[Hondacity]

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

[ny_driver]

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.

[ny_driver]

Opty152 installed and frozen. Life is good. 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.

[ny_driver]

.........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

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.

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