might try a ABIT AN8 SLI Fatality soon.. will post results

foreigner with AN8 SLI..

3.55 VDIMM..

time to grab one

hehe din bila masuk?

I have one question about prime, which is the best test to run if i want to test my overclocked system? small? blend?

A few hours with Small-FFT and and then a few more hours with Blend after that.

i alwiz go for blend straight away...min 12 hours....

prime + new processors not a very good indication anymore...

i'll do superpi 32mb + pcmark memory test + 3dmark + the games u play for stability

For quick indication on stability, I will always go for SuperPI 32mb + 3dmark and Doom3 or FarCry session. I usually do prime for couple of hours just to see how capable my proc under 100% load for long period. From there, not only I can test the processor capability, but Ram and PSU also comes into the equation. Although many people dismissed the importance of prime, I would say knowing your proc capable of passing prime for sure is a good sign of more potential forthcoming. Well, most of the time anyway.

i agree with PCcrazy that it's not a bad program.. but there has been issues with venice and san diego CPUs (i'm guessing it's something to do with the memory controller or bios settings for this 2 CPUs).. of course it'll be better if u pass it.. but if ur daily use and daily gaming is fine under that speed but not prime stable i'll still call it stable..

everyone have different requirements for being "stable".. just my 2c

maybe try the A64 optimised prime95..

noob question here
for mem setting, u got so many stuff to tweak on this dfi mobo...so by tweaking these setting, u may squeeze extra mhz...if u lucky enuff...but whatabout proc speed oc...what setting can u tweak to get better oc...will the mem setting tweaking has any impact of getting more out of ur proc oc???

well it's all inter related.. if u can touch 2.9ghz but ur ram can't... then u will error out.. so tweaking ur ram might give u more mhz when the ram is giving u problems..

and @ a higher CPU speed it's harder to run ur ram @ it's full capacity.. this is because the memory controller is unable to hold out.. memory controller like the FX series will be able to handle it.. for other processors... it's all luck..

and different memory controller likes different ram..

the venice i have now.. it won't do 3ghz stable with bh-5.. won't even complete one loop of 1mb superpi.. with TCCD i finished superpi 1mb.. so yea.. alot to think about there..

there's also ur rails.. check ur rails and see whether it drops alot under load.. a strong psu will prob drop 0.01-0.02 but some calap ones like thermaltake won't hold out that good

This post has been edited by babyelf: Jun 26 2005, 10:07 AM

Even my old OCZ modstream also not that good, let alone thermaltake.

i just bought my 2nd rig amd64 s754 (budget pc) athlon64 2800+ with asus K8N Ai mobo and successfully oc to 2.3ghz 260*9 at default vcore, and my system bus is 1560 (260*HT(3) *2), ram divider 333 (408mhz) 2.5-3-3-8 1T when it boot windows XP pro it took a long time on high HT but on windows x64 it sure fast i just wanna know y?? and when i oc more the system wont boot up even i reduce the HT to 1 and ram divider to 266 and also rise the vcore to 1.6v any tips guys thx

This post has been edited by fatalynx05: Jun 27 2005, 09:42 AM

ram at it limits..(current timing)
loosen the timing?

ouch...ever think that u might hit the wall already :

Which test should i run with memtest to test my stability? I mean which is the test normally people run instead of running them all? I heard test 6 and 8 is the most important, is that true?

diff people use diff methods/tests...
theoretically...i'd use test 5 or 7 or 8 for burn-in...and for stability...use all tests...but in the real world...i only used test 5...hahaha...malas nak tunggu...

memtest test 5 8
3dmark01 03 05
superpi32mb
ur own games..

should be fine if everything pass

that 'ur own game' quite general izzit...if i like to play solitaire, then how
should be some well known 3d game or something...like UT2004 ka...far cry ka...something like that la...ada betul ka babyelf?

hehe basically u use it on what u do 24/7..

but of course try some games is better