Waiting to see how you get on too. I was gonna pre-order one of these today but I think I'll wait for your results first. Any news?
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Waiting to see how you get on too. I was gonna pre-order one of these today but I think I'll wait for your results first. Any news?
i'm actually posting this from my distributors warehouse...we'll see soon.
Okay...
my distributor actually didn't get their second shipment of these boards...he sold the last one before I actually called, he was assuming the second shipment would get in. So we looked at what was going on...and set up a few rmas...this will be looked into more closely.
The last board is going to another overclocker and we have warned him about my issue...and to immediately flash to the new bios to see if this still exists. This board is paired with a pair of gtx..and a fx-57....so we'll see what they turn up.
We set up an rma for the processors and it's all been taken care of. As soon
as his second shipment of boards gets in, I will have one.
I'm truly sorry to disappoint..i'd love to play with another one, but he just doesn't have it available for me.
A dead FX-57?Quote:
This board is paired with a pair of gtx..and a fx-57....so we'll see what they turn up.
yes maybe soon.
he's going to test with a FX-57?!?!
Geeee, wonder why Anandtech didn't have these problems.............Quote:
Originally Posted by Otaking71
Otaking:
How much vdimm were you running? I'm curious since I saw Tony's post on running low vcore/high vdimm killing CPUs.
I'll buy one as soon as they come in stock (+3000Venice...don't want to kill my 0517...) :D
Read the earlier post...
1.4625 + boost voltage
and 3.2 ram voltage
lemme clarify
my distributor had 3 boards
the first one was sold before i got there.
the second one, he let me have and was telling everybody else they didn't have them.
he let me know there was a third when i picked up and that he had only got three and was expecting more this week.
i called him as soon as i knew the board was killing procs.
he had 2 more scheduled to be in today that didn't get there.
the third was sold with the fx just before i called.
so the fx has a new board.
i'm waiting on the next batch.
My a8n32 has arrived. Will be putting my opteron 175 on water and testing this mobo out shortly. Hopefully no dead cpu :eek:
yea hurry. test test test.
Yeah, let us know... I plan to go with a 175 and an A8N32 as well... will be waiting for prolly 2 more weeks though for it show up in Canada :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by trza2k
What is the stepping on your 175?
I put my A8N32 motherboard into service yesterday afternoon.
This stuff is all working fine so far --
Win XP home SP2 installed and runs with no trouble.
The 81.85 Forceware NVIDIA drivers are working great with my XFX 7800GT
Installed the NVIDIA etnernet and SMBUS drivers from the motherboard CDROM.
The latest Creative labs drivers are working well with my Audigy II ZS
SuperPI ran to 32 Million places, though I didn't check the result's correctness.
I ran Prime95 mixed test on one core for 12 hours over last night. 100% / 0% CPU load
I'm running Prime95 two instances of mixed test on both cores now and that's
been working for the past 1.5 hours, 100% / 100% CPU load.
I played BattleField 2 1.03 at 1900 x 1200 x 70 FPS for about 4 hours tonight.
I had some problems with frequently repeatedly corrupted downloaded program files
from the internet over DSL when using Firefox or IExplorer "Save File" on
large files like the NVIDIA forceware driver program. It'd pretend to download them
fine but I'd most always get an error message about a corrupt executable when trying
to run the program. -- Someone on AT forums tells me that's an old / known
problem with the NVIDIA firewall Active Armor & NVIDIA ethernet controller so I guess
it's a software / driver bug that has happened on other motherboards besides the
A8N32, so that's worrisome / disappointing but not a knock off against the
motherboard.
Running two instances of Prime95 mixed test my temperatures reported by
ASUS PROBE II utility from the motherboard CDROM are 49C CPU, 47C motherboard.
When idle in WinXP without Cool&Quiet disabled the CPU temp is 46C and the
motherboard temp is around 44C. I'm using the stock AMD heat pipe HSF for the X2.
Here are the photos I've taken of my board / rig, including some that show how
the AMD heatsink fits, and how a Zalman CNPS 7000B-Cu fits, and how the
fit is with the Audigy II ZS and XFX 7800GT.
http://photobucket.com/albums/d40/qu...vegan/a8n32x2/
I'm running the default BIOS that shipped with the board for now.
One thing that kind of bothered me was that the BIOS seems set up to use
"Auto" overclocking including overvolting everything *BY DEFAULT*.. I think
that's horrible if I'm not mistaken. The first thing I did was reset the BIOS to
default settings, then went in and set the time, hardware configurations, and
set all the voltage / frqeuency overclocking settings to MANUAL at stock / nominal
settings for my burn in.
If it is true that the A8N32 has contributed in a principal way to frying CPUs for one
poster here, I wonder if it could have had anything to do with poorly implemented
BIOS DEFAULT overvolting / overclocking settings? Though since he seems to be
an experienced OCer, I'd certainly assume he custom set all the parameters instead
of relying on automatic anything... Anyway that's a tragedy that he's had bad luck,
and I hope all will be OK with this motherboard for most people who get it!
Anyway so far I'd have to say my rig is working 100% perfectly at manually
forced "stock settings" during my 2-days of initial testing / burn-in. The only
problems I've had are probably just software bugs in the NVIDIA drivers etc.
The idle motherboard temperature of 45C is a little hotter than I'd like but increasing
the case fan speed from "low" (thermostatically controlled but the ANTEC PSU) to
"normal" (fixed 12V input) would probably solve that.
I haven't tested CoolNQuiet yet, it's not apparently functioning, I probably didn't
install the Windows driver for it yet.
I didn't install the NVIDIA IDE drivers yet either since I recall remarks suggesting
avoiding those. I hope they fix the bug that caused those corrupted downloads
though, and that it's a networking bug and not a storage one. Interestingly / scarily
"windows update" never complained about anything it auto-downloaded, I'm not
sure if that means it was all OK or if it means it just didn't check and who knows
what's corrupted now... Anyway that's off topic for the motherboard itself though.
The memory defaults to 333 MHz with my four mis-matched sticks including the
"value ram".. I don't know about 1T vs 2T and 400 MHz possibility yet, I'll memtest
that later.
Configuration:
Antec Sonata case
Antec TruePower 2.0 480W PSU
2 x 1 GBy sticks of Kingston value & 2 x 512 MBy sticks of PQI 3200 memory -- 3 GBy
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400
Creative labs Audigy II ZS
XFX 7800GT PCIE card
4 x IDE parallel ATA hard disks
Yea..I just either think I ran into a weird bios glitch that puts the power circuitry in a weird unrecoverable state..or I just got a bum board.
Right now, I've got an opty 170 running on an msi k8n neo4 (cheapest nf4 board they carry that I trust) ..until the a8n32 arrives..i'll get a good feel for how this opty runs (i'm at dual 2.65 prime stable now) and we'll see the difference going to the a8n32.
Synergy - does the reported vcore voltage fluctuate or differ than what you have set in the bios? Just wondering if this has been corrected since the premium has this issue. Thx
looks great so far !
Yeah the active armor / firewall for nf4 along with there ide drivers are horrible.Quote:
Originally Posted by synergy
These drivers have been known to cause major issues, so try uninstall use a hd tool to correct any errors and you should be fine. You only need the smbus, ethernet, and videos drivers.
I had one flake out one me so bad I just reformatted... :bs: Could be problems have been tamed in the new release 6.70 but I doubt it.
Yes, Vcore seems to be quite stable so far --Quote:
Originally Posted by Capt_Caveman
I don't have any long term logging s/w but I've stared at it a while when
idle and when running StressPrime2004 on one or two cores.
The BIOS came up with a default of 1.35V Vcore for my X2 4400 which
I hope is right. :)
I've seen it say 1.35 or 1.34V when idle or running at a moderate load.
When I was running my StressPrime2004 on both cores all the system
voltages semed to drop a little bit -- 5V, 12V, 3.3V, Vcore read:
4.97V, 11.90V, 3.26V to 3.3V,
and Vcore in that loaded state fluctuates from 1.33 to 1.34V readings.
So 1.33-1.35V is the range of Vcore, so that and the rest of my rails
seem to be holding up well under CPU stress load to within about 1%
or better accuracy as reported by ASUS PROBE II.
I'll try to check the accuracy with a DMM soon.
I did see one BIOS glitch -- I've been running mostly all BIOS MANUAL modeQuote:
Originally Posted by Otaking71
voltage / frequency settings, so no "AUTO" overclocks / overvolts are used
now for my box.
I was running WinXP just fine, told XP to "restart" to finish a driver installation,
it did its warm restart, then when it was going through the BIOS again
the BIOS halted with an error message something about
"overclock failed" or whatever and then it let me get into BIOS setup from
there. I looked at all the settings, they seemed just the way I wanted them,
so I exited without changing anything, and it booted right up and continued
working fine under Windows.
I guess the BIOS got a little confused or maybe WinXP erased something
that it used to keep track of system crash vs fine operation. Anyway
it seems fine.
Were you running 100% MANUAL overclock / overvolt settings with
those CPU problems BTW?
Good luck!
Thanks for the info! I was considering the DFI Sli-Expert but will go with the A8N32-SLI. But where the heck can I get one!!!!!!!!!!!! :banana: :banana:
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Originally Posted by synergy
What is the maximum vcore you can set on this board?
Are you playing battlefield with SLI-AA enabled?
Same here. It looks like we'll be waiting a couple of weeks. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Capt_Caveman
You can preorder one for $205 at Tankguys.biz He has a pretty good rating too.
I NEVER let the computer do any type of auto overclock.
I'm a control freak =P
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Originally Posted by synergy
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Originally Posted by Capt_Caveman
As soon as my distributor has a stable supply, I'll let you guys know.