Jason Weisberger wrote:
I actually have 4 gigs of gskill DDR 3 1600 and from experience I can
tell you that the stock voltage on those chips is set too low. The
company actually recommends that you use 1.9 volts while most
motherboards will default to 1.5 or 1.6. Double check this however,
because I know they were working on some JEDEC compliant DDR 3
(standard voltage of 1.5) a while back but I'm not certain if they
just decided to throw in the towel on that effort. My system would
crash using 1.5 but wouldn't produce any errors on memtest86+. This
all just sounds too familiar.
Well, I think recompiling everything fixed the issue. This is where I
am now:
root@fireball / # uptime
14:05:46 up 1 day, 5:29, 4 users, load average: 0.43, 0.24, 0.23
root@fireball / #
So far, no problems. I'll check on the voltages when I reboot again. I
know it was set to auto tho. I don't usually mess with those. I did
overclock my old rig once, folding complained so I set it back and
haven't messed with it since.
Another thing, I tried putting portage on tmpfs, it isn't any faster. I
recompiled a few packages and most of them only had a difference of
seconds. Even a 20 minute compile only had a difference of like 20
seconds. Most were less than that tho.
I got to find some good way to use all this ram. Maybe I need to start
working with editing videos or something. I got some on VHS that need
to be on DVD. ^_^
Dale
:-) :-)
