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Originally Posted by jdm003
c'mon just a small review  Im sure others will love to see it since it's one of the best, and yet cheap board that you can fold on IMO  |
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Originally Posted by [XC] NetburstXE
Please just a small review  |
Not sure what ya'll are looking for.....I linked to 95 user reviews, the specs are available online, I've offered what I have, but I will add the following:
This system (Q9450/GA-G31M-S2L) has locked up/froze ~4x over the last week. After the 3rd time I lowered the fsb to 420 (from 425)--It was running about 7pm last night, but was locked up at ~5:30am this morning. After a hard reboot, I sent an error report that auto-clicked me over to an online windows page that basically said they don't know what caused the error, but its probably memory related, could be the bios, yada, yada, yada. So, I upped some voltages and updated the bios from F4 to F5D (beta). F5D took away my ability to OC completely. I could not enabled it, period. I had other issues, so my advice would be to stay away from it until its stabilized. I flashed it twice.
I ended up reflashing to F4. I've been Going around in circles to get things stablized @ 3.4 (425 fsb). I kept losing mouse support over 415fsb, but I've got it working now. It will take some time to see if it locks up again.
Another issue is, IIRC---a few folks in the linked reviews were complaining of not being able to set the memory ratio @ 1:1. I guess they just don't understand that setting the multiplier to 2.00 is the 1:1 ratio. I just sorted that out myself this morning. It had been 5:6 and that may have been the problem. The memory was cranking @ 510mhz, now at 1:1 its at 425. We'll see what happens....
Here's some pix of the bios:
I like the Asus bios a lot better for OCing.....If I have issues again, I'm going to change the system voltage controller to manual. Not sure how it works, but changing the volatges and then setting it back to auto seems to allow the higher voltages. Something, I'm not sure how to explain it!
I'm pretty new to OCing. I understand the basics--I think, but the nitty-gritty is where I get lost real quick.
