ASUS P6T Deluxe (x58/ ICH10R)

[shaihulud]

It has to be 3.26 because at 2.26 he should be crashing, really.

[johnrr6]

Originally Posted by shaihulud

It has to be 3.26 because at 2.26 he should be crashing, really.

Yes----and 3.26 is no big deal-----pretty normal.

Oh and Chuck-----I understand completely about relatives thinking you are automatically their personal computer technician....

My brother and sister call me at least once a week with a "computer problem" and my 80 year old father in law is always a disaster waiting to happen.....

He downloads EVERYTHING! He installs ANYTHING! Then wonders why bad things start to happen....

I built him a computer once----thought I made it as simple as possible----spent a whole day at his house showing him and writing down instructions.

Never again.....

[DoubleDataRate]

I'm just getting going with i920, P6T and OCZ 1600 rated DDR3. If any of you would be so kind as to give detailed BIOS settings, I would be ever so grateful. I am able to boot and run at 1443 ram speed, but get random reboots.

Anyone getting reliable overclocks with 12GB?

[johnrr6]

Look at Chucks earlier post----he's got some screen shots of BIOS settings and mine are similar

Voltage is everything on the board-----you will have to tweak a bit to get stable at 3.6----but yes----you can get rock solid at 3.6 with 12 gigs of RAM.

The better the RAM----the higher you can run the DDR at lower CAS

I'm actually at work now----but will try to help you the best I can....

[DoubleDataRate]

I tried to mimic the settings in this thread as a starting point. I am just learning about these new settings. Not reliable yet, so I figured there may be some other settings in the BIOS I overlooked or weren't mentioned in the earlier posts that may be causing the instability.

[johnrr6]

Up your Vcore a bit-----and Dram voltage

Then use Turbo V to start inching it up a bit......

I wound up using CPU multi 18x in order to get my Ram to 1600

Lower Multi let me raise my BCLK

[chuckbam]

Originally Posted by johnrr6

What Shal said....

Chuck is it drooping to 3.26??

Or all the way to 2.26?? Big Difference....

I just ran a shade below 17000 for 3dmark 06 but had tremendous stability problems....until I found the culprit....

Turns out it had nothing to do with the CPU or Board.....

The darn PowerColor Graphics card (HD 4870 1 Gig) comes set from the factory already at overclocked settings......and was totally unstable until I reset it through Catalyst Control Center to a tad above the standard clocks for that card. Mine is now 790 Core and 910 for memory and it now is very stable......

But I may return the card because it doen't meet what they advertise-----even if it does do better than "Standard"

Will see when I do further stress testing....

Basically, all I had to do to go to 3.6 was up my vCore from 1.20V to 1.22V and my memory from 1.54V to 1.58V. Oh, the BCLK was increased to 180

[chuckbam]

Originally Posted by shaihulud

It has to be 3.26 because at 2.26 he should be crashing, really.

Ya, Im sorry. I do that sh-t all the time. My +3.3V droops to 3.28 and 3.26V. I have been up since I first posted and have not had a crash. I was out for a good while and I was running prime95 for over 12 hours and recording TV, Virus scan ran and I defrag all my HDs at 4:00AM. So, it is not making me crash.

[chuckbam]

Originally Posted by DoubleDataRate

I'm just getting going with i920, P6T and OCZ 1600 rated DDR3. If any of you would be so kind as to give detailed BIOS settings, I would be ever so grateful. I am able to boot and run at 1443 ram speed, but get random reboots.

Anyone getting reliable overclocks with 12GB?

I have a small one. Sig is updated

[johnrr6]

Solid Chuck----just Solid!!!

12 hours with all that stuff running...

Your rig is IRON at 3.6!

I've been working on a DRM issue between my HP MediaSmart TV and this new rig (I can download movies just fine from CinemaNow----and they play great on the computer-----but when I try to access them through MediaCenter on the HP MediaSmart High Definition TV----I get a licensing error for some reason). DRM is such a BLACK HOLE.....

anyway----I haven't had time to play much more with stability testing-----but have yet to have a crash. Even when I had trouble finishing 3dMark06----the computer would NEVER crash----I would just get the "atimdg has stopped working error" and 3dMark06 would stop.

