!UPDATE! abit AW9D-Max (retail) arrived

[fhpchris]

friendly advice.. dont get abit, as long you dont wana feel like a beta tester of the board

The Abit AW9D-MAX is a great board, I have no clue what crack you are smoking...

REPLACE THE CHIPSET COOLER, DUH!

[StealthyFish]

Well, I'm most likely sticking with netburst for a while since I really don't have the money to spend after this. My next upgrade is a PD950 and it's over for the next year. Stuck between this board and the 975XBX, and I could go either way. is there anything that would make this board preferred over the XBX?

[Revv23]

Well if overclocking the XBX is annoying as it only lets you OC by %...

the AW9D is a good board for the 950 as you wont ever hit the FSB wall.

Why not get an e6300 though? it would be faster.

[RLM]

Not a world beater, but considering no aircon on, was pleased to see orthos still running this morning.



RLM

[StealthyFish]

Well if overclocking the XBX is annoying as it only lets you OC by %...

the AW9D is a good board for the 950 as you wont ever hit the FSB wall.

Why not get an e6300 though? it would be faster.

well, I can get my hands on a 950 ES for 70 dollars =). I guess that's good enough for school work and a little gaming on the side . Hmm... I heard about that % FSB overclocking. thought my friend was joking since he used to own a 955X, but he wasn't. He said you get used to it though. *Shrugs* I guess now it comes down to price and where I could get my hands on em. I could get one for 230 at fries electronics, but it's far far away, or 215 for an XBX near my house.

[Hilfiger]

The Abit AW9D-MAX is a great board, I have no clue what crack you are smoking...

REPLACE THE CHIPSET COOLER, DUH!

replaced the heatsink, and have a fan bowing in to it too,


runs at 400fsb , but dosnt pass any stress test,

[fhpchris]

replaced the heatsink, and have a fan bowing in to it too,


runs at 400fsb , but dosnt pass any stress test,

un hunh...

yes

i run 24/7

401x9
3609 mhz
1.6 v cpu
2.3 v ram
1.7 v mch/pci

all on air cooling

cpu temps abit high.. 45c.. but ill get tuniq tower soon with ac5 paste..and ill get under 40 for sure..

So you say, "IT WONT PASS STRESS TEST", yet you use it 24-7?

1) 1.7 vmch is ~1.61 or less vmch @ the nb itself -- far from extreme as the board does ~2.0v bios and ~1.91 at the nb for me.
2) 1.6 cpu in bios is ~1.55v real, so really not much.
3) Your cpu might not do 3600 @ 1.55v real, and 45c idle @ 1.55v is HORRIBLE!

This isnt difficult:
MCW30 or MCX-159
Mount correctly with Ceramique
set 2.0 vmch bios
YAY, 430+ fsb prime stable easy!

@RLM , your voltages are very low and you have alot of potential left to unlock

[RLM]

3) Your cpu might not do 3600 @ 1.55v real, and 45c idle @ 1.55v is HORRIBLE!

Just regards that comment. With my setup, Aircon is on, set to 27c, volts are 1.34 and my processor is sat at 37 idle under water cooling. Is that ehawk? Really limited for choice on watercooling parts here, but thinking it maybe time for a new setup.

RLM

[MrDeeds]

friendly advice.. dont get abit, as long you dont wana feel like a beta tester of the board

I'm having a hard time understanding what your looking for here, because if its help its been given. I need at least 1.85mch to run prime stable around 410 to 415 fsb and 2.0 to run prime stable between 420 to 430. You don't really gain much over 1.85mch without active cooling on the nb, so there's no point in attempting it and saying its not working if you don't cool the northbridge correctly.

The thing that really bugs me is the you don't really know if its your cpu that's at its limit. Just because you've got a 6700 doesn't mean you've got a golden pass to 3.6ghz. I think you should take it easy on the bashing. The board is far from perfect but show me one better and there will be 10 people just like you that bash it.

I can't imagine that if you thought you had better options you wouldn't have moved on by now.

[tjelaw]

un hunh...



So you say, "IT WONT PASS STRESS TEST", yet you use it 24-7?

