further than prime95 ever does.

also prime95 is one of the worst program you can ever test stability if you ask me.

on my previous computer i could run programs like superpi folding@home s&m and several other test programs and none of them failed, not even when i ran 4-5 of them at the same time but prime95 ALWYAS failed within 1hour.

in over 1 year i had perhaps 2 bluescreens in total when i tried to run oldold dos games and didnt had any wu failed on me for over 1year so i seriosly doubt it was an unstable computer causing prime95 to fail.

on my preprevious computer prime95 was always stable when i overclocked to a certain point but several other programs including folding@home failed.

so my opinion is that prime95 is extremly bad and at the moment i use superpi and s&m to check short term stability and folding@home for longterm stability.

and i know im not alone to get strange results from prime95.

I also took out a stick of ram and was now able to get an extra 5 on the HT. So i have come to the conclusion its either my ram, cpu, or even the sata raid.

tried memtest ?

www.memtest.org

 

[watertown1978]

if the computer isnt completly 110% stable then the computer wont manage folding as that pushes the computer much further than prime95 ever does.

also prime95 is one of the worst program you can ever test stability if you ask me.

on my previous computer i could run programs like superpi folding@home s&m and several other test programs and none of them failed, not even when i ran 4-5 of them at the same time but prime95 ALWYAS failed within 1hour.

in over 1 year i had perhaps 2 bluescreens in total when i tried to run oldold dos games and didnt had any wu failed on me for over 1year so i seriosly doubt it was an unstable computer causing prime95 to fail.

on my preprevious computer prime95 was always stable when i overclocked to a certain point but several other programs including folding@home failed.

so my opinion is that prime95 is extremly bad and at the moment i use superpi and s&m to check short term stability and folding@home for longterm stability.

and i know im not alone to get strange results from prime95.

see I was wondering that same thing cuz F@H has been running great with no errors whatsoever. Its been running like this sense Friday night and folding sense then, I have checked the logs, and there has been 0 errors with the WU and in fact has finished a few already without any issues of ending early.

With this said then how am i to figure out when its not stable?? I could use F2H to test but then again somtimes you get a small WU that has 50k frames @ 3 sec each, it could take awhile to find out if shes going to crash lol

Edit nm I saw what you said. I will use F@H then ( wonders if 310 is indeed stable )

 

[Raven]

take a look on the lower end of my previous post, made an addition.

well if the computer can do f@h for a week without problem 24/7 then its basicly stable.

also a superpi 32m run also gives a rather good hint if its stable or not.

i used s&m to check for instability recently when i did some overclocking and it showed quite fast if the computer was unstable or not, within 10-15 seconds in most cases.

a stable computer for me is a computer that can handle f@h and still be used for gaming surfing playing music videos and so on without needing a reboot for atleast 1 week.

just a note on failed wu.

the world wont end with a failed wu as the same wu is sent to more than 1 computer.

the downside is if you turn in to many failed wu's you will be "downranked" to only get small wu's.

 

[watertown1978]

take a look on the lower end of my previous post, made an addition.

well if the computer can do f@h for a week without problem 24/7 then its basicly stable.

also a superpi 32m run also gives a rather good hint if its stable or not.

i used s&m to check for instability recently when i did some overclocking and it showed quite fast if the computer was unstable or not, within 10-15 seconds in most cases.

a stable computer for me is a computer that can handle f@h and still be used for gaming surfing playing music videos and so on without needing a reboot for atleast 1 week.

just a note on failed wu.

the world wont end with a failed wu as the same wu is sent to more than 1 computer.

the downside is if you turn in to many failed wu's you will be "downranked" to only get small wu's.

LOL yeah I have noticed that. I do wish that i didnt get the bigger WU sometimes due to taking a few days to do em cuz then i get borded. I guess I will up the 2800+ mobile to 310 and see if she fails in 8 hours. THis means I can play around with more oc's then on all the comps ( all 8 of them! YEAH!!! )

BTW what is s&m I get alot of naughty websites when I google it lol

 

[Raven]

getting a big or small wu doesnt change anything when it comes to stability.

a big wu will only be easier to se if it has failed as their is less logs to look through.

 

[Eguy]

weird Frag loved his EpoX mobo. Frag why's this??

I love epox, use them for all standard builds at the store

 

[habashy89]

Yeah... I ahve the same board and CPU... however your right the overclocking isnt that great. I am waiting to see if they will come out with a bios update to help with the overclocking issues. I have read around and it seems that 3700+ clawhammers arnt very good for ocing. I have seen people get to around 2.7ghz but nothing higher. We just lucked out!