Now all we need is a Vdimm mod, then Im sold.
DFI wont see my cash again :slapass:
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Now all we need is a Vdimm mod, then Im sold.
DFI wont see my cash again :slapass:
Now another question arise.....how well does this motherboard perform under subzero?? I guess I'll have to answer that questions myself....hehe, I'm going to prep the motherboard for a single stage phase change now and see if this A8N32 allow me to push my opty to the next level, couple weeks ago with the DFI Ultra-D I was able to passed OCCT and SPI 32M @3.40Ghz, I'm curious to see if I can breach that wall with this Asus, more results to follow soon..... ;)
-watercool so we can go beyong stock volts, but even watercooling has its limitsQuote:
Originally Posted by trza2k
-ur right who the heck needs a 260 dollar motherboard anyways, then again the evil side of us wants the latest and newest, and it might not be the best.
-ram and cpu two different thing can't compare really.
-we overclock to get the most bang, dollar wise, not having the chip explode cause we pumped too much volts into it. Besides these days who really "overclocks" anymore? All I hear about is people buying GTX, XT this, Platinum that. Ain't much of a value there. Some are willing to buy 1k dollar cpus. You're right why the hell do we even overclock when a lot of us always go for the highest price item there is or mucho dinero items? This place needs to be changed to extremespenders.com forums. Then again, this phenomenon seems to happen mostly on the videocard and AMD side. Intel guys still go for the lowest model and overclock the heck out of it while we purchase 400 dollar dualcore AMD cpus.
arent u limited on volts? or does it need less volts the colder it is?Quote:
Originally Posted by ben805
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Originally Posted by situman
my 148 opty is not bound by the vcore limation and I do not have any problem with getting 1.75+v, I would never ever put more than 1.65v through any cpu so the 1.7~1.77v is pretty much useless to me and I don't really care for. As I said before I think somehow the Asus detected certain code from the cpu to determine where to put a cap on certain chips, so far lowdog and trza2k had found their dually to capped at 1.58, and his 3200 was capped at around 1.64v, so this limitation varies. Will lower temperature being able to shift the cap? that I don't know unless I have a dual core or 3200 to test just for the hell of it, but for now I'm only interested in finding out how well it perform under subzero.....be back with results later. :D
here's some screenie of the seal string in place, I also took out the metal backplate and have to grease and seal the back to prevent condensation as well, will fire up the phase change soon...
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...chmentid=40149
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...chmentid=40148
ben, did you happen to check if the copper mosfet heatsink has thermal paste under it, since the other one doesn't?
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Originally Posted by Psyche911
yes I had already checked the copper heatpipe, they have thermal goo on SB, NB and under that chunk of copper fins so I don't see any benefit to mess with them :D the aluminum mosfet sink is the only one that doesn't has anything on.
lookin' good, lookin' good, show us some resaults already! :D :) :slobber:Quote:
Originally Posted by ben805
I think I found a damn cold bug on this mobo....can't confirm yet but I'm working on it now, the vcore overvolt is giving me a hard time :slapass: so far I only get it up to 3.30 @1.50v, will keep trying and see what happen next...
update2: Under subzero so far the only bios that work well for me is 703, bios 804 and 805 do not like the cold, they might work for you so try them out and see what happen. Bios 502 is very problematic, if my overclock is unstable and can't get a POST, power cycling the PC with the insert or delete key pressed WILL NOT force the bios back to default setting, I had to removed the battery and disconnected the power for about 5min for the cmos to reset, took me a good 30min just to get the sucker to boot again, stay away from this version at all cost as I do not see any cmos reset jumper on this mobo! :eek: version 703 and up allow me to force the default setting with insert key.
I do not know if this is a bios issue or not but I've found that the vcore display on bios and PC Probe are very inaccurate...or I should say it's rather useless, the vcore sensor always show 1.48~1.50v whenever I set it from anywhere around 1.45 to 1.56v. The cpu temperature display on PC Probe is a joke, the BIOS shows the cpu temperature at -21'C but PC Probe reports it at +21'C, it's funny to see it went from +21'C down to +17'C when I started Prime, probably have the same bug as the Smartguardian and can't report subzero properly.
Overclocking under the phase change was not as smooth as I'd expected and part of the reason is that my expectation was a bit unrealistic, I was wishing for 3.50Ghz :D but 3.40 is pretty much the limit of this chip on single stage...as far as max clock goes it makes no difference on this board or the Ultra-D.
The windows version of Asus Update only allow you to upgrade the version, for downgrade you'll have to use the dos utility, after flashing the bios from DOS make sure you do a cold boot then load the default setting, and put all your settings back afterward, otherwise the power management and few other settings in the bios will get all whacky and windows might not load up anymore. In the mean time...I kinda missed the DFI's CMOS reloaded, it could come in handy from time to time. :D
Well don't know what to think about this....but a guy just mentioned to me that a friend of his that works at Asus said the A8N32 had been recalled because it was frying cpu's with certain types of PSU's and there were other things still unknown. :confused:
Now I'm not saying this is a fact, I just don't know what the hell is the truth regarding this matter any more. :confused:
damm mb keeps sellin out at newegg arrrgg! whats with asus why cant they freakin send enough mbs for them to stay in stock longer then 3hrs!
peace perc,
Perhaps the limited availability is due to Asus rigorously testing the available boards in stock and only ship those that passes the test. Might be a good thing since there's only been one case of someone killing their cpu.
Well the Ebay rumor was that they won't ship to vendors for a few more days...but we'll see.Quote:
Originally Posted by ben805
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Originally Posted by Perc
Are you referring to today, as I don't see that they have had any since Thurs, and I show a 11/22 eta.
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Originally Posted by lowdog
This has got to be one of the strangest product launch I have ever seen. I am totally confused at this point. The auction on ebay that started this whole rumor was pulled, then relisted and said it was pulled due to a prize giveaway. I have tried contacting him twice as to the rev. 2.0 deal and still no response.
uhmmm....yea, my brother's best friend's sister's fiance's cousin's ex-husband's uncle also said that Asus is going to secretely mail out a US$500 check to those who registered this product with them, they also said there's a huge overclocking contest schedule on December 17th 2005 at 12pm that is sponsor by Asus, the competition will be held in California at the Sparkomatic stadium, the top overclocker award is a brand spanking new 2006 SVT Mustang, 2nd place is Geo Metro and 3rd place will be half a dozen of FX-57 so make sure you sign up for this jaw-dropping contest, they said even the worst overclockers will get a free special t-shirt that has the signature of the world famous champion gamer named Mrknow Itall.
But wait, I also heard from somewhere that Asus just bought out Abit but they're working around the clock on their newest chipset that is suppose to have 4 trillion transistors, watch out nvidia!! :rolleyes:
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Originally Posted by ben805
hehehehe
LOL :toast:
Holy cow I've gotta book the flight. A free T shirt is sweet.
lol :cheer:
@ Ben - Sorry if this is slightly OT - but I just wanted to ask about the prep work you did on the CPU for phase testing. It took me a while to figure out what I was looking at because I've never seen this technique before. It looks like you applied the seal string directly to the IHS-less (a.k.a. naked) CPU, leaving only the core exposed. I can make out the "bumpers" you put on the CPU to prevent crushing or chipping. What the heck is the the rectangular shape directly below the core? Can you post a shot of the evap head attached. Thanks.
what is the difference between neophrene and "seal string" all i have ever used for phase is neophrene.
Neoprene foam comes in sheets like cloth (I can't think of a better way to describe it, but it's still a bad description)
Steal String is like putty. Seal String is incredibly overpriced and should be avoided. For 10$ you can get about 20 times as much as is included in a roll of seal string from Home Depot, it's called cork tape.
hehe....that's worn out black electrical tape on the cpu that you're looking at, I do this to all naked chips to protect those little ICS around the core, they also provide cushion whenever I mount heatsink or evap head on them to prevent chipped core...pretty much a double edged sword, there's no bumpers or feets...two layers of the tape is all you need. ;) as you can see there are quite a few ICs have the print out showing on the tape, those ICs would of been crushed without the tape.Quote:
Originally Posted by gundamit
If I put my 7800GT in 2nd PCI-E slot, there's very little breathing room between the GPU heatsink and the last PCI slot at the bottom, if you have a double slots GTX with jumbo heatsink on 2nd PCI-E slot there's no way you can squeeze anything onto the last PCI.Quote:
Originally Posted by SamHughe
@Ben805,
Super Job here.....I really applaud your attention to detail and answering all the questions :)
Bravo !!! :toast: :banana: :woot:
when will the ocz boys get to testing one of these? Doesn't seem fair they only test DFI products.
