Have 2 more beers and order me one as well. :eek:Quote:
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Have 2 more beers and order me one as well. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Daveburt714
I looked at that board, but it is almost £200 here, so I went for the LAN Party DK 790FXB-M2RSH (790fx/SB750) as it was only £105 inc P&P and I have not had one problem with it or one crash yet. AMD overdrive works like a dream and with the help of windows vista power mode I can leave cool and quiet on auto and as long as I have power mode set to balanced the cool and quiet works and my PC and CPU runs cool. Then when I want to test an over clock or encode some video I switch the power mode to what ever the full power mode setting is (this turns off cool and quiet), open up AMD overdrive and start clocking. This way I never need to re-boot the PC or keep going in and out of the bios.
My first K9A2 Plat died after about 30 seconds of priming with a 5000+ BE around 1.5V.Quote:
Originally Posted by Glow9
My second K9A2 Plat blew up after about five minutes of priming using my 9850 @ 1.425 or 1.45V. I can't remember which it was.
Then, my M3A78-T died due to a botched BIOS flash. The flasher would erase about half of the EEPROM and then errored out that it couldn't erase the whole thing. I tried a few more times but it had the same problem, so I decided to give it up. The board can't boot now.
At least my Foxconn is alive. :D
the PWM section of early sb600 boards where poor. I had a sensor in the heat sink form my panel with out my fan running on it. full load the heat sink was 70C this was surprised my didn't blow though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Particle
One of MSI's support guys told me: "Our engineers tell me that nobody else has heard of this problem."
Yeah, right.
I had a HD3870 from MSI and the tech support guy was very rude and must have been a newb. First I call to get a RMA number to send it in because the card didn't work for more then 2 hours. So I send it in he told me "We will be sending you a new card" Card comes and the whole PCB was bent and warped. I called back and said "Is this a new card" he said "It should be" then I got pissed and sent it back again and they said they would overnight me a new one. HA they took 7 days to get me a new card. MSI is truly crap. I also had 3 of their motherboard that also didnt work more then a day. MSI IS :down:Quote:
Originally Posted by Particle
ChrisB17
Hi well most people on this board are way better at overclocking than me . I think if you post in the (Phenom 9950 overclocking) thread there are people posting in there that would be better able to help you than me just pop in say hi i think they be able to help you out .
Wow I got my board today its very nice. The quality seems good and the box was amazing.
And I got such a deal. The price on zipzoomfly went back up to $229.00. I payed $99.00.
One more problem to note, multiplier adjustment doesn't seem to work in BIOS with 5400+ Black Edition. I can adjust the multi in BIOS and it's reflected in POST, but once OS boots CPU-Z, AOD, and Everest shows multi hasn't changed. So basically I HAVE to use AOD.
One of the reviews said they were having trouble over clocking the X2 i bet that what you ran into to but the multi work for the phenom ok did you report it to Foxconn so hopely we can get a bios up-date to fix that .
Might be a super dumb suggestion but. Did you make sure Cool and Quiet was dissabled?Quote:
Originally Posted by blah4u3
I'm pretty sure it's not CnQ because the multi would drop lower than stock if it were CnQ. Plus I set my power profile in OS to disable it.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChrisB17
E-Mail sent to Foxconn...........
I primed all night at 3.0GHz, 1.34V in 64-bit mode. It may be capable of doing better, but I am trying to establish a solid good starting point. So far things look promising. :) I was doing 3.1GHz there for a while at stock voltage in 64-bit. It passed five minutes of Prime (just doing a quick "rough edge" test).
Whats the max chipset voltage allowed on this board?
I dont know the Max voltage but the if the Bios is buggy or Multi's dont work too good ,, do a CLEAR CMOS with battery out of MOBO for about 5minutes.
Reinstall battery and CMOS jumper to correct position and Adjust BIOS..Try same/old Bios settings again...
Could be you need a Bios update if new one is already out..Check the Revision of your Bios..
P.S. DEMONKEVY666,, ask ASUS for another BIOS chip...you never Know..
Pacticle
Hi that what my so so 9850 started at to 3.0 ghz 1.35v . I been running my cpu 3.107 ghz@1.4v ,multi 13.0, NB & NT link 239mhz , ACC +2%,+2%,+2% and +4% i have run prime for a hour at these setting but the cpu run at 68c to 70c so i stop i need better cooling for the cpu to realy run prime for a long periot of time at 1.4v . 3.1 been running good for me for over a week now but i think that as far as she go this on vista-64
Not a bad result really for 64-bit, merk. You might check out the Xigmatek HDT-S1283. It's inexpensive and one of the top few air coolers around, on the level of the Ultra 120. It runs about $35. Load temps for me so far are in the 40s. I used to be hitting 60s on my Freezer 64 Pro. It's great for duals, but the X4s kill it.
I'm looking at my core temps logs
14:41:28 10/22/08,CPU#0 (Core#0),58,39,58,100,3010.11
I sure hope that 100 isn't a 100 C lol
14:44:28 10/22/08,CPU#0 (Core#0),41,39,58,2,3010.11
2C on the same core lol
I must not be reading it right.
Whats this I hear Phenoms dont work good in Vista x64? I plan on using vista 64-bit and I dont want any problems.
Oh, there's nothing wrong with using a Phenom with Vista x64. It's just that the K10s don't clock as high in 64-bit mode (regardless of OS) as they do in 32-bit mode. The difference is usually 100-200MHz. It's not too big of a deal.
Well last night i started to work on getting my rig to run cooler .With the 4 video cards and the Phenom running @3.1ghz. in the thing its making some heat + the PC Power & Cooling power supply has a bunch of lines coming out of it and it all making every pack in my mid tower case. So i'am starting with a new case . I order one from new egg last night http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811119160 3 230mm fans you can run you power suply in the top or bottom of the case it set-up for water cooling and you can run the power supply lines behind the mother board tray this case should give me the room to do what every i want now. thank you for the heads up on the cpu cooler . I'am still trying to make my mind up if i want to go water cooling or get a better air cooler .One min it air the next it water just not sure .
Do you still think I can get 3.2ghz out of my phenom 9950 BE using 64-bit?Quote:
Originally Posted by Particle
From what i seen most people post 3.2 to 3.3 ghz seem to be about the max for vista-64 so it do able .It just depends on how good the cpu you got is and if you can find what the cpu like as overclocking gose .
Chris, it mostly just depends on your luck of the draw chip-wise. I wouldn't say you're more likely to get 3.2 than not nor the other way around.
Ok I finally got my rig setup. Everything booted without any issue. I flashed the bios to the newest one. I noticed a glitch in the bios tho. NB or somthing is at 1.8v? And I cant turn it down? Im not to sure about what that is.