Althes,
That bottom|last PCI slot is usable with dual slot cards in Crossfire yes? Aka would you have room for a sound card with dual X1900 XTs installed?
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Althes,
That bottom|last PCI slot is usable with dual slot cards in Crossfire yes? Aka would you have room for a sound card with dual X1900 XTs installed?
It will be a very tight fit.
was able to get above 270 testing at 275 now.
Had to lower LDT to 200.
Anything above it locks tight.
A couple other things I had to do also will report later
Thanks Althes,Quote:
Originally Posted by althes
I poked around and got the same answer from a few others. I am going to try this board. I like the price, passive cooling, and I am using a 4400+ that doesn't do more than 2.76 anyway. Also I like the position of the top PCI-e slot. My Powercolor tuner card will fit their nicely and I will still be able to do Crossfire. I need to reinstall window soon, as I don't want to active til I have my final build all together.
I ordered one of these too:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127208
I was able to get up to 275 but no further.
This board is really bugging me now.
I even dropped multi and upped fsb no go over 275.
The board wont budge.
I think I need a new bios or my board is bad.
Those are good xfire cards it seems good price also
Cheers for all these updates:clap:Quote:
Originally Posted by althes
Are the problems you're finding with this board purely overclocking related or has it got 'normal use' issues too?
Any rumours of a new (official/beta) BIOS?
Odd. Well this G. Skill 2gb of mine doesn't do over 261 anyway, at least at 1:1. I plan on just doing 251 x 11 at 1T for my OC.Quote:
Originally Posted by althes
For the heck of it, I'll try my old Crucial Ballistix in the board and see what I can get. They are 512mb each and good for 306 at 1:1. If the BIOS is missing any settings I like I'll just whip out good 'ol A64 tweaker on it. I've found pretty much ideal settings for my overclock and dual core after much experimenting.
That is what I am using now at 251 1:1 :
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/512...tsmooth5fb.jpg
I can go tighter with 8 on Trc and 12 Trfc. The settings I have however give me the best performance, stability and smooth game play. I lost all hitching in EQ 2 and some other games with these settings. Max async latency to 8ns and read preamble bumped to 6ns were other key changes. Naturally I should stress this is specific to this ram and dual core.
There is something up with the board I think something is running really tight an dnot causing it to OC
Althes, how bout a A64tweaker shot of it at 275. Or a Systool memory timings shot. Might see something fishy...
Ok will do in the morning
275?
ic.... ;)
a review on newegg has it to 285 right at the start and "feels" it will do 300 easy.
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Originally Posted by tictac
TicTac, you up to something...:p: :p: :p:
Most of the time, Eggy reviews are retarded. There were 200 reviews of the A8N32-SLI board BEFORE the board was available!Quote:
Originally Posted by nate39
The list so far:
The board recognizes the G.Skill in my sig as PC 3200 ram. I can force it to be recognized as 4000 and it will run at 3200 speed and with my CPU at stock. If I let it set it to 3200 I can get a 232 FSB out of it.
I put my old OCZ PC 3200 in my case and it will run that fine at 220 FSB until I shut down and restart cold. Then I get no video signal and no post. My system basically locks. So I have to remove the battery and reset the CMOS.
Do the people that lay out these boards and design them actually mount them in a case with hardware? I can not express my level of disgust that you have to remove the master slot card and your PCI sound card to access the battery and more importantly, the CMOS jumper. Also the additional power molex plug is down at the bottom of the board so getting the cards out is interesting.
One good thing I can say is it runs fine with 1T.
The BIOS does not allow you to set; read write queue bypass, bypass max, read preamble, or max async latency. All of those are important when you are trying to push ram to the limit. It doesn't matter if you can set them in windows if they need to be set differently to even get it to load.
I ordered the DFI board late last night. Why is it I can directly set any ram timings or FSB with my 85 dollar EPoX board yet this one has to be coaxed up 5 at a time just to do 232? Ugh.
I got a guru panel in part so that I can clearCMOS from it without delving into the case.Quote:
Originally Posted by malficar
heidfirst do you ;like the guru panel
I haven't had it long (couple of days) & it doesn't really do anything that you can't do some other way.
I had the spare drive bay space though & now that I have an X1900XT fitted it was going to be even harder to get at the CMOS jumper (not unique to the AT8, if anything the jumper on an Asrock 939DualSATA is in a worse place) than with a 7800GT so if it saves some hassle in the future I'll be happy.
Given that it's got a Fatal1ty logo on the screen I'm a bit surprised that they went with a green backlight rather than a red though.
Yeah this board has issues, tried an x2 3800 no luck cant get past 275
Well guru doesn't function at all under MCE 2005. I installed win xp instead last night and was overclocking when I got to a 240 FSB it locked my system. When I forced a reboot it would not post and gave me a code of C1. I tried clearing it the way the manual suggested. Finally I pulled all the power cables off the board, took out the battery and cleared the CMOS via the jumper then went to sleep. When I put it all back together today it froze with the same code on the mobo. I've tried one and two sticks of corsair value select, crucial ballistix pc 3200, ocz pc 3200 2gb, and of course my g skill PC 4000.
I also removed all add in cards except my X1900. Then I tried my AIW X1800 XL, then my X800 XL. Same code C1 and wouldn't post.
I did some checking and "C1" is a "memory presence test" fail. This happened after the OC. Now that would be one and or two sticks of the four different types of memory I listed; crucial ballistix, corsair value select, ocz 2gb pc 3200, and the g skill in my sig. I know three of them worked because I tried them before this OC fail and then the odd code. It has to be some sort of bug. They also work fine in the EPoX board I put back in my rig.
This happened while using regular old win XP SP-2. Not MCE 2005. I had wanted to try the guru overclock. Yes I did a full format of my drive with the OS before installing XP SP-2.
With my old EPoX board back in, and XP installed again I am running fine. Guess I wait on the DFI and try MCE 2005 on it. This fugger is going in my waste can. I'll say again my 85usd EPoX board is a much better overclocker.
Man I hope a new comes soon and fixes this lock.
Its just really stupid for this to happen now.
DFI for me then until a new bios appears this board is packed away
Yes it does.Quote:
Originally Posted by malficar
I had problems with it too to start with but then something (possibly an MS update) happened & it started working.
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Originally Posted by Heidfirst
MS? Helping the overclock cause? I don't believe it.