The F7 BIOS is great. Finally I can cold boot all the way up to 260!
The F7 BIOS is great. Finally I can cold boot all the way up to 260!
hmm... every BIOS seems the same so far...
i've tried anything up to 300mhz HTT... seems all good to me...
i have to drop to 3x HTT though... and have to run a ratio cos my ram isn't so good...
that's why i've sold my xms3200XL ram which no way capable of 300... and gotten some adata pc4000 - but yeah... ideally i'd run 260 1:1 anyway, so yeah, meh... gettig myself a winny today - finally... a newcastle that tops out at 2550 was kinda annoying so i sold that.
F5 bios on K8NS-939 Ultra seems to do the trick. I only got the board yesterday but so far liking it better over MSI. I can read my cpu temp (well, it says 193c-225c but I know what that means in negative :P) VX actually work well with divider on this one as well as TCCD behaving well, Played with FSB up to 320mhz which I will probably never actually use anyway. V-core mod was a cinch and using Booster atm. Layout is clean uncluttered and I actually like cmos jumper at reachable location :)
Waiting for my FX-55 to come back to me now :)
sounds good...
wow i'm running this at 325mhz HTT... memory is running at 260... prime stable.
i didn't know this board had it in him...
a k8ns-ultra 939 unmodded... 3200+ winny on air... the following setting is totally prime stable! the vcore shown there is actually wrong - it's because within the first few seconds of opening up CPU-Z it seems to show 1.400 instead of true vcore... true vcore is 1.52-1.56v. vHTT is at +0.2 (do i even need this?), and HTT is at 3x... ram is @ 260 @ 2.5-4-4-10 1T, but i've got an issue with the ram at the moment (2 x adata vitesta pc4000) its just not fully stable at 250 + , which is a bummer... i'm gonna try vio=vdimm mod today... I CAN'T EVEN FIND A LINK TO IT HERE - ANNOYING!
http://users.bigpond.net.au/groovetek/325HTT!.JPG
I am having issues with Geil PC4000 and this board (NXP) in that I can't raise the FSB over 205 at all, even if done by small increments or with CG. On the Asus A8V, this ram would do rated speed 1:1, 1T. Even using the 166 divider, I can only get to 201 mem speed (250 HTT) anything more and it has stability issues...
Oh yeah, with the F7 BIOS, I can't even see the option of Cool n Quiet in the BIOS anywhere, which may well be causing my issue (if it is defaulted to on) :confused:
How does the vanilla K8ns-939 stack up against the k8nsxp939 and the k8ns ultra-939, as far as overclocking is conserned.
should be identical?Quote:
Originally Posted by stayfrosty
it looks exactly like the other 2, but without dual-bios, and doesn't come with as many accessories.
I picked up a vanilla k8ns-939 today. The k8nsxp939 is to expensive and the k8ns ultra-939 wasn't even on their list. :stick: I wanted that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by stayfrosty
Will be installing it tomorrow and see how it performs vs my Neo2.
I ordered mine along with a 3200+ winnie as i found someone to sell my current stuff too so once I get it in ill post some screenies, same thing happened when i was looking to order the k8nsxp was like 180 and i didnt see the ultra so... i ordered teh vanilla
is anyone using tccd with this mobo + getting good results.
i've patriot tccd and i'm soon to buy a mobo, but it needs to be good with tccd.
No luck Jupiler?
Thought we would hear back from you by now.
Well,
The board performs pretty well.
Had no problems running 2*512 GSkill PC4800 LA chips at 262*10, 2.5-3-3-7, 1T, just like on the Neo2.
My cpu is maxed out at 2.7Ghz, 1.56-1.57V.
Can't get it clock any higher, despites increasing voltage.
VCore is pretty stable. Setting 1.50 in bios reads 1.50-1.52V constantly. Much better than the Neo2.
The Neo2 gives me booting problems if my sys if shut down for more than 5 hours (approx). The 8KNS doesn't give me that problem.
On the other hand :
the cooler is pretty loud (loudest part in my sys) and there's no way I can decrease the fan speed with Speedfan or Gigabyte's software.
I have a Silencer NV5 on my 6800GT, which comes pretty close to the cooler. Don't know if I can replace with something from the same size.
