Nice!!! that is so much memory... I was thinking of going 12GB (1/2 the amount you have) but that much memory and Overclocking can be a bad mix sometimes.
Yeah, a situation like this (all ram slots loaded down) is where an unlocked proc would be nice to have. Just overclock by multi so you don't have to load down the memory controller and QPI any more by running high bclks. Too bad all unlocked 1366 procs sell for a G spot.
Yeah, even if you try every setting, 24GB just doesn't work. It's 4srs an X58 porblem!!1
I mean I do see a point. Motherboards come with an "auto" setting. You would think the auto setting would at least run the 24GB of RAM, even if it was 1066 speeds and the slowest timings known.
With this ASUS board, even the default BIOS settings overclocked the CPU. I literally had to turn TURBO off just to get it to POST. XMP was a joke. Going from 775 and DDR2 to 1366 and DDR3 was a huge learning curve for me. I wasn't expecting it.
Yeah, a situation like this (all ram slots loaded down) is where an unlocked proc would be nice to have. Just overclock by multi so you don't have to load down the memory controller and QPI any more by running high bclks. Too bad all unlocked 1366 procs sell for a G spot.
Now that I have all the CPU settings manually setup, I'm gonna try the i7-965 ES and see if it post. Hopefully manually setting the BIOS to the specs of the ES will allow the CPU to post. Who knows
I guess the bottom line is, if you don't have icrontic and the knowledge of the people on this site, get an ECS board and 6GB of RAM
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I mean I do see a point. Motherboards come with an "auto" setting. You would think the auto setting would at least run the 24GB of RAM, even if it was 1066 speeds and the slowest timings known.
With this ASUS board, even the default BIOS settings overclocked the CPU. I literally had to turn TURBO off just to get it to POST. XMP was a joke. Going from 775 and DDR2 to 1366 and DDR3 was a huge learning curve for me. I wasn't expecting it.
Now that I have all the CPU settings manually setup, I'm gonna try the i7-965 ES and see if it post. Hopefully manually setting the BIOS to the specs of the ES will allow the CPU to post. Who knows
I guess the bottom line is, if you don't have icrontic and the knowledge of the people on this site, get an ECS board and 6GB of RAM
I'm gonna start panhandling outside your house asking for GBs.
I'll post pics this weekend, as I think I've finally finished building
heh, atiwinflash.exe simple.
if they did a htcevo4grom.exe then it would have been done by now.
I did have to use cmd due to a locked rom which is posted here:
If you have a locked ROM
I got the Sapphire 6950 and used the Sapphire 6970 BIOS
Samsung F3 500GB Raid0
true.
but.
SSD $160-90GB
HDD $90-1.0TB
after reading 152 pages of a forum thread over at pureoverclock, I'm pretty sure I can do 4.2ghz no problem
Load temp with the Noctua was 53°C
and before you say, "a 2600K can do 5.0GHz". what a 2600K can't do is run 24GB of RAM, or Crossfire in x16|x16 config
6950's bios modded to 6970 times two