Cobra189 Posted September 27, 2005 Posted September 27, 2005 So I have been playing around with my 3500+ for awhlie now and haven't been able to do anything spectacular with it yet. However one thing that I was able to find out is that unless my chipset is at 1.8v :eek: the system is very unstable. It runs fine at 200x11 at 1.7v but any type of overclock requires the chipset at 1.8v. Is it possible there is something funny with my board. It seems like most people aren't running that high? I know my memory will do 235HTT@2-2-2-6 timings so that's not the problem. I will be swapping cpu's with a friend this weekend to see if the CPU can do more on his system than on mine. It seems like I have had nothing but stability problems ever since this thing got put together :sad: Hopefully you guys can shed some light on this. I am seriously thinking about RMA'ing this board. Thanks in advance! Peter Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squid1 Posted September 28, 2005 Posted September 28, 2005 Measure the voltage with a multimeter. It is possible that the voltage regulation is off and you can are actually at 1.6 volts. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra189 Posted September 28, 2005 Posted September 28, 2005 Measure the voltage with a multimeter. It is possible that the voltage regulation is off and you can are actually at 1.6 volts. Thanks for the input. Where on the board should I measure the chipset voltage? Is there a webpage or a picture showing the measuring points you could point me to? I guess if the voltages are off I would have to RMA it That makes me wonder if my CPU voltages are correct since at almost 1.7v in the bios my chip doesn't get over 44C at full load(which I have been told is too low for air cooling) Thanks for the tip! Peter Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
THunDA Posted September 28, 2005 Posted September 28, 2005 I will be swapping cpu's with a friend this weekend to see if the CPU can do more on his system than on mine. So what was the out come of this ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra189 Posted September 28, 2005 Posted September 28, 2005 So what was the out come of this ? I will be trying it out this weekend so I will report back what i find out.(both multimeter readings and different CPU performance results) Thanks! Peter Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squid1 Posted September 28, 2005 Posted September 28, 2005 Thanks for the input. Where on the board should I measure the chipset voltage? Is there a webpage or a picture showing the measuring points you could point me to? I am trying to figure that out myself. Supposedly you can measure it somewhere on the back of the board but I didn't have time sort this out. Seems people don't do that often... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra189 Posted October 2, 2005 Posted October 2, 2005 :confused: I am trying to figure that out myself. Supposedly you can measure it somewhere on the back of the board but I didn't have time sort this out. Seems people don't do that often... Ok I was pointed to a thread that showed where to measure voltages here: http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread...7631#post777631 It was a little tricky but I put electrical tape on everything around it just to make sure. My readings were 1.78V for the chipset, 2.880v for my ram and 1.448v for the cpu. With these readings it's apparent that my chipset is getting 1.8v so there must be something going on with it since it's not stable under 1.8v. I have also been testing my cpu and it seems that anything above 223x11 will cause my system to freeze when testing instead or erroring out. I was able to fix this when I hit 220x11 by going from 1.7->1.8v but now I don't have any other voltage options. It has also been very picky lately where sometimes it will pass OCCT and SuperPi just fine and sometime is will error out or freeze within 5 min of starting even for stable speeds. So what do you guys think? Is this just a poor performing board? Should I RMA it and try another board? I really like the options that this board has to offer and it obviously has a lot of potential but mine just doesn't seem to do as well as everyone else's :confused: Thanks in advance! Peter Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave_Sz Posted October 15, 2005 Posted October 15, 2005 From the dead. I've been looking to do this and today I got around to it. So in BIOS, I have the vcore set to 1.375 x 113%= 1.55, all software reads it as 1.48-1.5, my fluke series 77 reads it at 1.55, great. My ram was set to 2.8v and the fluke read it as 2.9v. Set it to 2.7v +.3 and the fluke reads it at 2.8v exactly. Once again the software lets me down, I wonder how far off the temps are. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbomb944 Posted October 17, 2005 Posted October 17, 2005 The dram voltage on mine was always high by .07 I think they are pretty much all that way just like the smartguardian always reads .03 less than the bios. I don't think it's an issue you should just be aware of it. Not sure about the chipset voltage thing. I never messed with mine. It's pretty well known that almost all boards don't read the correct voltage or temps. A fluke is a high precisision and costly instrument. Mobos with super precise voltage reading and measuring chips would cost much more. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramdor Posted October 17, 2005 Posted October 17, 2005 Set it to 2.7v +.3 and the fluke reads it at 2.8v exactly. Once again the software lets me down, I wonder how far off the temps are. You mean 'Set it to 2.7v + 0.03' right? Richie. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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