Gigabyte GA-EP45-EXTREME Living Review - Page 15

Ace-a-Rue · #**141** 17-08-2008, 18:12

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Originally Posted by Alcibiades

sorry to say ace-a-rue
but his isn't about you
you failed to realise this isn't a competition
supershanks has put time and effort into this living creation

EDIT: My humble appologies to you Ace-A-Rue
I am a newbie to this forum
just thought you was picking on me mate

my bad

thanks SS for the support.

@Alcibiades...that's ok, i am proud of you for expressing your thoughts in a reasonable tone...i'd appreciate if you would stick up for me once in a while

...just kidding around with you; i take no offense and your apology is humbly accepted....eva was just slapping me down

supershanks · #**142** 17-08-2008, 18:19

No worries guys

Have you tested a quafd on the biostar Ace ??
I'm hust playing with one now , having a merry time bottoming out GTL. On the Wolfdales CPU subsystem feels rock solid , it's the memory side that needs attention , with the quad that seems to have reversed.

Ace-a-Rue · #**143** 17-08-2008, 18:43

i was this close ||

to putting in my QX9650 before i slipped with the DMM probe that was tape wrapped down to about 1/8 of an inch...what a sick feeling when that happens

new board will arive at the end of the week.

eva2000 · #**144** 17-08-2008, 20:14

nice bios coming soon for us Gigabyte EP45 Bandwidth 1333+ PL4 - XtremeSystems Forums

supershanks · #**145** 17-08-2008, 20:30

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new board will arive at the end of the week.

Oh that's bad news mate

Makes us even I guess, was starting to kick off testing the Gigabyte EP45T Extreme, the ddr3 version of this board , when my cellshock died again :

:Hadn't been overvolted or anything. Clunk reckons the heats not shifting through the heatsink last time , I didn't rekon it was that , but reckon it's about the most likely thing , unless the chips are bad . So they won't be back until the end of the coming week week after.

Was tempted to buy a decent set of ddr2 for this board , but seeing Eva's Ram decided not to. Saw these CSX 2GB Kit DDR3-2000 DIABLO which is a decent £ , should be here tomorrow.

supershanks · #**146** 17-08-2008, 22:32

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Originally Posted by Eva

nice bios coming soon for us Gigabyte EP45 Bandwidth 1333+ PL4 - XtremeSystems Forums
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Oh good news, look forward to it

Ace-a-Rue · #**147** 17-08-2008, 23:55

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Originally Posted by supershanks

Oh that's bad news mate

Makes us even I guess, was starting to kick off testing the Gigabyte EP45T Extreme, the ddr3 version of this board , when my cellshock died again :

:Hadn't been overvolted or anything. Clunk reckons the heats not shifting through the heatsink last time , I didn't rekon it was that , but reckon it's about the most likely thing , unless the chips are bad . So they won't be back until the end of the coming week week after.

Was tempted to buy a decent set of ddr2 for this board , but seeing Eva's Ram decided not to. Saw these which is a decent £ , should be here tomorrow.

i guess you are advising me to get out of the business of trying to measure voltages with a DMM

DARN!...bad news about those cellshock...you know, my GSkill ddr3 memory, which i used on the giga X48T, did not have a tight clamp down for the heatsink!..in fact, they slipped right off as i was attempting to remove them from the slots...i left them off until i sold them.

supershanks · #**148** 18-08-2008, 00:20

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i guess you are advising me to get of the business of trying to measure voltages with a DMM

maybe we're not so steady handed these days , I must admit last time I measured on the X48T I was very wary especially round the cpu socket

Yes the cellshock have like an allen key nuts securing the heat sinks , this is the 14440 set

but the blue is the same. They will be coming off when I get replacements.
I wouldn't mind I use Corsair Dominator Airflow Fan plus 2 x120mm fans here

which intake over memory & CPU

So can hardly say that ram isn't getting any airflow.

Ace-a-Rue · #**149** 18-08-2008, 02:34

what is the operating voltage for those dimms?...didn't you say that you did not go high on the Vdimm with those?

the problem could be that you had a weak IC chip on there and it was just a matter of time powering off and then on which sent it on its merry way!

and yes, i agree with you that your airflow looks VERY adequate!

eva2000 · #**150** 18-08-2008, 06:18

Personally I found the corsair ram cooler a bit weak in air flow/pressure, i prefer my own custom ram cooling of either

120x25mm thermaltake 81cfm fan
or
3x 60x25mm sunon 23.5cfm MagLev fans tied together