Post your luck with DFI Experts and/or RDX200 boards

[Revivalist]

Well, I know that lots of people were complaining that only the bad news with the Expert is emphasized and the good news is ignored. So I thought I would make a point of pointing what I think is very good news . . .

I've been running the Expert for about 4 days now and it's running beautifully. I tested 3 Opties and they each clocked great. I was amazed at how high this board will go . . . 500MHz HTT!



And that's with a 2.5x LDT multiplier so the HT frequency is at 500MHz x 2.5 = 1250MHz (which is 1250MHz x 2 = 2500MHz data rate). Sisoft shows those values (in the red box in the pic).

In the Anantech review, "Mr. Icee" said he reached 512MHz HTT on the Expert using ClockGen. But I don't know how he did it because ClockGen seems to max out at 500MHz (as you can tell in the pic). I even tried to go further using the "ghost mode" feature but it didn't work. How did he do it?!!

Also, I can't get ClockGen to let me change the the FID/VID values. Notice in the picture it's greyed out. I installed the Opteron drive from the AMD website, I tried "auto" and "manual" for the CPU FID and VID in the BIOS but nothing seems to work? Anyone know why?

[loonym]

very nice results Revivalist

[STEvil]

Don't understand => Same Chips, Same Size (both 4MBs, both LPC/FWH
PMC4 type) so what is Ur post about???

Only thing could be older version of AwdFlash. But I believie, that Our Friend uses the One given with BIOS - that means the One that Manufacturer expects U to Use.

Or maybe U're talking about EEPROM Writer?? But He said He want's to do Hot-Flash

awdflash, winflash, etc.. whatever tool you decide to try to flash with. They are very picky...

[uOpt]

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I've been running the Expert for about 4 days now and it's running beautifully. I tested 3 Opties and they each clocked great.

Nice board

Did you use the same CPUs on a different board before? Did you reach a higher effective overclock?

[Revivalist]

Nice board

Did you use the same CPUs on a different board before? Did you reach a higher effective overclock?

Unfortunately I wasn't able to test them on my old ASUS A8V. It died about a week before I was able to setup the Expert.

[gline]

im not sure - but i think my expert may have killed my cpu. It was working fine for about an hour then i switched off pc, switched back on and the 4 diagnostic lights stay on and no beeps or nothing....... Everything was on stock voltage and no overclocking, it is an fx55 (SD core). I reset bios with the jumper, still nothing.. Can this be caused by anything else? dammit.. this is doing my head in

[krampak]

0 problems here with my Expert. Runs fine since first day except some problems with 4x512 BH5 but now i'm running 2x1GB so no problems

[NickS]

Well the BIOS bug's have been fixed so it should be all OK...shouldn't it?

[Eldonko]

im not sure - but i think my expert may have killed my cpu. It was working fine for about an hour then i switched off pc, switched back on and the 4 diagnostic lights stay on and no beeps or nothing....... Everything was on stock voltage and no overclocking, it is an fx55 (SD core). I reset bios with the jumper, still nothing.. Can this be caused by anything else? dammit.. this is doing my head in

Might be power source too. No way to tell unless you have a second PS or second MB to try the FX in.

[stone_cold_Jimi]

I have an Expert arriving tomorrow. Unfortunately a new 146 is not arriving until January.

I was using an A8N32-SLI under phase and it seems to have damaged itself, possibly helping to kill a 146 and a Venice. I still need to test both CPUs in another board; the Expert will I'm sure shoot any of the wounded and settle the issue.

[JasonDTM]

how did it happen?
shut the board down and then when you wanted to reboot it was dead?
is the cpu ok? and the mem?
were you running oced? what settings?

Sorry for the late reply but, I was running 2.9g doing some 3D stability testing (Stable for 3d only) found it to be unstable, rebooted, loaded optimized defaults (Everything pretty much auto) flashed bios using Winflash (Dont have a working floppy accessable (future flashes will be floppy) checked the clear cmos when it restarted and everything spun up, but 4 leds, tried just about everything, when I plugged in the 4pin power, the board will not power on, just the red leds flash on then off... I think my PSU took the board (Which is feasble) but I have another on the way, I'm not to worried

[gline]

Might be power source too. No way to tell unless you have a second PS or second MB to try the FX in.

well i had it all working fine and now have a weird issue. Trying to install windows, it freezes after it has just installed the basic drivers from the cd and is just about to reboot... tried everything different, but nothing seems to solve it leads me to think something is dodgy, dammit

[Undesirable]

when I plugged in the 4pin power, the board will not power on, just the red leds flash on then off... I think my PSU took the board (Which is feasble) but I have another on the way, I'm not to worried

May I ask which power supply you are using? I had initially bought an Enermax Liberty 620W ELT620AWT PSU for use with the DFI LanParty nForce4 SLI-DR Expert motherboard, and it was displaying the exact problem you describe after I powered off and then on again. After I had waited a certain period of time (not determined), it would then power on again correctly. It must have had something to do with the voltage / circuit protection features of the PSU kicking in and only allowing you to switch on again after a specific cooldown time.

I have since purchased a Hiper Type R HPU-4K580 power supply unit, and it functions perfectly.

