A7N8X comparison data pool
Yo
I'll try to keep the intro to this thread as small as poss. It has come to the attention of many A7N8X owners that when trolling through the forums for info for help with setup and optimization of this board, info is not being provided that is essential for troubleshooting.
Hopefully, those that are keen to troubleshoot will provide the info requested within this thread. All other posts are of little use.
Claims of benchmark results are not acceptable, we need links to your comparisons etc. Could you also please state whether system is stable and provide any evidence you can when applicable.
Please, if you tweak your system after posting results and see performance gain, i.e add any hardware etc, please edit your original post. We don't want the thread to get too long, if we aim to keep things tidy then the benefits should be good
Here is a link to another thread that inspired this one. In particular - please see Mikee's posts. He explains quite clearly the problems encountered - rock on Mikee!
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&threadid=8175[/URL]
Here is another link to pictures of Nichicon cap and Rubycon Cap boards for those that have not identified which capacitators their board has
Nichicon
http://home.socal.rr.com/snkane/P1010339_s.jpg
Rubycon
http://home.socal.rr.com/snkane/P1010327_s.jpg
Requirements for your posts are listed below
Quick system spec summary with driver versions listed next to components
Deluxe vs. Non-Deluxe boards
Rubicon or Nichicon (supposedly better) voltage regulators on different manufacturing dates of the deluxe boards.
Various BIOS versions from original 1001-C, then 1001-E, 1001-G, 1002-Beta, 1002-Beta-Uber (custom edited to add in Northbridge chipset voltage adjustment of 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 instead of no adjustment in BIOS where it was fixed at 1.6v)
Various BIOS settings of RAM timings, voltages, devices disabled,
Type & amount of RAM
Type & amount of power supply
Type of CPU, & if L12 3rd bridge was cut &/or unlocked lower multipliers with various methods(including certain BIOS versions, conductive ink, wire in sockets/pins, using windshield defogger repair kits, etc.).
Type of Video Card
Type of HD for main OS
Types of cooling-air/water/refrigeration of CPU, Northbridge, Video Card chip, FSB, etc.
Volt modding of memory, Northbridge Chipset, CPU, &/or Video card chip.
POSTing-Able to Power On Self Test with a given FSB
Successfully loading into Windows
Being able to run WCupid or some simple Sandro2003 utilities
Being able to run a complete 3dMark2001 test
Being able to run & publish a complete 3dMark2001 score.