Situman I think they are testing it out. I remember one of the OCZ guys hinting there was something real nice about this board. He did not elaborate on it though.
i know thats why i am asking. hope they would give us results soon.
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Originally Posted by RyderOCZ
thanks for the kind words....I'll try my best to post my finding ;) this board is fun to play with and I would love to see how it performs with some OCZ sticks as well. :toast:
Yes, please keep us updated!
doesnt your board have de jumper placed on top right of the batery?? i'm seeing it on the manual that i download from asus website, page46 section 2.6.Quote:
Originally Posted by ben805
I hinted at that based on "early info" that I heard through the grapevine about its performance.Quote:
Originally Posted by chunkylover77
I do believe they have one at HQ for testing puposes and so far I have heard good results. I do not know what ram they have used in it yet, etc. But I guess things are very positive.
To my knowledge, non of the forum staff have this board......Yet ;)
@Situman.....If Asus would send out boards like DFI does....you can bet we would have results for you :D
I got one on the way, should have it in a few days im told ;)
If you think this is good Wesley as AT has the new RD480 Asus mobo at 325fsb 1:1 fully stable for a new record with his OCZ TCCD 3-4-3- timings...Im hoping to get one of these boards also ;)
thanks for the info....I was looking for jumper labeling like 'CMOS' but I guess I should of read the dang user manual :lol: they refer it as RTC RAM...wouldn't of suspect that was the one to reset when I took out the battery :p: at the bottom of section 2.6 on the manual it said:Quote:
Originally Posted by CyberOps
"• You do not need to clear the RTC when the system hangs due to overclocking. For system failure due to overclocking, use the C.P.R. (CPU Parameter Recall) feature. Shut down and reboot the system so the BIOS can automatically reset parameter settings to default values."
9 out of 10 times this C.P.R feature doesn't work for me when i was using 703 version and was trying to boot up at 3.45Ghz+ :lol:
Tweaking the memory timing on this board is much easier IMO, and it is very forgiving as well, micron chips are practically plug-n-play now...which is not possible before. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by RyderOCZ
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Originally Posted by Tony
That's great news....I'm looking forward to some great results as you guys have more experiences on all these timing deal, and I hope before long someone is willing to come up with a mod bios to further enhance this very fine piece of hardware ;) Speaking of running 1:1....I'll have to try my ballistix tonight when i got home from work :yepp:
thats good to hear, we need experts like you guys to test various mobos and not just one brand.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tony
maybe an A8N32 modded bios ? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Tony
Well, in my DFI NF4 Ultra-D it was plug n play. I even pulled out 290 at the first attempt :p:Quote:
Originally Posted by ben805
It seems that this is a nice board. It's a shame the vcore issue (and the price). But I'm sure that it's nothing a modded bios can't solve.
Congrats for your awesome review.
PS: I have a 3500 winnie on air @1.75v for 9 months (no IHS). Still working as in day 1 ;)
i've got some OCZ EB 2GB that i might test out tonight if i can get over the voltage limit on the cpus :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by situman
I've been hammering the ballistix for the last hour and still trying to stabilize them at 300 1:1, while trying different combinations of unfamiliar settings I'm getting BSOD and corrupted startup files left and right.....good thing I made an image of the hard drive to restore from :D :D Only if I knew what the heck is DDR clock Skew and DDR Input Strobe Skew.....ai yai yai!
