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Dale wrote: |
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> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> Andrey Falko wrote: |
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>>> When I had the symptoms you described, it turned out that my RAM |
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>>> voltage needed to be raised in the BIOS. |
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>> Hmm. My system *is* overclocked (I'm one of those "enthusiast" guys). |
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>> I'm running an E6600 that runs 2.4GHz stock at 3GHz with a good |
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>> aftermarket cooler (temps never go above 48C at full load). The CPU |
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>> is overclocked and *undervoltaged* (1.29V from its 1.35V stock). The |
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>> RAM is both underclocked (to get an FSB:DRAM ratio of 1:1) and |
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>> undervoltaged. The system has been confirmed stable though; 8 hours |
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>> Prime95 stress test with no errors, which is much more of a stress |
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>> test than any real application can pull off. It also passes memtest. |
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> I used to overclock some too until I started running folding. Folding |
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> just doesn't like overclocking. I'm not sure what prime95 does but it |
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> could still be a problem even though it passes. Just a thought. |
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I was running folding too (up to the point where it affected the |
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electricity bill :P) It ran with no errors. For the record, Prime puts |
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more stress then folding; it really brings the system (CPU, northbridge |
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and RAM, the GPU isn't affected) to its knees. |
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