Asus M4a79 deluxe up close and personal

[N19h7m4r3]

Thanks man, but when did scan start shipping to Ireland.

I've been in contact with them for over 2 years now and they've neve shipped to Ireland before.

[soundood]

Thanks man, but when did scan start shipping to Ireland.

I've been in contact with them for over 2 years now and they've neve shipped to Ireland before.

im not sure when they started shipping there, all i know is a mate of mine in Dublin, orderd from them a month or so back, and we were chatting about how hard it is to get some parts (Mobo's) in the UK and ireland (especialy ireland)

i remebered the convo from that, so i called them, and they ship, how long doesnt really matter now, you can have yourself a mobo without any bios update hassle

more and more british based companys are realising that ireland is a big market on thier doorstep, all this cross border nonsense is gone now, we are after all the EU....lol.

same applys to stuff i order from german sites, those guys are great (Usualy watercooling stuff)

and may i take the oppertunity to say i love the german people, what a great bunch of people, and such a dry sense of humour (too dry for most) them and the italians. never a dull moment at a dinner party full of scots, italians and germans...lol

[N19h7m4r3]

Thanks again.

It just so happened I got an email from Steve at Specialtech telling me they just added the board

These guys a extremely helpful and friendly.

I'll be ordering from them instead, the price works out the same and I've dealt with them before

I can't wait.

[soundood]

fantastic news, glad it worked out, this is a cracking board, i am still humming and howing as to whether to get it.

its not cash, just the time really, i got a crosshair sitting here that i still havent had time to play with.

i look forward to your results

[Andi64]

Does it have 10+2 phases? It looks like 4+1 but with 12 chokes...

[informal]

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?op...12139&Itemid=1

Affordable monster overclocker

The guys at Xtremesystems forum have managed to overclock the $140 three-core AMD Phenom X3 720 all the way to 4.2GHz. They even got the CPU-Z 3.0 validator to second the score.

The guys used Gigabyte's GA-MA790GP-DS4H, an AMD 790GX based motherboard, and set the multiplier to 21 and bus speed to 200MHz. Going over 4.2GHz is really an awesome score, especially if you take into account the relatively low price of the platform. The rest of this OC beast included 2x2g OCZ Gold modules doing 5-5-5-15 2.1v @ 1066, PC P&C 750, 2 X hd4850 512mb, OCZ Vindicator, 36gig Raptor,Benq DL DVD burner.

Obviously this overclocker, known as chew* on the forum, likes OCZ but his second machine does have an Q6600 overclocked to 3.6GHz so he still likes Intel too.

You can check the validator here and the rest of the details how he got to that amazing speed here. Good job chew*, and we certainly hope we can achieve some similar speeds in our test environment.

Keep pushing it chew*!

[chew*]

Hmm, I humbly agree about the OCZ comment, this is due to the awsome support Tony has offerd me over the years....Glad they recieved some publicity.


Board claims 8+2 phases.

[EnJoY]

Hmm, I humbly agree about the OCZ comment, this is due to the awsome support Tony has offerd me over the years....Glad they recieved some publicity.


Board claims 8+2 phases.

Your modesty makes me sick!


But seriously, congrats.

[chew*]

Soooo anyway.

fell asleep at keyboard last night, woke up to this.
1.4875 vcore, I dropped everything else to stock to eliminate any other factors.

Still on Stock amd HS



Now if I saw that shot I'd say yah but that doesn't mean it will get into windows......Well we would all be wrong

[N19h7m4r3]

Woo! That's what I wanted to see

Push it harder!

[chew*]

Got some d9's donated to the cause, give me a day to through all the memory options and I will post up some bullet proof micron D9 settings.

[chew*]

I'm not going to list timings as always YMMV, I am going to list everything else that will help get the most out of your ram though.

Method used, push memory till it errors, tweak till it doesn't, push more till it does, go onto next setting and repeat. This is very time consuming, grabbing a pen and pad to jot down info works wonders.

2x1corsair dominators v1.2 5-5-5-15 1066.

0801 bios

940BE Retail

I'm testing them 4-4-4-10 to find max at tight timings.
Settings for Micron D9

Voltage 2.26 ( I feel this is max you would want to go for 24/7 use for the safety of ram and the memory controller in the cpu )

AI tweaker bottom of page CLOCK SKEWS

Setting 1 clock skew delay 150PS

Bottom of ram timing page
Drive strengths = very important
CKE Drive Strength - 1.5x
CS/ODT drive strength - 1x
Address/command Drive Strength - 1x
Data drive strength - 0.75x
DQS drive strength - 1.25x
Processor On die termination - 300ohms +/-20%

I suggest looping test 5 as that will be the only test that will fail, making one pass will not likely error.
Will update in a few with a breakdown of voltages for what ram clock speeds.

