!UPDATE! abit AW9D-Max (retail) arrived

**The Nemesis** · 10-10-2006, 07:06 PM

Originally Posted by kenofstephen

Hi Nemesis,

from my observation, there are a lot of good B2 overclockers, especially the L628B121 batch, also, my ES is not that good, just I have no money to get a retail.

looking forward to B3 Stepping 7, I expect it will be even better.

I've been asking all resources about the "b's", they just don't seem to be in the states right now. I was thinking of grabbing a week 31 to play with this weekend. When is the B3 Step 7 suppose to debut? Q1 2007?

**kenofstephen** · 10-10-2006, 07:29 PM

Originally Posted by The Nemesis

I've been asking all resources about the "b's", they just don't seem to be in the states right now. I was thinking of grabbing a week 31 to play with this weekend. When is the B3 Step 7 suppose to debut? Q1 2007?

within this year? possibly.

**palese** · 10-10-2006, 07:52 PM

Originally Posted by Budwise

i have a strange yet extremely annoying problem with this board. I have since reformatted twice only to have the same results. I change the windows appearance to "Classic Windows" to get rid of all the cartoony garbage, but 50% of the time upon a reboot it boots back up to Windows XP Theme. WTF! Im getting pretty annoyed here. This didnt happen at all with my DFI board. I dont even understand how a motherboard could cause this...

I'm sure you already did this, but did you go into systems properties and then advanced, then performance settings and set it for "best performance" this will keep it from coming back.

**Budwise** · 10-10-2006, 08:27 PM

yeah, ive disabled it from there as well... But still maybe 30-40% of the time when i reboot the XP theme comes right on back.

**Revv23** · 10-10-2006, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by Budwise

yeah, ive disabled it from there as well... But still maybe 30-40% of the time when i reboot the XP theme comes right on back.

go into services.msc and disable themes...

that happens to me on almost any platform randomly... depends on which day i installed windows or something lol.

**krampak** · 10-11-2006, 12:52 AM

What about my hard drives issues on this mobo? I'm the only one ?

**Keiki** · 10-11-2006, 04:10 AM

well back to 1.2 for me, not stable no matter what settings and i'm getting some weird bsod about usbhub.sys like 6 times already O_o

**c0r3y** · 10-11-2006, 07:10 AM

Originally Posted by Keiki

well back to 1.2 for me, not stable no matter what settings and i'm getting some weird bsod about usbhub.sys like 6 times already O_o

but 1.3 real beta (no alpha) bios is gone?
Anyone can give me a link for download?
ty

**berk** · 10-11-2006, 07:43 AM

Originally Posted by krampak

What about my hard drives issues on this mobo? I'm the only one ?

No your not

My Maxtor MaxlineIII 'dissapears' sometimes,POSTs so far then reads no drive found, clear CMOS is the only way to bring it back.

**SilveradoJ442** · 10-11-2006, 09:06 AM

Originally Posted by thebeast

No your not

My Maxtor MaxlineIII 'dissapears' sometimes,POSTs so far then reads no drive found, clear CMOS is the only way to bring it back.

I was having some trouble with my Raptor 150 doing the same thing. Try changing the IDE Timeout fron 0 to 5. It gives it more time to detect the drives. Its on the same menu right around where you turn off the bios abit full screen. It fixed mine has shown up everytime since

**Pjoeloe** · 10-11-2006, 09:10 AM

This must be the weirdest intro of a review of an abit aw9d max yet : http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=6953

**The Nemesis** · 10-11-2006, 09:20 AM

Originally Posted by Pjoeloe

This must be the weirdest intro of a review of an abit aw9d max yet : http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=6953

read that review earlier today and totally dismissed it whe I read over 480mhz FSB.

**ctrl_alt_del** · 10-11-2006, 09:23 AM

Originally Posted by Pjoeloe

This must be the weirdest intro of a review of an abit aw9d max yet : http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=6953

It was kinda funny though! =)

**hipro5** · 10-11-2006, 09:44 AM

Originally Posted by The Nemesis

read that review earlier today and totally dismissed it whe I read over 480mhz FSB.

