I just purchased one...This thread is going to be very usefull
All the feedback on here is unreal to say the least
Once again..another awesome thread at Xtreme! :toast:
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I just purchased one...This thread is going to be very usefull
All the feedback on here is unreal to say the least
Once again..another awesome thread at Xtreme! :toast:
Nice, we have another new DFI-user around! :thumbsup:
If you got any question to ask... here's the place, of course :D
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Is this tru? I will only be able to get 2.2? No way no how?Quote:
You just won't get 2.1V stable (minimum) as these boards can give 2.08V stable max... and that's with all the mods
Looks like some one did 2.15 with a:stick:Quote:
47K variable.
Thanks Sae I appreciate the feedback :toast:Quote:
Mine can do 2.24V. You only have to be able to cool the board and its components!
Mine can do 2.24V. You only have to be able to cool the board and its components! :D
@ tictac
I love you m8...
i was having trouble getting 200x12.5 stable on HF last bios, it just kept getting worse every day, so i load up your bios, figuring WTF? and i got 200x12.5 with 1.825vcore and stock nb/ram/agp, something i couldnt do with 1.9v for some reason just a moment ago, hopefully your bios will be more consisent the the HF bios, as on the HF bios my clocks just got worse and worse it seemed like.....
thanks again!
another update 250x10, a setting i couldnt get booting right tonight (thought inf was having a bay day like it seems to do every day or two) and now im there rock stable with much less voltage.
tictac :thumbsup: :toast:
just goes to show you every board and chipset is different!
indeed your right sir, i go to plug in my cdrom as to run memtest, and 250x10 no longer goes into windows, and 200x12.5 hardly stays alive in windows for long, so i unplug my cdrom and the problem is still there...
just when i think im making progress...
ok so heres a very strange issue indeed:
for those not following my situation - so i had it running 272 2-2-2-11 2x256mb cpc on 3.6v about 2 weeks ago, i lost that oc, and i figured it was just my board actung up, as 250 was stable...
so then i lose 250, and eventually 200...i switch to tictac's bios, and 250 works, i plug in a cdrom to run some memtest, and bam, 200 at 3.3 doesnt even work...
...so i tried everything (including reseating) and i couldnt get 200mhz stable even at 3.3v
so i decide to put in my 1gb KHX3000 set into banks 1 and 3(also BH-5)
i ran that fine up to 235 mhz 3.3v and i knew the board was fine, so i was sad and i figured my good BH was dead...
i decided to run them each on their own to figure out which stick was bad, and bam, both sticks run 250mhz 2-2-2-11 cpc 3.3v on memtest5 stable...
i pop both sticks in (tested in all banks and got same results with single stick) in banks 1 and 3, as this is all my cooling setup permits and poop, 250 3.3v get 20000+ errors, and 200mhz 3.3v get about 500 errors..s
so im at a big wtf right now, im really happy my ram isnt dead, but this sucks, wtf is going on here?
try a different ide connector, try slots 2+3, swap ram around so whichever is in 3 is in 1 or 2.
Typical issue of DFI NF2! All I can say. I mean, I don't know it in such drastical way (200MHZ fsb not stable), but something similar.
Sometimes I got a stable 269MHz at 11-2-2-2-2.0-12-16-e-e-f-e-2-0-3-3-1-0-3, I could even do superpi32m, and then next day I had problems running a stable 260. Hehe, seems to be weather-dependant ;) (and may reflect the mood of the board :D)
yeh i have the exact problems and some days can get 200 stable! others days i can run 272 semi stable! It pisses me off how its like that! i want to switch to nf4...its either switch to nf4 and sell my old stuff and not have phase-change or its stick with what ive got and get phase change....anyone shed some light on my problem?
ok so i eneded up remeoving all my ram sinks (i spent days making them :()
and running in 2 and 3, problem didnt go away...
few more hours later, much more experimenting, turns out i had too much voltage for 200mhz, but these dimm that used to run 200 at 2.6 no longer will(needs 2.8 now), and 250 i couldnt get stable as 3.3v wasnt enough (something these dimms used to do well)
so i memtest 240 for a bit, no problems, and now im back at 250, somehow not erroring at all with 3.3v
funny how im happy to get this right now and im not even at my old 24/7 clocks lol...
