I'm going to be using the 3700EB's on this board. I don't see whay this would not be a good choice for high htt.
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I'm going to be using the 3700EB's on this board. I don't see whay this would not be a good choice for high htt.
Did you get rid of your AV8? and how does the Corsair XL's do on this board? I like the lights...
No I stil have the AV8, but tomorrow my Gig-939 comes and since I see no bios yet with multi's the av8 is "out of there" at least for now. I moved my XL's to my 2nd box where I run lower fsb at tighter timings. I think the EB's will scale better with the Gigabyte and proper working locks/multis even though at lower fsb the XL's will do tighter timings, I think the EB's probably have more headroom..
I don't know what to tell you about the lvl2 you have. I don't have any 512 sticks. In an Intel system the lvl2 and the hyperX performed very much the same, but on both giga A64 boards the hyperX far out performs the lvl2. For me anyway.Quote:
Originally posted by WeaponX
I'll be joining you guys on this escapade. I just returned my Asus P5AD2 Intel 925X board because of all the recalls, I've had it with intel...
I just bought this board at Newegg.com. Pretty pricey, but at least it's better then 299.99. I was wondering, I currently have 2 sticks of Mushkin level 2 3500 (2x512mb), should I keep them or sell them off? Help me pkrew, thanks bro.
I have only a brief report of eb and this board. It was 2 x 256 pc3700 and that was it ran well. I'll try to find out more
thanks ;) mine is : SN0423000005 loll , i think they do some improvement on your's because i can't agree the fact they had made 1 million MB between your's and mineQuote:
Originally posted by pkrew
Thanks my friend :toast:
I didn't see all of your questions. The KHX is technically single sided, but has chips on both sides. 2t is disabled in the bios. SN=0424030022
I would agree. I don't see how they could sell a million boards. I thought you said in another thread that yours was an engineering sampleQuote:
Originally posted by misteroadster
thanks ;) mine is : SN0423000005 loll , i think they do some improvement on your's because i can't agree the fact they had made 1 million MB between your's and mine
I've read reviews (Anandtech.com) stating that the XL's can scale up to 250mhz FSB and keep the 2-2-2-5 latencies (Of course with voltage increases which we might not be able to do with the Gigabyte). Is this true? Either or, I do not plan to do any mods to the board because I have this uneasy feeling of the CPU dieing or something going terribly wrong with the board itself.
You could only get around 2.8v vdimm stock from the gigabyte. The rest of the board are probably going to be the same. I do know that my Asus gives 2.86v at the 2.8 setting
That is simply not true. after about 220 or so they need 2.5 or maybe 2-3-2-5 for a whiule and then 2-3-3-6 or 2.5-3-3- whatever. Voltage does NOT help after about 2.9v.Quote:
Originally posted by WeaponX
I've read reviews (Anandtech.com) stating that the XL's can scale up to 250mhz FSB and keep the 2-2-2-5 latencies (Of course with voltage increases which we might not be able to do with the Gigabyte). Is this true? Either or, I do not plan to do any mods to the board because I have this uneasy feeling of the CPU dieing or something going terribly wrong with the board itself.
Well, I've narrowed it down to either the XL's or the EBs. I just love the "cool" factor in the lights. This one's gonna come down to a coin toss.
Mine's 30015, so we are practically twins. lol :DQuote:
Originally posted by pkrew
Thanks my friend :toast:
I didn't see all of your questions. The KHX is technically single sided, but has chips on both sides. 2t is disabled in the bios. SN=0424030022
Congrats on your new board. Yep, born 7 digits apart :D. Good luck, let us know how it goesQuote:
Originally posted by xgman
Mine's 30015, so we are practically twins. lol :D
Should I keep the Mushkin level 2 PC3500 (2X512mb) that I have or go for the 3700 EBs from OCZ?
pkrew, any luck with the VCore mod?
Still waiting for Hell-Fire to confirm my plan.
go with the EB you wont be disappointed. I sold my 2x512 Lvl2 for $350 and 2x256 of Mushkin BH5 on green PCB's
made out like a bandit
Are they better than the Asus A8V? I can't wait to see some reviews
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Originally posted by longshot
made out like a bandit
ROFL!!!!!!!
Well it may be just my board (I doubt it though), but the Giagbyte 939 is simply unusable even with vmods. It has the most rediculous bios I have ever seen, and it keeps resetting back to default valuses willy nilly. The abit bios has about 10 billion times more straight forward options than the giagbyte even when you hit ctrl-F1. I just find it iplain stupid. As many problems as the asus and abit may have, this is the worst. It can't go back fast enough. I'm wishing I had kept my 940 setup just about now. These 939 setups just plain suck! IMHO. :mad:
I told you guys S939 stuff was going to have problems. Look how long it's taken us to get decent S754 boards, and there still isn't that many really solid full feature boards available.
I sell computers, and while I will build S939 systems for those who absolutely insist (I use the A8V because ASUS has a good history with A64s) I advise my customers against it.
I don't understand why it's taking so long to see the hardcore overclockers running S939 systems up to the top of the ORB. Can it be that the S939 just isn't any better than the S940 or S754?
Come on guys! Whip out that credit card and put these S939 systems on the map!:toast:
Sorry to hear that. Have you tried the newer bios. Mine will reset the bios, but only when turn it off and on a few times. It did take a while to get use to the bios with my first gig board
Well this will be my first venture into everything, watercooling, AMD64, first Gigabyte board. Hopefully I don't walk away too pissed off at it.
Trust me, I've tried everything. I have always hated this dual bios thing. It turns out to be the overclockers worst nightmare. It keeps insisting on resetting to safe harbor. You never know which bios is booting. The board I have with or without mods has zero stability at any settings.Quote:
Originally posted by pkrew
Sorry to hear that. Have you tried the newer bios. Mine will reset the bios, but only when turn it off and on a few times. It did take a while to get use to the bios with my first gig board
I really think that we are in an era that the manufacturers are getting ahead of themselves pushing the envelope in an effort to churn out new product and justify new sales, and it just isn't that easy, so we see half baked products and drivers rushed out only to dissapoint, and I only see this trend getting worse. We have gotten used to one technology update after the other for a few years and I think there are some things that are just hitting the wall, maybe for financial reasons more than tech, or maybe not.
I just got my board today, good thing my favorite color is blue...
To any degree, I hope my experiences turn out good. Stability is still good at stock settings correct?
The dual BIOS can be more of a pain than it's worth but it does come in handy sometimes. It is really important to flash both main and backup BIOS with the same version though if you want to avoid having a corrupt BIOS replaced by a BIOS you don't want to use.