Yeap, I have that issue as well, 0703 bios.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ic3man
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Yeap, I have that issue as well, 0703 bios.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ic3man
Which the value it use in the SB to NB in the jumperfree, 200?
Fry's Electronics has the board on sale at their B&M stores ONLY, not Outpost.com. Price $249.99 + Tax. I They had < 10 at most of their stores. SKU is 4612868, and this is a Rev 1.01 board.Quote:
Originally Posted by LucusScott
anybody found the voltage reading points on the motherboard to check the cpu voltage and the dram voltage. i would like to compare them to what the programs are reporting. thanks and if this was covered earlier in this thread i appoligize in advance. thanks
I called my local Fry's in order to locate one of these boards. He told me that the only store that had any left was one in Arizona, being in CA I didn't ask which one.Quote:
Originally Posted by qdemn7
Blue078 measured at the mosfet but hasn't got back with us yet about exactly where.
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Originally Posted by arctic-k20Quote:
blue078: ive noticed something along those lines as well..on my board i set the vcore to 1.5 and it was showing 1.392 - the only way i could reliably get the vcore to where i wanted it was to drop it down to 1.3v and do the 200mv over volt function - then it tracks properly.
Yup, exact same problem here. Regardless of what I set the Vcore to, with the cpu overvolt disabled it would only run 1.4/1.39v. Cpu overvolt enabled and everything works fine.
For you guys with the voltage problems have you tried the 805 bios? I would like to know if its just the earlier bios with that problem. Mine with the 805 doesn't have that issue.
Quote:Fry's Electronics has the board on sale at their B&M stores ONLY, not Outpost.com. Price $249.99 + Tax. I They had < 10 at most of their stores. SKU is 4612868, and this is a Rev 1.01 board.
Thanks, when I told him to try FRYS I didn't know the SKU number... If he is close to one he may just be able to call with that... Good luck.
Quote:11k for 2xGT-sli seems fine imo. 2xGTX-sli will get average 13-14k. I have a single 512mb GTX which gets 11k. Have you tried comparing your score to other systems on futuremark?
Damn!! 11k with a 512 gtx!! I didn't know the extra mhz made that big of a difference. Your scoring with one card what I get in sli. Sniff. makes me sad. Are you running stock speeds on it too? I wish I had the full version of 3dmark05. Can't compair directly. I will check around though. thanks
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Originally Posted by smurfmods
sorry...maybe I'd missed your question, what was it again? I'll try my best to answer if I know them :D
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Originally Posted by arctic-k20
2.75Ghz @1.35v....very nice!!! :eek:
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Originally Posted by Perc
yup...the BIOS take a little while to get used to, different terms and all ;)
Your using the 703 and most people are going to that. I'm doing good with the 805 beta. Do you think the voltage problems people are getting maybe could be fixed with the 805. I'm not having that problem. (I did with an earlier 703) Not trying to say one is better than the other...Quote:
Originally Posted by ben805
Hopefully asus will come out with a non beta bios that will resolve this stuff.
I assume you're talking about the vcore issue, personally I did not find much advantages using the beta 805/804 over the official 703, infact....under subzero I found those beta to be more tricky to get up to 3.4~3.5Ghz than 703, maybe it was just my board so you guys will need to play with them and see what happen, as we all have different hardwares so the result may vary, though whatever you do try to stay away from 503....it's very buggy. Again, do not completely rely on the vcore reading from the BIOS, PC Probe, or AI Booster... they sucks IMO, you might not see much differences at lower vcore but try to set them to 1.56v~+ and see what your BIOS read, mine always stuck at 1.48v :stick:Quote:
Originally Posted by smurfmods
Yea, I hope the next official bios release would fix some of these bugs as well.
It's funny you should say the 503 is buggy... that's what I started with. Maybe that's why my 508 beta bios seemed to work so much better to me... Funny. There has to be a reliable way to read info from within windows! This sucks. Are all boards like this when they first start out?Quote:
Originally Posted by ben805
I will need your advice big time when my mach II comes in Monday or Tuesday. I will probably have to go to the 703. Did you hit cold bug? I have a 3800 X2 that i'm really worried about. I wonder if I will hit a brick wall with overclocking if it gets too cold. I have 2 3800 X2 right now. The one i'm using clocks higher on air but who knows when I put em both on phase. I'm hearing people say they can't overclock if the temp goes below even -10!!! My mach II will be well below that.
What did you use for neoprene insulation? Where did you buy it? I liked your pics for the phase. Should help me. Do you use a heater element on the back of your board?
I'm hanging fire on my Vapochill LS until I can find seal string in the UK. It seems not to exist. Anyone got a clue?
I'm still wandering round the board with the Venice and stock HSF, trying the Ballistix out at 200 HTT 2-2-2-5 1T (it works great). I'll try the 144 this week prolly.
