Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (184 mails)

[mark pryor <tlviewer@xxxxxxxxx>]

hello,

system:
  Gigabyte ga-k8n ultra-9
  AMD 4000+ 939 single core 2.4 Ghz
  1 GB Ocz low latency 2-3-2-5 RAM
  Asus Nvidia GeForce EN-6800 pci-x video
  WD 2500JD Sata drive (JBOD on SiI 3114)
  SuSE 9.3 x86_64,  2.6.11.4-21.9-default kernel

I ran for almost 2 months with no serious mishaps.
Within the past week I had 2 times where scores of
journal replays were triggered: lost power during
lightning and a failed overclock setting wherein SuSE
froze during bootup. SuSE managed to recover in the
first case, but the bad overclock was too much -- the
reiserfs was corrupted. No effort to repair the
install helped. I went ahead and reinstalled with a
safer, more careful overclock.

Normally when I try a new overclock setting, I'm very
careful and boot into memtest86 (v. 1.65) before I get
to the Grub loader. Is this good enough, or is
overclocking asking for trouble? If memtest86 shows
errors I start over with cntrl-alt-delete and go back
into the bios.

My current overclock
  CPU freq.=216 -> DDR 433
  RAM freqz=200 ( 1/1 ratio)
  Dram relaxed as 2.5-3-3-5
  CPU voltage 1.4->1.425 volts
  this gives 2.59 Ghz, 5.25 Ghz/s bandwidth

With the above oc, Apps load noticably faster.
memtest86 predicts the numbers quite well before I get
to WinXP and test with Sandra.

Except for my collasol error, this is a dream machine.
I restored from a BootitNG image.

regards,
tlviewer


	
		
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