Thanks! It's good to know.Quote:
Originally Posted by ben805
P.S. New review up:
http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q4...i/index.x?pg=1
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Originally Posted by ben805
Ben, whats the best stable speed you've got out of the Ballistix so far on this board? :toast:
Thank you for posting those pics.Quote:
Originally Posted by ben805
you just brought my butchered opteron 146 back from the dead with that
electrical tape idea..
link
Nice to hear that as I already (pre-)ordered the Asus A8R-MVP... did you get the info directly from him or is it somwhere on AT's forums bcs the review isn't out yet?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tony
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Originally Posted by Psyche911
The reviewer botched the overclocking results...he used a "8.5 multi"
He botched it somehow, doesn't seem right at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blue078
glad your opty is alive again, I think with the tape prevent those exposed copper traces from getting short circuit with heatsink, you probably can apply a thin layer of nail polish on the damaged surface then put the tape back on to further protect them.Quote:
Originally Posted by OgreX
I didn't play with it long enough last night and went to bed instead, the big typhoon is back in the case and I'd jumped straight from 282 to 300 last night so the best stable speed was at 282 from the previous 3.10Ghz run. I really wish this asus has the CMOS Reloaded option and I think this board is begging for a BIOS update, the TREF only has 3 options so I didn't have much to try there, from experience TREF play a major role in overclocking these Ballistix so it would be helpful if I could get more values to play with. I'd also noticed if the timing and overclock speed was instable then the BIOS would either automatically relax the TREF, TWR, MAL and READ Preamble, or it would not work at all. I suppose the board is doing its job to prevent me from frying these sticks when I was hammering them at 300, though it could be annoying at time. :p: we really need some skillful memory tweaker such as Tony or the OCZ folks who know what their doing to exploit all these timing, for me it's pretty much trial and error shooting in the dark. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by madpete
Agreed yeah, looking forward to Tony's results.Quote:
Originally Posted by ben805
Can I just ask you one more thing? Are these results at T1?
I can't get my board and ram to do over 285mhz at T1 (1:1), and the ram is capable 300mhz+ T1 on the DFI.
Cheers Ben.
no problem at all....feel free ask, yes I only use 1T and definitely will stay away from 2T unless I'm running 4 x1GB, which I'll try as soon as I received my RMA pair back from newegg. set 11ns for Async Latency, 9.5ns for Read Preamble, and 24clk for TRFC,TRC in Auto, once you dial in those values then leave them for now, there is only three settings for TREF so play with it one at a time and see what happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by madpete
Super-cool ben - i have 2GB Ballistix too and my mobo is being delivered tomorrow. :woot:
I can see myself sparking up my untried VapoChill Ls for the first time with this. Thanks for the luxurious amount of info you've provided here. :cool:
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Originally Posted by trza2k
Try leaving the vcore at 1.40v, and enable the overvolt and see what happen, do not rely on the POS vcore reading from BIOS....it's useless, if it still reads 1.58v but in reality you might be pumping 1.62v so don't get too crazy on the voltage just because the meter report it at 1.58. When I set mine to 1.450v the bios vcore reads 1.50v, when I turned it up to 1.56v the bios vcore still stuck at 1.50v :stick:
i finally got a response from the guy that started the whole rumor about the rev 2. He stated that the boards he is selling are rev 1.01. SO THERE IS NO REV 2.0!! Which I think we probably already figured out, but I just wanted to add my findings.
no problem ;) when you take out the backplate for your LS install, take your time to do it...the backplate has some sticky stuff on it, if you're going to use screw driver to pry it out just becareful not to scratch the crap out of the pcb :lol: use the provided heatpipe fan anyway eventhough I didn't find any significant gain from it, use the cpu fan header otherwise the BIOS will throw a cpu fan error during POST.Quote:
Originally Posted by stone_cold_Jimi
I'd figured...thanks for letting us know though :D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by cronic
Guys, I got my board this morning, I popped in my 3000 to setup the install, played with cpu volts first, I got 1.68 with the overvolt option, one thing I notcied is that the vcore reading is off, set at 1.4 in bios gets u 1.45 (IN the BIOS). I think the bios needs to be updated, I managed 1.68 BUT, if the overvolt (the overvolt that in in ADDITION to the optional overvolt) is not being read, it would actually be correct even though the cpu reading is incorrect, anyone got a fluke/multi meter so we can verify this? Also, Ben, did u notice that there is a thin layer of shin etsu on your mostfet sink? it's covered in plastic to protect the joint in shipping, I peeled it off, then removed the junk and put some ceramic on there, I advise everyone else to do the same. Well, more testing when I get home, I'll pop in my duallys when I get a fresh install in :) MORE TO COME....
Got my board coming tommorow with a 165 opty. Wont be able to do much tho as I aint got my 512GTx coming till the end of the week...I will be keeping a very cloe eye on this thread :slobber: ..gr8 work Ben :clap:
in stock at mwave. better hurry
Glad to hear, awaiting results.....hehe. I'd mentioned this before but as a reminder....do not rely on the vcore reading, it's extremely inaccurate! :stick: if you set the vcore to 1.56 and enable the overvolt...you are more than likely pumping 1.76~1.77v to your cpu even if the reading stuck at 1.68v, and yes this motherboard is begging for a bios update to correct a few bugs. I just found out that if you need a vdimm reading you'll have to install the Ai-Booster on your windows, the bios and pc probe don't have any vdimm. For now I'm going to stick with BIOS 703 which is the one that shipped with the board, I do not have much confidence in using the beta 804 and 805 after messing around with them in the past couple days, if I remember correctly I believe those bios date are as follow: 703 - 10/27/05, 804 - 11/6/05, and 805 - 11/8/05. What shin are you refering to? got any picture? I didn't see any on mine....I just put some AS5 on all those mosfets then put the aluminum sink back on.Quote:
Originally Posted by fareastgq
I'm still at work but when I get home I'll see if I can use my DMM to measure the vcore, alright...someone pointed out the vcore can be measure from one of the mosfet or coil, will have to hunt for it then :D
Very interesting, my board comes sometime around Friday I'll take a look. Gotta love how the price immediately drops tho... :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by cronic
First of all thanks for your patience and your nice review of this card. You gave us very useful information. I also wonder if there's a chance of giving more than 3.2 volts to ram sticks other than vmodding? I'd love to use some bh5 on this mobo
yea in 2 weeks they will be 200.00, but thats the price you pay for being on the bleeding edge.Quote:
Originally Posted by jw0rd
if u take your mosfet sink off ben, look closely, u will see it, it's almost the same color as the sink itself and u almost can't tell that it's there. Unless they missed yours, guess it could happen. There is a plastic layer, then TIM, then the sink itself. it's the same crap amd uses which is made by shin etsu.
3.2v is the most you can get out of the vdimm on this board, you'll need to either vmod it, or get the OCZ booster.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozan Baseski
hmm....I don't recall seeing any thing like that, here is the picture of the mosfet sink, I yank it off the minute I took the mobo out of the package....no TIM whatsoever can be found on the sink :confused: lookie here...Quote:
Originally Posted by fareastgq
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...chmentid=40056
I guess they probably missed it....in a way I'm glad they did because I'll more than likely scrap it off and use AS5 anyway :D
yeah, they didn't do it to yours, I wish they didn't waste it on mine too, wasted 10 mins of my time, heh.
alright got my ship confirmation on both boards. I will have them tommorow. I will post results as soon as possible. I CAN'T WAIT!~!!!!!!!!!
wat kind of caps does this board use? They look like rubycons, but then again they don't. I hope they are high quality, especially the "RIO" thing they slapped on top of it.
bad news.....I'd RMA my first pair of Ballistix a week or two ago and while I'm still waiting for them, guess what? my current pair is dying on me ALREADY!!! highest vdimm I tried for the 300 run was 2.9v, no wonder I can't get it to run properly and kept getting those BSOD and corrupted files, put the sticks in Ultra-D and get the same type of deal.....and I only have this pair for 3 weeks :lol: I need to find a 2GB replacement quick and going to stay the h3ll away from these dang ballistix....geewiz, I guess all those horror stories I heard about these ballistix degrading then died are for real. :stick: I'm looking for OCZ as replacement so can someone recommend which 2GB to get?
I WOULD TRY THE OCZ5002048EBPE-K or the mushkin Model 991492 (991493 dual)
1GB XP4000 Redline . That would be my reccomendation.
Well Fed ex just dropped off the motherboards. time to make raid drivers and install this sucka
I got the Corsair 2 gig of XMS3500LL as corsair designed the ram around the board apparently (could be wrong). I have always gone with corsair and never had a problem with them at all. Dying to try out this new setup tbh.
Can't comment on OCz although I always assumed they worked better with DFI boards.