Argh. I have a silencer 5 on my xtpe. The vid card wouldnt seat all the way with it in my neo2. Hope I have decent luck with the giga.
Stupid design on the silencer I think. They could have moved the fan just a bit outward.
I should have my U939 on wednesday.
Glad to hear the gskill works well, I have 2x5 4400 LE. (I also have 2x5 pc4k ballistix)
Thanks for the feedback, good luck.
I just got my 3200+ winnie and k8ns-939 the winnie was week 47 and did 2.675 100% stable watercooled on stock voltage and 2.75 screenshot stable on stock voltage my ran sucks so I need to get some g.skill to keep up with the HTT.
Man, im so excited right now this board is great, forget the extra cost of the k8ns-ultra and the k8nsx, who needs those extra features this board owns!
Did you take off the noisy little cooler and check what week the chipset is?
I'd like to know what week yours is.
chipset weeks? thats something new to me, give me an example of how to read it and ill do my best to let you know
post the full code stmaped on your nb and we will tell you what numbers are the week year dates :)
its usually yyxx
yy=year xx=week of the year
JUP> I just got one a week 0451A2
My question Is. Are the sata ports locked and or connected to the agp bus so 67mhz agp will lock the sata ports??
there is only 2 ports on this plain jane version so I hope they lock :)
If those two ports are above the AGP slot then those are the 2 that are locked on my board (The ultra 939) - also the chipset has native support for SATA so no need to hit F6 when loading windows :)Quote:
Originally Posted by choseone214
Anyone know where I can get a better and or modded bios for this board?
With F4 I can use a 183 divider and run my memory at 263 but it has warm and cold boot issues.
With F5 I have no cold/warm boot issues but I can't use the 183 divider so I have to use the 166 divider and memory is being under utilized.
:confused: :stick: :confused:
This 939ultra is working alot better than my neo2 ever did.
I have 2x512 gskill tccd LE. The neo2 couldnt run trp or trcd @ 2 and it didnt like tras below 7. On the gigabyte 2/2/2/5/7/10 works flawlessly @ 212x13=2755,
My Fx55 maxes out around 2755+- (cache errors), and the 939U is equalling my neo2 cpu mhz overclock with less voltage.
I havent had a chance to try higher mem frequencies, to be honest I prefer lower latency because dual channel cpu's already have ample bandwidth imo. I dont think I can run 230x12=2760 @ 2/2/2, but I will try it when I have a chance. (I think 2.5/2/2/6 would be do-able, I'll have to compare.)
Imo the lowest possible timings @ their highest stable htt is better for gaming systems. (obviously there are situations where people need a high htt, such cpu's with a low multi making loose timings a nescessity.)
Voltages: The giga's voltages are pretty much rock steady, something my neo2 never was. My neo2 provided higher voltages but they werent stable. The neo 2 only has vcpu/mem/agp. The giga has cpu/mem/agp/vht.
NB chipset: No clearance problems with an xtpe running an ATI Silencer 4. It didnt fit in the neo2.
Sata ports: No clearance problems with the vid card. I would have purchased the epox, but it has bonehead sata port placement.
Bios: Came flashed to F1. I tried F6 and it broke the ddr 400 setting, forcing a memory divider. (184 i think) Tried F5 and it seems to be good, settled in with f5 for a while.
Memory timings: this board has much better timing options than the neo2. The neo 2 has only cas/trp/trcd/tras. The giga has all of those and much more.
Imo the ultra 939 is a better board than my neo2. My neo2 did drop dead, so it prob wasnt a prime example.
Ill head back to DFI for my next board, I love my 250UT. I have an agp xtpe, I dont think I'll upgrade again till the next gen cards arrive and I'll go pci-e then.
I was looking to get the agp 939 dfi, but this board is good enough to hold me over for a while so I changed my plans.
I guess this giga will be my last agp board. If it had higher vcore and vdimm I think it could have stolen alot of the thunder which the neo2 enjoyed. Imo alot of people picked the neo2 as the 939 front runner because of its higher voltages.
Great, is this a new board? When and where did you buy it from?
Thanks
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lith1um
I bought my K8NS Ultra-939 from Newegg, received it wednesday.
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...128-263&depa=1
The kn8s ultra 939 has been out for a while now, its not a new release or anything.
Thanks, looks like a winner! Did you have a good bios setup guide?