woops i missed that, ill do 20 right now on max and install everest to see what im looking like. be back in a bit.

success on that as well. Hottest the cores got were like 75. Opened the window and back down to 71, not too worried as i live in a cold climate. Winter is coming. Hottest MCP got was 70, and 66 was hottest for SPP.

Its been fine inside windows so far. It just crashes during mafia 2. Video cards about the only thing i havent replaced in this rig.
 
edit: So now that we seem stable with 4gb, think we can get it to work with 8gb?

I do have the latest drivers, but id be glad to do an uninstall re-install of the video card drivers.

Is Mafia 2 the only game you are playing? If not, have you tried your other games? Does it only fail with that one game?

That sounds good. Work on your GFX and give your system the rest of today and tonight to get used to running at the higher speed. If you get that problem straightened out and everything else is doing well...then, tomorrow we'll put the other 2 sticks in and I'll shoot you my template settings for 1800MHz and work on that...Sound OK by you??

Small update: Ordered a geforce gtx 460, might as well try the last thing too and upgrade my card a bit.
 
edit: Good morning jeffrey, just for another test, i left ibt on max for 100 passes overnight last night, passed no problem. hmm.

Jeffrey where you at?

jeffreyham

AWESOME!!!!!! Is your Mafia 2 game still acting up or did you get that squared away??

Mafia kept crashing, but i havent tried it today. Ill try in a little bit. I can almost gaurantee you its gonna crash though. :P I made a few small changes in the bios this morning, enabled TM1 and TM2, also turned off execute disable bit. No crashes, been running very stable in windows. Mafia 2 test in a moment.

Most DDR3 ram can handle up to 2.1v on these boards, even the lower rated 1.65v ram. The only reason they are advertised at that low voltage is to show it supports the newer intel chipset. Try bumping up your ram voltage a notch or two and see if that helps.

Woah, calm down buddy. What I said has been confirmed by an EVGA tech over the phone.

By just a notch or two? There's absolutely no harm in that. Daniel, try it and see if the game is stable now.

annnnnnnnnnnnnd it crashed in like 2 mins of play
 
full hardlock crash. restart to fix

its not the install...... World at war does it on rare occasion too.

jeffreyham

Maybe that 9800 card is just getting to old to handle the load?

the game runs smooth, its just i think the card itself on this motherboard is a problem. Ive ordered a gtx 460 1gb of memory on a video card should help, hows your 260 runnin?