how much did the max set you back?
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how much did the max set you back?
zakelwe,
Please let us know if agp/pci dividers work if you get some free time.
Good Luck.
It might be a bit difficult to test how the divider actually works. You'd basically need some Radeon 9x00 card (or some other that cant' take high AGP bus) and +260FSB until you can see if the divider actually kicks in.
Zakelwe, can you boot it up at 200FSB using 1/7 divider (AGP/PCI 57/29)?
Or with 1/7 divider at whatever max FSB you can do aircooled.
See if clockgen will report the AGP/PCI speeds like they are shown in the BIOS (its possible that clockgen might not read them correctly thou).
If the 1/7 is acually working you should have no problems hitting over 260FSB with lower multiplier.
You can also try this: boot up at stock speeds, load clockgen and adjust multiplier to say 8x, restart windows normally, go to BIOS and set it to say 240FSB 1/7 divider (with safe RAM divider) and load OS. The multiplier SHOULD still be at 8x so now you can try some FSB clocking with 1/7 divider :)
What kind of adjustements does the ABit windows OCtool (oc-guru??) offer? can you adjust multiplier or even better AGP/PCI dividers with it?
300 with 8 divider is 75/37.5 so that is quite correct :)Quote:
300 is also 74/37 and so either it sticks at 7 divider or else it is buggered above 260
Just download the proggie from the above link :)Quote:
Macci-How do you use Clock Gen on these A64 boards?
I have a K8V, and multiplier control and FSB would be really helpful.
i fear zakelwe had to go to work! :( ;)
macci, i'm not 100% but looking at description of the abit max 3 on overclock.co.uk and by teh manual which i've jsut looked at(arrived about an hour ago) i reckon it has bios multi control \o/
Also looking at the guru stuff, it states that you CAN adjust the fsb ratios using the guru, tbh i doubt that very much, probo a lie but we'll see. would be sweet though. I took part of the guru chips lable off to have a look, jsut wanna make sure the board works before i take it off as it didn't seem to wanna stick back down mcuh. Looks like a winbond hardware monitor chip, might be same as msi corecell, as in, its not a special chip jsut a blinking lable on normal hardware monitoring chip.
Anyone looking to buy, mine didn't come with mounting bracket, my venus heatsink also didn't, so i reckon(and hope) i can get the one off the gigabyte board, or i'll be really angry. Anyone know where i can buy the retention bracket, PS, to me thats so incredibly cheap as to be completely crap. This is the most expensive ath 64 board out, most expensive amd non ath fx board out and they don't even include the £3 retention bracket, probo more like 50p. :@
Also, from teh looks of things, almost all heatsinks, waterblocks, and i'd imagine it would make for a useful prommie/vapo mount base so not including it is almost unforgivable. Especially as ath 64 is still jsut getting into market, i've been told the brackets will be available separately, and thermaltake will sell all sinks in two forms, with or without bracket, but this early, they jsut aren't available.
The bios health screen had an interesting entry for 'CPU VDDA 2.5 VOLTAGE' could that be a seperate voltage supply to the integrated memory controller. Although the voltage screen didn't have an adjust option, it might make for an interesing mod if that what it does control. Kind of like a VDD mod on an NF2 helping mem overclocking.
Zakelwe, you can always send me the board, I will give you an unused ASUS for it :D hehe
Man, I don't like ASUS, everytime I buy one it's like it says: "Wanna bet I can get you depressed?" ;)
If my ASUS sucks, I am so going to get the ABIT, but it seems a thight Prommie fit with all those condensators :eek:
The bracket comes with the CPU :)Quote:
Anyone looking to buy, mine didn't come with mounting bracket
I guess that this is the 'LDT' or 'Vlink' voltage thats adjustable on ASUS and MSI for instance. Its quite possible that its actually CPU memory controller voltage and ASUS and MSI just mislabeled it as Vlink or LDT.Quote:
The bios health screen had an interesting entry for 'CPU VDDA 2.5 VOLTAGE' could that be a seperate voltage supply to the integrated memory controller.
LardArse for instance got good OC improvement when he increased this on MSI.
I also upped mine from 2.5 to 2.8V on ASUS and it might have helped OC but I'm not too sure.
Also modding this voltage has killed atleast two CPUs so far (Naser and Stinger lost there this way).
hmmm whats the vdda voltage? the memory controller?
Hmm, what is clear to me is that so far none of the Athlon64 or FX boards/chipsets are anywhere near perfected yet, and they have inherent limitations. In fact they would seem to be far more limiting and prone to setup problems than the NF2 platforms are, albeit they do have performance advantages when up and running.
With the new styled cpu's you've gotta expect a bit of this to happen, though... heh 8-)
but u know with the delay of A64 all mobo makers were anytime eager to mention that their boards are finished and ready to run ~6 months ago.
on every comp-show they were like "yeah, we're just waiting for AMD"
unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case though.
now it appears u all have bought betaboards! :(
As promised... some pictures of the BIOS...
This is where the FSB is at when the divider 7/1 comes in and then...
The divider 8/1... hmm... why oh why VIA don't you lock those PCI and AGP bus speed...:(
The maximum voltage can be set for the Vcore on this mobo...
Hmm guys any idea on how this come into play on an AMD64 system??? HyperTransport Voltage>>>??? :confused:
The one we been wating for... the maximum Vdimm for this mobo...
so why do they tout the "overclocking features" of the boards then?Quote:
Originally posted by MickeyMouse
come on tho fella's the A64 boards are ready for mainstream just maybe not for us overl:banana::banana::banana::banana:ers, lol..
everysingle nf2 board could do what it was supposed 166mhz dc fsb, but peope who wanted 200mhz out of the box cried, lol
The "Overclock on the Fly" function works. Once you set the voltages and the FSB you wanted at the Soft Menu, hit the F8 key, keep your finger cross. If the setting saved, it will not reboot, then check your changes for the voltages you have just change on the "Soft Menu". So here it is... the Vdimm reading after I set the Vdimm voltage at 3.2V. It kinda flux between 3.18-3.19V.
thx pr0di9y for the pix! :)
so ratios work IN BIOS, but does the board really accept them?
I think your VDimm flux because your 3.3V rail is a bit low for 3.19V VDimm. Set 3.3V to ~ 3.45V in bios.
Hmm the noodle question... well I have yet try other RAM modules... hope I can give a definate answer to you on those dividers... now where is my frens when I need them :D
whats a 'gauranty' ? are they unable to spell? :p:
macci, a lot of peeps are buying oem ath 64's, mine didn't have a bracket. It just, to me, seems like an exceptionally cheap thing for a £150 board thats supposed to have everything. I jsut get a little fed up of being force to buy their crappy extra's, secure ide, etc, etc just to get the best overclocking mobo, and they can't include the 50p bracket.
Either way, feeling very very ill at the mo, plus my other rig is down so probo won't install till later tonight. mem didn't turn up today, but have a decent 256 bh-5 stick from ages ago that used to do 250Mhz, so will test with that and booting.
What do you think? :p: Looks like I'll be waiting until this AGP/PCI lock is acutally implemented to work before I got out and spend big bucks on new hardware.Quote:
Originally posted by AcEmAsTr
whats a 'gauranty' ? are they unable to spell? :p: