Upgraded the mobo on gaming system.

CMDR Steve-O · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:41 pm

Out with the old in with the new...

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Meesa likes shinies!

CMDR Steve-O · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:43 pm

Managed to get an extra 75MHz on the ol CPU. Wonder how high I dare push the voltage heh. The BIOS on this mobo is scary complicated

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Windows score went up a bit as well, guess doubling the speed and doubling the amount can't hurt P

Monkeydee · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:24 pm

now you just need to get that hard drive score up a little bit.

Phonix · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:29 pm

God damn HDD's dragging you down!

I like the color of the board. Gotta have black/brown in a black case or it just looks strange.

Nice OC too! But I think you can do a little better than that

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CMDR Steve-O · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:07 am

Monkeydee wrote:

now you just need to get that hard drive score up a little bit.

Yeah well I'll wait until Bulldozer stuff comes out and I'll see what my upgrade path is...

How high do I dare up the voltage Phonix?

This is the ram @ 1600 (it says 9/9/9/25/34 @ 1333 on this stickers). Tried again at 1T, seems to work OK, doesn't seem to bench any faster though.

Hali_Newf · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2011 7:33 am

Steve-O

Manually set the timings in the bios to 9-9-9-24 @~1.66v.

That ram ran on my board with those settings stable as all fack.

and BTW - Sweet setup!! nice work!

CMDR Steve-O · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2011 7:44 am

There's about 25 things I can change on the advanced ram page:P

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Actually, I'm kind of surprised everything "just works". I should look for a BIOS update though before I go into any crazier settings.

Lost · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:18 am

Doesn't feel as bad about my case fans being a little dirty any more.

CMDR Steve-O · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:29 am

Lost wrote:

Doesn't feel as bad about my case fans being a little dirty any more.

I gave up trying to clean case fans a long time ago. Better to just have the dust on the fans rather than everywhere else.

Hali_Newf · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:36 am

CAS - 9
trcd - 9
trp -9
tras -24

@~1.65 or 1.66v however that bios displays it.

CMDR Steve-O · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:30 am

I'm @ work, can't do much about it ATM heh.

CMDR Steve-O · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:57 pm

Yeah this memory doens't like going over 1600MHz at all. But I CAN get it to do 1T

CMDR Steve-O · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:20 pm

Apparently what I've got is as high as it's ever going to go. Any smidgen above these setting and it's kaboom during windows startup (even with MORE VOLTAGE!).

CMDR Steve-O · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:27 pm

If anyone feels like coming over and see if this beast can get any quicker (BYOcpu or BYOram) it's party time, heh.

deandulong · **Posted:** Wed Mar 16, 2011 9:43 am

So the 970 is maxing out stable @ 4.1 then? at what voltage i got my 965 up to 4.3 at 1.5v that was the max i was gonna go for voltage and that was booting into windows anyhigher and it wouldnt boot. On another note why do you have your memory running ganged and not unganged?

Upgraded the mobo on gaming system.

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