DFI final S939 Motherboard CFX3200 ATI RD580 results

[merlin76]

There is a new beta BIOS out:

http://us.dfi.com.tw/Support/Downloa...FLAG=B&SITE=US

http://us.dfi.com.tw/Upload/BIOS/R5UD424.zip

Date Code: 2006/04/24

Description: Enhance Memory module compatibility.

[Blacklash]

My updated results:



CPU-Z validate 275 1T 200
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=90293



CPU-Z validate 285 1T 166
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=90288

read 6813:



write 2463:



The highest I have been able to boot into windows with Crucial Ballistix Micron memory so far is at 370 x 7:

[phi|os]

So have you used this beta 424 bios yet? Any difference? Options? I don't wanna update unless it's worth it, I'm running smooth right now at 2.7ghz.

[Blacklash]

So have you used this beta 424 bios yet? Any difference? Options? I don't wanna update unless it's worth it, I'm running smooth right now at 2.7ghz.

Me? After I got the 417 flashed correctly, aka clearing my reloaded banks and CMOS first, I have had zero issues. Right now, like you, I am doing splendid and don't feel the need to fix what isn't broke. I am going to relax and enjoy my rig for a while.

[phi|os]

Weird, I'm not having these weird problems with my board like everyone else. I flashed through DOS (4/17) and haven't looked back. The only thing that sux is that 170 won't go past 2.7ghz. I can't really blame the mobo though, as it is probably the chip(CCBWE 0609FPAW).

I would probably have to watercool my system, which isn't happening, because this is the first computer I have ever assembled, and I'd rater get the hang of all the little nuiasances of OCing first, and then go all out on the liquid.

Anyways, I meant to reply to merlin76

There is a new beta BIOS out:

http://us.dfi.com.tw/Support/Downloa...FLAG=B&SITE=US

http://us.dfi.com.tw/Upload/BIOS/R5UD424.zip

Date Code: 2006/04/24

Description: Enhance Memory module compatibility.

Just wanted to know if anyone has tested this bios yet.

[texuspete00]

Got my two x1900XT's in there and running ok. I'm just running my chip at 2.6 before I try to OC it some more. When windows first starts everything is dog slow for many seconds. It's my first dual core. I thought it might be a bug. I'm running the AMD driver and MS hotfix, but no luck. 4/17 bios.

[cky2k6]

this board does have its quirks i must say. my ram cant run at 250 and stock timings, ati system manager freaks out when i try to run the clocks tab, and the board does an instant restart whenever i click on the sensor tab on everest home edition. the ram part is very weird, ive never had a board lock up on me like this one does, it passes dual prime for 8 hours, and dual super pi 32m, but it just freezes up in 3dmark, full hard lock num lock on keyboard not working, so strange. also, it hangs on post once in a while. but for all these quirks, overall its been a fun board.

[Grayskull]

Some FYIs....

ATI System Manager is not designed to support any board with anything other than an ATI southbridge, so it shouldn't be used on motherboards with the ULI 1575. Clockgen from TechPowerUp should have correct support for the ULI1575.

As for Everest, I've heard that there will be an update that will address the hanging problem.

this board does have its quirks i must say. my ram cant run at 250 and stock timings, ati system manager freaks out when i try to run the clocks tab, and the board does an instant restart whenever i click on the sensor tab on everest home edition. the ram part is very weird, ive never had a board lock up on me like this one does, it passes dual prime for 8 hours, and dual super pi 32m, but it just freezes up in 3dmark, full hard lock num lock on keyboard not working, so strange. also, it hangs on post once in a while. but for all these quirks, overall its been a fun board.

[LivingL@rGe81]

Tryed this & still the b$$ch wont run the upper dividers & still can't save the Data Drive Strenght settings!!!!

I'm stuck at 250Mhz 1:1 but my mach will be back next week & I need the 250 mem divider because of the coldbug!!!!!

I've fixed the problem with Data Drive Strength not saving its a bios issue!!! If I turn off the SATA controller in the bios I stops saving setting to Data Drive Strength!!!

I'm gonna test the 233 & 250 dividers to see if this is whats affecting the bios settings!!!!

[spajdr]

guys can someone using crossfire on this mobo already? 2x1900
Cause i got plagued by this problems (not related to soundcard but screen shake)
http://www.driverheaven.net/showthread.php?t=103575
also seen there
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33846405

they all used Asus or MSI, cause DFI wasnt out month back (they didnt tested it with older DFI either).

[LivingL@rGe81]

Do these dividers look right, no!!!! Below are the 233 & 250 compared to each other, there only a 70Mb/s gain between the two & cpu-z detects the both at 233.3Mhz!!!!!

