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  1. scottyd

    Sudden reboot - help please

    Great, I'll download MBM5. I also use a program called Systool - seems to be the best integrated clock/temp/timing tool around.
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    Sudden reboot - help please

    Thanks smids, I don't think it's the game (Rome: Total War). It never used to do this, although I'll run HL2 and see if it happens. I thought it might be the PSU, but Tagan have a good rep. Any way I can test this? Other than getting a whole new PSU? Another symptom, sometimes it doesn't...
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    Sudden reboot - help please

    I'm getting occasional reboots when playing games. It only happens when my 3D card is heavily loaded and the GPU temps go above 55ish. There's no warning, just a sudden reboot. Anyone have any ideas what it could be? I have the following setup if it helps Opty146 Asus A8N Sli SE 2Gb...
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    7800GT cooling - better air cooling?

    Now can anyone recommend a thread cooler to take away some of the heat I appear to have created! The new AC things look like they could be good - not in at OCUK yet. The Zalman stuff also has the advantage that it looks cool. How's that for sitting on the fence?
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    7800GT cooling - better air cooling?

    Excellent. Will do. Thanks for the quick response. Anyone have any experience of using those blower cards or other "get heat out of the case quickly" devices? Or should I just beef up the exhaust fans?
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    7800GT cooling - better air cooling?

    Hi, my 7800GT seems to get to around 60deg under load. I know it shoud take more than this (according to NV control panel anyway) but it seems to freeze or reboot if it gets too hot. Pulling the GPU and Mem clocks down a notch seems to keep things ok. I'm presuming that it is the graphics...
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    Opty 146 max VID shown as 1.45V - how can I up this?

    Thanks both above. I'll test it I think by dropping the CPU multi, mem divider, HT multi and see what I can get the FSB up to. Time to start isolating things. Or I could forget it and just use the thing. Also, I've just read somewhere that the Maximum VID is nothing to do with the actual...
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    Opty 146 max VID shown as 1.45V - how can I up this?

    Actually, one quick thing - I have reduced the HTT multi to 3x, which is way less than 1000 (258 if my maths holds up). So I wouldn't have thought the HTT was a limiting factor. Does the FSB itself affect something on the board, I just thought it was a virtual setting?
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    Opty 146 max VID shown as 1.45V - how can I up this?

    Gotcha - thanks Havana for a great response. I'll stick where I am and stop fiddling. Until I get a new board of course... Cheers all
  10. scottyd

    Opty 146 max VID shown as 1.45V - how can I up this?

    Yep, done all that, I'm running Ballistix but knocked the divider down just in case, and the HTT multiplier too. I've a feeling the voltage might be mis-reported in a couple of programs. CPU-Z seems to show it as I expect (up to 1.55V which is what the BIOS is limited to without taking a...
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    Opty 146 max VID shown as 1.45V - how can I up this?

    Thanks Alex, I have an Asus a8n sli motherboard, it has options to change the CPU Voltage, but it doesn't seem to work if I put the voltage above 1.45V. If I set the voltage to e.g. 1.5V in BIOS, it will be set to 1.4V by the time it gets to Windows. Anyone think I'm missing a setting...
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    Opty 146 max VID shown as 1.45V - how can I up this?

    Hi all, I've seen screenies of people getting over 3000Mhz from Opty 146s on air with exactly the same stepping as I have. My temps are fine, well lower than 50deg after a while on Prime95. I'm getting 2800Mhz on 280FSB with 10x multi, runs stable at 1.4V or 1.45V. Won't go past 286FSB...
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