Hey guys,
First time posting here, what a great community y'all have here. =)
Anyways, I recently purchased a prebuilt computer with the current components:
Asus P6T (regular) Motherboard.
Core i7 920 2.67ghz processor.
12gb (two sets of triple channel 3x2gb sticks) OCZ ddr3 1600mhz low voltage ram (1.65v).
2x Asus EAH4850 Video cards
Coolermaster V8 CPU Cooler
Antec 850W PSU
1TB WD harddrive which I have the OS installed on.
2TB WD harddrive for storage.
There are 5 fans installed (not counting the 2 GPU fans or the PSU Fan - a total of 8 fans if I were to count those in as well)
Case is a Thermaltake Armor+ VH600.
I've never overclocked in the past so please bear with me here.
From what I've read so far, the core i7 920 can only run 1333mhz/1600mhz+ ram if I manually tweak (overclock) the cpu clock speeds (is this refered to as the "blck"?) so that the CPU clock speed is twice as much as the Dram Frequency??? (correct me if im wrong)
So in otherwords, to run the ram I have at its rated 1600mhz, 7-7-7-24 timings I have to overclock the CPU to at least 3.2ghz? to run stable? correct? (again, plz correct me if im wrong).
Anyways, I checked the BIOS settings and the people who built my computer had only set the dram frequency manually to 1600mhz at 7-7-7-24 timings with a Dram Bus Voltage of 1.66V and left everything else at "Auto".
Anyways, heres the problem:
This computer I recently bought has been running into stability issues. I would be doing some database work on it, importing information into a database, and it would bsod/restart on me once every 3-4 hrs. It also BSOD'd on me several times whenever I tried running Windows update after a fresh reformat. But I was able to get past this problem by installing all the chipset drivers first before running windows update on a fresh reformat (perhaps it was just a temporary solution?).
So, I decided to run stress/stability tests on it to test the system's stability.
Running Prime95 64bit (blend test) within 2 minutes errors would show up, then within 5 minutes my computer would just restart itself. I ran this about 4-5 times each with the same results (I would get maybe 2-4 errors during the test before the computer would restart itself). Keep in mind I have not done any overclocking at all for the processor, nor have I changed any of the voltage settings (everything is still set to auto), the only thing that has been set higher then default settings are the ram settings, which again the builders of the computer had to set at 1600mhz, 7-7-7-24 timings manually. From what I understand, a Core i7 920 is supposed to default run the ram at 1066mhz settings, correct?
So anyways, the Prime95 test was a huge fail.
Is this a result of bad hardware? Perhaps faulty CPU or memory? Or am I supposed to key in the clock speeds/voltage settings manually for everything if the ram settings are already keyed in manually.. in order to run this system stable?
Also, are the computer restarts while running Prime95 due to my CPU overheating? Which is why I can't finish the test? I was observing the temps for the CPU using PC Probe during those tests and it would go up to about the 63-68C range before the comp would restart. Does the P6T mobo have some sort of CPU temperature threshold where it will restart the computer if it detects the CPU temperature going over 68C for example? Or are those temperatures normal while running this test? For what its worth, my idle cpu/mobo temperatures are about 42/39 respectively.
So the next test I ran was Super PI. Within 2-3 min and error would come up. I ran it twice, the first time it would just encounter a windows error and force me to shutdown the program after I closed the error box. The 2nd time a "rounding error" came up.
Third, I ran Intel Burn Test. I just ran the test at "standard settings" and it ran to completion successfully. I have yet to try this test at a higher setting. Will probably try this test again sometime later today.
Based on this computer's specs and these results, does anyone know what could possibly be causing these stability issues?
I am currently running Memtest86+ V4.00 on it. So far it has run for 3 hours (2 passes) with 0 errors. Will leave this on over night then post the results here. However, to be honest, I'm not sure if i'm using it correctly (and by that I mean I'm not sure if i'm running a thorough enough test using it?). All I did was just boot it off the CD and let it do its thing, I did not change anything in the configurations. Am I supposed too?
Anyone with experience in this, please let me know. =)
Anyways, any suggestions as to what I should do to try to solve this problem? I figure I should try testing things out on my own before sending this back to their testing department, since its a huge pain in the ass to send it back.
From what I've read, I'm supposed to be able to run Prime95 for over 24hrs to be sure of a stable system. Right now I can't even run it for more then 5 minutes without the test failing or the computer restarting.
Again, I did not overclock and to be honest I know next to nothing about OCing (other then what I've read on several OCing forums), so if possible, would like to avoid OCing the processor and possibly voiding the warranty??
Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Kind regards,
- Carl
First time posting here, what a great community y'all have here. =)
Anyways, I recently purchased a prebuilt computer with the current components:
Asus P6T (regular) Motherboard.
Core i7 920 2.67ghz processor.
12gb (two sets of triple channel 3x2gb sticks) OCZ ddr3 1600mhz low voltage ram (1.65v).
2x Asus EAH4850 Video cards
Coolermaster V8 CPU Cooler
Antec 850W PSU
1TB WD harddrive which I have the OS installed on.
2TB WD harddrive for storage.
There are 5 fans installed (not counting the 2 GPU fans or the PSU Fan - a total of 8 fans if I were to count those in as well)
Case is a Thermaltake Armor+ VH600.
I've never overclocked in the past so please bear with me here.
From what I've read so far, the core i7 920 can only run 1333mhz/1600mhz+ ram if I manually tweak (overclock) the cpu clock speeds (is this refered to as the "blck"?) so that the CPU clock speed is twice as much as the Dram Frequency??? (correct me if im wrong)
So in otherwords, to run the ram I have at its rated 1600mhz, 7-7-7-24 timings I have to overclock the CPU to at least 3.2ghz? to run stable? correct? (again, plz correct me if im wrong).
Anyways, I checked the BIOS settings and the people who built my computer had only set the dram frequency manually to 1600mhz at 7-7-7-24 timings with a Dram Bus Voltage of 1.66V and left everything else at "Auto".
Anyways, heres the problem:
This computer I recently bought has been running into stability issues. I would be doing some database work on it, importing information into a database, and it would bsod/restart on me once every 3-4 hrs. It also BSOD'd on me several times whenever I tried running Windows update after a fresh reformat. But I was able to get past this problem by installing all the chipset drivers first before running windows update on a fresh reformat (perhaps it was just a temporary solution?).
So, I decided to run stress/stability tests on it to test the system's stability.
Running Prime95 64bit (blend test) within 2 minutes errors would show up, then within 5 minutes my computer would just restart itself. I ran this about 4-5 times each with the same results (I would get maybe 2-4 errors during the test before the computer would restart itself). Keep in mind I have not done any overclocking at all for the processor, nor have I changed any of the voltage settings (everything is still set to auto), the only thing that has been set higher then default settings are the ram settings, which again the builders of the computer had to set at 1600mhz, 7-7-7-24 timings manually. From what I understand, a Core i7 920 is supposed to default run the ram at 1066mhz settings, correct?
So anyways, the Prime95 test was a huge fail.
Is this a result of bad hardware? Perhaps faulty CPU or memory? Or am I supposed to key in the clock speeds/voltage settings manually for everything if the ram settings are already keyed in manually.. in order to run this system stable?
Also, are the computer restarts while running Prime95 due to my CPU overheating? Which is why I can't finish the test? I was observing the temps for the CPU using PC Probe during those tests and it would go up to about the 63-68C range before the comp would restart. Does the P6T mobo have some sort of CPU temperature threshold where it will restart the computer if it detects the CPU temperature going over 68C for example? Or are those temperatures normal while running this test? For what its worth, my idle cpu/mobo temperatures are about 42/39 respectively.
So the next test I ran was Super PI. Within 2-3 min and error would come up. I ran it twice, the first time it would just encounter a windows error and force me to shutdown the program after I closed the error box. The 2nd time a "rounding error" came up.
Third, I ran Intel Burn Test. I just ran the test at "standard settings" and it ran to completion successfully. I have yet to try this test at a higher setting. Will probably try this test again sometime later today.
Based on this computer's specs and these results, does anyone know what could possibly be causing these stability issues?
I am currently running Memtest86+ V4.00 on it. So far it has run for 3 hours (2 passes) with 0 errors. Will leave this on over night then post the results here. However, to be honest, I'm not sure if i'm using it correctly (and by that I mean I'm not sure if i'm running a thorough enough test using it?). All I did was just boot it off the CD and let it do its thing, I did not change anything in the configurations. Am I supposed too?
Anyone with experience in this, please let me know. =)
Anyways, any suggestions as to what I should do to try to solve this problem? I figure I should try testing things out on my own before sending this back to their testing department, since its a huge pain in the ass to send it back.
From what I've read, I'm supposed to be able to run Prime95 for over 24hrs to be sure of a stable system. Right now I can't even run it for more then 5 minutes without the test failing or the computer restarting.
Again, I did not overclock and to be honest I know next to nothing about OCing (other then what I've read on several OCing forums), so if possible, would like to avoid OCing the processor and possibly voiding the warranty??
Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Kind regards,
- Carl
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