seems like a lot of people are jumping ship from the AN7 to the infinity.. i too am one. i would have liked to wait another month and get an AN7 that works.... shame.
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seems like a lot of people are jumping ship from the AN7 to the infinity.. i too am one. i would have liked to wait another month and get an AN7 that works.... shame.
***UPDATE****
Ok gentlemen,
I put my 2400+ in the AN7 and I HAVE 1/2 multies now!
Priming right now at 11.5. Seems the issue is with the 2500+ Bartons. I just put it in 10 min ago so let me experiment.
With the Barton in it at 11.5, IF it boots into windows and I touch any program, it BSOD or doesn't boot at all.
So here's the problem CPU folks. The prized Barton 2500+ :(
Ok
I can't seem to boot any higher then 221 like before. But I have 1/2 multies now. I can't understand why 1/2's work with the 2400+ but not with the 2500+???????????????????????
I mean same PID's right?
Hmmm,
it's funny, even though no .5 multies with the barton, but it seems more fluid and stable then the 2400+. The baby 2400+
did 2700 in my Prommy and approx 2500 on water.
I can't seem to OC that high in this board. I'm at 2400mhz right now but need 2.094v vcore to do it. It's Priming steady using
11.5 x 208 for testing purposes till i put my barton in.
The barton does like 2540 in the AN7 so it still looks like the bartons are the way to go in this board IF they fix the .5 multis and some stability problems and tune OC Guru better.
Techtones,sorry for the OT,but since i consider u one of the most "educated" for everything concerning oc and pc's in general,what's ur opinion on the DFI LANPARTY NFII B?is it a good overclocker?I am planning to install a cpu with peltier cooling on.
Thank you for the kind words but I think there are other people in these forums that are more knowledgable them me....
Maybe not that much more knowledgable :hehe:
Ok I don't know a lot about this board, but from what I've read,
it sounds like a decent board.
Now the Infinity which is much cheaper has all the same voltages as the rev B. The major difference seems to be the Gigabyte Lan
and the nice UV colors whatever that's worth.
But the voltages are pretty good except for the Vcore IMO.
All the way to 3.30v on the ram, 1.9v on the Vdd {chipset NB}
but only 2v on the CPU. I need a minimum of 2.1v
Now, you probably can volt mod the vcore. Then this board would be tops. But you know, I'm getting tired of having to mod IC chips
for what I want. I'm willing to pay for what I want if it does what I what.
I would buy the Infinity this SEC if the vcore was higher.
Now if you're using a pelt, 2v might be enough to get what you want.
I suggest you do a Google search for this board, and read every review out there. Then do a search for the board in this forum and others and see if their results match. End user reviews are the BEST though.
But for $94 for the Infinity, hard to go wrong.
Hehe thanks techtones,anyway ill get the lanparty cuz i want the extras it has ;) Cost isnt an issue,i have an a7n8x dlx now and the 2 lan + sata raid are very useful,from all the other nforce2 boards around only the DFI offers all that and more!I even got a modded case with everything integrated and i care about the looks of it :) Thanks for the advice techtones!
P.S. there must be a way to give more power to the cpu through a Vmod no?
I would assume there is mod out there for it by haven't looked.
Did you look in the vmods forum? I'm sure it's been done.
Yes I forgot the Infinity has Ide Raid, but the rev B dropped it for Sata Raid. For the price of the B, they should have included both,
but one can buy a Sata or Ide raid card if it's that important.
I'm not looking to drop too much cashola right now. I just might shoot for a either the new socker 939 with regular DDR, or the AMD64.
So, if this AN7 can hold me over till say, March-April of 2004, it would be best since I these new systems will run me a higher layout then before. Figure what, anywhere from $400 to $700 depending how I go.
***Retraction*** :D
I went into the bios and saw I was running the Vcore for 2400Mhz at 2.063 where I quoted 2.094v. That was a lie and I'm sort of sorry about it :banana:
thats high either way.. and very close.
this board is odd..
and ive been hearing noise that only the very first batch of AN7 have all the hand mods. possibly the second batch have less issues and are stable?
Not enough people have one to see yet. Remember Abit that the future boards would be cut too but would be covered up right. Maybe they cut it someone else instead?
I'm waiting for two things.
1} a bios fix for the board
2} a new revision that's fixed from reports
If this doesn't happen within the next say, month, I drop the board and get something else.
If the vcore mod on the Infinity is easy, I'd get that fa sure.
im getting the infinity anyway. its having very few issues and theres several reports of very high fsb.
maybe if an7 rev 1.1 is really good ill rma and exchange.. who knows
I'm Primin' her at 2420 still 2.063v
11.5 x 210. It's nice to have the .5's back but I'm going to put the Barton Baby Back in cause it clocks higher and has the extra cache.
I might wait for a bios fix before I BBB. :cool:
Yeah this board is too quirky.
