so what will be better that aopen board or asus adapter that one day may work with p4c800,
I am looking forward to anthing that supports pentium and overclocks well
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so what will be better that aopen board or asus adapter that one day may work with p4c800,
I am looking forward to anthing that supports pentium and overclocks well
Anyone been able to overclock this board yet? whether or not it does or not is a big part in my decision of buying it or not. I really hope it will, after waiting for so long, it'd be such a big dissappointment :( .
Till now I'm dissapointed if it comes to OC abilities :( (hopely it will be fixed in the future).Quote:
Originally Posted by Qu3Xu5
Actually I wish I still that i855Gmem-LFS board :D.
If I were you. Wait a bit till the platform is mature.
Else buy an Aopen i855Gmem-LFS and a Dothan with 533Mhz busspeed :D ( a 2.13Ghz sounds nice :slobber: )
You guys knows newegg has it right:
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduc...137-061&DEPA=0
320$ =/
interesting... I have been checking the egg by sorting by socket for weeks... the neglected to put the socket in the board info so it doesn't show up when you search for socket 479 boards. Heh.
Thats a ridiculous RIDICULOUS price for a motherboard...
For that I could get a DFI NF4 SLI-DR AND a skt 939 A64... and that board can overclock...
The worst part about the price is that that means that they will not be dropping the price of the AOpen 855GME board... weak
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Originally Posted by executor252
HAHA, I was doing the same thing! I would never see the board in the list of s479. Wow, I feel so stupid now, haha. Holy that's an expensive board, and from what vegeta was saying it doesn't have a great potential in oc. at least for now, maybe if they come out with new bios.
I am surprised that the i915gmm-hfs did not get any play here on this thread. After using this board for over sixty days I am extremely satisfied with the quality and features but with one exception. The heatsink (if you can even call it that), is junk. It fails to do the job it was designed for, keeping the stock 21-27watt M chip at a reasonable temperature.
The mounting holes that shipped with the board do not support any of the heatsinks that I want to use.
Is there a source for a custom heatsink vendor that could fabricate what I need?
Overclocked or stock? I'm curious.Quote:
Originally Posted by mark4005
What about a custom heatsink? Measure the hole position and drill a good 6x6 copper heatsink, I believe everything over than 6x6 will not fit because of mobo component placement. This board has two ENORMOUS problems: price, and non-standard cpu cooling.
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Originally Posted by mark4005
Have you tried the new bios R1.08?
And are you using DDR1 or DDR2?
I've got one of these bad boys coming in soon. Will post results when I do.
:woot:
There is too much heat with the stock 1.5 ghz operation. 65-80 C if I leave the voltage at 1.34.Quote:
Originally Posted by rivers
It overclocks to 2.0 ghz with the fsb jumper and is rock solid stable but the temps on the sink are above 85C which worries me. The bios I have been using lately is 1.07.
For every day use I run it at 1.66ghz (10x166fsb) with the voltage at 1.1v, (stable) with the 1.5mhz (715) chip. Occaisonally, the the fan on the heatsink will stop for no reason and the board alarms like crazy- drives me up the wall! If I didn't pay $285.00 for it (Computer HQ) I would crush the onboard speaker with a pliers and forget about it.
I have read a lot of squawking over the price of the board, and quite frankly you are paying for two things that you don't get by going with the cheezy adapter solution: avoiding any near term forklift because of the features that are supported, and the fact that this setup looks like the best HTPC platform you can buy for the price (without the convection spaceheater effect of a P4 in your living room).
Being able to buy the 715 or 725 chips for very low cost balances the higher motherboard price. I believe that the folks who shell out more on cpu's will often find themselves spending more. You always need a good board. The chips are the commodity. The main advantage for choosing the M on the desktop is the overclockability factor. An $85 1.5ghz chip performs at 2.0ghz perfectly for every day use. If somebody could help me identify a solid (small) permanent cooling solution, I suspect that I will be able to turn this chip up too much higher speeds for video editing.
Curiously, why does it seem that there is little to no interest in the DDR2 capabilities of this board? I really like not having to be concerned about the memory divider. Using 667 OCZ memory I select 166FSB and I experience no issues. Once the cooling issue is tackled, I want to run it at 15x166 to see if it is stable for every day use.
