Commando Results by Tony and Andre (and others...)

[krompirusa]

This mobo is great for oc-ing your ram.I overclocked my cellshock c5 at 1290 cas4@2.95v and 1070 cas3@3.15v.If i set my timings at cas5 the score is even lower

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=189806

[Blacklash]

thanks.. i will try tomorrow




but my ram's def volt is 2.1-2.2v 800 4-4-4-12 i dont think the problem is ram voltage but i will try this

You could try small FFT and then large FFT. If you hold the small test and fail large that could = ram.

All I tell can you is my ram can run low speed relaxed timings on relatively low voltage and when I go high speed tighter timings I have to ramp up the voltage. Orthos definitely needs more voltage to be stable.

IMO you shouldn't be failing Orthos on 2.2v @ DDR2 800 4-4-4-12 and I don't believe testing @ anywhere from 2.24v to 2.35v is going to kill peformance ram. Personally, I wouldn't go over 2.5v and would use active cooling post 2.4v.

[Blacklash]

any reason why other than frying it 2.3~2.5v maybe but mid 3v???

Thank you a million times for catching that. I meant 2.28-2.35v. I was thinking "mid" 2.3v which = 2.35v. I was watching UFC crap when I posted. Must have caught a stray kick in head

[Supershanks]

I meant 2.28-2.35v

[Atrin]

You could try small FFT and then large FFT. If you hold the small test and fail large that could = ram.

All I tell can you is my ram can run low speed relaxed timings on relatively low voltage and when I go high speed tighter timings I have to ramp up the voltage. Orthos definitely needs more voltage to be stable.

IMO you shouldn't be failing Orthos on 2.2v @ DDR2 800 4-4-4-12 and I don't believe testing @ anywhere from 2.24v to 2.35v is going to kill peformance ram. Personally, I wouldn't go over 2.5v and would use active cooling post 2.4v.

thanks a lot. i will try tomorrow

[oqvist]

Continue my trouble shooting. The IDE compability is really bad with this mainboard.

I think the problem with my 74 gig Raptor is that it always gets identified as slave to my 34 Gig Raptor. Doesn´t matter how much I try to change the SATA cables. Which btw is almost impossible to reach in my stacker... It´s a 5 min struggle for each cable.

Anyway it´s obviously this driver that have real performance issues on this mainboard. Tried copying files less then 4 minutes with all my other harddrives (2 WD 5000KS, Seagate 7200.10, WD Raptor 34 and 34 minutes with the 74 gig. The 74 gig is the only one identified as slave....

I also tried to configure a raid setup with my 5000KS 500 gig harddrives but since I can´t boot with any setting other then "IDE" I can´t use my RAID setup.

Anyone got Raid or AHCI mode to work?

[|2ed |ey]

How do you connect your sata for your raptors??

[oqvist]

To the lower SATA ports. thought they was what became master but seems anything else. All my harddrives except the 74 gig Raptor identifies as master. I have disconnected the Seagate 7200.10 harddrive in hope of the 74 becoming the fourth master but no...

As mentioned in BIOS I must run IDE or the computer will bluescreen when loading windows???

[HoriWanderFuLL]

Hi i have a q6600 at 3.6ghz ..1.4vcore bla blah...

the little black things above the cpu socket labled r 27 are pretty bloody hot..

i didnt notice this with my e6600 at 4ghz with 1.7 vcore....

any help with this matter ???

and when is to hot ..to hot ???????

cheers Hori.

[SilentGlow]

To the lower SATA ports. thought they was what became master but seems anything else. All my harddrives except the 74 gig Raptor identifies as master. I have disconnected the Seagate 7200.10 harddrive in hope of the 74 becoming the fourth master but no...

Do I understand correctly that you connect 5 drives at one time? There are only 4 master SATA drives possible on this board (the 3th&4th connector acts as slave). So if you use lower ports the middle one is slave no matter what you do.

[Chosen.]

