My old NF7-S rev2.0: vcore 2.22V / max fsb 225. Board didn't like 2.28V/2909MHz ->> [R.I.P].
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My old NF7-S rev2.0: vcore 2.22V / max fsb 225. Board didn't like 2.28V/2909MHz ->> [R.I.P].
hmm, woulda posted in here before. Just so you know, when i did a review for a 3200+ i was informed by AMD that benching with APIC disabled would be benificial to benching with high scores. But an install with apic enabled, then disabling, very rarely doesn't screw everything up. I'd say try apic disabled again, but with a full format+reinstall and see how it goes. AS someone said it merely adds extra irq's for you, as more and more people have more and more devices, more ide controllers, sound cards, dvd decoders(sometimes) usb controllers, whole bunches of crap stuff they stick in, apic is useful for freeing up irq's. In theory it should be slower like this unless you ahve enough irq's using devices that want there own.
Nayway, worth a shot.
APIC tanks 3dmark'01 scores, its been known a long time.
I would say solder wires directly to the mosfets to beef up the power delivery circuits, but whats to say the traces from there to the CPU aren't the problem, or maybe you need lower ESR caps, or higher uF caps?
My 8RDA+ kinda sucks on vcore delivery.. fluctuates .1v 8-/
I would be willing to solder wrires directly to the MOSFETs... But where from? :confused: It's not like I can just send the 3.3v line in there. :DQuote:
Originally posted by STEvil
APIC tanks 3dmark'01 scores, its been known a long time.
I would say solder wires directly to the mosfets to beef up the power delivery circuits, but whats to say the traces from there to the CPU aren't the problem, or maybe you need lower ESR caps, or higher uF caps?
My 8RDA+ kinda sucks on vcore delivery.. fluctuates .1v 8-/
from the 5v rail for the ones near the I/O ports to one of the legs on the mosfet I believe, but i'm not completely sure on this, its been a long time since I last read anything on the subject.
Just checking each leg with a multimeter should tell what voltage it is to see if its a supply or output leg I think.
The ones near the DIMM slots would be for 3.3.
Its common know that NF7-S wont handle both high fsb and high cpu frequencys/high voltage.
Adding or switching out caps can help some. But i wouldn't count on it to help go over 1.95V @ 250MHz+ fsb.
I added the same caps of a dead board to the original ones some time ago and gained nothing :(
I think you should do the job perfectly including mosfet/caps change to top notch quality ones... but maybe the vregs are also in the need of a change :rolleyes:
In all too much work for a very vague gain... :(
How do you get it to "Update" from UniProc to Standard? I know how to update drivers, so dont waste yer time explaining that part, but curious just where you are getting the driver file from... thanksQuote:
Originally posted by Fewture
In device manager update the driver for the computer to "Standard PC" instead of "Uniprocessor PC". Reboot and go into bios, there disable APCI..reboot. Windows finds your devices again and you may need to reboot again..
Now, turn up Vcore and boot on 250MHz and a smile wil come on your face ;)