[JasonDTM]

I was using a handpicked X-Connect 500w that offered rails spot on under high loads, I now have an Antec NeoHE in the wings for my board... but thats on newegg rma, I'll post when I get the new board, the old board was long since dead when it was doing that lol

[Revivalist]

im not sure - but i think my expert may have killed my cpu. It was working fine for about an hour then i switched off pc, switched back on and the 4 diagnostic lights stay on and no beeps or nothing....... Everything was on stock voltage and no overclocking, it is an fx55 (SD core). I reset bios with the jumper, still nothing.. Can this be caused by anything else? dammit.. this is doing my head in

I know the feeling exactly. . . . Two days ago I set a really high HTT (like 450MHz) and high Vcore (around 1.70V) and suddenly the board turned off and wouldn't turn back on again. I cleared the CMOS, moved the RAM, unplugged and replugged the PSU but still nothing. . . I thought my Opteron 148 was gone and I was another victim of "Expert CPU murder." I was even ready to post here that I had another casuality to report . . . But instead I searched around in google for some answers and found this thread. It explains how to do a total CMOS clearing. . . . I tried it and lo and behold, it worked! Of course, I was stoked. My Opty was alive!

Moral of the story. . . . If anyone thinks their board or CPU just died on the Expert, before you freak out and cry out "murder!" please try the full CMOS clear described in this thread first.

[johnnyliu3377]

Clockgen cannot make FID/VID values adjustment to Opteron & FX-60,At least I have tried!

[Son1990]

Mine killed my UTT mushkins and 3 DIMM slots but once I RMAed it, Its been running fine for 2 weeks.

[irenic]

Mine was running great at first. No problem during windows installation, then my 2gb ballistix also ran memtest without problem at 250mhz 3-3-3-6 2.6v for 7 hrs. Then when i started to overclock my x2, the problem arise. I started with 2.45ghz at 1.425vcore in bios, but smartguardian detected only 1.39. 30mins OCCT no problem, stressprime also no problem. But it hanged everytime i wanted to play game. I ran 3dmarks05 and it also hanged. So I assumed the vcore was not enuff and i increased it. But I still cant get it stable eventhough my x2 was pretty stable on my Abit Fatal1ty AN8 SLI (yeah u read that, ABIT) Then i set divider to 200/250 htt since my ram is rated at 250mhz. Memtest in bios again pass without any errors but my windows hanged. Then i press restart button, but it wont restart. I had to switched off the power button on my PSU and after 10 secs, when I switched on my pc it wont start. I had to switch off and on the PSU again then only I can bring my PC to life.

So what do u guys think..

1) Ram problem? (passed memtest at 7hrs without any error).

2) CPU problem? (no problem at all @ 2.5ghz on my ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 SLI)

3) PSU problem? (also no problem with my abit fatal1ty but i heard someone said enermax is totally not good on DFI.. issit true?)

4) Expert problem? (difficult to reboot)

Thx alot~!

[[XC] 4X4N]

Thought that I would post my time with the expert board. Was a little hesitant to start out using my opty, so I put in my old 3200 and some OCZ 3200 rev 2 tcc5 ram. Loaded up optimized defaults and loaded windows no problem. Everything stable at stock. Set 10x250 with 150 divider, no problems. Ran this way for a few days, then decided to overclock more. This is were my trouble begins. This chip and ram combo was prime stable 10x265 1.4+113% on ultra-d. So I set 10x250, no divider, and get blue screen before even getting to windows. I know ram timings are different, but I had everything way loose. So kept going lower. Finally could get into windows at 10x235, but fail even 1m pi. Flash to 11-25 bios. No help. Tried with lower multiplier, with more vcore, with vdimm all the way to 3.0v, all different ram settings. Played with all drive strenths, no luck. While doing all of this, had to clear cmos many times to get to boot again. Put in my gskill, which will do 300 2.5-4-4-8 easily. Still couldn't get anything above 235 stable. Had another lockup. clear cmos agian, now any change in bios from default settings results in no boot. I was hoping this would be a better board. My ultra-d is good, but sometimes has a mind of its own. It can be stable for weeks, then not, and its like starting over. I don't consider myself a pro at this, but I'm not a noob either. I can't believe that this is all my fault. I still think DFI offers the best options for overclocking, but I don't think a stable overclock is too much to ask. Hell, my AN7 has been running 11x235 for over a year and half. After working with this, and my ultra-d, I think I will try something other than DFI. Maybe one of the new ati based boards.

[deff_ins]

im just wondering... can someone get 300x9/10 2.5-3/4-3-6/7 1T 32m stable on expert with tccd 2x512? anyone? i cant - not 1T... i spent 2 weeks of testing - and nothing - i mean nothing - not even close - no matter what voltage, timings, bios, cooling i use!!! max stable 1T 270x10
on sli-d no problems 290x10 or 300x9 1T

[bullit]

i had the same problem as you,so sold the Gskill 4400FC and buy a pair of OCZ VX to work at 250 2-2-2-5 at 3.3 vdimm an as far as i know the performance is the same except the memory bandwidth.

[slow'puter]

Running stock bios on revision A02 board. Memory is giving me a hard time, need to change that out. Mild overclock (2.5Ghz) and rock steady.

[nguyenquochuy]

My Expert running with no problem since first day ! I can push my Venice 3000+ E6 to 2600MHz with 1.6v vcore ! I love it !!!

[odb]

i initially had some problems with the board raid setup and whatnot and just went back to my ultra-d for 3 weeks now, and just today i went to reintall it to give it another go, everything booted up all right, installed a fresh copy of windows, and smelled a wierd burning smell then poof up comes smoke from the pwm area and the computer died, im not trying the board with another cpu or anything just incase, but i just did try the cpu and ram and it works in my ultra-d.

RMA time!!

[deff_ins]

i had the same problem as you,so sold the Gskill 4400FC and buy a pair of OCZ VX to work at 250 2-2-2-5 at 3.3 vdimm an as far as i know the performance is the same except the memory bandwidth.

i love my corsair ram its hard to sell good and well known ram when u never cant know will your next ram be as good as previous ram. also i know that ch/bh/utt ram is more effective for futuremark benchmarks than tccx... is it true?
so - im waiting for expert/tccd wunder-screenshot