Originally posted by: Assimilator1
1. Approaching the 400MHz FSB area yes ,below 370MHz no probs,but that's with dual core ,with a quad it might be lower ,I know Anandtechs review covered quad core o/cing ,check that out.
2. No idea ,wasn't aware of that!
3. Pass ,I've got XP
4. Seem's fine to me on my Cambridge 3 speaker setup.You're worried about CPU cycles on a quad core??
5. At insanley high resolutions (2500x2000 ish,I can't remember exactly) thier's about a 5% drop off with 8800 GTXs SLIed ,below 1900x???? it has no significant impact ,again AT covered this in a review ,can't remember which though ,sorry
Originally posted by: Assimilator1
What settings did you use to get 430MHz?
<---- is jealous
Originally posted by: iluv2fly
Sli-Platinum Bios V1.3 is out.
Not sure yet, I didn't try to OC with 1.0 because I still had the stock cooler in. I dropped in a new Tuniq once my last 2 GB of RAM came back from RMA and found my system completely unstable even at stock speeds until I upgraded the BIOS to 1.3. Most likely a memory timing issue with all 4 dimm slots populated as I was getting similar symptoms as when my RAM died.Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Does v1.3 give you higher overclocks?
I've never had a problem before on an Nvidia chipset, but apparently its a chronic problem that seems to have carried over to the 600-series. I'm guessing its the south bridge, as Creative keeps pointing the finger at NV and how their chipsets handle interrupt requests on the PCI bus (basically competes with the X-Fi and makes it wait...a very long time). Sound support in Vista sucks to begin with....experiencing an obscure hardware problem only makes it more frustrating.Don't tell me Nvidia chipsets are having problems again with sound!:frown: ,I had that before with my old Nfrc2 mbrd.
Yeah, thanks for the insight. I narrowed it down to the X-Fi's IRQ/PCI slots giving me problems. I moved it to the middle PCI slot yesterday, got some stability back, then all kinds of progressively worst stability problems. NV driver stop/recovers, then I couldn't even load into Windows without weird IRQ related BSODs (bad pool, irq less than etc). Finally yanked the X-Fi out of frustration and boom....all fine and dandy again. Problem now is I'm down to 1 PCI slot that I haven't tried....after that I guess I can mess around in the BIOS some more and try to statically assign IRQs and mess with some of the PCI latency delays. If that doesn't work I guess I'll just have to wait for a BIOS update, since this definitely seems like a motherboard/chipset issue more than anything else.Originally posted by: iluv2fly
Regarding crackling sound from your X-Fi. I had that problem on a nforce4 board. The solution was to put the sound card in a different pci slot. Try moving it around.