Hi All,
Just completed a New Year build (below) and am still in the set-up / bench marking phase. I'd like some help as the options available in hardware and overclocking, since my last build, seem to have expanded exponentially!
Case: Antec 900
PSU: Corsair HX 620W
Motherboard: ASUS Maximus Extreme
CPU: Intel Q6600 Go stepping
GPU 1: 512MB AsusHD 3870 GDDR4 PCI-E 2.0 (x16)
GPU 2: 512MB AsusHD 3870 GDDR4 PCI-E 2.0 (x16) in Crossfire
Memory: Corsair 2GB (1GBx2) Kit Ballistix (DDR3 1600) PC3-12800
HDD 1: Raptor X 150GB S150 10,000rpm
HDD 2: 750 GB Western Digital WD7500AAKS
DVD: LG Blu-Ray & HD DVD player GGC-H20L SATA
Monitor: 24" Iiyama PLB2403WS-B1 Black Widescreen 1920 x 1200
So far I've installed a split boot partition on the Raptor with XP 32 bit on 50gb and a Vista 64 HP on the 100gb partition. I've loaded up the drivers for the Mb and graphics, firmware for the DVD etc.
Ignoring XP for the time being. So from a Vista 64 stand point:
I was having issues with Asus AISuite and the latest ATI drivers, which installed ok the first time, but since I uninstalled them during set up and tried to re-install... I can now not get them to load (keeps saying cannot find INF file and stops). So am using 8.442.0.0 instead.
I've flashed the bios to v9 as I'm hopeful this will fix the AISuite issues - (am testing at the moment)
All the BIOS settings are pretty standard and even the ram I'm running underclocked from the memory's point of view at PC3-10600 speeds.
Asus Probe is saying that the FSBT is 1.42~1.44 which is higher than the 1.24 'nominal' value, the MB is running at 34c and the NB at 47c! Which are both a little high?
Any ideas on the ATI and temperature issues would be appreciated - along with any advice on set-up in general.
Sorry for the length, but better to give all the info from the beginning IMO.
Just completed a New Year build (below) and am still in the set-up / bench marking phase. I'd like some help as the options available in hardware and overclocking, since my last build, seem to have expanded exponentially!
Case: Antec 900
PSU: Corsair HX 620W
Motherboard: ASUS Maximus Extreme
CPU: Intel Q6600 Go stepping
GPU 1: 512MB AsusHD 3870 GDDR4 PCI-E 2.0 (x16)
GPU 2: 512MB AsusHD 3870 GDDR4 PCI-E 2.0 (x16) in Crossfire
Memory: Corsair 2GB (1GBx2) Kit Ballistix (DDR3 1600) PC3-12800
HDD 1: Raptor X 150GB S150 10,000rpm
HDD 2: 750 GB Western Digital WD7500AAKS
DVD: LG Blu-Ray & HD DVD player GGC-H20L SATA
Monitor: 24" Iiyama PLB2403WS-B1 Black Widescreen 1920 x 1200
So far I've installed a split boot partition on the Raptor with XP 32 bit on 50gb and a Vista 64 HP on the 100gb partition. I've loaded up the drivers for the Mb and graphics, firmware for the DVD etc.
Ignoring XP for the time being. So from a Vista 64 stand point:
I was having issues with Asus AISuite and the latest ATI drivers, which installed ok the first time, but since I uninstalled them during set up and tried to re-install... I can now not get them to load (keeps saying cannot find INF file and stops). So am using 8.442.0.0 instead.
I've flashed the bios to v9 as I'm hopeful this will fix the AISuite issues - (am testing at the moment)
All the BIOS settings are pretty standard and even the ram I'm running underclocked from the memory's point of view at PC3-10600 speeds.
Asus Probe is saying that the FSBT is 1.42~1.44 which is higher than the 1.24 'nominal' value, the MB is running at 34c and the NB at 47c! Which are both a little high?
Any ideas on the ATI and temperature issues would be appreciated - along with any advice on set-up in general.
Sorry for the length, but better to give all the info from the beginning IMO.