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Have you considered the 1301 bios? I was really happy with the 1305 up until the 450FSB plus settings. Not working as well for me. I was scanning HWBot and noticed some using very aggressive clocks using the 1301 bios. I'm curious to see how it worked for you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leeghoofd
I could not get near my current clocks till 1303 bios, 1305 is a no go and 1303 fixes a lot of issues like booting up with space bar and backlight staying off after post if I choose it to do so :).
Hey guys, I just got a great deal on another 8800gtx so I took the plunge and picked up this board based a lot on this thread alone. Just have a quick question, which bios do you guy's recommend, 1301 or 1303? I can't seem to find a majority one way or another. Also is there anything else that I should be aware of based on my hardware, see sig.
Thanks guys!
For me 1303.
Well, after some downtime due to some rewiring in the house, I go to fire up the rig, and bam, the dreaded cpu-init error. I tried all the tricks, ram out, battery out, battery flip, no joy.
Damn shame too cause I found a couple of my old bios chips moving things around, and was planning on hot flashing a few different bios on other chips for backup. Too late is my story, and I am sure I will end up with the new one with the soldered chip.
Well such is life and the 680i chipset.
Sorry to hear that. I see a trend.... If this board breaks, I'm selling my ultras and going ATI and Intel. Enough is enough with these nvidia chips. Maybe the 7 series will bring love? Who knows!Quote:
Originally Posted by linflas
Anyone know why my Q6600 and Striker Extreme combo would not take an 8x multi after POST? I'm trying to find the sweet spot in this overclock, and so far the best thing i can get is 3.15Ghz.
I've tried reading the 8 pages here, and 15 pages in other threads, but i just can't pool all the info together. I've written so many pages of notes, my desk is in shreads. I've followed all the suggestions, which is prety much darn near max every voltage except your vCORE and then start running up the FSB.
I can't even get to 3.2Ghz doing THAT.
I'm sure i got a dud CPU - becuase that is my luck. L731A364.....
So i'll start there - is the multi LOCKED?
I really really hope I just didn't get suckered into buying a melon of a board. I'd be happy with 3.6 on my quad but I know it's capable of much more than that. What I'm afraid of is this "cpu-init" error that seems to be plaguing the Strikers. Also correct me if I'm wrong but the board has problems with memory running over 1000? I have PC8500 and I sure don't want to have to run it at like 800. I guess time will tell. :rolleyes:
hey linflas, same happened to me with the built in bios chips, tried all tricks, hours and hours of headache, finally went back to my ip-35 pro that i still hadn't returned yet and sticking with single ultra for now. 780 is just a redone 680i sadly but i will try it when it comes out since it will be a little different design and still a new board.
striker gave me lots of love and sadly asus still has problems with cpu init bug and sadly no cure for it.
Yes, my multi appears to be locked. so i can't lower my multi to take the CPU out of the equation. Things appear to be JUST fine until i had 1423 FSB. EVERYTHING runs fine up to 1422 and NO amount of voltage to ANYTHING will get it over that hump.
Hey NKD, what ram are you running if you don't mind me asking? and divder?Quote:
Originally Posted by NKD
Thanks!
Geez guys, I'm wondering if I should have picked up the EVGA board :rolleyes:
EVGA seems to have a better bios with p31 , but maybe too early to judge, if you go quad go Intel , less issues, my Asus formula is preordered, Striker stays at 3ghz and sometimes higher for fun, but going into my 2nd rig...
And indeed till now if they keep the 680i with a bridge to achieve a 780i think I'm gonna pass this one and stick single
I've noticed that with my striker if I remove the power cable from it, for more then a min or so I get cpu-init.Quote:
Originally Posted by linflas
From there, now and then if I fire it up several dozen times repeatedly it might go away and boot.
I've also managed to start getting det-dram errors, and I know the RAM is good. The only way out of this is to completely turn the damn thing off and again fire it up a couple dozen times.
