I was thinking to get this board but obviously I am gonna get DFI NF4.
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I was thinking to get this board but obviously I am gonna get DFI NF4.
I loaded the AiBooster and dnld`d the latest beta bios on the asus site, set everything to auto in the BIOS, set the max memory speed to DDR500, and the MB booted itself up at 250fsb. Wonce into windows AiBooster showed a multiplyer of 7, so I use the utility to change the multiplyer back to 10 and it off at 2.5GHz....on-air!
1gig kit OCZ PC3500EBs
Yeah my A8N doean't detect the multiplire correctly either, my MP is 11 but if set to auto it picks it up as 10 :(
Got my A8N non-deluxe today :)
Currently doing:
300HT*9 with a 3xHTT multi
Asus do a real crap job with the cooling on the NB, when i removed the HSF i found that it had a thermal pad and paste at once :stick: I put alumina in its place :toast: Not only that but that little rubber mat they put around the core was shifted to the left and was actually sitting up on the core which would have made the HSF loose some contact.
what lock setting should i use to lock down the PCI-EXPRESS?
waiting for my videocards tomorrow :)
When I read all these messages, I see the same pattern of the A8V which I have.
Rock solid board, 1st version has some problems in the bios, which will be fixed with a Rev 2 in a few months, not the best OCer.
In my case on my A8V, I'm stuck at 230mz, but think I have an "unlucky" cpu.
I'm just pointing out that I'm seeing the same pattern in the A8N as the A8V.
Personally I don't like the bios very much but I can do 13x230 1:1 1.5-2-2-5 3.0v with my level2 bh-5 with that "limited" voltage and 11x275 1:1 2.5-3-3-7 2.65v with g.skill LE with my fx-55 on water and both at 1T.
On my Neo2 I was running strictly bh-5 and a booster at around 12x260 1:1 1.5-2-2-5
I'm definitely grabbing a DFI board... :D
When I was OCing my A8V I noticed one of the SATA banks was not tied to the PCI\AGP so I was able to run up to 265fsb 1:1(Can`t remember which set of sata connecters it was now, I`ve moved the drives to another machine). If you have any SATA drives laying around, might wanna try a RAID set-up in there.Quote:
Originally Posted by NoGodForme
I think the A8N will get better with a bios upgrade myself, but who wants to wait around to find out?
Yeah i had an A8V rev1.0 still got it infact a friend of mine will be getting it since he doesn't like overclocking.
On the plus side this board hasn't been too bad, i am suprised i have manged to get my 3500+ stable at 2.62GHz with 1.63v lol i needed 1.77 on my NEO2 to become stable lol Although it won't past prime 95 i can play games and Super Pi without crashing so who cares about Prime solong as it does everything i want too. But this board really does need more voltage. Also i see the same pattern as with my NEO2, if i use the max voltage on the board my PC will shut it's self off hence it is 1.635v rather then 1.65v :( The board really really does need more voltage options 1.75v i would say is the min for max voltage.
I am still running more test to make sure it is stable enough @ 2.62Ghz before i get my hopes up :o
Are you running 1GB kits or 512mb?Quote:
Originally Posted by gocchin
I haven't seen any good 1:1 TCCD, do you have screens?
Maybe I am having probs going over 240 1:1 @ 1t w/ my TCCD cause I am using a wnichester?
Edit: Changed memory speed from 204 to 240, my bad...
2x256MB he's got, from his benchmarks. I have noticed people have high benches all have 256 or 512MB ram.
Sweet so far i have ran 3D mark 2001, 03 and 05 and none of them have crashed one after the other. Looks to be stable at 2.62GHz :)
there is a new bios from asus 1003-007 but DON'T DOWNLOAD IT, IT CORRUPTS YOUR EEPROM :mad: luckyly there was AWDFLASH in dos :rolleyes:
Wahh thaks for that i think i will pass it then.
link from german forum for final 1003:
http://rapidshare.de/files-de/400827...Final.ZIP.html perhaps you have better luck with it. my old P4t533-R has nearly the same problems and Asus never fixed it.