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Post by ground on Oct 22, 2019 12:33:30 GMT -5
Had "fixed" my Rampage III Extreme a couple days ago (removed the short, VRM is still missing 3 phases), but might've killed it today trying to flash the bios to a Rampage III Black Edition. Hope I just broke both bios chips trying, luckily still have a pair but my bios flasher is at a friends place so I can't try today. For now the board is considered dead again.
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Post by ShrimpBrime on Oct 22, 2019 19:06:20 GMT -5
Had "fixed" my Rampage III Extreme a couple days ago (removed the short, VRM is still missing 3 phases), but might've killed it today trying to flash the bios to a Rampage III Black Edition. Hope I just broke both bios chips trying, luckily still have a pair but my bios flasher is at a friends place so I can't try today. For now the board is considered dead again. And you will bring it once again from the flames of death!! Hope the other chips work!
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Post by georgekokovinis on Oct 23, 2019 5:37:28 GMT -5
Had "fixed" my Rampage III Extreme a couple days ago (removed the short, VRM is still missing 3 phases), but might've killed it today trying to flash the bios to a Rampage III Black Edition. Hope I just broke both bios chips trying, luckily still have a pair but my bios flasher is at a friends place so I can't try today. For now the board is considered dead again. Pardon me for asking
Is there any real advantage of the BE bios over the RVE III bios to attempt this flash ?
Thank you -
George ( Fasttrack )
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Post by ground on Oct 23, 2019 10:33:12 GMT -5
Had "fixed" my Rampage III Extreme a couple days ago (removed the short, VRM is still missing 3 phases), but might've killed it today trying to flash the bios to a Rampage III Black Edition. Hope I just broke both bios chips trying, luckily still have a pair but my bios flasher is at a friends place so I can't try today. For now the board is considered dead again. Pardon me for asking
Is there any real advantage of the BE bios over the RVE III bios to attempt this flash ?
Thank you -
George ( Fasttrack )
It has a couple extra options for potentially more BCLK that neither R2E nor R3E have. Since the R2E outperformed the R3E for me I wanted to see if the R3E works with the R3BE bios but it doesn't seem to work. Not sure which board to run once I get my 920 back from Luumi since my R2E also has "exploded VRM syndrome" and x58a-oc is a nightmare to use with Bloomfield in my opinion.
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Post by Bones on Oct 23, 2019 12:45:35 GMT -5
Man, I hope you can get that beast going again. It sucks when you lose a piece of good hardware.
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Post by Macsbeach98 on Dec 4, 2019 16:24:01 GMT -5
My Crosshair V blew up the other day I had a 555Be unlocked to 3 cores it was at 6.4 / 4.4 1.88v halfway through X265 it just shut off so I shut off the supply let the power drain and switched on again hit the power button to be greeted by about 5 clicks from the supply knew straight away either the CPU or the board was gone. Set the board up again yesterday with a 955be in it to be greeted by the clicks again ah well they dont last forever now to be game and see if the 555Be still goes it was a good one.
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Post by Mr.Scott on Dec 4, 2019 16:42:58 GMT -5
That sucks. X265 is a brutal bench.
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Post by Macsbeach98 on Dec 4, 2019 17:02:01 GMT -5
Yep thats exactly what I blame I had 2 drives set up one with X265 for the CC and one with Cine 15, GPUPI, Wprime, and Geek 3 the benches good for big Globals. I ran Cine 15 and pulled a 498 score easily and it had more in it (Record is 516) I had just dialed in those speeds it would of went faster and I hadnt tweaked for it but stupid me thought I had better change drives and do X265 first. I do hope the CPU is still alive but I am not hopeful I binned 5 for that one.
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Post by Bones on Dec 4, 2019 17:04:03 GMT -5
There is a chance but the last time I lost one it became a board eater so had to toss it. Either that or feed it.
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Post by Macsbeach98 on Dec 4, 2019 17:07:15 GMT -5
Yea I might get out the M5A99X evo I have got to see if it still goes I dont use it so I wouldnt mind too bad if it ate the board.