Well guys, I got good news and bad news, good news is, this board is rock solid, v-core doesn't budge, it's just as fast as the dfi. bad news, stuck in a 3000, max vcore I got was 1.68, stuck in my opty, max vcore I got was 1.6. I have no idea if those are the real volts, what I do know is, since I couldn't tell from voltage readings, I went off the temp gauge. Setting anything to try to get past these "maxes" set by the board, apparently really does nothing, my temps didn't climb at all so I can only conclude that the volts are not changing, trust me, I tried to dump 1.8 volts into my opty so I could see a temp change. from 1.45 to 1.6, there is about 2c diff., so I should have seen another 2c's or so if the volts actually went up, You may not want to let this discourage you though if you have an opty, I'm at 2.9 and climbing atm :) If you turn on ECC setting for ram, you will not get past a certian point, the system will just not boot into windows. For me it was 2.8gigs. Also, I had to save the bios settings a couple times because for some reason it wouldn't read 260, it booted up at 250 once, then after I saved again, it finally showed 260, I blame a flakey bios. Writing this on a diff comp, so no screenies yet, I'll post them when I run benches and all that for u guys :) Might as well keep this thread going.. Btw, putting the heatpipe fan on netted a difference of about 8-10c, damn it works good. For 250 bux they should have given you another fan though for the mosfet sink. I haven't gotten to my 4400 yet, so I'll post that when I pop it in, might as well see what volts I get with that. I have to remount a few times anyway, I have a feeling my chip is not making good contact with the g5.
Thanks for the recommendation....wanted to get the OCZ EB but they're out of stock everywhere, and since someone said the Mushkin Redline have the same IC so I'd placed my order just now to have them overnight to me, can't wait for some Infenion action! :D :D.
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Originally Posted by fareastgq
Glad yours is up and running, and yes always disable the ECC option :D When I was using phase change I didn't see much gain from that little heatpipe fan, maybe my 80mm ram fan was able to cool it along already :D
That's what it says on the box - "Corsair XMS-3500LL Ready".Quote:
Originally Posted by Ic3man
I'm going to be terrifically peeved if my Ballistix turns out to be sh1te. K, to business...
Does anyone have an xp-120 they could fit on this thing? I would love to see how much clearance that gets and how it is best oriented.
Sorry, did you try that while you had ECC memory in there?Quote:
Originally Posted by fareastgq
Nope, ballistixQuote:
Originally Posted by Martin Cracauer
I've installed xp-120 on my A8N32 without problem, however dimm1 cannot be used.Quote:
Originally Posted by jsriolo
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Originally Posted by bobov
Dimm 1 can be used, you just have to slide the stick in under the heatsink then it will fit in fine.
I've had the XP-120 and the XP-90 on the board. Best results were with the XP-90 and the fan on the heatpipe radiator. This combo droped mobo temps by 8C.
Thank you for answering my question. I had a DFI NF4 SLI-DR but had to RMA it and I think it may have been lost in the mail. If it doesn't come back then that wouldn't break my heart, I'd just go pick up my insurance and take a serious look at one of these. It's good to hear that the xp-120 works. I had to slide my ram under it for the DFI also.
ok, max clock I got with that limited v-core which claims to be 1.6vcore is 2933mhz ,stupid limit, anyone want this board? I'm gonna go back to somthing that I can fry my hardware with.
Likewise. You dont buy a ferrari to get limited to 100mph. I raised 2 cases with ASUS and the only response i got back was to fill out a form to replace my motherboard fan wtf???. No support and was not told about fixing this issue so will probably sell off this board cheap and not bother with asus again.Quote:
Originally Posted by fareastgq
So that means you want a DFI. 2.933ghz with 1.6vcore is impressive. Not really sure what the problem is. Sounds solid and overclocks extremely well. You should have said something a week ago. I would have picked it up from u in a heartbeat. If you like frying hardwares, you got issues buddy.Quote:
Originally Posted by fareastgq
You buy a ferrari to race on the weekends, not drive it to work. Depending on what you are going to do with ur rig, you are not really limited. If you want to set benching records, yes you are limited. 24/7 thats more than sufficient. Besides, who drives over 100mph to work anyways?Quote:
Originally Posted by trza2k
That's the major drawback of owning any other brand other than the DFI in this overclocking community, with the Lanparty or Expert atleast we can get some type of communication, help, and advice from Tony, Oskar Wu, the DFI-street forum, and a bunch of other technical folks. Otherwise we're pretty much on our own, I understand a solid product should not need much support (if any), but sh1t man...I can't believe Asus going to give you a replacement fan to 'fix' it. :stick: But Situman is definitely right though, if you only care about setting WR and don't mind the risk of frying more hardware....this board ain't gonna cut it for you.Quote:
Originally Posted by trza2k
I like to push the hardware, I know it's got alot more clocks, I'm wasting my money not getting the clocks I could have. ;) Asus is cheating me out of more mhz, heh. If I push it and fry it, it's ok, I'll get more. Driving a ferarri 25mph, just not exciting.
