To all X7800,X7900, and X9000 users.

thanks i got it though. i need to stay away from 3.0 though, it doesnt overheat, but it throttles so it doesnt. Honestly, the only way mine overheats is when i push it for over 10 minutes on max at 3.0. Playing games and converting movies and everything else it is fine. I really dont care about benchmarking, so it is fine for me.

 

Cool! Now you can bask in the "x" goodness with the rest of us! And what you said about gaming temps is very true. You are very unlikely to get anywhere near throttling range. The highest I have seen while gaming is 66C.

PS- Now that its workin, change that siggy!

 

CHANGED

were all ONE big family now

 

LOL. Indeed we are.

 

i have a crazy UV btw, at the 13x multiplier im at 1.1625 dropped my temps by about 8C

 

Ya i got pretty lucky with my UV at 1.0 but i am using a t9300 but was happy nonetheless and it dropped my max temps by about the same 8 degrees.

 

that is a good UV, i was at 1.3 before so i though this was quite good.

 

Yea. It seems everyone is getting a better UV than mine. Im stuck at 1.250V. Anything else causes STOP errors in Orthos. The system doesnt crash tho, apparently the UV causes the CPU to forget how to add properly.

That being said, the highest I have seen is 80C after an hour of orthos@3ghz. So im pretty happy. I would have liked to UV it a bit more, but eh. Definitely not something I would consider a problem. Especially for what I paid.

Hey Quad, I meant to tell you, that link to the LCD you gave me the other day didnt work. got some sort of ebay error. Do you have another? I'm really interested and the fact that you give it high marks is a plus when shopping.

 

atleast your temps are good, mine are still not all that great.

 

im 90 percent sure this is the exact model cause now the link doesnt work i cant be positive and i dont have the paperwork anymore that shipped with it .

http://www.smartmicrousa.com/LP171WU1_TLA1_LCD_SCREEN.aspx

this one says glossy but mine did to in the auction .

 

Ok. Roger that. Thanks a majillion! I'll rep ya if it'll let me.

 

k i cant beleive this....stable so far, 1.1325V @2.6. Maxing out at 83C

 

Right on. Things seem to be lookin up for you. How long have you been running Orthos?

 

over 13 minutes, im gunna let it go for an hour, this makes me feel alot better.

I also applied too much thermal paste before, it was almost all over the CPU and the other chip beside it. I cleaned them up, and it is all over the copper heat sink that touches the CPU, the cpu heat sink, and the thats it. Made sure it was even, and bolted down tight. It is much better now, idleing at 36-42C Thanks everyone for they're help, I really appreciate it.

 

Cool. Yea too much thermal goop can actually cause heat problems, not to mention can short something out if you have the silver stuff. Sounds like you got it taken care of now tho. Glad to hear it.

 

if i could rep you again, i would, like 13 times more, you have been a great help, guess its a family thing

 

LOL! No worries, I appreciate the first rep! I just really enjoy this board and like to help people out. I'm honestly glad you got it all working, as I know I would be all KINDS of torn up if I were in you shoes previously. I'm sure it's a relief.

 

as we can see by the 900 posts in one month that you've accumulated.

 

I was wondering when that was gonna get brought up and who was gonna mention it. lol
In all seriousness, I really don't pay attention to post count and with the exception of every now and then when I'm feeling retarded, I try to keep my posts helpful and relevant.

 

hey, i would spend most of my time on here if i could, which would more than likely triple my post count, but there aint enough time in one day for that.

 

lol ive been here a year and im closing in on 2000 finally, that is a disgusting rate your going at.

 

LOL. The funny thing is, I'm not even trying. I just got laid off from work 2 weeks ago and am home job hunting and so forth a lot of the day. I get bored and NBR helps out.

 

Your OC is whats probably causing the false hardware error.

I suggest you use Intel TAT or wPrime to do the stress test.

 

I would have used TAT, but cant due to me running 64-bit. I can, however use wprime. I'll probably try that.

 

I just dropped my voltage to 1.212 and while running wPrime, I never get above 71C. Thanks for the info on the false error in Orthos, flip. I'm gonna try running TAT on an XP VM and see what happens.

EDIT: TAT wont run in the VM, but I didnt figure it would. I guess Ill just use wPrime and maybe try to run two instances.Im using OCCT now.

 

you can UV while OCing? I cant, it wont let me. it just throttles.

 

Yeap. Ive been Oced the whole time with no problems at 1.250volts. Im just seeing how far it will let me go. 1.212 crashed when using OCCT, so I bumped it up a bit to 1.220

Im running both OCCT and wPrime simultaneously and maxing at 74C. God I hope this voltage remains stable! If not, no big deal, the max was 79C-81C on 1.25 perfectly stable.

