- Dec 31, 2007
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well my asus a7v133 died last week. constant ide controller lockups were NOT doing much for
a. my sanity
b. my productivity
or
c. data and device integrity.
it was probably partially my fault, though the way the problem manifested itself out of the blue leads me to suspect a POS psu or the POS mobo itself.
anyway... ive now got a very nice Iwill KK266R-plus. and boy was it hard to find here in australia. most shops dont stock them. those that do only have the KA ddr version.
but i got it, and its got some sweet overclocking options.
its got its curiosities though,
3 onboard temp monitors, core and mobo obviously, and a third that usually sits at or just below the mobo temp, so im calling it casetemp. which is nice to have. only 2 monitored onboard fans though, which is a little dissapointing. ill probably monitor my hsf and the psu.
course SOMETHING had to not work... as befits my proud tradition whenever something new arrives. and it was the modem. hard lockups indicative of a hardware/irq conflict. that was fixed by some IRQ juggling.
now whats really suprised/concerned me is the CORE TEMP.
on the old asus it was 52C full load, 54-58 when the room got hot. now its sitting at only 43! with the motherboard temps around the same.
question is... did the guy put a properamount of thermal goop on and seat it properly, or is the sensor further away from the core than the asus board? owners of iwill boards please contact me!
i also found my ram dying unusually at 150Mhz @ cas 2. on the asus board it ran fine at the same settings.
initially only at extreme settings died,(beyond what the kingmax is rated pc150 3,3,2) ,then even at conservative settings.
this got me worried, as i thought my ram was dying... then i realised that asus does sneaky things.
most noticably, it sets the 3.3V line to a whopping 3.56 as default!
not the nicest of stability tweaks. specially for a "default" setting.
so i put a little jumper on giving me 5% extra voltage and all was nice again at CAS2.
also of interest is the difference between set core voltage & given voltage. on the asus it was +0.05... on the iwill its closer to 0.09!
so a 1.800V setting gives me 1.89...
i really hope this extra juice, and the (apparent) temp reduction allows me to reach the mythical 1425Mhz (9.5x150) stabally.
Religious wars are 2 groups of people fighting over who has the best imaginary friend.
a. my sanity
b. my productivity
or
c. data and device integrity.
it was probably partially my fault, though the way the problem manifested itself out of the blue leads me to suspect a POS psu or the POS mobo itself.
anyway... ive now got a very nice Iwill KK266R-plus. and boy was it hard to find here in australia. most shops dont stock them. those that do only have the KA ddr version.
but i got it, and its got some sweet overclocking options.
its got its curiosities though,
3 onboard temp monitors, core and mobo obviously, and a third that usually sits at or just below the mobo temp, so im calling it casetemp. which is nice to have. only 2 monitored onboard fans though, which is a little dissapointing. ill probably monitor my hsf and the psu.
course SOMETHING had to not work... as befits my proud tradition whenever something new arrives. and it was the modem. hard lockups indicative of a hardware/irq conflict. that was fixed by some IRQ juggling.
now whats really suprised/concerned me is the CORE TEMP.
on the old asus it was 52C full load, 54-58 when the room got hot. now its sitting at only 43! with the motherboard temps around the same.
question is... did the guy put a properamount of thermal goop on and seat it properly, or is the sensor further away from the core than the asus board? owners of iwill boards please contact me!
i also found my ram dying unusually at 150Mhz @ cas 2. on the asus board it ran fine at the same settings.
initially only at extreme settings died,(beyond what the kingmax is rated pc150 3,3,2) ,then even at conservative settings.
this got me worried, as i thought my ram was dying... then i realised that asus does sneaky things.
most noticably, it sets the 3.3V line to a whopping 3.56 as default!
not the nicest of stability tweaks. specially for a "default" setting.
so i put a little jumper on giving me 5% extra voltage and all was nice again at CAS2.
also of interest is the difference between set core voltage & given voltage. on the asus it was +0.05... on the iwill its closer to 0.09!
so a 1.800V setting gives me 1.89...
i really hope this extra juice, and the (apparent) temp reduction allows me to reach the mythical 1425Mhz (9.5x150) stabally.
Religious wars are 2 groups of people fighting over who has the best imaginary friend.
Good or Bad have no meaning at all, depends on what your point of view is.
. temps peaked at 47. rock stable.
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