Asus A8N32-SLI initial impression....WOW!

[Cisco]

^^^ 1010 post

Thanks man, I missed that.

[tHe_jOkeR]

i dont like the layout of the pci and pci-e slots....

[gmod]

So If my 4000+ needs 3% more volts on my MSI NEO4 Plat to run at 218fsb at default multi what would set to on the Asus board to get the same volts...Being that I dont have the board yet and cant look at the bios...Just want to be ready thanks..

Thanks for the help per usual around here in this forum...I will figure the fuking thing out myself..

[situman]

You've just effectively killed any chances of anyone helping with that kind of attitude. Look no one knows how ur hardware will clock, you just gotta try it out urself. Don't get all pissy cause no one knows how good or bad your hardware is.

[gmod]

You've just effectively killed any chances of anyone helping with that kind of attitude. Look no one knows how ur hardware will clock, you just gotta try it out urself. Don't get all pissy cause no one knows how good or bad your hardware is.

I wasnt asking how my chip or hardware oc's cause I already know..I was asking since there is a couple more settings in the bios for cpu Vcore what I need to set it at to get the same voltage as my MSI....Doesnt matter anyway got my question answered at more helpful forum...

[pcdoc1]

Good for you, say goodbye........

[ReelMonza]

Thanks man, I missed that.

Everest will show correct values as well.

[Marios]

Everest will show correct values as well.

Which version? The one I got gives wrong MHz for 250MHz DDR with 5/4 divider. And I think it is the latest.

[ReelMonza]

http://www.computerbase.de/downloads...systemanalyse/

Overclock tab

[tommrussell]

i've have been reading this thread since its inception and have not come across this problem of vcore flutuation my board fluxs about .025 and is causing oc problems i'm hoping that you kind folks may or maynot have an answer or is this an rma thing
help is very very much appreciated
tom

[stone_cold_Jimi]

i've have been reading this thread since its inception and have not come across this problem of vcore flutuation my board fluxs about .025 and is causing oc problems i'm hoping that you kind folks may or maynot have an answer or is this an rma thing

Yeh, I've seen fluctuations of about that much between idle and load on the dmm, but not while idle or while loaded.

[tommrussell]

this is while im running occt and it really screws that up wonder if ther is a fix or just an rma

[Cisco]

FYI...OCZ techs have been busy with this MB. They have now posted very detailed recommended settings for the A8N32 for just about all the OCZ ram worth having. Some of it running at 280 1:1

http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17410

[tommrussell]

FYI...OCZ techs have been busy with this MB. They have now posted very detailed recommended settings for the A8N32 for just about all the OCZ ram worth having. Some of it running at 280 1:1

http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17410

are u the same cisco as the one over at the asus forum for this board?
just want to keep the players straight thats all
and thanks for the heads up looking to buy that very same ram after i get my opteron


tom

[Cisco]

are u the same cisco as the one over at the asus forum for this board?

Yeah that's me...work is slow and I'm obsessed with gathering real information about this MB

[$JG Money$]

Hey thx for that post cisco just one question tho srry if its stupid but i got the ocz platinum 3200 (not rev.2) so can i use the same settings ? or would my ram need different ones?

[Cybertronic]

My A8N32-SLI seems to hate being flashed to the latest BIOS

I flashed it last night using a bootable USB stick with the AFUDOS method. Unfortunately it doesn't want to read the A8N321009.ROM file name so I renamed it to A8N32SLI.ROM which fixed it and it flashed fine. Then I get the infamous Bad Bios checksum error that has happened to me before on the same mobo using the ALT + F2 method which I fixed it by flashing to the previous latest BIOS.

This time it didn't want to flash at all and refuses to display anything no matter how many times I reset the CMOS . This motherboard seems to have its own mind and spits out the 1009 BIOS .

I've applied for an RMA which hopefully I can get a new one since the motherboard I got had its packaging damaged and the Northbridge Asus cover had a dent and lots of scratches . Hopefully a new motherboard will solve my X1800 XT which overclocks poorly

[Cisco]

Hey thx for that post cisco just one question tho srry if its stupid but i got the ocz platinum 3200 (not rev.2) so can i use the same settings ? or would my ram need different ones?

I'm not 100% sure where the 2X 1GB 3200 PT fits in there...I have a post over there asking them about that.

I do know I've had mine stable at 250 1:1 but with very loose timings for testing (from memory 3-4-4-7) but at 1T.

They tested those sticks with the A8N-SLI Premium but not the A8N32. On the premium they didn't fare very well and couldn't pass memtest any higher than 220. I tried their Premium settings on the A8N32 a couple of months ago and found that I didn't need to go to 2.5 like they did...the default lowest settings (once again from memory, 2-3-2-5) worked fine.

[tommrussell]

Yeah that's me...work is slow and I'm obsessed with gathering real information about this MB

i would be glad to help out just tell me how
got my opty148 today and found this board will do 310 fsb or more wow is this the type of inf your looking for

[mackanz]

I have been working with our EB 4000 2GB kit on this board for a while now and this kit did 277 24/7 3D stable on the DFI and they do 272 on this board, but with a different cpu so that could be a reason. 272 is pretty peachy at 3-2-3-5 though.

[Cisco]

I flashed it last night using a bootable USB stick with the AFUDOS method. Unfortunately it doesn't want to read the A8N321009.ROM file name so I renamed it to A8N32SLI.ROM which fixed it and it flashed fine. Then I get the infamous Bad Bios checksum error that has happened to me before on the same mobo using the ALT + F2 method which I fixed it by flashing to the previous latest BIOS.

That checksum error, I believe, is caused simply by the name change...file that one under "strange but true." ASUS has to get its act together and make sure the BIOS file has a DOS-friendly 8.3 format before it generates its internal checksum. Guess why A8N32903.ROM doesn't have the same problem? let's see...could it be it was released with an 8.3 name?

At any rate, if the bad checksum doesn't scare you off, going into the BIOS, loading the defaults and rebooting fixes it...fixed mine anyways.

[Cisco]

i would be glad to help out just tell me how
got my opty148 today and found this board will do 310 fsb or more wow is this the type of inf your looking for

That's pretty sweet!

Most of my real, honest-to-goodness, no BS or superstition, info about this board is coming right from this great thread...just keep on posting

[Cybertronic]

Cisco, it doesn't happen for me no matter how many times I load the defaults. Whenever I load the defaults this always comes up:



As said previously I fixed it by flashing to an older BIOS which also had the same problem but loading the defaults fixed it unlike for the latest BIOS

[Cisco]

Cisco, it doesn't happen for me no matter how many times I load the defaults. Whenever I load the defaults this always comes up:



As said previously I fixed it by flashing to an older BIOS which also had the same problem but loading the defaults fixed it unlike for the latest BIOS

Bummer...sounds like you're just getting a real bad flash then, not just the file name change bug.

[Cybertronic]

The screenshot was from a successful flash anyway