IIRC the DFI boards were the only ones cable of running even tighter than CAS2. (1, 1.5)

Don't know why the board would matter since it is an IMC... but that is what I recall.

I went to get some coffee(10 minutes) and when I got back the screen was black and the system was still running. :blink:

I couldn't get it to POST again. Couldn't get anything(no LEDS), so I reset cmos, removed battery, unplugged and held button in awhile to drain.........and when I tried again I got the 4LEDS. Now I get either the 4LEDS and cant even power off, or nothing at all. Mostly nothing at all, but once in awhile it powers.

I wonder what happened?

Dude, you've killed more hardware in a week, than I have in the last 5 years.:shock:

our friends here are still learning..what is safe and what kills ...and hopefully they catch up of whats called...degradation ..lol

I can see that maybe I killed the chip, although I don't see why 1.8v ended it's life so suddenly. And this board seemed to just die, it was weird. (that Ultra was more than a week ago;)) Anyways I've tried swapping out each and every component so must be this one is dead....the others were a dead cpu yet undiscovered.

I thought degradation was like an over time kinda thing, not so much all of a sudden?

degradation ...can be quick or slow...and eventually kill a cpu.

:blink:WOW....something new each day to look forward to playing with these old motherboards. This morning I find that I get absolutely no display from my 4890, so I install the other 4890 and I get display, but it won't get past the LanParty screen. Won't boot even at "optimized defaults".

Again it was working just perfect last night, and there have been no leaks or anything. I'm starting to think there is a little computer Gremlin playing on my system in the night.

EDIT: I caught the Gremlin his name is ny_driver. I left the External/usb drive plugged in last night so it wouldn't boot, which I realized only as I was unplugging everything for removal. And I got the 4890 wetter than I thought. I didn't think any coolant snuck down behind the block yesterday, but I was wrong and it took until this morning for it to seep in where it was a problem. Maybe it'll work when it's dry.

Opty152 installed and frozen. Life is good. :thumbsup: It seems to go just as far on stock volts as the 154 did which seems like a very good sign to me.

Still drying the 4890.

.........so anyways I got 3650Mhz out of the(2.6GHz)152s, but I now think I can take them further. I just tested a (2GHz)146 and got it to 3701MHz so far just using the chiller. That's #5 and only 112MHz off the WR........I should try my luck with some DICE soon.

Just thought I'd let you know I'm still going 939 crazy, and I finally broke 100 boints :taunt:

EDIT: and I fixed that motherboard from 2 posts ago yesterday. Somehow 2 traces got cut next to the cpu socket. Fortunately they were not right next to each other and I easily patched them up with a circuit writer pen. Good as new. :cool3:

EDIT: only 97MHz off now....gotta get some DICE. Still one more chip to test though. :clapping:

wow 100pts and fixing boards :D

good work bro...lovin the gold trophies :D