Granite Bay "in da house"

[FUGGER]

First up to bat is the Tyan Trinity i7205

Very basic package, bare minimum shipped in generic box.

Things to note: RCA SP/DIF, 2 RS-232 ports, CPU is not centered it sits to the top of the socket.

I noticed steve@Focp has posted a GB score on page 2 for Christmas.

Hope you guys had a great Christmas and a safe new year.

New scores tonight as well as all the dirt on the BIOS.

[FUGGER]

It has a HIP6301 in a nice location.

Some pics unscaled for max detail.

http://fugger.netfirms.com/tyan1.jpg

http://fugger.netfirms.com/tyan2.jpg

[Zroc]

Looking forward to your report. The Tyan and the MSI are the only two GB boards I can get my hands on right now, and the MSI doesn't OC.
Hope the Tyan does (but that would surprise me, as they typically don't).

[NyCUndaGrounD]

cant wait to see how dissapointing is versus PE.

[FUGGER]

The P4PE was dissapointing

[Tedinde]

Hurry!!!!!! Steve blows for reviews, literally!!!!

[PiLsY]

Well with no memory dividers available on any board as yet announced youll need a super high FSB chip to take advantage of it. The memory performance is enormous though. Talking 2000/2000 unbuffered at about 170mhz and approximately 4300/4300 buffered. Prometheus has done a mini review over on asusboards.com of the Aopen board and has got some very good results.

My opinion? The 1.8a C1 will be the king on this board. A 2.26b C1 (if you can indeed get them) would totally rule - however, ive yet to find anywhere that still sells 2.26b's, let alone C1 steppings.

My 1.6a @ 3.3ghz+ might be nice though ;).

PiLsY.

[FUGGER]

Here is a PCMark 2002 (http://service.futuremark.com/compare?pcm=959418) at stock speed.

The BIOS is as bare as the box contents.

Still loading and setting up, I noticed the AGP 2x too

[charlie]

Fugger,
I'm very curious, as I'm about to pounce on a 8inxp!!!

for my 2.66
C

[FUGGER]

Getting things working better, the first score is without DC DDR

This score is with DC DDR enabled. (http://service.futuremark.com/compare?pcm=959662) I assumed I would have to split the memory onto each channel like RDR but I was wrong. They have to sit next to each other in order for DC to be enabled. It still worked great even when memory was installed wrong.

[macci]

HEres one at 200fsb :D
http://www.piopioshardware.com/ocarea/441.gif
(by PioPioHardware, more stuff w/ Gigabyte mobo here (http://www.piopioshardware.com/ocarea/xp1600/piopio1228.htm)

[Phalanx28]

Jeebus. I need me one of them there ES chips. :)

Phalanx28

[Raptor]

o_O

O My F... God!!!

ok, forget the P4G8x... Gigabyte will be my next motherboard!!!

[sysfailur]

DAYYYYYYYYUM. And for reference, that super pi is 41seconds, same as my 207mhz fsb, 2600mhz 2600+ + nforce2 setup... So it seems that 1000mhz slower, and both in dual channel, you get the same score. ;)

[FUGGER]

Absolutly sick bandwidth.

I scrounged the net trying to a few things out.

The board shipped with BIOS 1003 12/18/2002 and had "Miser 3" enabled with no way to disable it. So I had to step back to 1000 12/2/2002 to disable Miser 3. A lot of people will have this problem and many many boards will be sent back.

Miser 3 shuts down the hard drive after each use, so the drive constantly spins up and down while you use your machine.

Its a great performing board at stock speed. I think there is a problem with the HT. I can enable it in bios (1000 and 1003) and it will show up in the device manager but when I run sandra I do not get the huge PR like I did with the PE boards.

I wonder if I can do the pin trick to get 3:4 memory ratio

[deeznuts]

question fugger, are there any fsb adjustments? usually tyan doesn't even allow it, but i remember someone saying it allows up to 165. would just like to know the truth.

[FUGGER]

There is no FSB, vcore, or memory timing adjustments in the BIOS, I have been scrounging for a FSB program to manipulate the ICS950201 PLL and deal with the vcore from the HIP6301 to start.

I believe the BIOS does have the options but there is a key sequence to press to get to it. If anyone knows what to press on the Pheonix bios 6.4 to get advanced options please let me know. There had to have been a way to disable the Miser 4 other than changing bios revs. There is nothing from Tyan reguarding Miser 4 and its function.

XtremeSystems may want to put a front page notice for future Tyan 2662 owners who are searching the net as I type this information.

Other than miser 4 theboard is perfect, very stable and very strong. Stronger than the IT7 MAX2 rev2 at the same speed.

AGP 8x is buggy in some programs, it is at 8x and will report as 2x. This board does not have 2x option.

Here is a sandra memory bench of Tyan DC DDR and 3.06HT (http://fugger.netfirms.com/tyandc.jpg) enabled. I know it can do so much better, look at the memory timing. Im running a pair of PC3500C2. I will chance a celeron in the next few days with the pin trick to try for 3:4 operation.

[jjwa]

http://www.annot.net/jjwa/INXP-OC.JPG
here are a few OC-result from reviews.


addition:
Tweaktown managed to run it with a FSB of 180 Mhz with an unlocked processor