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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Well, I think 246fsb is the max I can go. I've been playing lots of DoD:S and Crysis (its playable, but at medium settings it doesnt look as good as it could, but damn is it fun). Temps are a little on the high side, but so far no crashes or weird glitches that I've noticed. But 2.2ghz is my...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,683
- Aug 8, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Weird. So I gave OCing another try today. I set FSB to 246 and ram to 4-4-4-12. Still not terribly stable (XP wouldnt crash, but certain apps/games would act funny). I changed timings one by one, i.e. 5-4-4-12, 5-5-4-12, etc. No difference. One game that is pretty reliable in telling me whether...
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- Post #1,677
- Aug 7, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Hmm. So if I do the BSEL mod, the CPU will go to 2.4ghz without issue? I've read a little about it, and it doesn't seem that hard to do. I'm just worried that I'll screw it up and lose the CPU. I could give it a try if it'll give me stable 2.4ghz which I could definetly live with. But why the...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,671
- Aug 3, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

"Also keep the memory @ 1:1 with the CPU, this board takes a nice hit with a 4:5 ratio when using DDR2. I tested it with Sandra and it's true what people have said about that. " See thats another thing. How do I get 1:1? Is it possible my unstable OCing can be fixed if only I got it to 1:1?
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- Post #1,669
- Aug 3, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Are my overclocking woes memory related though? If I got some better OCing Ram would I have an easier time? I mean I'd love to have 2.3 or even 2.4ghz if I could get it stable. 246fsb ok until I try to use my gamepad that freezes. Otherwise it seems ok. Does anyone know why the USB gamepad would...
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- Post #1,666
- Aug 3, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Well while 246fsb seems to be stable, the temps get too hot. I ran Orthos for 40 minutes and it was reaching almost 67c on the core. I have to reseat the HSF probly because that doesnt sound right. Also, I found out while playing GTR2 that my Xbox 360 gamepad would lock up after a few seconds of...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,664
- Aug 3, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Well I think I cant go any further with this overclock. 250fsb is too unstable. I tried setting Voltage to High, but I cant get past BIOS screen. FSB around 246 seems ok. I tried playing around with skew but no matter what nothing seems to change for the better. I guess my RAM just isnt up to...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,656
- Aug 2, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Ok, so I got 4-4-4-12 entered manually, and I changed tRRD etc to 2t. I bumped it up to 230fsb, and it seems stable for the time being. I ran my DoD:S benchmark, no crashes. Ran orthos for about 15 minutes and no crashes (I know not enough time, but usually if I enter an FSB higher than 229 it...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,653
- Aug 2, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

"Try 533 strap on the ram" So set it to DDR2533? Thats what its set to already. I tried 230fsb but the system will not post, nor will it go any higher than that. "Set the ram timings manually to 4-4-4-12" See, thats the thing that confuses me. There are so many damn options in the...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,651
- Aug 2, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Its AData DDR2800 ram. By default its set to 667, and I leave everything else in Auto. When I try 220mhz with 667, I get reboots/bsods. When I bump it down to 533, it seems to be stable. I just want to get to 2.3 or 2.4 as easily as possible. I cant even get close to 2.1 though, and I have...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,649
- Aug 1, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Well I installed an E4300, after cleaning the system throughly of dust etc. At default speed, everything runs normal. Virtually no difference in terms of performance in games like DoD:S. However, my Hackintosh did bootup almost twice as fast and ran even better than it did before. Note I'm using...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,646
- Aug 1, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

So after many months of waiting and watching on ebay, I scored an Intel C2D E4300 for $75 total. I've read that this is a particularly good CPU for OCing, kinda like the Celeron 300a was given the overclocks I'm seeing from others (3.0ghz+ from 1.80ghz stock). Also, its supposed to be easy to...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,634
- Jul 27, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

I tried searching but either no one has touched this subject or search isnt working. I'm thinking of putting OSX on my PC. My Specs: 4coreDual Sata2, P4 2.8ghz, 2gb DDR2800, BFGTech 7950gt OC (PCI-e, 256mb), Audigy2, 1 IDE drive, 1 IDE DVDRW, Zonet USB2/Firewire adapter card. I've read on...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,475
- Jun 4, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

"I definitely did not Load any SATA drivers during XP installation " If you didnt intall the drivers during install, and its not a custom XP cd with drivers slipstreamed in, then its not running in SATA mode. I didnt install any drivers during XP and my SATA drive worked fine but it was in...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,312
- Apr 5, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Yeah I hope I didnt speak too soon, I forgot to run Memtest last night (was downloading Steam and all my games). I'll do so tonight, but the system has been up for 2 days now and no errors at all so thats promising.
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,307
- Apr 4, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards

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