Optron 180

[ZOldDude]

My brother ordered a Optron 180 and a 2 X 1GB set of RedLine.

He has a Asus A8N-E (I found TWO DFI Experts online but he thought $140 was too much...oh well,they will be gone the next time I look).

 

I set it up and on stock volts he is running 1:1 with the ram @ stock settings and 250Mhz making the CPU run @ 3Ghz.

Both cores are stable....but the RAM settings say it is running at 2T and changing it to T1 it locks up durring boot.

 

Is this normal for this ram/cpu (my first 2 core CPU setup)?

 

EDIT: This is the ram (stock settings 3-3-2-8 and volts) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820146034

[kitfit1]

There are very few if any 180's that will run 3g on stock volts 8hrs Orthos stable. What have you used to check stability with and for how long ?

[KimTjik]

1T or 2T shouldn't really matter, but I doubt that the system actually is as kitfit1 says "8hrs Orthos stable" if it even fails to boot at 1T. You got to have a starting point first like: how far can you push it on stock voltage and 1T in Orthos before it fails?

 

Mine 180 has an incredibly strong core 0 that when tested goes beyond 3.0GHz, but both cores together are limited to 2.95-2.97 on 1.425 Vcore (3.0GHz and Orthos doesn't run more than about one hour). However every CPU is a unique piece of hardware.

[ZOldDude]

1T or 2T shouldn't really matter, but I doubt that the system actually is as kitfit1 says "8hrs Orthos stable" if it even fails to boot at 1T. You got to have a starting point first like: how far can you push it on stock voltage and 1T in Orthos before it fails?

 

Mine 180 has an incredibly strong core 0 that when tested goes beyond 3.0GHz, but both cores together are limited to 2.95-2.97 on 1.425 Vcore (3.0GHz and Orthos doesn't run more than about one hour). However every CPU is a unique piece of hardware.

 

Only tested it with SuperPi for an hour.

I only got it up and running for him and left him with all the testing tools/programs and told him to maunualy set the voltages (bet he left it on auto and never ran any of the tests after I went home).

 

What I was wondering was the ram not booting at the settings it had in 1T mode.

The stock settings are strange (3-3-2-8 2T) and pehaps that is the issue as I see most people have a mild OC and 1T on the same ram with 3-3-3-8.

 

To be honest I would have never bought that MB myself and to top it off he has an Ultra PSU....that really scares me.

 

I plan on going over to see how he is doing and make sure he set the voltages this Saterday.

I may try to get the ram up some in speed and drop the cpu multi as when he rips a dvd and converts to Divix he said it hits 61C.