Yeah.......right.......Kiss my BASS.......(not you The Nemesis - the hexus's reviewer).......
There is NO WAY of hiting 480MHz with default mobo without moding it AND with the bios 1.1 (look at the picture with the PCI-E frequency).....fsb limit was 458 - 460MHz MAX and he hited 480MHz and unmoded.......

Sorry hexus reviewer BUT you LIE.....or you don't "remember" well the fsb you have hited.....After you have picked the fsb through bios, did you hit save and exit or just put the fsb in there just for show off......?....

**yotomeczek** · 10-11-2006, 10:08 AM

Originally Posted by hipro5

Yeah.......right.......Kiss my BASS.......(not you The Nemesis - the hexus's reviewer).......
There is NO WAY of hiting 480MHz with default mobo without moding it AND with the bios 1.1 (look at the picture with the PCI-E frequency).....fsb limit was 458 - 460MHz MAX and he hited 480MHz and unmoded.......

Sorry hexus reviewer BUT you LIE.....or you don't "remember" well the fsb you have hited.....After you have picked the fsb through bios, did you hit save and exit or just put the fsb in there just for show off......?....

Yeap
I agree with hipro5
"we hit 486 fsb .." but not even SS screen - nothing ...
Crappy review (someone pay for good numbers ?? )

**situman** · 10-11-2006, 10:15 AM

I'm so tempted to sell the Abit now after this retarded review. Its obvious there's something fishy going on.

**hipro5** · 10-11-2006, 10:39 AM

Originally Posted by situman

I'm so tempted to sell the Abit now after this retarded review. Its obvious there's something fishy going on.

No way to sell mine......

With a few mods, this mobo rocks for as overclockers.......
You're about to see it's resaults one of these days......
NONE mobo can touch it......

**Raja@ASUS** · 10-11-2006, 10:47 AM

you tried the Asus PRO's yet George? I think it's bettter (honest). Got 'em both, they will be under phase soon, and I've already got the Maximiser working on the PRO, gimme some time and I'll see what's what....

Now when are you gonna share those mod secrets...

?

regards
Raja

**shimmishim** · 10-11-2006, 01:05 PM

Originally Posted by hipro5

No way to sell mine......

With a few mods, this mobo rocks for as overclockers.......
You're about to see it's resaults one of these days......
NONE mobo can touch it......

hey!!!

i'm still waitin' on these mods!!!

i know of the wire mod to get more vmch but that's it.

come on.. publish them already!!!

**M3kk** · 10-11-2006, 01:26 PM

What is the MAX fsb from this board, unmoded, out of the box ?

10x

**Blacklash** · 10-11-2006, 01:58 PM

I think there is definitely a BIOS bug in 1.2.

I can run up to 445 X 9 yet can't post 445 x 6. I might be able to get more and this system can't tame anything more than 445 x 9 1.65v @ 4.0GHz on air. Too darn much heat. I noticed when I tried 400 x 6 it was still listing my CPU as 3.6GHz in post when it should have been 2.4GHz. Wish I still had an E6300 laying about to try since its default multi is 7 x.

EDIT: Up to a 360 FSB it figures the CPU speed and FSB Multi correctly after that I get crazy results. I set 400 x 6 in the BIOS and instead of telling me I am @ 2.4 400 x 6 @ post it says I am rather attempting 3.6GHz @ 600 x 6.

**Deke** · 10-11-2006, 03:14 PM

Correct me if I'm wrong, but is the vmch on this mobo also tied to the PCIe voltage? Seems like you can't vary one without the other. If so, will using larger mch voltages ruin your chance at an overclock or possibly damage the video card?

Is it the same on every other 975 board?

**MrDeeds** · 10-11-2006, 03:18 PM

Originally Posted by situman

I'm so tempted to sell the Abit now after this retarded review. Its obvious there's something fishy going on.

fishy is an understatement, anybody can take a bios shot of 486fsb.

**adehh** · 10-11-2006, 03:54 PM

Has anyone managed to fit a Thermalright Ultra-120 in an AW9D-MAX? - I'm worried about the MAX heatsink next to the CPU.

Thank ya kindly!

**amx** · 10-11-2006, 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by adehh

Has anyone managed to fit a Thermalright Ultra-120 in an AW9D-MAX? - I'm worried about the MAX heatsink next to the CPU.

Thank ya kindly!

Ill find out soon. I just got it today.

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