[QCLUG] core2quad build

[Brent Wyatt]

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Hi I'm just new so I hope it's alright for me to respond.  Sounds like you
have a nice set up Noah.  Sounds like you've moved it around a lot too.  You
check all that ram you have?  You must have, What? 4, 2gig ram sticks in
that beast.  At least 2, 4 gig chips (they make those?)  One of them could
be just not quite seated right.  Then maybe even mem-test them with an
ubuntu live cd (for example), to make sure you didn't get a bad one.
    Making sure your video cards are all playing nice is a possibility too,
so I agree with you testing there also.
    58c doesn't seem excessive for your cpu's and the difference in temps is
common, but it never hurts to chill them as much as you can afford too.
    I would think the power supply you have would be sufficient for what
you've described as your set up.  Just my humble opinion.    brent

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Noah Norris <preludelinux@gmail.com> wrote:

> For those that made it to the event i brought my box i just built firday
> last week
> Core2quad
> 8 Gb - Ram
> SLI  8800 GT 512 Mb video cards
> 500 Gb sata Hd
> Case with plenty of fans (8+1ps fan)
> 650/750 watt Ps (suppose to be sli certified ... )
>
>
> I have been getting random reboots on this box for some reason.
> the first time it happened was 48 hours after i got the machine it
> happened twice during the demo.
> and when i got home it also happen but pretty much 30mins-1hour.
>
> According to lm-sensors the 4 cores under full load can run between
> 58C-50C with there being up to 8 Degree flux
> between the cores. ( i plan to get some new heat sink grease and another
> Heat sink fan )  ( due to these processor
> running pretty hot to begin with this might be normal )  So this could be
> a heat issue. yet it seems to random and
> could run some pretty intense programs like folding @home 64bit smp
> version .... and games just fine )
>
> Power could also be the problem .......  ( so once i got home i pulled one
> of the 8800 GT in SLI out gona test this for a couple days )
> .... off to get a 1kw power supply if this is the problem or at least a
> supply with 2x 30amp 12v rails
>
> Could also be a problem witth SLI and nvidia driver. i did set option
> SLI=0 to disable it and it still rebooted
>

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