 

wow good news
welcome to the family
as to uv on [email protected] i got a bsod
on 2.0ghz so far 1.1v is good
on 1.2ghz 1.0v is good

the reg hack is quite usefull
will play further, and report

 

Dook how do i make my desktop like yours?
looks really clean!
btw just got myself 6831 and getting x7800 or x7900 soon

 

If you want the mac style icons download Objectdock, its a freeware. Very customisable.

 

i have it @2.8 right now at 1.1375, fully stable this must be a retail chip because I dont think a ES could handle this.

Lied, not fully stable, after 20min on Orthos it *stopped*

So im at 1.15 now, we will see , should be fine.

 

Not a huge surprise... ES chips mean that they were possibly pre-production, kind of like a beta chip... but they could be 100% of the retail chips... could mean they have been heavily abused (heavily OC'd, extreme voltages).... but maybe not. Doesn't sound like anyone's had any complaints so far about ES chips, at least on this forum

 

Yea, I don't think I've heard one thing about anyone having a problem with ES chips(although I'm sure there are cases). Thus the reason I had no hesitation in purchasing mine. God knows, I'm giving it a workout too!

 

Check your CPU stepping, compare it to the latest x9000 stepping and check the intel documents on what improvements & fixes they have done since.

 

interesting can you link to those documents ?

btw [email protected] max temp 80 (cpu fan is revving up to max about 1/5 of the time- not even noisy !) stable 30min orthos and going.

 

Hellz yeah! Ya'll got me beat on the UV, that's fo sho. The lowest I can get is 1.212v, but at that voltage, I max around 74C. I keep it at 1.237v, tho just to be safe, which maxes out temps at around 80C. This generic silver thermal paste I got from Best Buy does surprisingly well, albeit a bit expensive. It was only purchased as a stand-in until I had a chance to order more AS5, but I think I'm just gonna leave it be.

 

btw looking at the intel docs on our x7800 this is what i see :



http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLA6Z#

now if you look at our cpuz



as far as i can tell, its the same chip

your thoughts gentlemen...

 

my chip is on there So i know it is not an ES now ,SLA6Z, and I have it at 3.0 @ 1.16, will let you know how stable it is, its fine so far on the wPrime stability test, will need to try the orthos one though just to be safe.

Nvm, the lowest i can UV @3.0 is 1.2125, and it still heats up like crazy, well over 90C. oh ps I found one of the springs!

 

OMG FINALLY! VICTORY IS MINE!

re-applied ALL of the thermal paste, put the one spring in and made another one out of a pen, and bolted em down. @2.8 right now UVed to 1.13, been going at Orthos for almost 15 mins maxing at 78C

It only took me a fu#k&ng week

 

Wow! VERRRRY Interesting. I was wondering about that, but never took the time to research it.

And nars, WOOT! I'm glad you got her all fix0red up and running nicely! Now you can be in the "Use your laptop with an X7800 in it and not burn your legs clean off" club! Congrats!

 

lol i think this is last time I will be making a victory is mine post, I had about 3 false alarms before. But ya! cool as penguin flippers!

I am going to make my own notebook cooler as well. I have this plastic basket that is the perfect size, and is about 2 inches high.

Im going to mount fans below the air intakes, and have them blowing into the laptop, should cool it even more.

 

You should take the motor out of leaf blower and hook that up to your home made cooler. I'd totally be envious of you then.

 

well with a soul crunching mouse and a leaf blower cooling system! who wouldnt be?

ps 2000 POSTS

 

WOOT! Congrats on the 2Kth post. You now have the rep power of 11 virgins!

 

im all about the virgins! dtwn has 18 though, if we added all of ours up we would have 11+5+18!

 

Haha! Indeed we would!

 

I can put my X90 @ 3.6Ghz but with 1.4375V core voltage and temp >94°C...

 

good gods 94deg temps!?

Did you have to increase the voltage to get it clocked that high? Because @3.0gHz (the max we can go in the FX series) i'm undervolted to 1.0volts in just about all of my multipliers and i havent seen temps barely over 1/2 of that even at max loads. I guess it could take an extra 4.375 volts to get to 3.6gHz, but that just seems like a HUGE difference.

 

Of course @fullload, normal about 3X~4X °C. But as soon as CPU goes to 100%, the temp raises very quickly. Maybe i´d try the UV to 1.0V and check if 3.0G is stable.

 

So what over clock can you reach with out increaseing the voltage over stock?

Because i want (assuming the BIOS gods are kind to us) try to reach 3.2 or 3.4 (3.6 would rock but i figure thats a bit out of reach)

But if i have to start increasing voltage its not really worth it to me. But i wouldnt figure i would have to increase to 1.4+ volts just to get 3.6...thats a huge jump


*and by BIOS gods i mean johnksss