Icee's NF7-S R+D Testing

[thesaucier]

Thank you all for a very good place to go for the NF7. I have been waiting to put this board to gether with Raedon 9700 Pro with extra cooling for the card, and 2X Corsair xm3200 memory but Im wating for my water cooling to do so. I have been reading alot at the Abit forun on this board and allmost desided to scrap the board its been so negative. You here have given me new hope and joy that I got this board!! Thank you for sharing your information. Have you or will you give us an almost step by step on the voltage modifactions ?
Great forum!!

[snowsl]

Welcome to extreme! It's a good board and can be great. Can't wait for the rev 2 abit to hit the streets. With collaboration from these fellows, it should be awesome.

[thesaucier]

Originally posted by MrIcee
I'm on the same track as you in mentioning the 2.0 Nvidia drivers. I have never used the ones ABIT supplied..and I need to ask OPP what he is running.

I tried 1 stick of ram and the problem is FAR worse than 2.(in each Dimm slot I should add)

My avenue of exploration has been to remove the video drivers and remove the nVidia 2.0 drivers and install the ones ABIT supplies. Guess what?? They will not install off the cd...LOL Nor will they install if I browse the folder and manually run the setup.exe. I'm off to download them off Abit's site and see if I have any better luck. For everyones info...I have a Socket7 HSF on the Northbridge...and a Vantec Heatsink with an old ABIT northbridge fan attached, on the southbridge. Heat should not be an issue here...nor are available voltages. I'm hoping it's just a driver issue...but we'll see

Wher did you get the chipset cooler or did you rig it up?

Randi

[Netto]

Help Plz, I Live in Brazil and it very hard to find different varietys of memorys here, the ones I Can get is
Geil PC3500 - Doesn´t work Above 166 FSB
Crucial PC2100 - Doesn´t Work Either
Kingston PC3200 I can Get
Corsair I Need to order and Wait 20 days,

Kingston will work fine?: Thats my Question
Tks

[thesaucier]

That gel should work. Why do you say its not?

[eclypse]

Whats the status on that vcore/vdimm mod?

I just installed the board last night and i thought that this thing would have all the voltage options but i guess i got it all mixed up with the Epox and the KT400 boards.. Sucks.

My 2100+ Tbred b 2/48 wants,NEEDS 2.05vcore to run stable at 2500Mhz air cooled with TR SLK800/w68CFM fan.

I can select 1.85 vcore but it will only run at 1.8v and the vdimm at 1.7(<--- Cant believe that one!) but my corsair 3200 512 x2 needs 2.9v to run at max timings at over 200+ FSB..

i was shocked when i started playing around in the bios and lowered the mem timings and got the system to boot up into winXP pro at 225FSB.. thought it was stable but then it just went black after about 30 secs of 3dmark.. turned her down at 220 and she made it threw! i was astatic cause before on the KX7333 Raid i could only do 205FSB with one stick.. but always thought that the chipset was holdin me down..

nice board! Its just so quick at everything it does..

Oh i hope the vdimm mod aint too bad and safe cause the one and only time i tried a vdimm mod on the KX7333 i fried a new stick of ram right away! Its sucked though.. just a stick of 256MB 3200 kingmax.. Didnt wana do over 170 max timings.. heh so i put it outa its missery you could say.. use a pot and really rushed it.. my fault.

[DuraN]

That 1.7v reading has to be the VDD, not the vmem. I ordered my NF7-S today, and i think i will do the mods when people start to figure them out.

[eclypse]

Originally posted by DuraN
That 1.7v reading has to be the VDD, not the vmem. I ordered my NF7-S today, and i think i will do the mods when people start to figure them out.

Opps... ment to say 2.7v. I do that alot hehe.. too many numbers.

[eclypse]

Anyone know where i can find info to do the vcore mod to this board? I'm having trouble finding it! Searched many forums and coming up dry.

I read somewhere that Mr.Ice said that its the same as the Abit KX7333 board but i've done the same thing as i've done to teh KX7333 and its not workin right at all.. If i put the vcore at 1.7v or higher the system will not post.. Then when it does post it will only post once then i have to discarge the system just to post again.

i'm using a 22k-Ohm resistor soldered between the 7th and 9th pins and redone it twice cause i thought the 7th pin wasnt on good enough and still the same.

[thesaucier]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by eclypse
[B]Anyone know where i can find info to do the vcore mod to this board? I'm having trouble finding it! Searched many forums and coming up dry.



I thought you would be comming off the 7th pin to a vr and then to ground. then adjust the vcore with the vr slow and easy while in the bios looking at pc health and adjusting to the high point with vcore. Then go back into soft menue and pick the vcore,

[thesaucier]

check this out:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&threadid=1432

[SKYNET]

pics from VDD mod plz !

[Major]

can someone tell me please, On the NF7-S v1.2 is the processor vcc taken from the 5v or the 12v rail ?

I have been posting everywhere trying to get an answere