evil4blue Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 If you're having problems with your Nforce4 boards, buy a new PSU. I had the Antec Neopower 480W PSU and had all sorts of problems with my USB ports and getting certain memories to work in Dual Channel mode. I finally decided to try a new PSU and bought a Fortron 500W Blue Storm. This thing rocks, all my problems have seemed to disappear. On a side note I got a some Geil Ultra X BH-5 RAM and its running at 240 2-2-2-8 3.2v 1:1 straight out of the box (with no burn in yet). Now its time to loop 3dmark for a day or so and see where I can get these puppies up to. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGone Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 Deeyamn E_4_B, that is something man. I have had doubts about the newly named but maybe still not much more than previous things but dang man you sure had to screw your n*ts up tight to buy another power supply over the other thing and have that good of a report from the change. It is frikken awesome good fortune for users that keeps AG and myself holding onto the spec'd stuff but the noO480 was supposed to be spec. Hehehe. Dang man still astounded. Good luck man you deserve it for that b*llsy move. RGone... If you're having problems with your Nforce4 boards, buy a new PSU. I had the Antec Neopower 480W PSU and had all sorts of problems with my USB ports and getting certain memories to work in Daul Channel mode. I finally decided to try a new PSU and bought a Fortron 500W Blue Storm. This thing rocks, all my problems have seemed to disappear. On a side note I got a some Geil Ultra X BH-5 RAM and its running at 240 2-2-2-8 3.2v 1:1 straight out of the box (with no burn in yet). Now its time to loop 3dmark for a day or so and see where I can get these puppies up to. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpuz Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 If you're having problems with your Nforce4 boards, buy a new PSU. I had the Antec Neopower 480W PSU and had all sorts of problems with my USB ports and getting certain memories to work in Daul Channel mode. I finally decided to try a new PSU and bought a Fortron 500W Blue Storm. This thing rocks, all my problems have seemed to disappear. On a side note I got a some Geil Ultra X BH-5 RAM and its running at 240 2-2-2-8 3.2v 1:1 straight out of the box (with no burn in yet). Now its time to loop 3dmark for a day or so and see where I can get these puppies up to. Good for you. There were reports of MANY probs w/ antec psu and msi neo2. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjoe7 Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 If you're having problems with your Nforce4 boards, buy a new PSU. I had the Antec Neopower 480W PSU and had all sorts of problems with my USB ports and getting certain memories to work in Daul Channel mode. I finally decided to try a new PSU and bought a Fortron 500W Blue Storm. This thing rocks, all my problems have seemed to disappear. On a side note I got a some Geil Ultra X BH-5 RAM and its running at 240 2-2-2-8 3.2v 1:1 straight out of the box (with no burn in yet). Now its time to loop 3dmark for a day or so and see where I can get these puppies up to. I don't know why everyone gives the Fortron so many props and then disparages the NeoPower. I have both PS and I don't notice any benefit from the Fortron over the NeoPower. In fact, I purchased three sets of value memory (Twinmos SP and 2 Mushkin Value) recenty and burned them in with the Fortron. I didn't notice any benefit from the Fortron. In fact, I seem to have less stability from the Fortron vs the NeoPower. So I just reswapped the Fortron for the NeoPower. I'm going tol burn in those memories with the NeoPower. Cjoe Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FutureDFI Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 I don't know why everyone gives the Fortron so many props and then disparages the NeoPower. I have both PS and I don't notice any benefit from the Fortron over the NeoPower. In fact, I purchased three sets of value memory (Twinmos SP and 2 Mushkin Value) recenty and burned them in with the Fortron. I didn't notice any benefit from the Fortron. In fact, I seem to have less stability from the Fortron vs the NeoPower. So I just reswapped the Fortron for the NeoPower. I'm going tol burn in those memories with the NeoPower. Cjoe I agree. Neopower is by far better than bluestorm, unless is faulty. I think evilblue change memory sticks and PSU the same time and thinks that the PSU makes the different Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Games Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 i have to say the Fortron is an excellent power supply and have seen more than a few users switch from an Antec 430 and 480 to the BlueStorm and found happiness. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frallan Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 I don't know why everyone gives the Fortron so many props and then disparages the NeoPower. I have both PS and I don't notice any benefit from the Fortron over the NeoPower. In fact, I purchased three sets of value memory (Twinmos SP and 2 Mushkin Value) recenty and burned them in with the Fortron. I didn't notice any benefit from the Fortron. In fact, I seem to have less stability from the Fortron vs the NeoPower. So I just reswapped the Fortron for the NeoPower. I'm going tol burn in those memories with the NeoPower. Cjoe Obviously Antec has some seriously quality problems. Ive seen a lot of posts having strange problems with Antecs. And when they borrow some other PSU it all goes away... Ure lucky Uve obviously got one of the good ones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mucker Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 Happy Neo user here, solid as a rock, as were all my prior Antec PSU's (TC550, TP430, TP380, SP400) Never had a single failure. m Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frallan Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 Happy Neo user here, solid as a rock, as were all my prior Antec PSU's (TC550, TP430, TP380, SP400) Never had a single failure. m Well if they didn't manage to squeeze a couple of working samples out they'd go broke very fast. LoL Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
evil4blue Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 Okay, before people start ripping me and my PSU story. Lets get a few facts straight, I really wanted the Neo Power to work. I have 2 other systems that run Antec True 430W PSUs with absolutely no problems! I'm not bad outhing Antec, but I will bad mouth MY Neo Power PSU. Fact is, my Ultra-D seems to be really picky about power and the Antec wasn't cutting it. I've been building rigs for ~15 years and KNOW what I'm doing, so don't just write me off. If you're having luck with YOUR Neo Power PSU, Great for your, but don't act like there was no chance on Earth I got a crappy Power Supply...it happens, and did. As for the Fortron, all I know is it works. I have no idea if this thing is actually any better than the Antec, but to me, it is...for this rig. As for my system, it appears completely stable now, and I did and little burn-in last night. Not really long enough for top speeds but enough to push my new Geil ram a little. I'm currently memtest error free and windows stable @ 1.5-2-2-5-250fsb 3.4v 1:1. I'm putting together a few screenies and will post soon. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
evil4blue Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 Here's the first, I'm running a few Benchies and will post a screen from those results. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
evil4blue Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 Here's one more: Now I do have a question. Apparently SuperPI shows I'm not completely stable because it errors out on the 32M calculation. I can do all the other calcs without a problem and loop 3dmark without and problem so how unstable do you really think my system is? Is the 32M calculation infallible? I'm gonna set up Prime95 at somepoint today, but I'm actually running all this crap from my remote system at work so it maybe a while. BTW, if you guys have never used Logmein.com, it rules! Check it out if you want an easy remote desktop control system. I have set up many of my clients up with this so I can problem shoot their computers from my desktop. Unfortunately, they don't have it working in linux yet, so I can't administer my data server remotely from Windows yet. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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