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Post by cbjaust on Dec 4, 2019 17:45:33 GMT -5
I saw a Crosshair V Formula on fakebook marketplace (Melbourne) yesterday. It was in a C5F-V box though which I thought odd. Anyway I can chase it up if you want. I also have a GA-870A-UD3 here you can have (I got it the other day from OCAU for the X4 965 Be it had in it )
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Post by Macsbeach98 on Dec 4, 2019 20:50:17 GMT -5
I havent got the money just at the moment Chris.
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Post by cbjaust on Dec 4, 2019 21:03:01 GMT -5
you're welcome to the GA-890A-UD3 for nix if you want it. Just say the word.
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Post by mythicaltech on Dec 10, 2019 13:40:37 GMT -5
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Post by Macsbeach98 on Dec 10, 2019 16:11:36 GMT -5
We have all done that at one time or another.
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Post by Vinster on Dec 10, 2019 22:29:10 GMT -5
I hate it when I've done that... yep.. time to take a break
Vin
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Post by mythicaltech on Dec 10, 2019 23:05:31 GMT -5
I hate it when I've done that... yep.. time to take a break Vin Finals week has caused me to do a few things like that so I am not benching until it is over so I don't actually kill something from being distracted.
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Post by Vinster on Dec 11, 2019 0:36:22 GMT -5
good plan
Vin
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Post by osmiumoc on Jan 4, 2020 15:42:14 GMT -5
I tried to kill something, does that count? I just failed to get it killed... 65nm chips are tough. So, I´m currently binning some chips and I had this really shady E4300. My first ever delid on which I used a razor-blade instead of a vice to remove the IHS. I cut into the pcb several times, 3 spots show bare copper on the substrate. I thought it was dead from the start, as on the first attempt of using it I corrupted my bios and had to fix that first but afterwards it ran fine to my surprise. Only problem: It sucks. Hits the FSB-wall at 392 already. Won´t go any higher no matter what so I decided I´ll use it for max. voltage testing. First boot was with overvoltage enabled on the P5Q-E, LLC enabled and setting 2V in bios. It did not boot, it shut down during windows loading screen. After that it posted once more but shut down right after post. I let it sit there for 3-4 more tries but nope it wasn´t even posting anymore. So I reset CMOS and guess what it just came back to life. I guess it hit thermal shutdown and got stuck in a thermal protection loop. So I lowered the voltage to 1.94V in bios and booted: Thanks to overshoot this added up to 2.016V. I achieved my goal, running 2V ambient-cooled It held it through a couple minutes of stress-testing. I ran the benchmark afterwards and validated: valid.x86.fr/2nkcviIt just wouldn´t die at 2V. I had enough, I can´t kill this chip on ambient because thermal protection prevents an instantly deadly voltage... Just to confirm it´s still in perfect shape: It is still running 3,33GHz fine at a reasonable voltage. Seems like not much harm done. So for 65nm, up to 2V is possible for suicide ambient runs of SPI or similar. Just cant guarantee that every 65nm CPU will handle that.
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Post by ShrimpBrime on Jan 5, 2020 14:43:36 GMT -5
That's actually quite impressive.
Had an Opteron 165 about 11 years ago that would run at 100c 3200mhz clocks. I only did short periods of high temp testing over the course of a couple few days. Then decided to use it for my daily driver, figured it was indestructible, but no. It died on me in game. Degradation happened very quickly actually. I was able to lower the clocks 200mhz, get another 30 minutes of gaming than bang hard lock and audio looping (very fast) and again, lowered clocks to stock.... nope. 10 minutes, black screen and DONE.
Was fun and interesting though lol.
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Post by Macsbeach98 on Jan 13, 2020 16:19:23 GMT -5
My Enermax 1500 died the other day there was 4 of them that me and wally bought about 4 years ago probably less than 4 years he sent Scott one and they are all dead now. No more Enermax for me I put the Coolermaster V1200 back in that I won that time we got prizes for the Teams Cup they are Seasonic made.
Was looking yesterday and I might buy a new Coolermaster V1300 they are made by Delta and have a 10 yr warranty. I like the fact they are Delta made you cant go wrong there.
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Post by Vinster on Jan 14, 2020 0:00:35 GMT -5
EVGA Supernova's also have a 10 year warranty. you just have to make sure you register the product when you get it.
I'm running a 1300W and a 750W here in 2 systems... the 1300W I've had about 4 years, maybe more...
Vin
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Post by osmiumoc on Jan 26, 2020 20:31:29 GMT -5
This little fella died on me today. And I spend 3 hours finding out its him. I was just not ready to accept that the kit I just bought the other day would instantly die on me. The second stick is still fine but this one causes sudden crashes every 3-4 seconds. IF I squeeze the heatsink with my fingers I can get it into Windows at the same speed and timings like before, but it´s not stable. I guess a solder joint cracked, I´ve ruled out every other possibility. It´s not the board or the RAM slot, I can pick the board up by a dimm, gently wiggle it and it still runs fine. RIP G.Skill PI. Makes me wonder if that is a common thing with older RAM? I never in my life had a stick die on me like this, powered off over night. Dead the next day. It was running stock voltage and timings, only tested speed up to 600Mhz.
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Post by Vinster on Jan 26, 2020 21:56:31 GMT -5
if it's gone I'd pull the heat spreaders off and see if a chip comes off with it. if none do, then I'd try to fix it.
is it double sided?
Vin
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Post by Mr.Scott on Jan 27, 2020 19:05:37 GMT -5
View AttachmentThis little fella died on me today. And I spend 3 hours finding out its him. I was just not ready to accept that the kit I just bought the other day would instantly die on me. The second stick is still fine but this one causes sudden crashes every 3-4 seconds. IF I squeeze the heatsink with my fingers I can get it into Windows at the same speed and timings like before, but it´s not stable. I guess a solder joint cracked, I´ve ruled out every other possibility. It´s not the board or the RAM slot, I can pick the board up by a dimm, gently wiggle it and it still runs fine. RIP G.Skill PI. Makes me wonder if that is a common thing with older RAM? I never in my life had a stick die on me like this, powered off over night. Dead the next day. It was running stock voltage and timings, only tested speed up to 600Mhz. What voltage and timings for 600? I have a NiB set of those.
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Post by osmiumoc on Jan 27, 2020 20:08:43 GMT -5
It´s double sided I think, I´ll have to use a heatgun to get the glue a bit softer. Will try my luck Vinster @mr.Scott I had it running with 600 @2.1V 5-5-5-15 with 60 tRFC. It passed spi 32m, wanted to try and lower tRFC but it happened before I had more time with it. 5:6 with 333 strap if I remember correctly. All 2nd and 3rd timings were straight from spd EPP profile for 533.
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Post by Mr.Scott on Jan 28, 2020 18:17:34 GMT -5
Thanks. Just wanted to know what to expect. I've never opened the box.
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Post by obscureparadox on Jan 30, 2020 12:15:00 GMT -5
Thanks. Just wanted to know what to expect. I've never opened the box. You're always better off with Crucial 1066 kits anyway. There's literally nothing on the market better than those once you start getting into the higher frequencies. Every other PCB just seems to sorta shit the bed pushing above 1200.
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Post by Vinster on Jan 30, 2020 12:49:17 GMT -5
I have a set of Patriot 1200's and they struggle to get there at stock timings. I have to over volt them to get there.
Vin
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Post by osmiumoc on Jan 30, 2020 12:54:55 GMT -5
Thanks. Just wanted to know what to expect. I've never opened the box. You're always better off with Crucial 1066 kits anyway. There's literally nothing on the market better than those once you start getting into the higher frequencies. Every other PCB just seems to sorta shit the bed pushing above 1200. I have 8 Sticks of Crucial Ballistix 1066 and none can get above 560. Is there a special serial-number range to catch those elusive D9s? From all of my 15 DDR2 kits (1066 / 1100 / 1150 and 1200s) the G.Skill PIs were the best yet. How many kits do you guys bin to get beyond 600?
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