Now that I've clocked the graphics card back to more standard settings-----no issues.....

[chuckbam]

Originally Posted by johnrr6

Solid Chuck----just Solid!!!

12 hours with all that stuff running...

Your rig is IRON at 3.6!

I've been working on a DRM issue between my HP MediaSmart TV and this new rig (I can download movies just fine from CinemaNow----and they play great on the computer-----but when I try to access them through MediaCenter on the HP MediaSmart High Definition TV----I get a licensing error for some reason). DRM is such a BLACK HOLE.....

anyway----I haven't had time to play much more with stability testing-----but have yet to have a crash. Even when I had trouble finishing 3dMark06----the computer would NEVER crash----I would just get the "atimdg has stopped working error" and 3dMark06 would stop.

Now that I've clocked the graphics card back to more standard settings-----no issues.....

Right now, I am at only 32C. This thing runs 8 thread Prime95 with almost no bog. You can forget it is runnings. I was in the 42 ~46C with it running.



NEXT, and LAST: MY
Criteria Test: Successfully Loop 3DMARK06 and Prime95 v25.6 (64-bit) simultaneously
for an extended period of time at final settings

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Johnrr6,
I have been getting the "atimdg has stopped working and recovered error" for over a year. I get it now, in about one of 6 boots. If I am going to get it, it will happen with-in an hour. After, I can go run times of days and weeks wo/ the error.

My Son, gets the same error randomly on a stock Lenovo w/ an added HD 2400. I don't think it is aways a hardware problem.

[johnrr6]

I found a site that had a ton of fixes:

I tried the downclock one first....and that has worked for me.

Display Driver atikmdag and nvlddmkm Stopped Responding

Plus-----the newegg reviews on the card spoke of the problem from SEVERAL reviewers

You might try downclocking your vid card just a shade to see if that eliminates that error....

Plus-----what are you using to show the results you've shown above??? What program???

It shows a Multi of 12-----what is that a multi for????

[chuckbam]

Originally Posted by johnrr6

I found a site that had a ton of fixes:

I tried the downclock one first....and that has worked for me.

Display Driver atikmdag and nvlddmkm Stopped Responding

Plus-----the newegg reviews on the card spoke of the problem from SEVERAL reviewers

You might try downclocking your vid card just a shade to see if that eliminatesthat error....

Thanks for the link. I will bookmark it a read it over. On my system, I can do away with it almost all together without the CCC. I and other, believe it is a problem with the ATI software. Years past, ATI had the best driver packs. Now, I don't think so. The new , special, 8.12 driver will not load my HD 3870. Hardly new technology. And the fact that I can be up a week without the error tells me something. Re-boot, and I can get it within moments, re-boot and not have it again till another "bad boot".

Now take my Son, having the problem on a HD 2400 installed in an Lenovo!

I don't think the X1xxx series ever has this problem. My personal belief is that it is a Vista/ HD xxx/ Aero problem. And ATI will not own up to it.

[chuckbam]

Originally Posted by chuckbam

Thanks for the link. I will bookmark it a read it over. On my system, I can do away with it almost all together without the CCC. I and other, believe it is a problem with the ATI software. Years past, ATI had the best driver packs. Now, I don't think so. The new , special, 8.12 driver will not load my HD 3870. Hardly new technology. And the fact that I can be up a week without the error tells me something. Re-boot, and I can get it within moments, re-boot and not have it again till another "bad boot".

Now take my Son, having the problem on a HD 2400 installed in an Lenovo!

I don't think the X1xxx series ever has this problem. My personal belief is that it is a Vista/ HD xxx/ Aero problem. And ATI will not own up to it.

Sorry about the rant -this is a sore subject / me

[chuckbam]

I had a few crashes. I had to increase my vCore to 1.25V. I feel if you have 12GBs of memory, a real stress test would be when some of it was used. Well it helped me find the instability. It now runs this test fine. I ran it 4 or 5 times. This test runs 36% of the 12GB.