Seems to be the board, my khx bh-5 first did 260@3.34V, now they were demanding 3.56V (my standard voltage). If I decreased vdimm it went unstable. Weird nf2. :D
same here
i used to run my khx3200 bh-5 200@ 2.6v at start...now even 2.8v doesnt help
weird i can't even boot anything below 3.1v now.....LOL
i just did the following mods (all at once :) ):
vdd
vdimm
vcore
OCP
vdroop
and all were a success! the ocp was the hardest as there isnt much room to work and the pads are a pin points distance aways from each other but i nailed it! i cant wait to see the results with my new OCZ 600watt dual rail psu!
Gluck, mate! :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by stealth17
haha didnt help...Quote:
Originally Posted by SAE
weird man i dunno what happened. the thing worked for a day, then the next day (today) i turned it on and cpu voltage was going from .5v to 1.7v and wasnt letting the thing boot...i was like WTF??? thenit would sometimes boot and freeze in bios...so i was getting upset...put a different psu in and same thing...then i put it on the bench and something by the cpu socket burned for no good reason! i have no clue what happened...especially since it worked for a day flawlessly!...
hmmm im upset with DFI..
so im ganna RMA it and get my FOURTH motherboard and then sell it....more than likely will buy a NF4...you get your NF4 yet SAE???
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Originally Posted by stealth17
Man, I feel with ya :(
Too bad you could not locate the error...
And no, I did not get my board, as I ordered it - together with my FX - and they're waiting for it to arrive. *sigh*
And then, I would be still waiting for my sweet vid card I'll get from saaya (I'll pay for it - don't ask him for one :lol: ). Hope my waiting won't last forever and a day... it's a pain!
it wasnt my error...the board killed itself :p:Quote:
Originally Posted by SAE
im ganna get a DFI NF4 and a 3000+ to play with...the FX are soooo damned expensive!
Yep, that's correct. FX are expensive... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by stealth17
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Originally Posted by stealth17
one of your solder joints could have gone bad on the ocp maybe? that mod scared me way to much, i cant afford buying the irons that would make that job easy, i just have cheapo $5 iron with a big fat tip lol...
new info on my board, i got 10.5x250 rock stable at 2630, so then i backed off the multi to 10x, and i went for 263, now ive been keeping the vdd at 1.8 because more didnt seem to help, but for some reason it just started working, at 1.9vcore, 3.6vdimm, 1.8vdd memtest had 20k + errors, so i up the vdd to 1.9 and bam, 20errors at 3.4vdimm, more vdimm doesnt help, nor does more vcore, so im plugging my vdd mod back in now...
quick question, is it safe to run without a videocard for the purpose of checking voltages? my 9800p cooler sits right on top of monitoring points...
some more good news ot slighlty, upon remounting my 9800p cooler with better screws, and the vmod off, i hit 450core without artifact in 2k1, previously 430 was max... :) almost at 22k with this thing, and thats only with 250mhzx10 on a really bad install of win xp.
im getting excited, i used to think this board was quirky but now more and more i am learning about it the more i realize that there is a reason for its behaviour, i really didnt expect such a large project when i performed these vmods, but im sure glad i did, as ive learned much! :)
Revv, it'S safe to measure without vid card, I sometimes even measured with out ram, vid card and cpu :lol:
Just to be safe not to kill any of our precious' ;)
bah i went all the way up to 2.2v and couldnt get it error free in memtest, with the mod on im setting it to 1.7 in bios giving me 2.0v...
couldnt get 263 stable unfortunatly, i think i need to tweak as to have .5 voltages, im feeling like the boardd cant handle 3.6v and 3.55 isnt enough...
last thing is maybe my cpu cant handle the FSB, ive noticed amount of errors seems to be a few lower with slightly more cpu voltage, though more then 1.925 was increasing errors, rigs in my HOT basement now, usually rig is in a nice 60 degree room, and now its in like 75, so maybe thats it...
another thing i will try is maybe going back ot the hellfire rev3 bios... man another sleepless night of overclocking ahead heh...
Rev3 was most excellent one... :thumbsup: