*** Official Soltek 75FRN-L/75FRN2-L (nForce2) Thread ***

[MutantXP]

Nevermind. I found it. Oh btw, I found why my temps are so high. Not enough intake apparently because when i pop out my drive bays, the temp drops almost 6 degrees! Oh well. Gotta fix that.

Cheers.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: MutantXP
Nevermind. I found it. Oh btw, I found why my temps are so high. Not enough intake apparently because when i pop out my drive bays, the temp drops almost 6 degrees! Oh well. Gotta fix that.

Cheers.

Sweet! glad you found the problem On my setup I find negative pressure with more exhaust than intake works best but it varies according to case design and temps I'm sure....

 

[Bojax]

Ok, I modded a heatsink I had from an old socket 7 htsk/fan laying around. After cutting it down with a hack saw, filing the edges. I applied a small amount of thermal paste to the SB and a small amount of adhesive in the corner.

So far I am able to hit some better speeds stable. I was getting errors on prime95 before with 175x10.5, but now I seam to be fine at that speed. Running prime for over an hour as well as 3dmark when i'm not doing anything on the pc to really push it. So far so good. I am very happy to get 400mhz more out of this processor.

Oh yeah, ABSII temp is 50c and die temp is 39c. this is all on an SVC GC69.

 

[freshspace]

Hey Thanks you guys and gals for all the feed back and everything. FYI, I just ordered an TT Volcano 9, A1365. The ad said it can handle up to xp2800. I bought it for $17 shipped. Isn't that a great price or what? I found it through pricewatch.com. I'm going to see if I can push it a bit more with that heatsink. My memory will probably be the bottleneck, here. I'll keep all of you posted.

Hey DaPunisher, nice link. Thanks. I don't know if you remember me, but a while back, I'm the one who commented that you had a wonderful "sunshine" in your home, referring to your son, Lil'Punisher. Have a good weekend, everyone.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Thanx freshspace Let us know how that Volcano does for you.

DAZUM! Bojax! 400mhz on that CPU is nice and the SB cooling mod you did further confirms the need for cooling on it, thanx for the data

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: BuckMaster
Ill check into that tonight when I get home and see what it says, very interresting..... Thanks!

Were you able to verify the USB2.0?

 

[MutantXP]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER

Originally posted by: MutantXP
Nevermind. I found it. Oh btw, I found why my temps are so high. Not enough intake apparently because when i pop out my drive bays, the temp drops almost 6 degrees! Oh well. Gotta fix that.

Cheers.

Sweet! glad you found the problem On my setup I find negative pressure with more exhaust than intake works best but it varies according to case design and temps I'm sure....

Man my case is like yours then. I put the fan as an intake, and my temps went UP! I don't know, but maybe the holes in my intake arent large enough that it's just blowing the hot air in the case toward my parts. We'll see.

Cheers.

 

[passign]

I will b getting the board real soon, the newer 2 revision, cooped with a 2700+ and 1 gig of samsung 3200ram, i'll let ya know what i can the fsb up to monday/tuesday

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: passign
I will b getting the board real soon, the newer 2 revision, cooped with a 2700+ and 1 gig of samsung 3200ram, i'll let ya know what i can the fsb up to monday/tuesday

Lookin' forward to your results.

 

[BentValve]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
Hey BentValve How about taking a look at the first post and helping me with some more content and stuff to add would ya?

Good job Dapunisher, I cannot really think of anything else to add right now.

I am still waiting for my replacement FRN2 and my FRN is working great but its out
of commission for the time being because I pulled several parts from that PC
to upgrade my secondary PC which I just modded.
All I need to finish off my Soltek PC now is my Radeon 9800 and a few UV Cold Cathode
lights, I also installed a Sunbeam rheobus because the Tornado fan was driving me insane.

 

[BentValve]

here are a few pics of the unfinished Soltek PC.., its basically getting a complete overhaul ..the PC on the top
is the my old PC and it just got a fresh mod job, it may end up getting my first FRN depending on how my
RMAed FRN2 is...
soltek1
soltek2
soltek3
soltek4
soltek5

 

[Bojax]

I uninstalled Soltek HM 2.05 and went back to 2.04. I couldnt stand looking at the ABSII temps anymore! I'm too use to seeing the old temp readings.

 

[BentValve]

Originally posted by: Bojax
I uninstalled Soltek HM 2.05 and went back to 2.04. I couldnt stand looking at the ABSII temps anymore! I'm too use to seeing the old temp readings.

I uninstalled teh HM altogether because it was wasting space on my HD.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: BentValve
here are a few pics of the unfinished Soltek PC.., its basically getting a complete overhaul ..the PC on the top
is the my old PC and it just got a fresh mod job, it may end up getting my first FRN depending on how my
RMAed FRN2 is...
soltek1
soltek2
soltek3
soltek4
soltek5

Holy sweet setups Batman! I wish I could bring myself to invest in a 9700pro-9800pro but I'm gonna be heading to my Favorite Toy Store for a new addition to my quiver so I will probably settle for the 9500pro.

 

[BentValve]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER

Holy sweet setups Batman! I wish I could bring myself to invest in a 9700pro-9800pro but I'm gonna be heading to my Favorite Toy Store for a new addition to my quiver so I will probably settle for the 9500pro.

Man I couldn't even stand up on one of those much less ride the dang thing.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Don't stand on your 9800pro! you'll crush it!

 

[BuckMaster]

Check it out. My Rigs!

Click here for My Rigs

 

[Bojax]

[*]Check it out. My Rigs!



Nice looking setup Buckmaster

 

[Frankenfeet]

I downloaded the latest drivers from Soltek's website, but their compressed and I'm not sure how, or where to extract them. Thanks in advance.

 

[crzyricn]

 

[crzyricn]

Hey wussup guys i took some pics but i still dont have any cold cathode's so its not the greatest pics but this is what my rig looks like.
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/nastynod/Platnum_Dragon1.jpg
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/nastynod/Platnum_Dragon2.jpg
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/nastynod/Platnum_Dragon3.jpg

 

[crzyricn]

i just did a 13681 in 3dmarks 2001 with a ti 4200 but i cant publish the score because it says my processor is unknown anybody know anything about that?

 

[BentValve]

Both of you have nice set-ups.

 

[BentValve]

Originally posted by: Frankenfeet
I downloaded the latest drivers from Soltek's website, but their compressed and I'm not sure how, or where to extract them. Thanks in advance.

What drivers and which version of the board to you have? As far as I know you need not worry about the drivers on the website because
the drivers that come with the board are good.

As far as opening zip files go , what OS are you using? If its XP then unzip the file to where ever you want and then run go there and proceed
to install them. I you are using Windows 98 then you will need a program like WinZip to unzip the files.

 

[BentValve]

Originally posted by: crzyricn
i just did a 13681 in 3dmarks 2001 with a ti 4200 but i cant publish the score because it says my processor is unknown anybody know anything about that?

Try again , you must have some sort of conflict with 3D Mark going on, that software can flake out sometimes, I have gone as far
as reformatting my HD to cure such problems.
things to try,
update XP
uninstall-reinstall 3D Mark


Very nice score for a Ti4200 though.