Please accept my apologies for the rant!
Hi, last friday i got my motherboard, 1x1024 apacer ddr2 533(Samsung chip) and 725(16x100), with 1.3V i got solid 2.25Ghz. After wiretrick(1.55V) 2.5Ghz solid(16x156), but after 156 FSB integrated lan dissapeared :), no any difference when i rised northbridge-voltages from 1.0->1.5.
I send some pics later today when i get second memory.
Jolly, lock the PCI to 33Mhz...
Hmm how i can lock pci ? There is no such thing in bios. Now with 2x1024 ddr2 integrated vga freaked out 156x16, 150x16 runs smoothly, Cpuz validation
Jolly,
What are you using for cooling on this board? I am looking for solutions that are permanent. My board gets too hot at 1.34v and 2ghz to use the supplied fan, although I was able to reliably install XP and video software. I clocked it back after I saw 90 degrees C in BIOS.
News Article from DigiTimes related to Alviso:
Chipset shortage and falling prices to push Intel 915 platform to mainstream
Charles Chou, Taipei; Jessie Shen, DigiTimes.com [Thursday 7 July 2005]
According to sources in the motherboard industry, Intel’s 915 platform may become the mainstream motherboard platform this quarter, as the FOB (free on board) price of 915-based motherboards is expected to fall below US$80.
Demand may be further stimulated if the price of PCI Express graphics cards also fall this quarter, the sources added.
However, another reason the 915 platform is moving to the mainstream is that a tight supply of 845 and 865 chipsets remains in the market, other sources indicated. Intel has backtracked on previous statements and admitted there is currently a shortage of the two chipset series, but the chip giant has informed its customers that the shortage, especially for the 865 series, will continue through the third quarter, the sources indicated.
Taiwan chipset vendors including Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS), VIA Technologies and ULi Electronics, have also benefited from the shortage, the sources noted.
http://www.ocforums.com/attachment.p...chmentid=41813
That was the best what I could on that aopen 915 board with stock vcore,
This Cpuz image was prime stable and did 33s in 1M super pi with ddr1
I was not impressed by the board becasue once I added pci express I started getting random freezes so I had to down clock it to 2.0
Now i am running 2.13(16x133)with stockcooler. I am making modication to stock prescott-cooler(socket 775), in next week it will be ready. I send some pictures then :)Quote:
Originally Posted by mark4005
Edit: I lapped the heatsink, temperatures dropped about 7 celcius. Now 65-90 C
Thank you Jolly!
Can we now turn this thread a bit to focus on how owners of this board onto practical cooling solutions for this board?
I am very interested in a custom copper sink that will fit the board. Were do i find the closest match?
I guess I'm a little late on this one but here are my results:
After setting up watercooling on this board, I managed to OC my Dothan 760 (2GHz) to 2.7GHz, 24/7. It managed to boot to the bios at 2.9GHz (194*15) but no further.
Something interesting I noticed is differences in RAM. Sure this board cannot change vDIMM but good modules can overclock somewhat at 1.8v. The RAM I got for this board is Kingston's DDR2-533 1GB HyperX kit. For reference, I ran these modules stable at 628MHz (157*4) for a long time at 1.8v. With this RAM (at a 3x multiplier) I was able to boot with the FSB at 194, stable at 181. Lowering the CPU multiplier to 14x, the FSB would go up to 199, then the system locked in the bios. It would boot at 198, but take an extra 5-10s.
Trying a single module of my OCZ Platinum Rev2 DDR2-800, the system would lock in the bios whenever I raised FSB above ~176. This correlates to a DDR RAM speed of 528MHz. This leads me to wonder a couple things:
1. The Kingston modules are of much higher quality, being able to work overclocked at a really high FSB?
2. Any chance that the low frequency made the OCZ modules less compatible? I ran the these modules in this system just fine at 668MHz for a while.
Either way, this board is clearly not made for overclocking, as I was only able to get these FSB speeds with the on-board graphics. No PCIe locks here. Luckily there are PCI locks though:p:. Pretty decent for a system that's folding 24/7 now.
Anyone have any ideas on how I could squeeze a higher overclock?