How well do you like your Nforce 570/590? Please comment!

[derektm]

I went through lots of motherboards for s939 and the only one that performed best was the DFI's. The nforce 4 had its share of problems with some hard drive corruption issues etc. I want to give AM2 a chance and before I splurge on a new rig I need to know a few things!

1) Anyone that has a nforce 570/590, if you look under your control panel > administrative tools > event log, and then look under system, do you have any error 51's?? I got those on ALL nforce 4 motherboards I had.

2) Are their any weird bugs with the current drivers or motherboards?

3) I was looking hard at either the Asus or the Foxconn. Any weird issues with these motherboards?

4) How is stability? I need this 100%.

If you guys that have these boards/chipsets could ansrew those questions for me I'd be very happy and I'm sure others would like to know a few of these things aswell!

[afireinside]

1> no idea
2> not that I've run into
3> Foxconn is rock solid here
4> no issues so far

[3oh6]

i will follow suit and preface by saying i have both the Foxconn C51 and Asus M2N32-SLI DLX WIFI...

1> no error 51s on the C51 but a whole pile of 7000s for a parallel port that doesn't exist

2> haven't ran into any issues with either board except the keyboard and mouse are flaky through my KVM on the C51, the Foxconn NF4SK8AA (nForce4 SLI) had the same issues with the same KVM. Foxconn, call Startech and get this sorted out because the board is damn near useles if it can run through my KVM!!

3> again aside for the Foxconn not liking my StarTech KVM everything has been peechy with both boards. many video cards, ATI/NVIDIA, have been through both with multiple windows installs on single SATAs and RAID arrays and not one issue from either.

4> they are both just benching rigs but the C51 crunches Rosetta 24/7 when not benching at 300*10 / DDR1000 4-4-3-5 / 1.65v without a single error. the M2N32-SLI has been super solid too without a single issue while benching or super long StressPrime runs at high overclocks.

if there is anything else you want me to check on either board i would be happy to, the C51 is always running but until another kit of DDR2 makes it way to me the M2N32 will be sitting idle. i will mention that they both overclock well with CPUs and memory. easy 350HTT with either one but the Foxconn requires to clockgen after 290HTT as it doesn't like to POST for me past 290 but i would imagine with some effort i could sort that out, im just lazy and clockgen works so well

[derektm]

1> no idea
2> not that I've run into
3> Foxconn is rock solid here
4> no issues so far

Thanks for the info!

i will follow suit and preface by saying i have both the Foxconn C51 and Asus M2N32-SLI DLX WIFI...

1> no error 51s on the C51 but a whole pile of 7000s for a parallel port that doesn't exist

2> haven't ran into any issues with either board except the keyboard and mouse are flaky through my KVM on the C51, the Foxconn NF4SK8AA (norce4 SLI) had the same issues with the same KVM. Foxconn, call Startech and get this sorted out because the board is damn near useles if it can run through my KVM!!

3> again aside for the Foxconn not liking my StarTech KVM everything has been peechy with both boards. many video cards, ATI/NVIDIA, have been through both with multiple windows installs on single SATAs and RAID arrays and not one issue from either.

4> they are both just benching rigs but the C51 crunches Rosetta 24/7 when not benching at 300*10 / DDR1000 4-4-3-5 / 1.65v without a single error. the M2N32-SLI has been super solid too without a single issue while benching or super long StressPrime runs at high overclocks.

if there is anything else you want me to check on either board i would be happy to, the C51 is always running but until another kit of DDR2 makes it way to me the M2N32 will be sitting idle. i will mention that they both overclock well with CPUs and memory. easy 350HTT with either one but the Foxconn requires to clockgen after 290HTT as it doesn't like to POST for me past 290 but i would imagine with some effort i could sort that out, im just lazy and clockgen works so well

Looks like "C51" is a lot stronger than Nforce4? Sounds like nvidia got a good thing going here. The foxconn 290 htt problem sounds bad. When the asus was first out I heard people had problems where it wouldn't keep bios settings saved.

Since you have both boards, which one would you recommend?

Edit: I though C51 was last generations south bridge?

Thanks!

[3oh6]

its hard to recommend one over the other.

i don't think anyone else has had issues for booting at reasonable HTT on the C51 and is probably isolated to me but keep in mind my C51 is rock stable at 370HTT too:



i was only able to get the M2N32 up to the 350 mark but again, not alot of time was dedicated to that. overall though the M2N32 seems to be a tad bit more stable when overclocking and when you get to the limits as it has never acted "odd" under extreme situations where as the C51 gets a bit flaky when it reaches its limits.

if you were an average consumer looking for a solid overclock and a stable board i might have to go M2N32, but if your a true xtremer then i lean towards the C51 as it seems to be able to push a touch further. that said i haven't modded either yet or run either uner crazy cooling so my opinion is open for discussion.

