Originally posted by: CikaNovo
Anybody has any experience with SATA DVD-RW optical drives on this mobo?
Originally posted by: CikaNovo
EDIT:I've found the right one,it's RightMark CPU Clock/Power Utility version 2.2,and unfortunately it told me that my CPU is throttling at 3.2 ghz!
Originally posted by: Tuvoc
Originally posted by: CikaNovo
EDIT:I've found the right one,it's RightMark CPU Clock/Power Utility version 2.2,and unfortunately it told me that my CPU is throttling at 3.2 ghz!
Yes, 2.2 is the right one, sorry about the wrong link
It's good that you've found out that it is throttling, no point in getting an extreme overclock if it then slows down because of the heat ! Kind of defeats the purpose
Your problem is your cooler, "Core2Duo E4300 @ 3.0, Zalman 7000B-AlCu". I had a Zalman 7000cu and gave it a shot, but that old technology was just not efficient at getting the heat away from a hot chip like a C2D. Get something better with heatpipes. We have the same chip, look at my sig.Originally posted by: CikaNovo
What voltages are you people using to get over 3.2 ghz on your cpu's?I need to pump 1.525 to my e4300 to be stable at that speed,and that's just to much.Cooling the northbridge gets me to 1450 FSB(3.26 ghz),but that requires 1.5v,and above 1520 FSB I can't even boot to Windows no matter what multiplier I use.Could better CPU cooler (Ninja perhaps) be of any help with this issue,and how much does thermalright's hr-05 for the northbridge helps with overclocking?
Mine's not socketed, and I don't believe anybody else's is socketed. But that shouldn't be much of a problem because of:Originally posted by: Shampoo
Just wondering after seeing pictures of the review board, rev 1.01G, here on anandtech, if your CMOS chip is hard soldered onto the board or if it is indeed removable like most other motherboards
Your problem is your cooler, "Core2Duo E4300 @ 3.0, Zalman 7000B-AlCu". I had a Zalman 7000cu and gave it a shot, but that old technology was just not efficient at getting the heat away from a hot chip like a C2D. Get something better with heatpipes. We have the same chip, look at my sig.Originally posted by: dlxmax
Originally posted by: dlxmax
Originally posted by: NineInchNick
Originally posted by: dlxmax
Also, again E4300 owners, to the best of my knowlege, only the LATEST version of Core Temp is correctly reporting core temps. http://www.thecoolest.zerobrains.com/CoreTemp/
You two are being saved by thermal throttling.Download RM Clock Utility 2.2 http://cpu.rightmark.org/download.shtml, go to monitoring section and see for yourself.I just found out yesterday that my cpu is throttling.Basically,on stock cooling you're ok up to about 1.475 v(of course,it depends how good airflow is in your computer case).Anything above that,throtlling kicks in, saving your cpu.Hope this helps.Originally posted by: Zip
me too! i thought my temps were safe, in probe they never go about 65 but they shoot straight past 90 in coretemp
Originally posted by: Zip
thats what worries me. i use rmclock and after 2 mins of orthos it reads just under 90C but doesnt say there is any throttling at all. it stays firmly at my OC, i have c1e, eist and throttling enabled in the bios. surely that reading cant be right or my cpu would definately be throttled.
by the way, now im running 1.48v @ 3.3ghz
Originally posted by: eklock2000
I used the search function on this thread and didn't find anything...although I'm sure it's been talked about.
It has been said that the passive cooling for this motherboard isn?t sufficient for any forays into overclocking land. That being said anyone care to chime in with suggestions/procedures for the types of active coolers to use and how to safely remove the passive cooling? Having never done this before (but I?ve read plenty), it seems that there are some plastic clips to ?break?/pinch and the whole setup comes off. Do the back of the chips need to be heated with say a hair dryer to loosen the thermal compound? All that being said, a few questions?
The southbridge seems to be located at the rear of the second PCIe slot. If you?re running SLI, what active cooling setup might work here?seems tight?
If you remove the cooling pipe setup, does that not leave the mosfets uncooled? Do they make aftermarket coolers for the mosfets? Or do you just rely on the CPU cooler to provide enough air flow to cool these?
Can you leave ?pieces? of the cooling pipe setup on the board? For instance, if you want to do active on the northbridge only, can you remove the pipes, cut out the northbridge and use thermal compound to reapply the mosfet and southbridge sections?
I know these are probably dumb questions but I?m hoping someone has done the ?trial & error? already for me. Any pics of your setups would probably help me tremendously.
Thanks,
EK2K
Originally posted by: Tuvoc
Can I ask a dumb question ?
What is the easy way to remove the battery on this board ? On every other board I've had, you just use a pen to press in a clip within the circular fitting, and the battery pops out. That procedure doesn't seem to work - I literally have to get underneath the battery and force it out, risking breaking the battery housing at the same time. Such that I won't remove it ever again, unless someone lets me know any special trick with it...
Originally posted by: Santyclaws
Got my rig up and running now. Temps seem a little high but I'll wait a few days before trying to reset the Heatsink fan assm. Core Temp reports 60C under full load, while Speedfan 4.32 reports the cores at 45C. Everything else seems ok at the moment. I'm running it stock for a few days running 2 instances of Folding @ Home. ( I already ran 24 hrs of memtest86+no errors and 12 hours of Orthos and I'm stable.)
When booting and it's running it's memory check I do notice that it ends with 2096128K OK installed memory 2097152K. If the memory checked ok, is there a problem with the Mobo? It seems like it's missing 1024K of memory somewhere. I'm still running the 0202 BIOS for now. Otherwise I have found no problems with this system yet.(knock on wood) Hopefully starting next week, I'll upgrade the BIOS to 0404 and start some Overclocking..