We'll check when the new bios arrives! At the moment multis are locked upwards!!Quote:
My only concern is if the IN9 suffers from the same issue, cause mine is on its way...
We'll check when the new bios arrives! At the moment multis are locked upwards!!Quote:
My only concern is if the IN9 suffers from the same issue, cause mine is on its way...
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Originally Posted by aNNixP
I will probably order from them if the current cooling solution I use is not sufficient.
Overclocking Update:
FSB 411,VCORE 1.6250v, CPU @3.7Ghz 3 hours Orthos Stable (E6600)
They certainly need to release a new bios since I think the board behaves strange with certain voltages as well here is what I mean
With those voltages its rock solid @ 3.7Ghz
VTT 1.5v
NB 155v
SB1.6v
Hyper 1.4v(max as of now)
DDR 2.4v
NB DDR ref 0%
DDRref 0%
However funny things happen if I increase the FSB and there are certainly holes
FSB 427
CPU @3.85Ghz with 1.6050 1.5min Orthos
with 1.6150 2min Orthos
with 1,6250 most stable can play games for an hour but Orthos crashes it
up to 1.7250 eratic behaviour some good some bad and some voltages will not boot at all. What I mean is that there is no sign of the CPU clearly indicating higher or lower setting at this FSB it just crashes sooner or later.
The same from ,15250 to 1.650v
But I guess its the FSB.
I will try 440 and will post findings later but I am afraid that my CPU is maxing out at around 3.8Ghz so we will see.
Overclocking Update
Nothing beyond 411FSB 3.7GHZ stable no matter what voltage combinations - it boots to windows up to 3960 but crashes to Orthos at about 1-2mins.
The fact that it behaves the same upt ot 3960Mhz from 1.6250v to 1.7250 makes me think that a new bios could make it stable or some more HTT voltage than 1.40v.
However I also upped the memory (PC8500 OCZ Titanium Alpha) to 1100mhz 2.55v 4-4-4-12. Do you think that the voltage is too high for the memory? I am cooling it with the OCZ fan cooler.
Another issue I have is a Buzz whenever the memory is stressed (Orthos, games, 3Dmark), what can this be? The buzzing is not there unless the memory is stressed anyone knows?
I have been watching this thread with a lot of interest from the start as I have been getting parts together for a little over a month for my new PC. I don't know if anyone has seen this:
http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread...=119821&page=2
but it seems to have some good, simple overclocks as well as a good record of things that were tried.
The parts going into my system are:
IN9 32X-Max
C2D E6600
2X1GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC2 8000
74 GB Western Digital Raptor
EVGA 8800GTS
OCZ GameXStream 700Watt psu
cooled by a Zalman 9700, a 40mm fan on the NB heatsink, and corsair dominator ram fans
all inside an Antec P180B case
I am going to try to get this stable at 3.4 Ghz on air for day to day use, and I'll keep everyone posted on how things come along, however I haven't got all the parts yet and won't get them for a couple of weeks as I need to get paid again before I can order. Keep up the good work and I'll keep reading.
Seems I've alot of reading to do to catch up from when I last posted :p: Did notice a few things in there
- Someone mentioned that there's no beta4 (Yellowbeard was that you?) Where'd you hear that from?
- There's been some talk about NBCC problems, afaik that was to do with the Intel chipsets and even at that was kinda disproved as something else. I'll look into it tho and see
- I'm liking the alternative cooling chat, keep it up, I have something to show you all very soon that might be of interest ;)
Also in terms on overclocking I've got a little pic that may inspire some of you to keep trying :
http://valid.x86-secret.com/cache/164573.png
Validation
This was done with a delta 60mm on the NB nothing else, no vmods no fancy cooling elsewhere. I honestly just stopped trying any harder because I was tired that night and then dismantled the IN9 rig to test a new board. The plan from here is a full set of mods, quality forced air cooling on the north and south bridges and fancy new PWM heatsink and to round it off a full set of vmods. I'm hoping ot beat the Asus striker results on air for Abit bragging rights but it ain't looking easy.
