And it happens again :)
Hope it is bug-free and I mean its not like many 975/965 ones...
And it happens again :)
Hope it is bug-free and I mean its not like many 975/965 ones...
According to the 590 Amd edition manual,you must enable an option in the bios for usb keyboard-storage,so check it before telling it don't work
We did it, of course....but it doesn't work either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doumz
And it also stoped when running 3Dmark 06.....We put two more fans at the MB and it's working now, maybe it's the NB's problem, as you can see, there is no fan there......:(
yeah thats kinda weird, they but a fan on the southbridge but the Northbridge that gets way hotter get only passive cooling.
i dont get DFI's logic :stick:
oh man let me say it again
nvidia chipset is not the same as Intel.........the actual chipset that is supposed to get hot and does most work is under the copper cooler with a fan
Have you got any link to how hot a 590 northbridge gets ?Quote:
Originally Posted by zert
You cannot put a passive cooler on the southbrdige as it will be tall and perhaps restrict the video card caps etc so they have gone for a low level active heatsink on the southbridge which seems sensible.
The limitation on the overclock seems to be the nvidia chipset not what DFI are doing. DFI seem to be doing the best of a bad lot.
Regards
Andy
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Originally Posted by Doumz
This + 6700 + g80 = my new rig. :banana:
That is if all goes well. :)
Soo... do we have a max fsb yet ???
Btw, the sli-dr got BLAZING with the same cooler, only copper, and if just barely oc'd by like 5% would stop and hang after some torture testing. Nvidia always had a eat problem. Im not taking chances and slapping custom stuff on both.
Now there's an eye catcher:)
Looks solid. Waiting for the review
Oh sooo sweeet :clap: :clap:
Cant wait to see wht its made of :fact:
The layout is a bit funked up... should have had the DIMM slots towards the back (I/O side) of the board, then shift the NB and CPU socket slightly away from that side, and finally put the VReg/8-pin near the front side of the board... oh well :(
Hmm... nothing like the smell of high expectations and impeding disappointment?
Not to be the scarecrow, but remember, this had difficulty even reaching 350 on a good day. If your 965s or 975s fail to reach 400 or 450, you already call them a p.o.s...
QFTQuote:
Originally Posted by Frank M
too bad this is coming out before the rd600 board.
Edit - i read the tweaktown article and they never said this board maxes out at 350.
They said the reference board does.
So dont dissmiss this thing yet.
according to Sham it maxes out at 310 LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by Revv23
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Originally Posted by dinos22
Bad bad bad :nono:
:hm: :ROTF:Quote:
Originally Posted by dinos22
Just as I thought, nVidia always made crappy chipsets but because there wasn't any better on the AMD site everybody bought them. Just compare the nForce 2 with the i875 and you know what I mean.Quote:
Originally Posted by dinos22
For the A64's you can't really do wrong because the IMC is in the CPU and you have a HTT multiplier.
At the risk of getting flamed, DaWaN makes a damn good point...
They can flame as much as they want, but their expectations were too high anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sumanji
Lets see if they can OC the FSB as high as 500, like some P5B Deluxe's..........if not, then this board cannot compare to the P5B or the DS3 in terms of OCing......from what we have seen in the reference boards, they cant do more then 350, wich sucks........i will switch to this board if it can do 500 fsb.
Well I don't say the nForce chipsets really suck. The connectivity options in the nForce chipset were great and options like the combined IDE / Sata RAID and 2 Ethernet ports teaming too. But the thing is that nVidia doesn't seems to have enough time and money to develop the best memory controller and optimize the FSB link to allow maximum overclocks. Also the stability doesn't seems to be the best point of nForce chipsets (mostly driver problems but still stability is very important imo). Although with VIA and SIS and ULi as competitors it isn't really hard to make the best chipset. And as I said before on the A64 almost everything that is essential for overclocking has to do with the CPU bios and board design, the chipset doesn't make that big difference anymore with the memory controller intergrated in the CPU.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sumanji
But on the Intel side we have Intel itself too on the chipset market. They have the money and the knowledge of building a superb chipset. The thing is that intel doesn't really focus on overclocking, but still the chipsets they make are awesome and don't think that a cheaply designed chipset can meet the performance of an Intel chipset.
The only advantage of this chipset over the i975 and i965 is the 48 PCI-e lanes it got, in SLI that's alot faster.
ATI does seem to focus on overclocking and that's why I'll give them a chance. Still I need to see some result before I really start to believe in the RD600. The i975 and the i965 aren't that simple to beat !!
expreview, thanks for the high-res picture... I think I'll use it as my desktop background for the week! :banana: