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geekhack Marketplace => Classifieds => Topic started by: mkawa on Wed, 08 May 2013, 23:40:55
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specifically, it doesn't like it when the middle pcie 8x slot is populated. otherwise, it _seems_ to work, and i think it may actually be a bios problem, but no guarantees. i delidded the chip and lapped the lid on a proper granite surface plate down to about 2000+ grit then tossed some arctic silver between the lid and die.
the cpu and board were clocked to 4.4 or 4.5ghz for about 6 months at a very conservative voltage, and well cooled by a thermalright silver arrow sb-e extreme (not included because i ****ed around with it to fit a different case -- you probably don't want it). basically, would make for a good cheap simple heavy compute desktop but i have no idea what will happen if you toss a video card into the mix. it seemed to work only a single 16x card populating the top slot but i didn't heavily stress test it.
anyway, first 200 into my paypal account gets the whole thing shipped anywhere in the conus.
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note comes with no ram.
also note i think it has something to do with bios because it started acting up literally like 1 month to the day after intel announced that they were canning their desktop motherboard business. the bioses have gotten worse every day since then and every time i update it something goes wonky and i have to rebuild the entire machine to get it booting again. that said, i have a finnicky and high bandwidth lsi raid card and and an amd 79xx series in the box normally, and i think the plx chip has been having some trouble with the pci2.0/3.0 mix and splitting the pcie lanes properly.
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Have you tried rolling back to an older BIOS? Is that possible?
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Dude had problems with my intel board with newer bios's my suggestion RMA the board and sell it off a new or refurb depending on what they sent you.
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Have you tried rolling back to an older BIOS? Is that possible?
no, firmware upgrades replace processor microcode, which can't be rolled back.
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sold pending payment.