Making Suspend to RAM work with the DFI nF4 SLI-DR Expert
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
I finally found a workaround to a problem which has been bothering me since I built my quiet gaming PC back in January. Despite the DFI nF4 SLI-DR Expert being touted as “THE overclocker’s motherboard,” suspend to RAM (also known as STR or S3) didn’t work properly while overclocking.
There were two major problems:
1. The temperature sensor readings were wildly inaccurate and the voltage applied to the CPU was increased significantly, beyond any selected overclocking voltage. Not safe.
2. The FSB (HTT) speed would revert to stock, while maintaining my adjusted multiplier. This meant the CPU was running at 1900MHz instead of 2900MHz, lower than the stock non-overclocked speed. The overclocked FSB speed should have been 290MHz in my case.
I finally found a workaround to a problem which has been bothering me since I built my quiet gaming PC back in January. Despite the DFI nF4 SLI-DR Expert being touted as “THE overclocker’s motherboard,” suspend to RAM (also known as STR or S3) didn’t work properly while overclocking.
There were two major problems:
1. The temperature sensor readings were wildly inaccurate and the voltage applied to the CPU was increased significantly, beyond any selected overclocking voltage. Not safe.
2. The FSB (HTT) speed would revert to stock, while maintaining my adjusted multiplier. This meant the CPU was running at 1900MHz instead of 2900MHz, lower than the stock non-overclocked speed. The overclocked FSB speed should have been 290MHz in my case.
