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10-4 dan. DO i have the right ver of maxmem installed?

snow is always good!

so modest

CHEw "gimme a two ten"

holy crap you made it!

eye goo!

Ripping!

date of spi was 12/24/2004 no verification on spi was avail at the time.

well if youve had the luck ive had with hdwr in this contest you would think the same thing. Its not working dudes. Im gonna pull the cpu out and reseat everything. ******* I took everything off and cpu looks fine. Not sure what it is. what is the best ram slot to trouble shoot on? Ive been using one stick by the cpu.

Okay I'll give it a go tonight after work. thanks guys. There might be light at the end of the tunnel.

okay flashed to no cpc in abit flash utility. it went fine rebooted and got into bios and saw new choices including multi adjust. I got excited and set multi to 13 and rebooted. now no post whatsoever. I killed it I think. Im such an idiot. tried removing batt and different ram in separate channels and no go.

man this was so many beers ago. thanks for the reply. I swear half the pain in the ass is just getting the os installed on these old boards. good luck guys. I'll try my best.

is that a ocz ddr booster I see?

oh man I totally forgot about this. thanks guys for this. If i remember correctly cpc on was better for single sided dimms and cpc off was for double sided to get past 200. right? it was almost like setting 1t cmd and 2t. you can get higher with 2t (cpc off) and higher clocks but cpc on (1t) was better performance but couldnt clock as high. Oh man this brings back memories. this contest is bringing back so much nostalgia for me. i forgot all this stuff. its crazy. anyone fire up the ocz ddr booster yet?

not a big deal I think you just made a simple mistake by entering the wrong board. I was browsing nf7 for the 462 stage in the 2010 dec contest and saw this was at the top in 32m nf7. it totally threw me off.

how did you manage a socket 940 cpu and ddr3 on a socket 462 board? take it off please.

exactly. its the toughest because we all hate it. everyone loves a great barton bench on nf7s or a 478 bench on a prescott with a p4C-e dlx and bh5 or 939 on a ultra D and some tccd. on 754 it doesnt seem to matter what skills you have. you could be the best ocer in the universe and have all the fancy hdwr and ram but get on 754 and all that doesnt mean crap. so much effort and very little reward. this is why 754 is the most hated.

I think the hardest of the 5 is 370 and 754. 370 is a total crap shoot. just getting an os installed is a challenge. Im not sure how much actual tweaks go into this. it sounds like you just cross your fingers and wait for an hour and a half and hope for the best. maybe you had some copy waza tweaks in there. but total pain in the ass. not even socket holes to install a container. you need a c clamp. and to make matters worse half the boards dont have a locking agp/pci bus so thats another factor. then the ram. wtf? good luck on this stage. if you get your os installed you deserve a medal. 754 is the ultimate challenge. this is by far the hardest stage. if you win this stage you are hands down the KING OF OVERCLOCKING. there is no platform tougher to oc than 754. this is the ultimate challenge of all the challenges in 2010 combined. if you win this you are the best of the best. 939, 478, socket A are child's play compared these. Good luck guys. this is everyones dream contest who like me started ocing watching Charles, shamino, oppainter etc. it was just a handful of dudes and sub0 cooling was taboo. now we are all grown up now in the 21st century and have the opportunity to go back and do what we shouldve. Huge thanks to Hwbot admins for making this one happen. these hdwr platforms are very special for so many reasons. the kids starting out on i3 have no idea how much work went into that tech and how amd64 pushed intel into what it is now. its so sad when you go back from 478/socket A and compare to 754 and 939 and legends like oscar wu and when ocz had eb and ddr booster and the psu powerstream 520w with the adjustable pots on it. that was invented for 754 to allow higher ram vdimm on 754. because the 1st 754 boards didnt have vdimm adjustments in bios that got into the danger zone. you had to do it by hand. I remember one page book and tony ocz pushed amd 64 to the limits. the k8n neo2 platinum... remember that thing? pain in the ass. when it actually worked it was awesome. it was the predecessor to the dfi lanparty nf3. Id like to see someone on a k8n neo2 platinum post a result. sorry for the long post. this contest is so nostalgic to me and brings back so many great memories. I posted this link so you guys have some inspiration while you bench. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjgpuib_8Kw

This is so rad. I still cant get over it. Just the fact that you were able to get that evap head to mount on a board with no socket holes using a c clamp is legendary! I give up.

keep it up buster!

wow!

keep it up man. I want to get in this one. looks like the toughest stage by far.

beautiful oc my friend! this is a tough stage.

holy crap 1 hr and 49 min!

hes at it again.. amazing!