mine was messy too
what were they thinking......:slap:
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mine was messy too
what were they thinking......:slap:
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Removing mine was unavoidable as I had to use so much goop removal fluid. I just put a small pad at each corner of the chipset from another kit I had...
nothing really wrong with the paste...Quote:
Originally Posted by steelballzz
what we really need is proper flat bases on large heatsinks
please Mr Zalman...make a quality chipset plan :D
Please where in BIOS is CPU multiplier option, i am stupid or blind ... i cannot to find it ....
Conroe P state Multiplier Here you can set the multipliers the CPU can work with.Quote:
Originally Posted by OBR
Ok, already found :poke: but i am not able to overclock this Mobo above 400MHz FSB ....where is problem ? I tried everything ...
It's a volt hungry board in some cases @ some clocks. Also may require changing the strap @ high FSB. Finally, right after the p-state multiplier option, ensure c1e is disabled.
Hey guys, can anyone either give me a quick breakdown or link me to an explanation of this "strap" stuff? I have no idea what that's all about, but people keep talking about it.
Is anyone else having issues making the multiplier drop down? I'm using an E6700 and no matter what I the P State Multiplier to it remains at 10x. Does anything else need to be changed for this to work?Quote:
Originally Posted by dab420
Set cpu clock ratio.1 or 2 lines down in bios from P State Multiplier.
I think someone mentioned C1E under Conroe P state muliplier has to be disabled then change the multiplier under C1E to desired setting.Quote:
Originally Posted by AlterBridge86
Hmm - i have seen screen shots of this option but for whatever reason it is not in my bios..strange...Quote:
Originally Posted by Forsaken1
THe last option I have is C1E..nothin underneath...
That is odd.In Genie bios.I have these options in that section.x6800 for cpu.I tried disable and auto for C1E function.Appears multi still changed according to cpu-z 1.38.E6700 issue?
CPU Vid Control:
CPU VID Special ADD:
DDR2 Ram 1.8 Voltage:
CPU VTT 1.2V Voltage:
NB Core 1.2V Voltage:
NB PLL 1.8V Voltage:
NB PLL 1.2V Voltage:
NB PCI-E 1.2V Voltage:
NB Core 1.2V convert from:
SB Core 1.2V Voltage:
Clockgen Voltage:
GTL REF Voltage control:
CPU Core 1/2 GTL REF Volt: 48
CPU Core 3/4 GTL REF Volt: 48
North Bridge GTL REF Volt: 128
CPU PLL Setting Overide:
PLL Override loop count:
Conroe P-State Multiplier:
C1E Function:
Cpu clock ratio
Could be sweet with 975 performance and 965 clocking-abilities.
Hmm... I'm looking to pull the trigger on this board + 6600 in a couple of months, what would be the best PC6400 kit, keeping in mind I don't wanna spend a fortune?
Anyone done any real testing between the raid controllers on this board? Currently using the ati not thrilled with it....used to seeing 320 burst and 150+ average read on my infinity. Currently getting around 300 burst and 104 read...
hmm - from what i've gathered I think the CPU Clock Ratio option is only for multiplier unlocked CPU's and the Conro P-State is supposed to change it for the rest of us...but still no luck...will play some more today...Quote:
Originally Posted by Forsaken1
Tried to set up a four drive raid array using the ati controller and the windows OS install goes blank after "windows is now inpecting your system hardware"...
Switched to the promise controller and it appears to be okay...will try 3 drives on the ati and see what happens...previously had two drives on the ati controller without issue...
EDIT: What the heck? ATI controller doesn't want to work anymore for me once I try to intstall os. Another thing is the ATI controller gives you the option of 64k stripe or 128k stripe, nothing else???. Promise controller will not even allow you to select stripe size, defaults to 16k??? My initial install with this thing with two drives in raid 0 went flawlessly...now it won't even let me use two drives on the ATI controller??? Weirdness...
Yeah m8...same cr4p for me RE the ATI Raid. PQMagic & Acronis Disk Management refused to setup partitions on 2 x 300GB Maxtor Hard drives in Stripe. I can initialise the Stripe on either Raid & whilst both partition programs would see the stripe, both would lock up whilst writing the partitions on those South Bridge Headers!? I had to use the Promise headers in the end. Whilst we know Maxtor drives definately have issues with nVidia Chipsets, it would appear ATI have similar issues. The Promise on this board is about 50Mb/sec slower on average read times than these drives were on an nF4 SLI DR South Bridge Raid array. (yeah, mine worked!?) This appears consumate with your findings on this board & I cant test to confirm for you! Soz fella. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by OldGuy
Have you also noticed the ATI Raid headers will NOT accept SATA cables with Clips!? :rolleyes:
I had raid up and running (two 150GB raptors, raid 0) and I thought it was weird only seeing the two stripe sizes. Problem is, what is the likely hood of this being sorted?Quote:
Originally Posted by OldGuy
Obviously the only way to correct this is to have an updated bios from DFI which contains a controller bios update from AMD/ATi. I thought the raid on this board was good as Fugger posted a screenshot of 4 raptors in raid beating one of the Intel controllers.
I didn't do much testing speed wise of my raid, if any at all. Only had the board running for a day as my OS install was messed up. I knowingly installed my operating system using a dodgy old optical drive which made the computer as stable as a 1 legged table.
I'm waiting for my waterblocks before I set up again anyways.
I used a little electrical tape to cover around the chipset.
OldGuy, Kin Hell, and Mekrel, I share your frustration and believe DFI has a lot of tweaking as well as necessary options that need to be added asap as to the raid featureset.
The promise adapter does not see my px716sa, this is the plextor sata optical drive. Windows nor bios 'see' the drive at all. When using the px716sa connected to the ati sata set to legacy ide or raid it is seen fine in bios.
However, I've read that the promise chipset does not do a great job in raid 0 so I prefer to run 2x 74gb adfd raptors on the ati chipst set to raid. When doing so, where am I suppose to connect the px716sa since the promise doesn't work with it? Hence, I plug the 716sa also on the ati raid adaptor with the raptors running in raid0, but there is no way to select what the raid adapter should boot first. The only way to run the px716sa is by plugging it into the ati sata adapter AFTER you are in windows already- allowing it to be recognized later since raid bios doesnt offer bootup sequence options per individual device!
In order to even install ms windows on my 2x74gb raptors on the ati raid I was forced to use another parallel ata optical device.
I may have missed something, but DFI will hear from me soon as to this issue. Anyone else experience this?
Well the promise controller is way slow...too slow to even post the numbers :p: Had no luck getting the ATI controller to work again. Single drives are no problem. Picked up a Highpoint Rocketraid 2310 controller at the local fry's which is not a "real" hardware raid solution, about on par with what I used to get on my Ultra D. I'll be returning it and stepping up to a real controller, something I absolutely positively don't need but I didn't buy four matching drives to run solo :D
Enough on raid...back to overclocking.
At acesea - is that optical sata II? If not perhaps an inexpensive add on sata controller would save you alot of frustration?
OldGuy, whats the best route of getting this information back to DFI/AMD about the raid, as I personally think that it needs to be sorted.
DFI Forums, DFI support email or email to AMD/ATi?
I would contact DFI direct...DFI contact pageQuote:
Originally Posted by Mekrel