My geil golden dragon...

[shimmishim]

So...

i was playing a game last night and experienced a random reboot... a complete system reboot... hadn't had one of these in FOREVER...

i firs thought it was my overclock but then i decided to test my ram...

i ran 2.5-3-3-7 @ 234 and starting on the second pass of test #5, i started getting errors like crazy...

so i ran 2.5-4-3-7 @ 234 and still got errors...

i decided maybe it was my overclock...

took it down to 1:1 @ 233 @ 2.5-3-3-7 and still got errors...

tried again at 5:4 @ 234 @ 3-4-4-8 and still GETTING errors...

the ic7 maxes the voltage out at 2.75 vdimm as you all know...

this ram is good up to 3.1volts...

i still have a good .35 volts left on this ram to increase it by but i can't cuz of the board....

should I:
1. rma it and get some ocz gold or will i have the same problem with those as well?

2. keep it and do a vdimm mod to my board?

3. i'm screwed?

hahaha...

thanks guys!

[Hawk]

Test #5
prior to 865/875 boards - memory speed, timings and vdimm related (meaning altering mem speed, timings and/or vdimm saw errors in this test disappear)

Play with the settings, if not, maybe the ram is flakey. . . . .

[eva2000]

room temps and case temps higher ? how's the NB temps ?

i just finished testing my GEIL Goldren Dragon PC3700 on IC7 and did fine at 233mhz 2.5-4-3-7 and 245mhz 2.5-4-4-8 at 2.8v in bios setting

[shimmishim]

temps are all good...

33 system
53 load
46.5 pwm


hmm...

so yeah...

i dunno what to do...

think i should return the ram?

edit: i have one of the new fans on my NB

[shimmishim]

btw hawk:

i tried everything...

i tried the highest vdimm possible on the board and the loosest timings of 3-4-4-8 and it still gave errors (actually more errors and early on than 2.5-4-4-8)

[Hawk]

Do you have a bud that you can test these chips in his/her machine? That would get rid of the headache of RMA'ing anything. . .

[shimmishim]

no i don't

i'm gonna try bios 1.4 and see if that helps

the board i got came with 1.5 so i'm gonna see if this works..

if not then... yeah... maybe rma..

[shimmishim]

still errors...

but a lot less per pass than before...

average of 6 per pass...

now down to 2 per pass....

i have a feeling that if i can up this voltage to 2.8 or 2.9 then it'll be fine...

hmm....

now trying 2.5-4-4-8 with the last two options disabled under GA

first error shows up usually in pass #5


should i try using dimm slots 1 and 3 instead? you think that may work? (currently using 0 and 2)

[shimmishim]

hmm... pass #11 and no errors still

i think we have a winner...

so yeah... 2.5-4-4-8 isn't too bad i guess ...

bandwidth dropped from about 2480ish MB/s to 2210 MB/s

hmm... maybe i can try 2.5-4-3-8

or 2.5-3-4-8

[shimmishim]

memtest worked at 2.5-4-4-8 ...

but one thing i notice now is that when i'm typing.. the typing will stop for about .5 seconds and then all the words that i had typed will show up a little later...

is this a ram issue? i have a feeling it is...

argh... im gonna have to rma this to geil...

why am i having such bad luck with my system these days... i really don't think the amd "gods" are happy with me

ok ok j/k j/k...

[ThugsRook]

try c2448

[Hawk]

That should not be a ram issue concerning the delay. Sounds like something running on the machine is hogging CPU cycles. Run Per. Mon and check to see what is taking a hold of the CPU at those times of the slow down. I found something similar on my work machine and it was related to Wild Tanget. Now I only load it when I wanna play. . . . .

Originally posted by shimmishim
memtest worked at 2.5-4-4-8 ...

but one thing i notice now is that when i'm typing.. the typing will stop for about .5 seconds and then all the words that i had typed will show up a little later...

is this a ram issue? i have a feeling it is...

argh... im gonna have to rma this to geil...

why am i having such bad luck with my system these days... i really don't think the amd "gods" are happy with me

ok ok j/k j/k...

[shimmishim]

it was kazaa downloading a file that was hogging up the cpu cycles + seti@home running...

now that i stopped downloading, everything is fine

[Hawk]

There ya go bud. . . . .

Originally posted by shimmishim
it was kazaa downloading a file that was hogging up the cpu cycles + seti@home running...

now that i stopped downloading, everything is fine

[shimmishim]

mr-know-it-all :P

Originally posted by Hawk
There ya go bud. . . . .