1) 1.7 vmch is ~1.61 or less vmch @ the nb itself -- far from extreme as the board does ~2.0v bios and ~1.91 at the nb for me.
2) 1.6 cpu in bios is ~1.55v real, so really not much.
3) Your cpu might not do 3600 @ 1.55v real, and 45c idle @ 1.55v is HORRIBLE!

This isnt difficult:
MCW30 or MCX-159
Mount correctly with Ceramique
set 2.0 vmch bios
YAY, 430+ fsb prime stable easy!

@RLM , your voltages are very low and you have alot of potential left to unlock

When u mount a diffirent NB cooler, whats happends to to heatsinks that are on the mosfets etc. next to the cpu socket? Since its all connected with heatpipes and stuff.

[elefsinaras]

dear friends i have read this tread and i have understant that
many of us have problems with this board personal i use this
board only for o/c
i buy it because all the max series i was hear that are good for this
i want to do........
so personal i am 60% happy that i am owner of this board
but i feel ungry only for one reason
when all of us we have give 250-300 $ for this board (personal i have pay 250 euros that is the price in my country about 310$)
we wait from abit SUPPORT
i think that the board is good but ABIT HAS LEFT US ALONE
WITH 0 SUPPORT
that is all i want to say

[Steelsie]

Hi y'all,

I have the AW9D-Max on order and was just wondering if people would recommend apply new paste to the north and south bridge, will it make a lot of difference??

Was gonna use AS5 for paste, is this a lot better than the standard stuff??

Also thinkin of strapping a little 40mm fan on the NB, i have a scythe ninja though, will it get in the way?

Thanks guys & gals!!!
Steelsie

[kiner]

dear friends i have read this tread and i have understant that
many of us have problems with this board personal i use this
board only for o/c
i buy it because all the max series i was hear that are good for this
i want to do........
so personal i am 60% happy that i am owner of this board
but i feel ungry only for one reason
when all of us we have give 250-300 $ for this board (personal i have pay 250 euros that is the price in my country about 310$)
we wait from abit SUPPORT
i think that the board is good but ABIT HAS LEFT US ALONE
WITH 0 SUPPORT
that is all i want to say

what support ?

[911us]

what support ?

That 's "bios issue" I think.

[elefsinaras]

the release of a good bios it is a support from abit to customers my friend
please think how long abit has delay to release a good
bios the last one was 1.3 beta soooo......
and if you want original bios is 1.2
THIS IS I CALL AFTER SALE SUPPORT
and abit dont have it until this time
for this board

[Virtual]

agree.. i cant understand why no one from abit post on the abit forum.. or just say the mods something about the new bios.. i think i/we dont need a exactly date of release, just a point that they dont forget us..

[Bryants97240sx]

agree.. i cant understand why no one from abit post on the abit forum.. or just say the mods something about the new bios.. i think i/we dont need a exactly date of release, just a point that they dont forget us..

QFT

[The Nemesis]

I've not sold my board yet because its an awesome benching board. Even though mine tops @ about 440FSB. I still have hope that a new bios will correct some of our issues. Besides, if I sell the board & then the release a new bios to fix everything I'll be sick.

[maxwedge]

http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread...893#post780893

[Lvcoyote]

I'm glad you guys are keeping this Hilfiger guy occupied over here.... keeps him out of our forum.....LOL

[fhpchris]

When u mount a diffirent NB cooler, whats happends to to heatsinks that are on the mosfets etc. next to the cpu socket? Since its all connected with heatpipes and stuff.

You can take the nb heatpipe off from the mosfett thing...

Hi y'all,

I have the AW9D-Max on order and was just wondering if people would recommend apply new paste to the north and south bridge, will it make a lot of difference??

Was gonna use AS5 for paste, is this a lot better than the standard stuff??

Also thinkin of strapping a little 40mm fan on the NB, i have a scythe ninja though, will it get in the way?

Thanks guys & gals!!!
Steelsie

I would not even bother. I would remove the stock nb heatpipe crap before I even put a cpu in the board!

Swiftech MCX-159 is what you want

[911us]

So far,450 with 1.3 B2

[Lvcoyote]

Nice job 911us

[coop]

I posted some pics of mods I did here. http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...2&postcount=45

[911us]

V-core = 1.6v (bios)
v-dimm = 2.35v (bios)
v-mch = 1.95v (1.86 measured)

Fail out at very early moment !...