From my experience with other boards, I stuck some VGA ramsinks on them, before I even turned the board on for the first time

[Supershanks]

SilentGlow
There are only 4 master SATA drives possible on this board (the 3th&4th connector acts as slave). So if you use lower ports the middle one is slave no matter what you do.

is correct i don't understand your problem. I am using all 6 sata slots. 1~4 use my hitachi sata2 x80gb. 5 & 6 hold my data drives.

just connarect any drives u wish to boot to to sta 1&2 or 4&6.

[oqvist]

The problems is the extremely craptacular performance. However it seems to work better now.

I had the problems figuring out with ports is slaves and such? First it appeard to be the lower cases being slaves. It don´t help that it take 5 minutes per cable to change the sata ports either lol.

Anyway will see how it works now. Currently I run the Seagate as slave it seems to do much better at it.

but is there a fix for this RAID/AHCI issue? Can I run raid through some software in windows even if I boot as IDE?

[HoriWanderFuLL]

From my experience with other boards, I stuck some VGA ramsinks on them, before I even turned the board on for the first time

Thanks chosen...are these stuck on addhesive typ.

[|2ed |ey]

is correct i don't understand your problem. I am using all 6 sata slots. 1~4 use my hitachi sata2 x80gb. 5 & 6 hold my data drives.

just connarect any drives u wish to boot to to sta 1&2 or 4&6.

Yup.. I am only using 2drives.. OS drive to Sata 1, and data drive to sata 3.
Works fine for me though.

[SilentGlow]

but is there a fix for this RAID/AHCI issue? Can I run raid through some software in windows even if I boot as IDE?

Shouldn't you first set up raid and then install the system with proper driver (ofc if you want the sys to be on the raid set)? Or at least install raid driver before switching from IDE option in bios (if you want to add a raid set in system)?
Did you try
Intel Matrix Storage Manager - it also contains raid/ahci drivers.

If you did so, then excuse my dumb questions/obvious suggestions

[oqvist]

hmm definiatly worth a shot. Why isn´t the drivers included with the mainboard? Have been there on all previous mainboards I have used lol.

[SilentGlow]

Hmm, I'm almost sure they can be found on commando cd - there's a section "make disk" in which you can prepare driver disk. But I have to check when I get home.

[oqvist]

currently installing my watercooling. I am going to remove the stock chipset cooling but does it use thermal adhesive? It sits really hard is it just pads or do I need to bring the heat gun to the table?

[sreedx2]

currently installing my watercooling. I am going to remove the stock chipset cooling but does it use thermal adhesive? It sits really hard is it just pads or do I need to bring the heat gun to the table?

No I don't think a heat gun is required, they are on there pretty good but you should just be able to pull the whole piece off with your hands just try not to bend it to bad when removing ..

[ZilverPhish]

hmm definiatly worth a shot. Why isn´t the drivers included with the mainboard? Have been there on all previous mainboards I have used lol.

I guess they saved a bunch of money on floppydisks. Go with vista although crappy beta drivers all over it does come with "inbuilt" raid drivers @ install but no fdisk!

just create a floppy on ur 2 computer with the aforementioned driver cd that u did get bundled. But it´s a pita if u don´t happen to own a second system,.

[oqvist]

yeah though I dualboot currently so should be able to fix it somehow.

As for the mainboard it´s definiatly glued on. If I use any more force I will ruin the board. Also thermal adhesive you can´t really clean so I think I will just let it be... Maybe I got a newer or older revision... The only thing that isn´t glued is the mosfets. Those have no thermal paste at all.

[Supershanks]

U did remove the pins?? they barely use any thermal paste wtf would they use thermal adhesive see

[oqvist]

of course I did lol. But yeah the north and south bridge it doesn´t even move a millimetre...

[MF Traum]

NB & SB were pretty hard stuck when I removed them so I used my mom's hairdryer to heat them up. With thin gloves for protection of fingers it was quite easy task to remove them finally with a little twist.