BTW
Unlinked mode is a PAIN! IF your not interested in really figuring out the workings of your board just go Linked with dividers, the unlinked dividers are a joke and several of them seem to be pretty flaky to say the least. Kunaak has done some good work on this in the Intel section look at his threads here and here My advice, keep it simple and stay on the linked mode till you figure out the actual limits of your RAM and CPU then see how close you can get them to play together in unlinked mode...but don't expect miracles.
As for the vmods I'm gonna get some decent pics of the boards and get them posted. Hipro5 has cheekily got the HT vmod before me but I'll see if I can't steal it off him :p: j/k George :toast:
A little birdy in Fremont Ca:slapass: I'll ask our admin on Monday am if they wanna let it fly. I'm sure you've got some connections too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Johnny Bravo
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Originally Posted by maxwedge
Last I heard from Abit it was beta4 that would be released, not shelved and replaced with beta5. See if I can get to the bottom of this.
This has been my best but no way Orthos stable. I've been trying hard to get it stable but......hey??:stick:
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j7...2m4ghzpass.jpg
But here is a good 24/7 with the memory unlinked at ddr1000 4,4,4,12:)
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j7...ax/1000ddr.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j7...MemoryRead.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j7...oryLatency.jpg
Quick questions about thermal grease application on the heatsinks, on the nb and sb sinks, is a thin layer applied to the chips underneath enough when you remove the factory pads? Also, I am going to keep the pad on the PWM sink, should I put thermal grease in the pockets of the factory pad?
Hey Guys, I just installed the I9N 32x Max this weekend. After having two EVGA boards fail, I thought I would try the ABIT board cause I wanted to try the Digital PWM with My Vapochill LS. I have tried the original BIOS 10 and have Flashed to Beta BIOS V.11. I was not able to Unlock my X6800 Extreme Edition. Also, the board will not allow me to run my Dominator 8888 at stock 1111MHz, 4-4-4-12-2T on 2.4V. However I was able to boot to my RAID 1 Array that I had used on the EVGA 680i, although I did have to reactivate WinXP on the phone by Microsoft. I have not OCe'd the CPU (can't unlock) or the FSB yet. It will not allow a 1333 FSB on the Beta v.11. I was able to boot with the Dominators set to 800MHz at 3-4-3-9-1T without a hitch, and my first run on 3DMark06 was 12,411:toast: with my twin 88GTX's at 650MHZ/2000MHz.
Compare URL: http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=1202672
Should I go back to the Original BIOS v.10 ??? OR Should I wait to see if ABIT releases a WHQL or another Beta BIOS???
Also, I am only running on INTEL Stock Air Cooling for the CPU but I am water Cooling the NB as well as the twin 88's. I plan on getting the Alphacool Mosfet WBlocks installed before I put on the Vapochill, Plus I would like to have my Multi Unlocked from down to x6 and up to x20 or how high it is supposed to go which is I believe x60. I just want a GOOD BIOS to work with!!!:mad:
None of the current beta BIOS's allow upward clocking yet. I'm sure the fnial bios 11 will though.
This board really suxs for me so far. Biggest disapointment of every core 2 duo board I've purchased. 1700FSB go then no go then go, 1800 FSB no go, 1900 FSB no go, 1600FSB go then no go then go. I've tried both the shipping bios and the v1.1 beta 2. I tried a cpu that ran over 3.8ghz on the RD600 & over 3.7ghz on the evga. Not happy am I:mad:
The Nemesis, just wait for new official bios release. They are going to fix fsb hole 450-495MHz. In this range - some CPU's can boot, some not.... but anyway it's unstable. NB timings issue should be fixed too.
let's wait for new bios release..... I hope that they will add more HT voltage too......
Nice memory figures for the 24/7 Max!
I was wondering what kind of hdtach figures you're getting with 4 striped raptors?
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Originally Posted by Johnny Bravo
Johny Bravo regarding the Unlinked mode you are right its a pain and it does behave weird but after a full day of testing and increasing FSB in increaments of 3 I managed to get my E6600 stable at 3.7Ghz 1.6250v in unlinked mode (it runs Orthos 4 hours then I stop it no crash). My memory runs at 1000 4-4-4-12 2.5v now (can do 1100 but @2.55v - abit high).
All Sb,NB, VTT, HTT voltages are maxed out and I am using water cooling on the CPU and NB. The SB is on a TT Extreme Spirit II and the PWMs on the stock heatsink with folded pad.
What I noticed is that there are holes and bios issues since I get the same instability issues from 3.750Mhz to 3.960Mhz no matter what I try. I can boot up to 3960 1.65v (unlinked) but Orthos crahes it. So I will wait for the new bios and try again. The chip can do 3.6ghz on the P5W64S @1.45v on air.
I had 2 of the EVGA's fail on me as well, and had to give up on the board as well. I am glad to see you post that this has happened to you, would be nice if you had posted in the EVGA forums as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by EVGAJKohl
I build my Abit IN9 this weekend
Using the corsair 8500c5d (with optional Fan)
E6600 Batch 29b (stock fan)
An old borrowed 6600 video card
TT 750w
Temps on 3100ghz @ 1,28 V
idle 33 load 52 (stock fan)
But my temps from PWM were idle 61 to 100 Load ( 10 min orthos)
So i used Johnny's advise to remount the silent copperpainted coca cola can aluminium.
I folded the tape and temps went down to 45 49 degrees idle and 62 under load (10 min)
But now want to know what de NB and SB temps are, i saw Jargon asked this question before but i haven't seen an answer.(I am in the possesion of an IR Thermometer, but i like to know the inside, when the sink isn't attached i misread the temp)
(i know 10 min orthos aren't much :slapass: but i didn't have enough time.
First off, let me explain my POST above. The reason that I had TWO evga boards fail was the fact that I was performing Extreme Overclocking with the 680i and the CPU running on VAPOCHILL LS and -53 Degrees Celcius and I had MAXED OUT all the Values and Voltages till the board would not give a POST. EVGA has stood by thier board and have approved both RMA's.
The reason for my post in this thread was the fact that it is about the ABIT IN9 32X-MAX board, which I had decided to try because of the boards DIGITAL PWM's, as I had stated above. I also wanted to get some imput from others who are working with this ABIT board, and find out what kind of support is being offered.
I do however recommend EVGA's 680i board, because of the FACT that they do have the best support of anyone for Nvidia's 680i Chipset. And the fact that there are only a small percentage of board RMA's compared with the number being sold. The fact is that EVGA is standing by its products and you also know that you can actually call them and talk to someone night or day about Your boards problems.
EVGA stands by all of thier products and so do I. Like I said above, I wanted to try this ABIT board out because of the Digital PWM's to see how it would perform with the Vapochill.
Here ya goQuote:
Originally Posted by OKsoVRomoSkylo
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j7...d04ghzcopy.jpg
heh.. I fly right by Abit once a week on my way down to Sunnyvale. I wish I had connections with them tho.. oh well.Quote:
Originally Posted by maxwedge
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Originally Posted by speedfreak86
Nobody???
Finally all of my parts are in and I'll be starting my build tonight. First run it to get everything assembled and tested to ensure it all works OK. Second run will be to modify the case for some nice cable management.
My Xeon showed up this AM and it is a '631B' series, so we'll see how well it does.
That's called denial my friend. :fact: The numbers sold are inflated buy the RMA replacements, Sony does that as well with PS2. :fact:Quote:
Originally Posted by EVGAJKohl
do not put any thermal grease in the pockets on the pad (PWM).. you can fold over the PWM pad for tighter contact, but honestly, it didn't improve anything for me.. as for the NB and SB, yes, a very thin layer is all you want.. give a push on the sinks when you put them on again, and when the push pins are pushed back in the mobo, you might want to use a super tiny jewelers screw driver to, how do I put this, expand the "spacers" again, so to make sure there's good force on the sinks, holding them in.. the springs on them are pretty stiff, which is good.. so you don't need to do that, but I like to, just to ensure max holding pressure.Quote:
Originally Posted by speedfreak86
Full set of Vmods
well nearly all :rolleyes:
link to here