I can barely reach around 1.9 but my boards vcore drops and raises so much, and 1.9 being the highest peak.
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I can barely reach around 1.9 but my boards vcore drops and raises so much, and 1.9 being the highest peak.
Does anyone know if the 8k3aj oc's and performs the same as the 8k3a+? The 8k3a+ is a little too expensive for a friend of mine, so it is either the 8k3aj or the msi nf3 250 board.
You would think the 8KRDAj would be just as nice because basically the same thing with out the extra sata controller and onboard optical outputs. Oh and the MSI sucks badly. Jfr0 has one and its a a real POS.
Yeah, I bet it is the same, and if it is worse it probably isn't as bad as msi :D
I have the 8KDA3J and its great so far. No reason to get the + version unless you need the sata and optica ports, or just have money to spend :D
Im about to do the vdimm mod right now. Im kinda worried about using a 10k pot though since QD posted his guide and he said to use a 25k VR ...
10k will be alright, wont it?
Same prob here..Quote:
Originally posted by fxr91
Does anyone else have this problem? The vcore reading stops registering once you go up over 1.93v on my board, and just sits at 1.93v no matter how much you wind your pot up :confused:
I know for a fact I had a :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: load of voltage going through my cpu until I realised this was happening, as even with the VapoLS, my CPU temp reached +33C :eek: It would have had to have over 2.2v running through it to get to that :eek: At 1.9v, the cpu sits in the negative C's...
I had the pchealt in bios on my screen and adjsuted the pot up an up, trying to get above 1.93.. i turned an turned until the machine shuts down :D
Any permanent damage?Quote:
Originally posted by Fosco
Same prob here..
I had the pchealt in bios on my screen and adjsuted the pot up an up, trying to get above 1.93.. i turned an turned until the machine shuts down :D
No ;)Quote:
Originally posted by gouda96
Any permanent damage?
10K pot at 10K gave me 3.0 on the buttonQuote:
Originally posted by xxORBxx
I have the 8KDA3J and its great so far. No reason to get the + version unless you need the sata and optica ports, or just have money to spend :D
Im about to do the vdimm mod right now. Im kinda worried about using a 10k pot though since QD posted his guide and he said to use a 25k VR ...
10k will be alright, wont it?
What was the vdimm set to in the bios? How sensitive is the VR. Like at 10k its 3.0, so how many turn would you say for like 3.3v?Quote:
Originally posted by Nomjr
10K pot at 10K gave me 3.0 on the button
Thanks
I set bios at the lowest possible, I think that was 2.5 or 2.6v and the pot was set at 10k and that gave me 3.0v. I can't tell you much more as the board died on me with the "FF" error within a few minutes. Not sure yet what caused it but already ordered another one and will be here tomorrow;)Quote:
Originally posted by xxORBxx
What was the vdimm set to in the bios? How sensitive is the VR. Like at 10k its 3.0, so how many turn would you say for like 3.3v?
Thanks
I have seen people say set it to auto, or to the highest volts in the bios then adjust, but I have ran 3.6v - 3.9v to the mem on a64's and haven't had one die on me yet. So I'm sticking with just adjusting the vr for the volts I want and never change it in the bios. Working so far for me:p:
Now im afraid :(
Anyone have a good story using a 10k VR?
I had the same problem on teh weekend. I pulled teh CMOS battery and set the CMOS CLR jumper to CLR for 15 minutes and it came back to life :)Quote:
Originally posted by Nomjr
the board died on me with the "FF" error within a few minutes. Not sure yet what caused it but already ordered another one and will be here tomorrow;)
I pulled the battery overnight, cmos jumper in clear position, unplugged, and the usual things, diff mem, cpu, vid card, etc etc. Still had the ff error.
I'll have a new one tomorrow and I will go with a larger pot than the 10k, probably a 25k, but honestly, I don't think that was the problem:shrug:
yeah, the old 8RDA+ was like that, dieing for no apparent reason. I had one die, so I got a new BIOS and it was still dead. I was like "WTF???" lol
I just got my board runing late last night and it has the 5/5 bios?
I thought people were saying no mult control in the bios.. Well mine does and its working..
Man those voltages are crazy!.. One time i held the insert key on boot up to reset the settings and i notice my cpu was literaly cooking itself! The voltage was climing all the way up to 1.80v! I fliped out and saves the settings at default vcore and rebooted asap and it went away.. heh now on every boot i hit the "pause break" key and watch the voltage to make sure.
Nice board so far.. Just messin around with the bios and memtest atm. Later on i will attempt to install windows.
A quick question though.. Which is the better sata raid controller to use? The chipset one or the other at the bottom of the board?
Did I mention I had 3 epox 4pca3+'s die on me for no reason...?!
I would say the silicon ones at the bottom, just because of the stupid positioning of the nforce ones..dead center of the board :confused:Quote:
Originally posted by eclypse
A quick question though.. Which is the better sata raid controller to use? The chipset one or the other at the bottom of the board?
Have I mentioned I've had over 10 Epox boards without a single problem... well... except for a little condensation damage to an AGP port but that's not Epox's fault. ;)Quote:
Originally posted by gouda96
Did I mention I had 3 epox 4pca3+'s die on me for no reason...?!
Can someone post a link to the newest bios? I've already maxed out the board on the shipped 5-5 bios..
AOA seems to have the newest BIOSes for Epox boards. Here's the newest for the 8KDA3+/J...
http://www.aoaforums.com/forum/showt...t=25013&page=2
AWESOME! Thank you! :toast:Quote:
Originally posted by Jeff
AOA seems to have the newest BIOSes for Epox boards. Here's the newest for the 8KDA3+/J...
http://www.aoaforums.com/forum/showt...t=25013&page=2
stay cool now.. hehe
well first i must say great work, and very got pics, and descripions.:toast:
well that is impressive but i have a shuttle sn85g4v2 with fn85 mobo(basicly a compressed an50r) it has the same Vdimm ic as the epox board you have(rt9202). im running 3.4vdimm and it is prime stable @260fsb w/ bh-6 @2-2-2-5-1t @ 1:1.:banana: :banana: . quit amasingQuote:
[i]this motherboard can work extremely well with BH-5 Sticks (512 MB) and it can run @ 2-2-2-5 1T timings @ 240 + FSB.
That is something i havent seen any other A64 board do !!!
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Anyone know if these BIOSes are beta or official?Quote:
Originally posted by Jeff
AOA seems to have the newest BIOSes for Epox boards. Here's the newest for the 8KDA3+/J...
http://www.aoaforums.com/forum/showt...t=25013&page=2
Considered beta 'til they are posted on the international Epox site(as far as I know at least)