First Desktop ATI Xpress 200 Mobos arrive for 939... and 754 !!!

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05-23-2005, 08:22 PM
perkam

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Originally Posted by AMD-me

I was referencing the sapphire :D

That'll take a tad longer lol ;) :D

Perkam
05-23-2005, 09:42 PM
AMD-me

Quote:

Originally Posted by perkam

That'll take a tad longer lol ;) :D

Perkam

Bug all, I guess I'll break and buy the DFI nf4, I cant wait any longer :slapass: ! :toast: :woot:
05-24-2005, 09:26 PM
perkam

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Originally Posted by AMD-me

Bug all, I guess I'll break and buy the DFI nf4, I cant wait any longer :slapass: ! :toast: :woot:

Well they're predicting June/July for the release of those mobos...the Powercolor board is out now.

The DFI nF4 is a great buy at any time. If you feel u need to get the Sapphire when it comes out, the dfi nf4 will go VERY fast in the FS forums so its a very liquid investment...and a good one at that.

Perkam
05-24-2005, 09:52 PM
AMD-me

Quote:

Originally Posted by perkam

Well they're predicting June/July for the release of those mobos...the Powercolor board is out now.

The DFI nF4 is a great buy at any time. If you feel u need to get the Sapphire when it comes out, the dfi nf4 will go VERY fast in the FS forums so its a very liquid investment...and a good one at that.

Perkam

Thanks, you make me feel better about my purchase.

Now if my damn CC company would stop fusckin around and change my address, I can finnaly have my order filled :slapass:
05-28-2005, 02:25 PM
perkam

The 754 Tul/Powercolor ATI Xpress PCI-E Mobos are now out of stock ;)

...and ONLY 1 939 PCI-E Board remaining !!!! (if no one gets it ... :wasntme: :D)

But yeah only one left ;)

Perkam
05-28-2005, 02:29 PM
AMD-me

I cant wait to see some results on these, mabe ill be selling my DFI and getting a PURE :D
05-28-2005, 02:30 PM
perkam

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Originally Posted by AMD-me

I cant wait to see some results on these, mabe ill be selling my DFI and getting a PURE :D

LOL A pure may not be out for a while...but I've been busy lately :( so I might be wrong.

Perkam
05-28-2005, 02:32 PM
AMD-me

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Originally Posted by perkam

LOL A pure may not be out for a while...but I've been busy lately :( so I might be wrong.

Perkam

Yea, till then I'll have this awesome DFI :toast:

This is one hell of a retail package and a sexy PCB to boot :banana:
06-01-2005, 06:34 PM
perkam

Last TuL 939 has been sold...both 754 and 939 boards are now out of stock ;)

Perkam
06-01-2005, 08:03 PM
frostedflakes

And not a single XS member ordered? Or are they all hiding. Come on, tell us how these boards are! ;)
06-07-2005, 08:19 PM
frostedflakes

WTF? They were out of stock, but now the TuL boards are not even listed on NewEgg and Chiefvalue. :confused:
06-07-2005, 08:55 PM
perkam

Yeah, looks like only a no. of these boards were ever produced. For more, you'd want to wait until July for the real thing :)

Perkam
06-07-2005, 09:01 PM
frostedflakes

Oh noes! I need a motherboard now... :(
06-08-2005, 02:42 AM
Discipl3

Am I right in thinking that these boards with the xpress chipset are crossfire ready?
06-09-2005, 02:32 AM
kantonen

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I've got Tul AX480A-GF, but I have used it in my system only for a few days because of the early bios. I've been planning to put it back soon if I can get a newer bios for it. So not much overclocking experience with this one, but here's some pictures.
06-09-2005, 10:43 PM
frostedflakes

What exactly are the shortcomings of the early BIOS? It isn't unstable or anything like that is it? If you tinkered around with it even a little, what kind of overclock did you get?