2.20 920mhz 10 loop pass memtest test 5, 1 full pass all tests 4-4-4-10
2.26 988mhz 10 loop pass memtest test 5, 1 full pass all tests. 4-4-4-10
2.30 1000mhz 10 loop pass memtest test 5, 1 full pass all tests. 4-4-4-10

Gonna try less volts see what they do. still havent touched sub timings, gained a little playing with drive strengths maybe 8mhz per voltage step. Will give 5-5-5-a shot when I have time.

[G0ldBr1ck]

hrm, 4 hours later...................

must realy be getting to know the Blue screen by now

[chew*]

hrm, 4 hours later...................

must realy be getting to know the Blue screen by now

yah thank god its not a BSOD have no spare hard drives atm, thumb drive with memtest is gold though, very time consuming trying to get 500 (1000) stable 4-4-4-10. 484 was cake, not such a cake walk to 500 though.

Problem is once you test each setting by its lonsome you have to mix and match them to work with one another. My luck is i'll get everything kosher then update to 903 bios and have to start over.

[soundood]

hey hey,

edit: i assumed you would have flashed straight to the 903 bios? i have, am i missing something with the 801?

well i got my OCZ running at nothing special, 5-5-5-15 2T 2.0v 1066, i wanna see how they go, they ran fine in memtest overnight, but they would blue sceeen on last mobo (mobo problem).

but yeah i wanna run them like this for couple of days, as for clock, i am burning in my AS5, with a clock of 3500 mhz @ 1.45 vcore, and 2200 mhz NB.

to be honest i would not be upset if this was my 24/7 clocks in the end

as expected this is all prime stable, just wait for the AC5 to 'cure' and push for more.

gota say this bios took me a little to get used too, i havent run around an ASUS coprehensive bios in a while.

one thing i did notice though, my x-fi does not enjoy changes to HTT, i was going for a high HTT, low multi, and was a no no.

took the x-fi out and no problem 240 x 15, ohhhh this is going to be fun over the next couple of weeks

[G0ldBr1ck]

yah thank god its not a BSOD have no spare hard drives atm, thumb drive with memtest is gold though, very time consuming trying to get 500 (1000) stable 4-4-4-10. 484 was cake, not such a cake walk to 500 though.

Problem is once you test each setting by its lonsome you have to mix and match them to work with one another. My luck is i'll get everything kosher then update to 903 bios and have to start over.

how many volts are you at now on the ram?

[chew*]

how many volts are you at now on the ram?

refuse to go over 2.26, I could go more but i'd rather tweak my way there.

[mattkosem]

I've got one of these on the way from ZipZoomFly to replace this M3A78-T that I picked up from Microcenter in an emergency. Hopefully I'll have better luck with it! It looks like an amazing board!

--Matt

[HardCode]

I just purchased this board today from NewEgg so I hope I get good results. I have been running my 940 on a spare gigabyte 780G mATX board, but it just doesn't have enough power regulation to keep the vcore stable over 1.45v. My chip does 4GHz on 1.5v so I figured it deserved a proper board.

Thanks for this thread, it helped a lot in making my decision.

[chew*]

Sound I usually plow my way through every bios version till I find one with the maxclocks/performance. This was already in it so thats what i'm working with atm.

I used about 8 bios's on the gigabyte till I was happy, exploring every setting like a fiend scraping resin from a bowl once his sack is gone

Updating D9 settings

Sound I have those plats in a rig, I will give them a go for you in this board

[jamesrb]

This is the first AM2/AM2+ board I have used that doesn't have memory dividers for 400 and 533. This severely limits overclocking for me on what is supposed is supposed to be an enthusiast board.

Is there a way around this lack of dividers?

[chew*]

This is the first AM2/AM2+ board I have used that doesn't have memory dividers for 400 and 533. This severely limits overclocking for me on what is supposed is supposed to be an enthusiast board.

Is there a way around this lack of dividers?

this is ddrII era? 667/800/1066?

[shaolin95]

I am considering this mobo and the high end Gigabyte AM3 DDR3 mobo as well. I wonder what the advantages are of this Asus over the Gigabyte. I am more used to Asus but it seems a lot of people are going for the Gigabyte mobo due to its better connector placement and other things.
Any opinions are welcome before I make my decision over the weekend.

[chew*]

I am considering this mobo and the high end Gigabyte AM3 DDR3 mobo as well. I wonder what the advantages are of this Asus over the Gigabyte. I am more used to Asus but it seems a lot of people are going for the Gigabyte mobo due to its better connector placement and other things.
Any opinions are welcome before I make my decision over the weekend.

Well I know the gigabytes bios is not up to snuff for extremists atm......might be fine for the casual overclocker, I personally like the layout better myself, I guess on of the advantages is quadfire on this board....

[shaolin95]

I assume you mean that the Gigabyte lacks bios options? Memory timings perhaps? that would be bad indeed although I guess if its OCes to the same level at the of the day then it wont matter too much.
The quadfire is no big deal for me as I use Nvidia.
I still have two days to make up my mind. :-)