ABIT AN-M2 with X2 3600+ FSB 300 out of box

[Hazzan]

Come to my Place ABIT AN-M2 :) :) , Testing with X2 3600+ ( Brisbane ) still in Progress..I cant go higher up FSB 300...Maybe I thing this limitation Bios :( :(

http://img.techpowerup.org/070611/IMG_0006.jpg

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http://img.techpowerup.org/070609/AN-M2 1.jpg

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[Quintero]

300 HTT on a mATX board is certainly not bad! I loved my Abit NF-M2 nView, even though it didn't OC as well as your board. nVidias new 7050PV + nF 630a combo looks interesting indeed.

But the mATX OC-king seems to be the the Biostar 7050 board... (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=142321) 355 HTT is just incredible!

[FLMJIGGY]

Looks good. Pics? Where did u get?

[wedfighter]

Looks good. Pics? Where did u get?
he's one of abit tester in my country...
it would not be a hard way to get it :D :D

@hazzan
it might be the BIOS... Brisbane can scale easily to 3GHz-ish

[nullface]

I seem to hit a wall to at FSB:300 no matter multipiler.
When i get my Swiffy MCW30 in place ille try to give it som serius voltage :D (the SB)

[mAJORD]

Mine maxes at FSB300 aswell :)

Next bios might bering some more joy?

Another bug I found - If you get a failed boot (from trying to boot over 300, or otherwise) when it recovers after a reset, it gets locked into safe mode, and you cant overclock again.

Have to clear CMOS completely.

Anyone else notice the 'not for production use' IGP bios? :yepp:

[nullface]

I didnt, but in xtream cases, It wont post anything, and i have to unplug the whole system, and clear cmos.

But it is good to se that im not the only one hitting a wall at 300 :)

[Hazzan]

@wedfighter : Course this limitation in Bios...All brisbane X2 3600+ easy to 3Ghz

Stiil waiting new bios from engeneer ABIT......

[kite7]

New bios released on the 11th of June
ftp://ftp.abit.com.tw/pub/download/bios/nfm2/nfm214.zip

Try to set TRC to 26 in the bios, I was able to go from 300 to 316mhz easily after that

[mAJORD]

that's the NF-M2 bios :) we are discussing AN-M2

[nullface]

Og its an AN, what can it do the NF cant?

[Hazzan]

@nullface : not support !!!

[bldegle2]

"All brisbane X2 3600+ easy to 3Ghz"

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LOL. that would be nice, but, unfortunately, untrue......i have read of several who didn't/couldn't get 3 gig.....

Maybe a better statement would be that MOST of the Brisbane X2 3600+ cpu make 3 gig, stable is another avenue not thoroughly investigated yet either.....

laterz

to the OP, i got an X2 3600+ Brisby running on an AM2 riser card on a AsRock 939 Dual (they live on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) w/4gig of Adata pc6400 running 1/1, 488.1 mhz (976.2)....running w/4 gig to test the functionality of all four dimms loaded up, this is on the test bench, so far so good.....

these little nuggets do work nicely....

BTW, i am one of the 3600+ Brisbane owners that CAN'T get 3 gig, can't even get to 2.8gig.................and just so's ya know, i got an opty 165 in the main rig that will do 3.2gig max, runs stock volts @2.84gig 24/7....seems
AMD is stuck on 3 gig right now for most of their newer CPU's

[gondezz]

Lot of motherboards give wrong temperature reading for Brisbane.

@Hazzan: Maybe you should ask abit engineering to fix that too, because temperature readings you showed me seems impossible :)
Just around 10 C @ 2850 MHz with Scythe Ninja?
That would be great if true... :)

[FLMJIGGY]

They do run a lot cooler but 10 seems a bit far fetched.

Mine is at 1.35V @ 2.8G and the heatsink even with a 120 mm running at 5v is not even warm to the touch. (Thermy HR01)

[funnyperson1]

"All brisbane X2 3600+ easy to 3Ghz"

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

LOL. that would be nice, but, unfortunately, untrue......i have read of several who didn't/couldn't get 3 gig.....

Maybe a better statement would be that MOST of the Brisbane X2 3600+ cpu make 3 gig, stable is another avenue not thoroughly investigated yet either.....

laterz

to the OP, i got an X2 3600+ Brisby running on an AM2 riser card on a AsRock 939 Dual (they live on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) w/4gig of Adata pc6400 running 1/1, 488.1 mhz (976.2)....running w/4 gig to test the functionality of all four dimms loaded up, this is on the test bench, so far so good.....

these little nuggets do work nicely....

BTW, i am one of the 3600+ Brisbane owners that CAN'T get 3 gig, can't even get to 2.8gig.................and just so's ya know, i got an opty 165 in the main rig that will do 3.2gig max, runs stock volts @2.84gig 24/7....seems
AMD is stuck on 3 gig right now for most of their newer CPU's

I'm willing to bet you're being held back by the clocking abilities of the AM2 riser card. I haven't seen an X2 3600+ that couldn't hit 2.8 in a good board.

[bldegle2]

"that couldn't hit 2.8 in a good board."

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????? still isn't 3 gig as I was alluding too. and, yes, i agree, until i put a vcore mod on the riser card, clocking will be severly limited.......limited to 1.35 vcore max right now...

i am pulling the trigger on a true AM2 board, it has come down to a choice between two boards................

laterz

[Lestat]

300 is easy,, im sitting at 333 and have booted into windows at 350

the 3600 brisbane uses a 9.5x multi DONT overclock like that kick it down to a solid 9x multi and the baord loves it


Abit also released a new bios for this mobo
http://www.lejabeach.com/ABIT/nf-m2/
bios 14

temps are still wrong even though they claimed to have calibrated them.


i will flash mine tonight and find out.

in the meantime someone else try it lol.

[TEDY]

you sure 9x is better ?

[mAJORD]

Lestat you're the second person to link the bios of the wrong board in this thread

Can you edit your post before you confuse people? :P , I think you've entered the thread thinking it was about the nf-m2, otherwise, tell us how you got over 300 on the AN-m2..

and btw, the temps are actually right on the AN I've found.. finally

[mAJORD]

New bios FOR THIS BOARD (AN-M2) this time..

http://www.abit.com.tw/page/au/download/download_bios_detail.php?pFILE_TYPE=Bios&pMAIN_TYPE=Motherboard&pTITLE_ON_SCREEN=AN-M2&pSOCKET_TYPE=Socket%20AM2

Unfortunatly doesn't seem to fix any of the OCing past 300 woes :( no boot @ 301 for me still

[barong]

how about now is there any bios that can fix overclock past 300, need help

[lism]

How about using a clockgen to bypass the 300MHz limitation? Or is'nt there support?

My motherboard does 340 stable (nforce 550, Gigabyte M55S3).

[ZOMGVTEK]

I cant get my friends 3600+ beyond 2.6 stable. It boots at 2.8, but i cant get it stable.