Retail Abit IN9 32X-MAX - Pictures, observations and testing...

[yokomo]

latest bios dated 24/1/8 this boardi s giving me soo much **** for a board that is supposed to be a top of the line and retails at over £150 its hard at stock let alone OC !
im getting BSOD and ive not even had chance ot install a game and put it under some load !
anyone got a list of known good settigns for getting 400+ fsb as i know my chip and ram are good for 445

[Heidfirst]

14 isn't supposed to be that bad but 15b03 seems to be getting praise.

[yokomo]

yeah just been reading the abit forums , one post went as far as to say the woldales wont oc at all with 14 but beta 15 is looking as you said , hopefully the full v15 will be out soon as im not keen on a trying a beta. tried em all on my ds4 but that dual bios .

[NeoRecon]

Hey. I just updated to a Q9450 on this mobo using the 15 B03 bios. So far it is working fine at rated speeds. Will try OCing later once I get it burned in.

[The Nemesis]

Hey. I just updated to a Q9450 on this mobo using the 15 B03 bios. So far it is working fine at rated speeds. Will try OCing later once I get it burned in.

I didn't think the 45nm yorkfields worked with the 680i chipset. I'll be watching for your results. I have my q9450 paired with the evga 750i SLI right not. I'm able to bench @ 3800-3825, prime was stable @ 450FSB so far but 462FSB not quite yet. I doubt the abit will hit 400 though.

[NeoRecon]

Well it 'works' with the Q9450 but it would not overclock hardly at all, and did not prove to be very stable. Had odd BIOS issues with it not saving settings, etc.. Granted this is 1.5 B03, but one has to wonder how much more development they will do with this board.

As such you can tell from my sig that I have since 'upgraded' to an ASUS Maximus Formula motherboard and a Swiftech H20-200 Compact solution for my CPU and eventually NB and GPU.

[Heidfirst]

Well it 'works' with the Q9450 but it would not overclock hardly at all,

it doesn't have the necessary design (GTL iirc) for overclocking quads (65nm or 45nm), it's only ever going to get into middle 300s with them.

[CopHard]

BIOS ID:15 Versão Final:

1. Fixed F6,F7 function on the BIOS menu.
2. Fixed CPU voltage limit setup control incorrectly.
3. BIOS compiled date: 05/20/2008.

LINK: m622a15

[yokomo]

well i have bios 15 on a new chip so the baords back in and working.... e8400 @3.4 no problems so far so good. bios was unstable and wouldnt OC at all so good work abit on this,