HTH a little but not likely

**BTW what do you mean by "using last generations SB"? i mean, the SB is a 590 chip under the copper HS/F if thats what your asking.

[derektm]

its hard to recommend one over the other.

i don't think anyone else has had issues for booting at reasonable HTT on the C51 and is probably isolated to me but keep in mind my C51 is rock stable at 370HTT too:

i was only able to get the M2N32 up to the 350 mark but again, not alot of time was dedicated to that. overall though the M2N32 seems to be a tad bit more stable when overclocking and when you get to the limits as it has never acted "odd" under extreme situations where as the C51 gets a bit flaky when it reaches its limits.

if you were an average consumer looking for a solid overclock and a stable board i might have to go M2N32, but if your a true xtremer then i lean towards the C51 as it seems to be able to push a touch further. that said i haven't modded either yet or run either uner crazy cooling so my opinion is open for discussion.

HTH a little but not likely

**BTW what do you mean by "using last generations SB"? i mean, the SB is a 590 chip under the copper HS/F if thats what your asking.

Thanks for the information! I see now your referring to the Foxconn board as "C51". Doh sorry (I wrote that not using my brain )

Thanks again for your help!

[Varsos]

M2N32-SLI DLX here and everything is rock solid.In fact this is the FIRST Asus board that DOES NOT undervolt at full load.

@3oh6 Do you have an X2 and if yes what's the max vcore you can kick????I have an X2 4200 and iam toping out at 1.5625 which gives me 1.59.The overvolt option does not work for me.MB revision 1.03G.

[3oh6]

na, im too poor for dual cores so its single core for me until they cut the legs out from underneath the X2 like a materazzi tackle...shame on me for my bad jokes.

but yes, i did run into the same voltage problems (overvolt option not getting more than 1.6v) i think but haven't had the M2N32 running for a week or two due to the fact that i only have 1 DDRII kit of memory, hmm maybe i should throw a banner in my signature

i will shut rosetta down on the C51 in a bit and move the platinums over to the M2N32 and see what i can find for you Varsos.

I see now your referring to the Foxconn board as "C51". Doh sorry (I wrote that not using my brain )

Thanks again for your help!

no worries but its my bad taking the lazy way out, yes C51 is referring to the Foxconn because typing C51XEM2AA-8EKRSH2LMNOP... is just a bit much

[arisythila]

I have the M2N-SLI Deluxe Wireless Edition, I love it. No problems at all.

~Mike

[Rudzer]

Biggest complain so far is that some serious extra airflow is needed to cool M2N heatpipe...

That and the POS performance with DDR2 533 lol but thats not really mobo's fault

[stm]

foxconn here. i got error 51's for my cdrom drive. but its probably because i got the cheapest drive out there. everything has been stable and i love it.

[3oh6]

@3oh6 Do you have an X2 and if yes what's the max vcore you can kick????I have an X2 4200 and iam toping out at 1.5625 which gives me 1.59.The overvolt option does not work for me.MB revision 1.03G.

sorry for the late reply but the Foxconn was hogging the DDR2 until today. i am back on the M2n32 as it clocks memory much better than the Foxconn C51, or so i have found thus far with a single kit of OCZ 7200. back to my point, and your question...no i don't have the same problem as you i guess, i thought i did.

mine tops out at 1.66v according to the BIOS. what i thought was the VCORE reading on the motherboard is spitting out 1.85v on the DMM so that isn't the right spot. here are the shots with the BIOS showing this...



this is of course with the option enabled on the next page in the BIOS for over voltage. my Foxconn C51 has no issues putting 1.8v to the CPU (according to the BIOS) so the M2N32 definitely falls behind there but a voltage mod will take care of anything HTH

[althes]

1> no idea
2> not that I've run into
3> Foxconn is rock solid here
4> no issues so far

QFT

[darkhelmet]

1> i do have a few errors....they are warning...even 51, relating to hard disk error during paging. haven't had any problems though
2> only one so far i've noticed is that the NIC teaming doesn't work properly and there isn't enough configuration (part bug, part me ing)
3> my asus rules.
4> my system in sig oc'd is stable...