Thanks. :)
06-09-2005, 10:51 PM
kantonen

Besides the cold boot issue and not working with SB2 audigy, the bios lacked option to change Vdimm. I received also a beta-bios, but that was corrupt, or something else went wrong and i had to change back to DFI. I'm thinking of trying it again if TUL sends me a new bios. So I didn't get to try any OC'ing yet...
06-09-2005, 10:59 PM
AMD-me

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Originally Posted by kantonen

Besides the cold boot issue and not working with SB2 audigy, the bios lacked option to change Vdimm. I received also a beta-bios, but that was corrupt, or something else went wrong and i had to change back to DFI. I'm thinking of trying it again if TUL sends me a new bios. So I didn't get to try any OC'ing yet...

darn :(
06-09-2005, 11:00 PM
frostedflakes

Bummer.

Hopefully a BIOS update will fix the issues you're having. Maybe I'll give it another month or two and see what other manufacturers have to offer for Xpress 200, or if TuL is able to fix problems from the release BIOS.

Thanks for the info, I appreciate it.

EDIT: Oh, one more question. How hot does the northbridge run? Cooler than NF4? As cool as Via K8T800/Pro and K8T890? What about the southbridge?
06-10-2005, 01:53 AM
kantonen

I didn't have a temperature monitoring program, so I can't tell the temperatures, but I'll look into it when I install it again. SB doesn't even have a HS... And some of the problems (like with audigy) could be because the board is a golden sample.

Hardwarezone has tested ECS's express 200P board and somewhat liked it.

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles...?cid=6&id=1600

Too bad they didn't tell much about OC'ing or bios.
06-10-2005, 02:46 AM
MJRL

I've also tested Tul Xpress 200P, at the time (was in March) v-core only 1,45V and no v-dimm options. They told me that they will put more options in the final version (the one i tested was beta), but one more thing i don't like was the imature drivers, windows takes to long to load...
Grab a translator if tou want
http://www.oc-zone.com/modules.php?n...onteudo&id=102
06-10-2005, 07:05 AM
gmod

They sure do look lke a carbon copy of the MSI board...Which I hate with a passion. takes 10mins to clear the cmos...
06-10-2005, 09:12 AM
perkam

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Originally Posted by kantonen

I didn't have a temperature monitoring program, so I can't tell the temperatures, but I'll look into it when I install it again. SB doesn't even have a HS... And some of the problems (like with audigy) could be because the board is a golden sample.

Hardwarezone has tested ECS's express 200P board and somewhat liked it.

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles...?cid=6&id=1600

Too bad they didn't tell much about OC'ing or bios.

Kantonen, firstly, thx for sharing info on the board :) and :welcome: Welcome to XtremeSystems :welcome: :D

Also, is this the bios you were using on it : AX480A7-940317-2 ?? That's the latest one and you can find it here: http://www.tul.com.tw/global/bios.as...2=136&cat3=332 . Dont know if its been updated though :( .

Perkam
06-10-2005, 08:03 PM
kantonen

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Originally Posted by perkam

Kantonen, firstly, thx for sharing info on the board :) and :welcome: Welcome to XtremeSystems :welcome: :D

Also, is this the bios you were using on it : AX480A7-940317-2 ?? That's the latest one and you can find it here: http://www.tul.com.tw/global/bios.as...2=136&cat3=332 . Dont know if its been updated though :( .

Perkam

Thank you! And that looks like a later bios if 0317 is the date, unfortunately that's for the s754 model and bios for my board is still in the same release version.

http://www.tul.com.tw/global/bios.as...2=146&cat3=337
06-10-2005, 08:07 PM
perkam

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Originally Posted by kantonen

Thank you! And that looks like a later bios if 0317 is the date, unfortunately that's for the s754 model and bios for my board is still in the same release version.

http://www.tul.com.tw/global/bios.as...2=146&cat3=337

Ah yes, I see that now...Tis a pity they dont have an updated bios...though they never mass produced these boards so that makes sense. I just hope things start rolling by June/July...cos I'm this close --> || to making a decision to go Intel.

Perkam

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