Q9450 & Striker II Extreme - Tough One

svenson · #1 22-09-2008, 00:41

Hi guys,

I had so much fun clocking you have no idea

and of course some dissapointments time but i made it trough anyway... it's working! and alive!!!

Following CrapCrasher & Shanara Red's posts i'll show you my striker II extreme template... i have to tell you, i followed Clunk's posts (almost) for clocking but this mobo is a though one as i saw... so don't blame me for putting down Auto for values here and there as you'll see (i know its bad

).

Extreme Tweaker

CPU Level Up Auto
Memory Level Up Auto
AI Overclock Tuner Manual
Overclock Options Disabled
CPU Multiplier 8.0
FSB - Memory Clock Mode Unlinked
FSB - Memory Ration Auto
FSB - (QDR), MHz 1650
Actual FSB (QDR), MHz 1650
MEM (DDR), MHz 1179
Actual MEM (DDR), MHz 1178.6
LDT Frequency 5x
PCIE Bus, Slot 1&2, MHz 100
PCIE Bus, Slot 3, MHz 100
SPP <-> MCP Ref Clock, MHz Auto
SLI Ready Memory Disabled

Memory Timing Setting

P1 Auto
P2 Auto

Parameters Setting Current

tCL (CAS) Latency 8 8
tRCD 8 8
tRP 8 8
tRAS 22 22
Command per Clock (CMD) 1T 1T

Advanced memory Setting Current

tRRD 4 4
tRC 30 30
tWR 10 10
tWTR 16 16
tFAW 19 19
tRD 10 10
tRTP 5 5
tRTC 53 53
tREF 7.8 7.8us

Over Voltage

CPU VOltage Auto
Leadline Calibration Disabled
CPU VLL Voltage Auto
CPU VTT VOltage Auto
Memory Voltage Auto
NB Core Voltage Auto
SB Core Voltage Auto
CPU GTLRef 0 Ratio Auto
CPU GTLRef 1 Ratio Auto
CPU GTLRef 2 Ratio Auto
CPU GTLRef 3 Ratio Auto
NB GTL_REF Ratio Auto
DDR3 CHA1 Ref Voltage Auto
DDR3 CHB1 Ref Voltage Auto
DDR3 CHA2 Ref Voltage Auto
DDR3 CHB2 Ref Voltage Auto

CPU COnfiguration

CPU Type Intel (R) Core (TM)2 Quad CPU
Q9450 @ 2.66GHz
CPU Speed 3.30GHz
Cache Ram (L2) 6144K x 2
CPU Internal Thermal Control Auto
Limit CPUID MaxVal Disabled
Enhanced C1 (C1E) Disabled
Execute Disable Bit Disabled
Virtualization Disabled
Enhanced Intel Speedstep (tm) Tech. Disabled
CPU Core 2 Enabled
CPU Core 3 Enabled
CPU Core 4 Enabled

... measured values will be:

vcore 1.34v
memory 1.63
NB 1.41v
SB 1.50v
cpu VTT 1.22v
cpu PLL 1.5v

passed OCCT, CPU STRESS 12H+
CPU TEMP shows me 45° on all cores and 65° full

all this crazy stuff aircooled

Hope you guys will see something bad and nasty to be corrected

, as i said this auto config with auto values got me stable for 12 hours and +

Cheers

affiliate13 · #2 22-09-2008, 18:47

Welcome to the forum,
Im not sure too many folks on here have this board, it may be tricky to advise you without one to play with.
I have heard they can be a real nightmare to get high clocks from.

Hopefully someone will post to help you out.

svenson · #3 23-09-2008, 19:59

Thank you welcoming,

maybe i'll get no answer i take my chance, but it was nice reading you guys.

Here's yet another problem, i guess the only odd one, always the first attemp to start my pc it freezes to bios... doesn't go any further, push reset and starts well... wonder where it comes from.

Clunk · #4 23-09-2008, 20:30

Welcome to the forums

I think affiliate13 is right, no-one here has that board, or has used it, so we would be guessing.

The striker Extreme is a notoriously buggy board with multiple problems.

There are a few things we can suggest.

Make sure the BIOS is up to date.

Make sure your memory voltages and timings are set properly.

As you are using 4x modules, you might need to add some extra NB voltage.

The boot issue could be a few things, does the board have an error code display? What does it say when it stops?

svenson · #5 24-09-2008, 01:17

Oh well, good choice sven

Guess i should have come visit your forum earlier...

BIOS updated - ok
Manufacturer timings are 9-9-9 25-34 667MHz, well actually i set them to 8-8-8 22-30 588MHz because I got way more transfer speed ( according to EVEREST)

Now i gradually set higher values for memory and NB, upped by 0.05v and 0.1v lately, conclusions are it's slowing down my pc, almost freezed when @0.1v added. Yet i don't know if it still freezes at boot, i'll see tomorrow when pc'll rest a little

I got no error message when freezing, and it only happens at the first boot of the day, weird.
It's when the motherboard screen appears... says ' Press F5 to enter BIOS etc...' that it happens.

Yet another problem( thought it would dissapear when upgrading ASUS PC PROBE, gives you live voltages and temperatures of elements) memory and vcore, only those 2, and for couple seconds, have their voltages dropping/increasing highly: vcore from 1.34 to 0.25 or memory from 1.76 to 3.5 or 0.32... wondering if the program shows wrong values.

I'll take any suggestions

* Core #0 @ 74°
Core #1 @ 70°
some neighbourhood for others

Is that too much?

Clunk · #6 24-09-2008, 02:05

I think that if the voltages are indeed rising that high, it would have killed the memory by now.

Either way, you might want to RMA the board, it's quite worrying.

74c is very high, is that under load, and what cooling are you using?