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. <br>
Making sure your video cards are all playing nice is a possibility too, so I agree with you testing there also. <br> 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. <br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Noah Norris <<a href="mailto:preludelinux@gmail.com">preludelinux@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">For those that made it to the event i brought my box i just built firday last week <br>Core2quad<br>
8 Gb - Ram <br>SLI 8800 GT 512 Mb video cards<br>500 Gb sata Hd<br>Case with plenty of fans (8+1ps fan)<br>650/750 watt Ps (suppose to be sli certified ... )<br>
<br><br>I have been getting random reboots on this box for some reason.<br>the first time it happened was 48 hours after i got the machine it happened twice during the demo.<br>and when i got home it also happen but pretty much 30mins-1hour. <br>
<br>According to lm-sensors the 4 cores under full load can run between 58C-50C with there being up to 8 Degree flux<br>between the cores. ( i plan to get some new heat sink grease and another Heat sink fan ) ( due to these processor <br>
running pretty hot to begin with this might be normal ) So this could be a heat issue. yet it seems to random and <br>could run some pretty intense programs like folding @home 64bit smp version .... and games just fine )<br>
<br>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 ) <br>.... off to get a 1kw power supply if this is the problem or at least a supply with 2x 30amp 12v rails <br>
<br>Could also be a problem witth SLI and nvidia driver. i did set option SLI=0 to disable it and it still rebooted <br>
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