At times the board behaves for weeks on end, and then just goes berserk:shrug:
first you guys hype me up on the striker boards... now you're scaring me... what damn board should i get? lol
I have no issues on my Striker E after major :banana::banana::banana::banana: on a Crosshair that finally fried after 5 weeks of life.
I know what you mean. I have a IP35-Pro thats working just fine, running at 3.8 with no problems at all but I just happened to acquire a second 8800GTX so I figure why not use both of them. I just ordered this board and after reading more posts and other forums, I'm really wishing I hadn't. If I send it back untouched they may charge a 15% re-stocking fee or maybe I'll exchange it for a different board, to be honest I'm a little ticked but I guess it's my fault for not doing more research :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by TheSamurai
I'm scared also on my EVGA 680i A1 board since it's my forth RMA board and the one before this just fried on trying to OC my Q6600 over 3.8, same cpu I got on EVGA 650i Ultra @ 4014 but the 680 is now just scaring me I'm now again on 3.6 and 1.4v but I'm not sure if I should try again more, think I'm going to sell this board and get P35 chipset instead since I'm sick of RMA'ing my board every two week's.
Good Day
Honestly I think my problem was due to a mis communication with the electricion, he shut down power prior to letting me know, and my rig got a less than graceful :banana::banana::banana::banana: down, and then reboot seconds later when he was messing with some things, so, my problem may be just due to some bad luck.
I am still a Striker fan, as I believe the cpu-init bug is just that a bug, something to do with the power regulators on the board. I did not try remove all the psu coneections prior to mailing it back, should have done that as that is one of my normal troubleshooting things. Oh well, just forgot.
Hey linflas do you know how well the board works with DDR-1066? My G0 can easily do 3.8 but I want to at least run my ram run at it's default speed? How does the board fair with high FSB and ram?
By the way I see you live in Salem, OR. I used to live out by commercial st a few years back, originally from Corvallis. Good to see someone from around the area :up:
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Originally Posted by GameGuru
I am on Capitol St. 8 blocks down from the Capitol in an old 1920 craftsman we are fixing up.
Now to the ram, the beauty of the 680i is the unlinked ram settings, they are not as limited by dividers as on the intel chipsets, I ran some Buffalo firestix 2x1GB D9GKX @ 1200mhz no problem, so you should have zero problems with 1066.
What we really need is a bios that deal's with the cpu Quad based FSB holes, that would really help out CPU clocking as the x9 multi @ 400 (1600) is dead. I prefer @ 3.6 clock as I crunch, and it requires low volts and produces much less heat, and @ 400 the strap chang @ about 422 does not come into affect and the ram is much faster. At least according to ram benchmarks done.
Hey linflas, do you know what the known working FSB's for quads are on this board? My chip is pretty good, can do 425 that I know of and probably much more, just haven't had the time to push it. As of now, running on my IP35-Pro I have 3.8 (9x425). I would be happy running at 3.6 and two 8800GTX's. What FSB and multi and you using at 3.6? 8x450?Quote:
Originally Posted by linflas
Thanks!
Edit: Found my answers on the previous page. Looks like 400 is a no go but 413, 425 and 450 are good with the 1303 bios and I believe you are running 8x450 for 3.6
Anyone have a link for the 1303 bios? It doesn't seem to be in the normal bios section at Asus's site, just 1301 and 1305.
Thanks,
Edit: Found the bios.
Is everyone gone? Let's keep the thread alive :D
Started out with linflas "magical settings" and running perfect at 3.6 :up:
Now on to pushing the quad higher. Can some people running 3.8 or higher post their bios settings please? It seems that changing the FSB to anything other than 1800 won't post. I did change the multi to 9 instead of 8 and was able to boot into windows at 4.05 but Prime fails as soon as I start it. Sorry as I am a new to the 680i chipset. What should I try setting my multi and FSB to for 3.8 or more? Does running my ram at 1066 appose problems as I raise the FSB? Any help would be great, thanks!