Abit is back in the game

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08-14-2006, 01:29 PM
bingo13

I personally believe the board will need a hardware fix to reach anything over 400FSB and another bios spin to solve the DDR2533/667 issues. ;)
08-14-2006, 03:08 PM
Evilsizer

well even with the bios 13 posted above no matter what i try i cant get 800fsb ratio to work. i am stuck at the 300mhz wall atm with 533 ratio.
08-14-2006, 04:33 PM
Tarowah

The 13 Bios did nothing for me at all, I will give Abit another week or so and see what they can come up with, but thats about it, if this board isnt running as I expected it too then I will go with something else.
08-14-2006, 07:23 PM
uOpt

Can somebody put this thread out of it's misery by changing the thread title?

I don't know what kind of game they are supposed to be back in...
08-14-2006, 07:24 PM
[TAG]Imp

well, it was supposed to be in the game after the release of fuggers review... which is MIA...
08-14-2006, 07:26 PM
dogsx2

Quote:

Originally Posted by uOpt

Can somebody put this thread out of it misery by changing the thread title.

I don't know what kind of game they are supposed to be back in...

Back in the game to get us to thinking that they had changed their ways. The proof in is the pudding though.:(

Good thing it was Fugger, anyone else would have gotten flamed so bad they would have looked like a crisppy critter.
08-14-2006, 07:32 PM
dinos22

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Originally Posted by dogsx2

Back in the game to get us to thinking that they had changed their ways. The proof in is the pudding though.:(

Good thing it was Fugger, anyone else would have gotten flamed so bad they would have looked like a crisppy critter.

yeah Abit is doing sweet F.A. for enthusiasts
08-14-2006, 07:49 PM
Raja@ASUS

maybe the awd9 max will fare better?
08-14-2006, 08:18 PM
Charles Wirth

Abit is back making enthusiast boards and getting them to market in a fairly timely manner. The MAX board should be interesting.

At one point we lost contact with Abit, Harry is no longer there.
08-14-2006, 08:39 PM
[TAG]Imp

i really hope i can at least get 400 FSB out of my 6400...
08-14-2006, 08:45 PM
Charles Wirth

More like 450+ as we know 500+ is surely possible.
08-14-2006, 09:19 PM
[TAG]Imp

on this board? <_<
08-14-2006, 10:15 PM
norse

I wont be using abit again, too many problems in my past.

edit: tag from css?
08-14-2006, 10:32 PM
[TAG]Imp

uh... yeah, but why? there's only like 3 of us that play CSS...
08-15-2006, 09:20 AM
Evilsizer

fugger did you ever get that new board from abit?
08-15-2006, 10:12 AM
burningrave101

I've got the AB9 Pro to boot at around 310-320MHz now with 800MHz RAM ratio but the memory isn't stable ither because of the board or the memory being at such a high speed. I bumped the VDIMM on up to 2.3v but it didn't help at that range. I'm sitting pretty stable at 300MHz FSB right now with RAM at 900MHz 2.2v.
08-15-2006, 11:04 AM
Evilsizer

Quote:

Originally Posted by burningrave101

I've got the AB9 Pro to boot at around 310-320MHz now with 800MHz RAM ratio but the memory isn't stable ither because of the board or the memory being at such a high speed. I bumped the VDIMM on up to 2.3v but it didn't help at that range. I'm sitting pretty stable at 300MHz FSB right now with RAM at 900MHz 2.2v.

sounds like a problem with the bios then. i still want to know why my 6400-c4's wont boot with 800 ratio. the ocz ddr2-667's boot at ddr2-800 though i loosened the timeings to 5-5-5-14 @2v. some problems poped up but i have found the stick i have doesnt like lots of volts. im off to memtest the ram at differnt voltages and cas to see what is stable.
08-15-2006, 11:44 AM
burningrave101

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Originally Posted by Evilsizer

sounds like a problem with the bios then. i still want to know why my 6400-c4's wont boot with 800 ratio. the ocz ddr2-667's boot at ddr2-800 though i loosened the timeings to 5-5-5-14 @2v. some problems poped up but i have found the stick i have doesnt like lots of volts. im off to memtest the ram at differnt voltages and cas to see what is stable.

Dude, try running the DIMMs in slots 1,2 single channel mode and then change the RAM ratio to 533MHz. Someone pointed it out over at the Abit forums that they are doing much better in single channel mode and i would have to agree. I seem to be Prime stable now at 320Mhz FSB with the 533MHz ratio. I'm going to try for higher in just a minute.
08-15-2006, 11:47 AM
burningrave101

Hey Fugger, stay after those fuggers at Abit if you can so maybe they will rush out another AB9 Pro BIOS soon so we can see if this board is capable of anything.
08-15-2006, 11:59 AM
burningrave101

Evilsizer, i'm Prime'ing at 350MHz FSB now for almost 10 minutes on Large FFTs :). If it will hold for an hour then i will try for 370 and then on up to 400! One of the guys on the Abit forum is doing 400MHz FSB on his in single channel slots 1,2 but i think he said it failed Prime after an hour or so but he hadn't raised the voltage on the MCH and ICHIO.
08-15-2006, 12:14 PM
Evilsizer

Quote:

Originally Posted by burningrave101

Dude, try running the DIMMs in slots 1,2 single channel mode and then change the RAM ratio to 533MHz. Someone pointed it out over at the Abit forums that they are doing much better in single channel mode and i would have to agree. I seem to be Prime stable now at 320Mhz FSB with the 533MHz ratio. I'm going to try for higher in just a minute.

yea i noticed that even with bios11/13 running dual channle even at stock speeds for cpu and ratio 533 i get errors in windows. if i go to single stick @same setting no problems at all.

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Originally Posted by burningrave101

Evilsizer, i'm Prime'ing at 350MHz FSB now for almost 10 minutes on Large FFTs :). If it will hold for an hour then i will try for 370 and then on up to 400! One of the guys on the Abit forum is doing 400MHz FSB on his in single channel slots 1,2 but i think he said it failed Prime after an hour or so but he hadn't raised the voltage on the MCH and ICHIO.

well i hve mch .1+ and ichio .05+ with the ocz ram, i am still unsure if the c4's are the problem or the board. currently reinstall windows-xp, so testing will get going soon.
08-15-2006, 12:40 PM
[TAG]Imp

i think this is still just ram compatibility issues with P965... my Patriot LLK is running fine...
08-15-2006, 01:00 PM
ty42

i'm running 306M, 1:1, Dual CH no problem very stable on XPSP2 & VIsta. MCH is +0.1v
08-15-2006, 01:09 PM
burningrave101

Quote:

Originally Posted by ty42

i'm running 306M, 1:1, Dual CH no problem very stable on XPSP2 & VIsta. MCH is +0.1v

You're running 306Mhz? ~300Mhz range is pretty easy in dual channel. Try for at least 350Mhz dual channel. I think this board has a memory controller issue or something with running dual channel. I just Prime'd for over an hour in single channel 350MHz and now running Windows Memtest and havn't noticed a stability issue yet.
08-15-2006, 01:23 PM
[TAG]Imp

Any word on the free ugurus? :)
and some reviews if you have em spare :P

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