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Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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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 |
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> puts more stress then folding; it really brings the system (CPU, |
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> northbridge and RAM, the GPU isn't affected) to its knees. |
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If you have ran folding and it works, then I would think you are ready |
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for liftoff. From what I have read, folding is reeeeaaaaal touchy on |
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overclocking. To think I bought a mobile AMD CPU and can't overclock |
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because of folding. <sighs> |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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