AMD3200 Winchester + Prom

[fatty]

Ok has anyone got their winchester under a prometeia cooler yet?? I got myself a 3200 stuck it in my trusty msi k8n neo2 and guess what I didn't work after a lot of naffing about I updated the bios to 1.3 and thought hell this ought to do it but nooooo the mach2 boots at -30*C my winchester didnt like anything below -20*C so after even more naffing still no luck I ripped it out and bought a 3500 newcastle instead

So has anyone got it to work under a prom yet if so how and what mobo??

[perkam]

you ripped out a winchester for a newcastle - most of the world will be doing the opposite as more ppl post their HUGE Winchester OC gains (2.7 on air etc - its already happened many times, etc).

None theless, there are many who have put it under vapor cooling including the master of Gskill, onepagebook. He might be to help you out. Though you might have order some Gskill first :D :D :D

[Psilonaught1]

i dont understand what you mean - you mean when the cpu temp hits -20 the mobo craps out or what?

I will be using a 3200+/ Neo2 in my Mach2 in the next couple of days and i dont there will be any issues quite frankly

[jinu117]

I asked same question few days ago. Not sure if it is the mobo or something... but when 3200+ winchester on Neo2 Plat hit below -20 to -30c on evap temp, the board will start having instabilities or even boot up. Solution is to turn off prommy for a while and wait till temp goes up a bit and boot it up... than it will boot up -_-; I think it has something to do with the fact MSI board has no clue on negative temp... -_- (thus reporting probably absurdly high temp on bios, etc).
That is with 2 3200+ 939 and 2 neo2 plat... and I gave up on 939 at the time being... I am guessing maybe newcastle one's don't have that problem on prom? (3500+?)

PS) one thing I noticed for sure was that once I let prom heat up a little (like evap temp around -5 or so), turn both prom and mobo up and go to bios... it will read 40c or so for a while than suddenly sky rocket to 120+ c when temp gets lower than it will just freeze right there.... probably something in bios that "protects" the cpu...) I believe probably bios fix will fix the issue on this mobo... doubt if they will bother with less than .5% of market though.

PS) Tried bios 1.2 (which board came with), 1.36b, 1.37b all same results.

[Psilonaught1]

oh FFS so now i can't use the Neo2 :mad:

do any of the s939 boards work correctly with the Mach2? Haven't even received the ph00king board and already i have issues :rolleyes:

[jinu117]

oh FFS so now i can't use the Neo2 :mad:

do any of the s939 boards work correctly with the Mach2? Haven't even received the ph00king board and already i have issues :rolleyes:

Well at least one person seems to be working fine... (onepagebook). He claims he is fine with 1.36 bios... but than his chip is 3500 90nm... so not 100% same with 3200 90nm i "guess"...
Waiting to hear back from onepagebook on this one.

[fatty]

Well I am not the only one with this problem it did annoy the pee out of me having to revert back to a 3500 130 but not to worry when a better bios comes out I may buy another one or wait for the 57

[jinu117]

So... did anyone find any other socket 939 board that oc's well with 90nm cpu that won't have this boot up problem?