I want the highest bandwidth available for my benching sessions plus I use my modded mach 2 GT all the time & need the 250 mem divider to work properly & want the bandwidth i'm supposed to get!!!!

This is 200 mem divider 250Mhz


This is the 233 mem divider


This is the 250 mem divider

[Blacklash]

guys can someone using crossfire on this mobo already? 2x1900
Cause i got plagued by this problems (not related to soundcard but screen shake)
http://www.driverheaven.net/showthread.php?t=103575
also seen there
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33846405

they all used Asus or MSI, cause DFI wasnt out month back (they didnt tested it with older DFI either).

My advice? Skip the 6.4 driver and use the 6.3. Also try using the Sil controller over the ULi SB. Just locate it in the genie BIOS and select plain old sata. When you get back to windows it will recognize a new "mass storage device". Just answer yes to all its questions and it will download the "sata link" driver you need for normal sata use on the Sil. Not using the ULi SB got rid of my freezing with my theater 550pro. I use to get the same thing on nforce4 and I got around it by not installing the nvidia storage driver and using SATA 3|4. That tactic didn't work with the ULi.

The ULi SB is just an alternative work around and ideally we'd be using the SB600. If you are planning on AM2, wait. DFI supposed to have a CFX 3200 AM2 board with the SB600. Or last I heard.

I am using Crossfire. I watch TV, DVDs, game etc etc with no problems. People with DFI boards best clear their CMOS and blank all CMOS reloaded banks before they flash to the 417 BIOS or they are asking for problems. Once it is in as per Rgone's instuctions at the official forums, everything is great.

My 3dmark06 score with quality mip settings:

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=275932

[Tony]

If you are using ULI raid there is an issue with data drive strength, this will effect your overclocking. I have informed DFI and they are looking into it.

For overclocking the memory the magic setting seems to be bus reciver impedance at 10, this allows me to clock the ram high with lower vdimm. Its all about drive on this board, get it right and it really does fly.

[Blacklash]

If you are using ULI raid there is an issue with data drive strength, this will effect your overclocking. I have informed DFI and they are looking into it.

For overclocking the memory the magic setting seems to be bus reciver impedance at 10, this allows me to clock the ram high with lower vdimm. Its all about drive on this board, get it right and it really does fly.

Your guide was very helpful to me. I am currently running this CPU higher than it ever has been on any board. It use to top at 2.76. Now I have 2.85 at 1t.

I am using drive strength 8, Tref 3072 (best I have found so far) and these settings.




This board requires a lot of tweaking and so far I love it.

[spajdr]

well i dont care about overclocking much for now, but thanks for advice :-), i just wanted to know if someone got crossfire to work without screenshaking when going in 3D.
malficar : would be good if your advice cure my problem with screenshaking, but i guess its not that. Besides what mastercard you got? asus? sapphire? or something else? Thank you.

[Blacklash]

well i dont care about overclocking much for now, but thanks for advice :-), i just wanted to know if someone got crossfire to work without screenshaking when going in 3D.
malficar : would be good if your advice cure my problem with screenshaking, but i guess its not that. Besides what mastercard you got? asus? sapphire? or something else? Thank you.

Your screen shake sounds like a sync issue. The closest I have heard to it was one fellow that was using the 6.4 driver and something got out of whack when he was using "performance" driver settings in 3dmark06 so the "canyon flight" test was massively out of sync. He said he had to completely install windows again to fix whatever got corrupted.

I bought the cheapest master card I could find, it's a MSI. I can get 702|855 out of it with the fan on "hair dry" :p I use "overclocker" to dial it up 100%. Most of the time I just dial it up to XTX speeds to match my ATi XTX. Since the master does not down clock the XTX all I have to do is bump it up a tad.

I am kinda of disappointed I can't get by this wall in 3dmark06. I am stuck in the 9600s. Best I can get is 9661. I was hoping for 10k, and I don't think I am going to see that til my CPU can get closer to 3GHz. One nice thing though, this PC P&C 510 SLi PSU has held up even under all my overclocking. I thought for sure I'd have to replace it.

Sorry you are having troubles. Don't know what to say. I been playing the heck out of Oblivion with the "Chuck patch", no problems here. Hope you get it sorted out.

[spajdr]

malficar : no, it has nothing to do with sync
check this
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33846405

basically if i underclocked voltage on GPU (1.375V) it stopped shaking, doesnt happened over DVI port on mastercard, only thru dongle with more then 1.375V voltage.
I really hope problem lies mainly in Asus mobos and maybe Asus gfx too, but then i seen some people who got it working on Asus mobo too. Kinda weird.
something more about this is here also
http://www.driverheaven.net/showthre...5&page=3&pp=15

Good to hear you have no flashing ground on oblivion, since i got it, no matter what catalyst i tried, or it was ok, but in inventory or by pressing Escape, it was complete background flashing mess.

[JC_Denton]

Has anyone tested this board in RAID-0 mode? I wanted to change my mobo after I saw the RD580's presentation (the 1.5GHz HTT impressed me) and I've been waiting for this mobo for long. I saw that the ASUS A8R32 mobo had many problems (both in this forum and overclockers.co.uk), so DFI was my only hope (can't find the Sapphire board anywhere near me). The fact is that I was ready to buy the mobo but yesterday I saw something that kinda shocked me.

http://img96.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hdtach1cn.jpg

This image shows a RAID-0 with 150GB Raptors on the ULi Controller of the Asus A8R32 board. My RAID-0 gets these results in a random test, no tweaks at all:

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/3...acha6uz3co.jpg

The difference in performence is quite big as I can see. So here I need your help, can anyone test a RAID-0 configuration with his drives and post some results?

Thx

[nop]

gznp, here's my result of 2 80gb hitachi and 2 36gb raptor.

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/5460/uliraid08iq.jpg

[JohnMike]

Has anyone tested this board in RAID-0 mode? I wanted to change my mobo after I saw the RD580's presentation (the 1.5GHz HTT impressed me) and I've been waiting for this mobo for long. I saw that the ASUS A8R32 mobo had many problems (both in this forum and overclockers.co.uk), so DFI was my only hope (can't find the Sapphire board anywhere near me). The fact is that I was ready to buy the mobo but yesterday I saw something that kinda shocked me.

http://img96.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hdtach1cn.jpg

This image shows a RAID-0 with 150GB Raptors on the ULi Controller of the Asus A8R32 board. My RAID-0 gets these results in a random test, no tweaks at all:

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/3...acha6uz3co.jpg

The difference in performence is quite big as I can see. So here I need your help, can anyone test a RAID-0 configuration with his drives and post some results?

Thx

I have 2x Raptor 74GB Raid0 hooked on the ULI controller with no problem, running rock stable and i find it fast, really fast, faster then any NF4 and Intel raid controller that i had before.

[JC_Denton]

Thx guyz, I really appreciate your help

[JohnMike]

My 2x Raptor 74GB Raid0 hooked on the ULI controller...

[babalouj]

I am having trouble getting 250Mhz 2-2-2-5 stable on any of my UTT BH-5. I have gskill and ocz 3200 gold and I keep getting windows memtest errors and memtest 1.65 errors. I have tried DS @ DDS of 1-4 for both and nothing seems to help. I am running my sata on the ULI controller though so maybe it is what Tony is talking about. I did manage to clear alot of weird things up by resetting my cmos using killcmos and flashing 0417 bios 3 times in a row but my memory clocking is still kinda low at 230Mhz 2-2-2-5. Im sure its all in the settings, anyone have any suggestions?

[Blacklash]

malficar : no, it has nothing to do with sync
check this
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33846405

basically if i underclocked voltage on GPU (1.375V) it stopped shaking, doesnt happened over DVI port on mastercard, only thru dongle with more then 1.375V voltage.
I really hope problem lies mainly in Asus mobos and maybe Asus gfx too, but then i seen some people who got it working on Asus mobo too. Kinda weird.
something more about this is here also
http://www.driverheaven.net/showthre...5&page=3&pp=15

Good to hear you have no flashing ground on oblivion, since i got it, no matter what catalyst i tried, or it was ok, but in inventory or by pressing Escape, it was complete background flashing mess.

Odd.

No. Oblivion is great here. No issues. 6.3 cats and the "chuck patch" as of late. 4x AA + HDR and 16x HQ AF. So far I am loving Xfire. I rename the .exe AFR-FriendlyD3D.exe and click on it to start the game. That enables AFR Xfire support. I picked the tip up from the FiringSquad> http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/...d_performance/

[phi|os]

If you are using ULI raid there is an issue with data drive strength, this will effect your overclocking. I have informed DFI and they are looking into it.

For overclocking the memory the magic setting seems to be bus reciver impedance at 10, this allows me to clock the ram high with lower vdimm. Its all about drive on this board, get it right and it really does fly.

Um, my raid 0 is hooked up through my ULI...can I just switch the sata connections to the Sil sata connections and preserve my raid 0 configuration?