Nah 600/1800. At stock I got 9700, then slowly started clocking. Havn't finished yet! I did read somewhere that this board takes advantage of the new 512mb cards becuase they take 'more' advantage of the dual 16x pci-e, smells like BS to me tho as other 512 cards are getting similar scores on different boards (although they are tested with fx-57):DQuote:
Originally Posted by smurfmods
Is anyone hear having problems with 'Asus Update'? Downloaded the latest version from Asus, tried installing and it wont recognise my motherboard.
Says :
NT Service registry error...please reboot.
Then once into the install it will say :
Setup detected no Asus motherboard...installation will now close
I know this is a new board but I thought other users had used the update program without problem.
I always loved Asus board unless they had problem with divider or lack of voltage (well usually modded vcore anyway). In fact, my best s754 board was asus modded. So fed up with spontaneously dying DFI and memory it has killed so far I was waiting for something I can trust on... about time :) (BTW, I went through 6 DFI boards now... 1 is known memory killer, 1 didn't even post when it got here, 1 died after 3 months of usage, 1 recently died after 3 months, 2 are in service right now but I just don't feel good about using it). Total memory burnt 6gig so far, total mb death count 4 out of 6. No wonder even fry's stop carrying them.
I read that this is caused by Creative's SB drivers, I had this problem when I was using the Audigy2 but since I upgraded to X-FI FPS its gone away.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ic3man
Funny thing is though I see in your sig your using X-FI too which doesn't make sense...
Thanks for that. Yeah I have Xfi-extreme music card with the latest drivers and its still no go. I'll try uninstalling the card to see if I can get it to work. I used to use the afudos flash procedure with my old K8vse board which worked fine but if I can flash it using windows it would save plenty of hassle.
Want to try out the beta bios for this board 804/805/
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Originally Posted by ben805
ya i wish - no its the 0703 bios not reporting properly - my vcore is really 1.55 (using 1.35 + 200mv option)
I had the same problems with the software. I wish asus would fix this quick.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ic3man
*People will moan and groan about windows bios update not being safe but the fact is there are a lot of mobo makers that offer this now. I've heard very few reports of messups. You have to make sure you have a stable system to begin with or your just asking for trouble with or without a bios flash...*
Only think working far as I can tell is the afudos. I believe there is some kind of auto bios update built into the bios when you boot but I'm not sure how to use it. I don't have the manual or the cd that came with the board.
I think you're referring to the safety backup of the default 'dual' bios should you push things too far and you cant post. The board resets to default values should this happen, saving you from clearing the cmos via jumper/battery. This feature has saved my ass a 'number' of times coz due to the battery/jumper being located directly behind the mammoth 512mb GTX card :D
Iceman do de "load setup defaults" and see if it happens again,ihad the same problem as you,and the APM on the bios was blank.After the Load setup defaults like Ben 805 said everything comes to normal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ic3man
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Your right that the safety backup can be a lifesaver... but I was actually refering to the ASUS EZ Flash feature.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ic3man
Ripped right off ASUS website -- "With ASUS EZ Flash, you can update BIOS before entering operating system. No more DOS-based flash utility and bootable diskette required."
I'm trying to download the manual now to find out more.
Yeah APM is showing correctly (bios has loaded defaults that any times from over zealous OCing I guess :D ) , tried loading defaults anyway just to be sure and Ausu Update still wont work, thx anyways.Quote:
Originally Posted by bullit
Smurfmods: Yeah, read about that although I cant find anything in the bios that mentions anything about it or any key prompts for entering the program :confused: Bios 703, rev 1.01 board btw. Looks like I may have to get the old floppies out:p:
Well, I've loaded the 805 beta and there is little difference from 703 in practice. The voltages are still out (BIOS CPU 1.400 is 1.44 in PCProbe or AIBooster, RAM 2.8 is 2.85), no change. Possibly overclocks a little less well. The big difference as far as I can see is with MCT Extra Timings, which now address all the variables in A64Tweaker by the look of it.
No, nowhere near as stable as 703. Time to revert.
Ah rats, Asus Update won't let me downdate - "use an Asus DOS utility". meh.
I had success using the Asus Updater flashing from the 0502 to the 0805 beta. I used the AFUDOS flash utility to go from the 0805 back to the 0502 because I didn't know about the setting allowing me to flash backwards. In the Update utility, in the dropdown menu, there's an option called OPTIONS. Open that and there is an option to downgrade bios. That way you can use the utility to flash to an earlier bios. I also used the updater to flash from the 0502 to the 0703.
I recieved my mobo today and it has thermal pad underneath that heatsink. Revision 1.01 as wellQuote:
Originally Posted by ben805
Thanks for that, I'll use it next time. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by shogan191
I'm wrong about the MCT settings btw, although I notice that TWR defaults to 3 in 703 and 2 in 805, at least with my RAM. Maybe that was causing the instability in 805?