Sorry guys.. i woulda posted sooner... but apparently hotmail email addresses arent allowed here. I had lost my original email addy (the one i made my account with) so i go to switch it over to my current hotmail one in my profile and Zap.. instabanned.
<---is VERY pissed about that, especially considering that nowhere at all in the TOS does it mention anything about hotmail addys not being allowed, or it being a bannable offence.... anyways.
I got the new 3700 corsair. And while it DOES work stably.. it runs at rather crappy timings to do so. Running right now a 2.8v 2.5,7,3,3, Stock cpu speed (2.8) and stock fsb of 200 for ddr400. It wont even run at its spd settings (no post) at 2.5,7,3,2 and if i try lowering the cas to anything lower then 2.5 i get no post. Rather dissappointed with all this... but at least its stable now. And if the marketing is to be believed i should be able to run this overclocked at around these timings at atleast 233 fsb.
But that brings up another concern of mine. Overclocking. Right now i have the stock hsf on with AS3 (screw the crappy thermal pad) and my idle temp is anywhere from 39C-46C (39 being with the AC in the room on and 46 being if i left it on over time with the ac off). And ive seen it get as high as 53C after running a game for a few hours (note this is with the AC on). Now are these temps normal? I dont ever remembering my previous proc getting this not (was a 1.8A OC to 2.4, using a thermaltake volcano 7+ as the heatsinc). I know my heatsinc helped there alot.. lol but my old rig also sounded like a shop vac, whereas this new one is incredibly silent. So im thinking i might get a new HSF when i upgrade my vid card in a few weeks then try the OCing. BTW i got all these temp readings from the winbond hardware doctor software that came with the mobo.
And speaking of hardware doctor, It also lists the readings on all the power rails in the system. Now most of the rails are reading close to spec (lil under or a lil over). Except my 12v line, which reads in at 11.80v at all times. Once again , is this normal? Im using a 550w Vantec Stealth psu, which shouldnt have any trouble providing all the power this rig would ever need, imo it shouldnt be undervolting like this.
Other then that tho things seem to be running ok. Tho i do have this one nagging problem with the audio in my system, it seems to skip fairly often.. sorta like what happens when you hit a bad bump in the road while listening to a cd in your car. I know all about the onboard sound issues in this system, however im not using that, but rather my own sound blaster audigy card. Sofar it seems to be most prevalent while im listening to music in winamp 3, however i have heard it happen while i was playing warcraft 3. Anyone have any idea what is causing this?