I can't do 11 x 220 with this chip even though the CPU can do it and the board can do it since the barton did it.
So the Tons of Bart are much better for the AN7 based on my experience with it and so are the CH5 sticks over the Bh5.
But the best combo would not include the AN7 :cussing:
unless you like a challenge :rolleyes:
My AN7 has no cut trace or extra hand solder resistors and it's rubbish.....
I've tried 3 types of RAM now and even Single Channel mode. At 200MHz FSB I occasionally lose the ability to use my keyboard. At 210MHz my keyboard will stop functioning after about 10 characters. And it's the same for my other keyboard! At 215MHz+ FSB lots of other really weird stuff happens, general system instability.
I now have to decide whether to get a NF7-S V2 or DFI Infinity NFII. The 2v on VCore worries me, it wont be enough for 2.8GHz on my 1700+ under my Prommie. And with all this talk of VCore instability over 1.85/1.9v I'd hate to do a VCore mod as I can see the board dying an early death. Looks like I may just get a NF7-S V2.
hmm odd, my AN7 was fine at 225fsb, tested at 227 fine aswell, my friends is doing 227 stable aswell.
I'm gonna try the L12 mod on my 1700+, maybe that'll help??
If not, the board goes back.
Got an AN7 yesterday and initially I had a lot of probs. BIOS died and drives got corrupted, used the BIOS Saviour in my NF7-S to get the AN7 BIOS going again, formatted and reinstalled and everything seems good. I dont have it in my case yet as I am repairing the insulation on the Vapo but even with a AMD stock heatsink I am running 10x225FSB . Wont be pushing it until I get it back in the Vapo and get the N/Bridge sink lapped and a sink on the S/Bridge.
I am happy so far as my last NF7-S needs 1.85v for over 210FSB and needs 2.11v for 225 and thats its max.
Hood
BTW its an XP1800 DLT3C JIUHB
I can do 225 with low multiplier.. but if i use high i must down to 220 .. going for A64 after xmas :)
You should read this article before you buy that 64. I'm waiting myself.Quote:
Originally posted by Orak
I can do 225 with low multiplier.. but if i use high i must down to 220 .. going for A64 after xmas :)
http://www.overclockers.com/articles902/
Update from the test bench of ICEE:
Put in my hand picked 1700+ JIUHB from my friends at XtremeTekWerks that I have had put away for awhile.
Guess what?? I still have no multiplier changability. Set it for 7,8,9...stays at 11. Set it for 13, stays 11. No multi's except 11 on my board.
I reflashed the bios(came with 13) to both 13 and then 12, from DOS and in Windows. No change in the multiplier problem.
Thought it might be a bad bios chip. Hot flashed a spare chip I keep on hand.....NO change.
Same problem with the Vcore. It sets default with both the 1700+ and 2500 Barton at 1.884v. It shows 2.08v with both chips in the bios voltage monitor and with ABIT EQ. I CAN change the voltage value in SoftMenu but it stays at 2.08 in both the bios voltage monitor and ABIT EQ. Like the multiplier it is stuck at one setting no matter the manipulation of voltages in soft menu.
My board is a late production version with no cut trace nor the additional resistor soldered on.
You guys are all talking about the DFI...have you looked at the Shuttle nForce2 Ultra 400?? With the great sucess I've had with their nForce3 board....even tho it may not be packed with extra features of other boards....for $65 I think I'm going to try it on for size. I have nothing to lose at this point and everything to gain.
I've read great comments about the boards overclocking abilities around the web, all the fancy crap does nothing for me...my needs are always a quality, highly functional overclocking board. I've tried them all over the years..ABIT was my preference over all others, but my initial Shuttle experience has changed all that.
Shuttle nForce 2 here we come:)
Randi:D
when do socket 939 hit the marked? is there any date ?Quote:
Originally posted by TechTones
You should read this article before you buy that 64. I'm waiting myself.
http://www.overclockers.com/articles902/
It says:Quote:
Originally posted by Orak
when do socket 939 hit the marked? is there any date ?
"Socket 939 boards should be out and plentiful within the next six months. That will give you dual-channel memory, and will also give you any performance tweaks those building a desktop board from scratch can muster over server-oriented socket 940 boards. (We strongly suspect there will be a bigger performance gap between socket 939 and 754 than currently exists between sockets 940/754"
But since Intel is releasing Prescott early, I expect AMD to ramp up 939 production. I think we'll see boards for sale in April.
I prefer the NF2 Infinity from DFI.
I did a 3dmard 2k1 at 255x10 dc fastest timings possible with the newest beta bios :)
But I had not been able to upload it yet. Maybe tomorrow... it's on my other rig :cool:
Good luck with the shuttle :toast:
Is there a Vcore mod for the DFI Infinity?
Can you tell us what chip you think the Vcore IC is on??