Race on weekends?? Tell that to my bosses lol. Either way taking your ferrari to the racetrack and only being limited is still very annoying for such an expensive product.Quote:
Originally Posted by situman
All i want is 1.65ish volts for my x2 and yes it may only give me a slightly better overclock then @1.58 but i paid so much for the board i expect to get that little bit more otherwise what is the point of even owning this board?
Guys the board only been available for a week now :D
Give it some time, I've got one coming and I'm welcoming the change from the DFI. Not that the DFI NF4's I've had were anything less than great but I'm ready to play with something new. IMO the Vcore is limited by the power requiremnts of the cpu type, this is done in the bios and as such there should be a bios available at some point that will allow full Vcore (even if its a modded bios and not an Asus release)
This board has tremendous potential, be patient and it may be realized
mine coming tomorrow. I hope they wont be stupid and deliver at like 11am.
well i'm up and runnin, but it is having a fit at 1t ddr600. i have been pullin my hair out all day. as it stands i am having to run 2t which sucks. gotta be something i am missing in the bios. looks like no sleep tonight. also my board came loaded with the suck ass 502 bios that won't let you install an os. That was alot of fun. now i on 703. anybody tried the beta bios with any luck in improving oc? welp, back to the bios.
You seriously want to sell it?Quote:
Originally Posted by fareastgq
be nice if they just turned OFF that annoying feature with the next bios. I need to drive this thing 24/7 at the highest possible clocks it will go. I don't care about benches or world records, going for top 24/7 clocks. yes, I want to sell it, hehe. It's no prob if your chip has the option to go to 1.7 volts, but mine just didn't put that in asus bios. when modded one comes out, I'll just grab another one, no big deal at all.
hehe....Major nailed it! eventually we'll get more people to report their finding and exploits, remember back in the day we'd volt modded the crap out of the A7N8X-Deluxe rev 2.0 to push those little barton....it was mucho fun :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Major
As far as vcore concern, I still have yet to find the mosfet or coil to measure the correct reading so even if the vcore reads 1.68v in the bios....it's very possible that you're actually getting 1.7v+.
Board is up for grabs in the FS section, sorry Ben and everyone else, I just really really really want this opty to be at 3 gigs prime or this thing in the back of my head will be bugging me forever. I....can't.. make it stop......must get diff...ernt... board to kill hardware...
EDIT : I will however pop my 4400 in there quick just to see what vcore pops out and let u guys know about it (before it's gone) :)
Don't email or fill out their online forum, call their Customer Service Dept in CA.Quote:
Originally Posted by ben805
Anyone had any problems taking the backplate of this mobo? Seems to be 'stuck' on with something and even with force it will not budge.
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Originally Posted by Ic3man
Lol yeah, dont understand why they did it but they seem to put some strong-ish sticky stuff on the backplate. It will come off but its a pain in the a**, I had to use a flat head screwdriver...just be carefull not to damage the board tho.
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Originally Posted by cronic
Cronic, same here man, can't get her 300mhz T1 stable and I know my ram/cpu can do it easy...I think we need a bios update. I've spend days trying every mem setting in the bios, eventually got rid of errors in memtest but Windows bluescreens or locks up. I tried 805 beta bios but did not seem to help, it also corrupted on me after 20 mins. Luckily I had backed up up my original bios file first before flashing, I recommend anyone do the same before flashing.
Edit: I see your using OCZ TCCD too, interesting...