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Well got the XP120 with a high CFM fan blowing on it so it stays pretty cool.. and .. I really wouldn't care much if the thing died in 6 months or so, would make me upgrade to an X2 Thanks for the help!

This seems to be what I need to have a stable system at 250FSB (memtest and 3dmark can be stable at 1.59 but NFS: Most Wanted shows problems until I put it up to 1.64) temperature wise, I am good, but I know how extra voltage can shorten the life of the chip.. would you guys run 1.64Vcore into a winny? Anyone know how much life I can expect out of the chip at this voltage?

Never use a half multiplier. go either 10 or 11. that should help

I've been running 3200VX for a while and now upgraded to 4000VX but it seems that it can't overclock at all. 230FSB even is a problem at 3.2 or 3.3Vdimm. Memtest and 3dmark05 all pass with flying colours, but one game in particular, EVE-Online crashes all the time unless I run stock 200FSB. Any ideas why the two ram's are different and what I need to change from 3200VX to 4000VX?

I think with 2 x 1gb you can still do DDR400 but with 2T. if you go 4x512 you will run DDR333 and 2T

My BIOS is reporting that my 5V rail is at 4.83V. the 3.3V is at 3.33V the 12V is at 12.02V is the 5V rail too low? I have some LED fans, 2 12" cold cathode UV lamps and a few usb devices (do they use 5V rail?) And if I plug in the molex and/or floppy connector into the motherboard (neither is in right now) would that help raise the voltage or lower it even more? thanks.

Damn this is kind of what happened to me too. Except I was 3.4V with no active cooling on it. Ran 250 fine without any problems, then all of a sudden started refusing to boot into Windows (like I said, same time after I plugged in the G15 keyboard, maybe the additional power drain from the USB affected system stability?) Anyway, hopefully the VX4000 can actually do the FSB250 at 3.3V as advertised and hopefully that shouldn't be too hot cause really, if OCZ is advertising 2228 timings at 3.2V it shouldn't be frying at little more voltage then that.

Do you mean the slots themselves could go bad?

DFI please, is there any word on the possibility of a bios update that will solve the VX cold boot problem? Please let us know. Thanks .

It seems I'm suffering from the cold boot problem. Dammit

Well I set the comp back to 250 and plugged in my old motherboard and got some weird artifacts on the POST screen. Shut her down, try again, 3 LED's light up. One of the ram sticks is fried Again ( I didn't think 3.4V would be such a problem for the 3200VX but it seems it is. I tried one stick each method, and with one of the sticks, all I see is AMD64 3200 processor and that's it. Doesn't show how many cpu's detected, doesn't show total ram, doesn't show timing. It's just the first line of POST screen So it's definetly the ram. Now I'm out of a comptuer for another week while the ram is being RMA-ed across the country I'll try to get them to upgrade me to 4000VX otherwise I think I'm done with overclocking. It's juts not worth the hassle with this ram.

Sometimes it restarts right before it shows that Verifying DMI Pool data, sometimes it restarts right after that, but always right before Windows is about to start loading.

I had no trouble running the setting in my sig until today. Now for some reason, and not ALWAYS, but mostly, it reboots when it wants to verify DMI Pool Data, CMOS Backup OK, you know that screen? Can electronic components all of a sudden start under performing? Increasing the LDT voltage and chipset voltage by 0.1 made it boot but then next reboot, same problem. Like I said, it's very flaky. Running 240FSB now and it seems okay, but I can't figure out why all of a sudden it'd be a problem Only thing that changed was that I added a Logitech G15 keyboard today. I had a Saitek gaming keyboard before (USB) and switched it to this one (also usb) could there be some huge power drain from this new keyboard that's draining the PSU and causing the boot problems?

what is this cold boot problem? what are the symptoms?

As soon as I install either an internal USB memory card reader or a USB floppy/memory card combo my windows takes a LOT longer to boot (sits for about 20 seconds on the winxp logo before the progress bar even shows up) and then my games start chugging everytime I go around corners and stuff like that are the onboard USB ports not good for storage devices? Cause I tried two of them and both have the same problem? Is the onboard USB support of the 3/25 bios bad or something? Any ideas would be appreciated