abit IN9 32X MAX - Pictures and Benchmarks

[Speederlander]

Why does everyone with a sample of this board, here and elsewhere, simply NOT post any decent overclock results? Is there an unmentioned NDA for all the testers precluding certain discussions prior to hard launch? Several people seem to have it but no real hard analysis...lots of excuses though.

[noobzed]

because they are playing with it and are hypnotized

[Speederlander]

because they are playing with it and are hypnotized

Or it zapped them when they plugged it in and they...forgot...what they...were....supposed to....do.

[noobzed]

Perhaps

[Speederlander]

I want to see one of these things somewhere pushed to some serious limit with all the numbers published.

It's looking pretty obvious no real OCing numbers will be out prior to release w/o Abit's permission.

[noobzed]

Wonder if the problem is an Abit permission ...

I think the mobos are being dispatched for monday , we 'll see some numbers soon.

Crotale is busy ATM ...

[Speederlander]

Wonder if the problem is an Abit permission ...

Or something like that, yeah.

I think the mobos are being dispatched for monday , we 'll see some numbers soon.

But what was the purpose of these select people even having the board? Other than some pics and a few tame screenshots of non-stressed situations, nothing has been learned that couldn't be gleaned from the Abit website. Again, it seems the people who will really get the word out will be people who buy the thing blind.

Crotale is busy ATM ...

So is everyone else with the board.


Eh, whatever though. It's Abit's board to market as they like. I just wish the reviewers would be upfront and say no real hard look at the board (warts and all) will be published prior to release.

[adamsleath]

lol; abit / nvidia can take their sweet time as far as i am concerned; i'll just stick with a one g.card solution if this keeps going nowhere....mmm do the flip over to a cf board maybe..who cares?

[warlockza]

I guess it depends which kind of OC you refer to. From what I see, Crotale is OC'ing the FSB. In terms of overclock speed, if the FSB can run so stable so high, then under extremely cool situations the CPU "SHOULD" crank up to some incredible numbers. I'm guessing with the "silent" solution abit have on it, that it probably doesn't OC so well without some modification to the NB cooler or digital PWM.

[Johnny Bravo]

Or perhaps some of us have other commitments in our lives. I'll try to get details up ASAP but I have alot on at work and other bits and bobs in life. Just hold on guys!!!!

[crotale]

Yeah only setting 5-5-5 then auto in the memory timings.

Running memory sync with FSB and most of the voltages on their highest settings except SB, vcore and vddr. The board is acting erratically >420MHz. Spot anything ?

I meant that you could try to lock all timings to specific values.
Set the FSB to 1700 and Sync mode, to begin with, then 5-5-5-15.
In the lower section, check what the Auto(X) values are, and set them to X.

Personally, I think 450FSB 1H Orthos stable is good, and this is still with the stock coolers, with fans though.

I'll run some more tests with the stock coolers, then I'll replace the with some heavier stuff. I feel the board has more left in it.

[Johnny Bravo]

I meant that you could try to lock all timings to specific values.
Set the FSB to 1700 and Sync mode, to begin with, then 5-5-5-15.
In the lower section, check what the Auto(X) values are, and set them to X.

Ahh I understand now. I will try it when I get back home this evening. I also noticed that the passive cooling onboard is attached with thermal pads rather than a paste. In the future I may try swapping this out to see if it improves temperatures. I'm still gunning for >500MHz

[noobzed]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...4/DSC00003.jpg

Two SLi bridges in the bundle

And this is the manual :

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/1/...ual%20v1.0.pdf

[Johnny Bravo]

I'll get the pics hosted better soon but for the time being...

http://www.itsjohnnybravo.com/abit-i...m&album=./Abit

Board shots still to come, this is apparently the full retail package....

[noobzed]

Nice pics, thanks

[adamsleath]

anything on the rear of the board to interfere with cpu sink backplates?????? oo coolaler pics page 4..i'll try something like that

nicely presented packaging; looks like the nb sink has been lengthened slightly in comparison to some previous sample boards

[day187]

Please post some results i need to know how this motherboard is performing, i need this motherboard or the Asus P5N32-E SLi nForce 680 would prefer the Abit though as I already have own an Asus.

Need to know:
Memory performance
FSB Limit (450 will do me tbh)
Sata performance/problems if any

Thanks in advance

[noobzed]

BUMP,

How hot the NB / SB fanless way ?
SLi sound issue ?

[Xptweaker]

I heard that the Board loses the overclocking settings over night .....

[noobzed]

Desintall nTune to avoid lose settings

[noobzed]

I heard that the Board loses the overclocking settings over night .....

Where do you saw this ?

[Xptweaker]

On a german site called hardwareluxx i copy the link for u

http://www.forumdeluxx.de/forum/show...&postcount=350

[Speederlander]

]SLi sound issue ?

You will most likely find out from people who buy the thing on retail release.

[noobzed]

No real review and don't understand german so ....

[JargonGR]

Arrrrrrrrggg! I am so tempted to order it. At the end of the day how much worse than the current offerings can it be? Ah?