Asus M4a79 deluxe up close and personal

[chew*]

board is on the bench and running now guys.....Gonna toss a few sets of ram at it.....initial impressions is I lost a little cpu wise, gained a little ram wise..gonna try with NB up next.

[gOtVoltage]

What vdimm are ure running for 600mhz and how is the Nbvolts treating da 955 ..

Just curiouse ,,
since you dont have the Nb cranked yet ,,

The 1200mhz + on the Ram already has the numbers up vs using 800mhz. Looks good.

Air? You just seeing what it likes to eat for a snack. 1.55v

[izallica]

I'd say that any tower design cooler that got a mounting system that let you tmount it in any direction is your best bet.
A TRUE will cover the two closest ram slots, that i can say for sure. Take a look at today's top rated sinks, and then take a look at their mounting system and see which one is the most flexible, in terms of mounting direction.

The NB sink should not interfere with any of today's well known coolers, the RAM is the the only problem afaik.

Regarding the CM Z600, too me it looks like a bad choice, as it will most likely interfere with the RAM no matter the direction you mount it.

Ok thanks,
So what your cpu cooler, bro ?

[chew*]

What vdimm are ure running for 600mhz and how is the Nbvolts treating da 955 ..

Just curiouse ,,
since you dont have the Nb cranked yet ,,

The 1200mhz + on the Ram already has the numbers up vs using 800mhz. Looks good.

Air? You just seeing what it likes to eat for a snack. 1.55v

Nah this board has droop chip likes 1.525 so compensating. 2.1 volts for ram....I just nailed a sick 1m for air so close to 15's its not funny, this chip has a weak NB though

Boards still flaky as far a cpu clocking goes though....inconsistent, one minute it fine next minute it wont even boot.......

[chew*]

Ehh some more stuff....

This one is stable for the most part Wprime is still giving me a hard time....Usualy can not boot above 1.525 with this chip......It takes 1.5875 to do this on this board and boots......



Then I just played around a little bit......gonna toss the cellshocks in next as I had major isues with them on this board prior ( would not pull rated and sticks are not to blame )

[chew*]

OK now things are getting interesting.......I'm starting to actually like this board again.....If asus can get it more consistent...this board will be a sure contender again.....

My cellshocks actually work now.......rated volts.....rated timings...no tweaking ram settings.....



overvolted .1 still easy mode.....rated timings no tweaking

[chew*]

This wraps up cellshock testing.....

[gOtVoltage]

Seems to be pretty solid for DDR2.


That Bios looks decent clock and Piwise.


Does it keep consistant Voltage settings when changing HTT up and Down.?

Ive seen some Bioses actually drop the cpuVCORE almost .1-2volt when a certain CPUx and HTTx is reached.

It would prevent booting some of the time but still boot Most of the time.


If or when it fails a boot (Check the Cpuvcore In Bios harware monitor). Ive run accross many ASUS bioses for ACC?even when not enabled,, drop volts after being set.

Usually happens when you raise HTT above stock and are above 1.45vcore.

Its like the htt and some volt ranges may conflict.

Many ASUS mobos are also know for this,,
When you set CPU@ say 13x300 for 3900mhz and is sets 5000mhz . Wouldnt mind if i had Ln2 when that happens.

[chew*]

Yah i'm familiar with the bugs this board has......problem is vcore is all over the place even with a damn good PSU so it makes for inconsitent benching....

Anyway My favorite sticks that cost $50 wanted to give the $200 gskills a run for there money

These win my bang for buck award......

Wayyyyyyy over rated specs for stability testing they can do 1200 but I was just settling on a cpu speed that I know will pass all tests.....





Couldn't get the NB to play nice over 3000 or I would have had sub 16's

[gOtVoltage]

Unreal clocks man thats all i can say,,those budget rams OMG

[Lastviking]

Yah i'm familiar with the bugs this board has......problem is vcore is all over the place even with a damn good PSU so it makes for inconsitent benching....

Anyway My favorite sticks that cost $50 wanted to give the $200 gskills a run for there money

These win my bang for buck award......

Wayyyyyyy over rated specs for stability testing they can do 1200 but I was just settling on a cpu speed that I know will pass all tests.....

What is max mhz you can run with that cpu on air in 3dmark2006?(all cores same mhz). And yes my board is undervolting much with air to, but its beter when the vcore goes up and using LN2 instead of air.

One more thing what is you +12v line in bios?.. mine is 11.5v but i dont trust it... i have tested with 3 Corsair PSU all make about 11.5-11.6v in bios hardware monitor.

[chew*]

What is max mhz you can run with that cpu on air in 3dmark2006?(all cores same mhz). And yes my board is undervolting much with air to, but its beter when the vcore goes up and using LN2 instead of air.

One more thing what is you +12v line in bios?.. mine is 11.5v but i dont trust it... i have tested with 3 Corsair PSU all make about 11.5-11.6v in bios hardware monitor.

4070 seems to be max it will 3d according to above testing.....I ran cpu test in all the test suites......if I can pass cpu test I'm golden.....mind you i'm not on my TRUE 120 atm. This is just my modded Xigamatek with my sanyo denki.

My 12V line reads higher....Using PC P@C however......tell you exact readout on a few....when I reboot.....

Board sux to use on LN2......the voltage regualtion is horrid......there is a voltage hole as well......at a certain point it jumps over a .050 volt range and starts overvolting up to .075v, droop doesn't bother me....as long as the voltage applied sticks......when it has a mind of its own that bothers me.....

[chew*]

Nothing special here just another set of ram I tossed in doing over rated stable.....

This should wrap this up as it seems I've run out of ram......

Yes gary I am a ddr II whore I still need to get myself a nice set of blades

[chew*]

Last viking my readings with my 750 W silencer......

If I used my turbo cools the readings would be higher.....

12v line 12.098
5v line 4.945
3.3v line 3.384

[FlanK3r]

omg.....with AIR impressive

16.063s 1M

nice clock CPU, RAMs, NB


maybe with buspeed 225-228 and NB multi 13x? Or try diferent RAMs (1066MHz moduls) and busspeed 210-215 and NB mlutiplier 14x?

[wesleys_dad]

chew,
I have a question for you...on the first set of benches your everest scores for read and write are like 1700 apart but on later benches they are very close...what settings do you tweak to get write higher and more equal to the read bench ....it seems to me that i used to have closer scores using the same hard drives that i have now...
mine are like 2000 apart an as i remember they used to be a few hundred apart...
i even reinstalled vista on a single raptor 36gig and the benches are close to the same as on my raid 0 setup....just kinda curious .....
maybe it was on my abit ax78 but i know they were closer....my son and i who is 15 have bench offs and i hate looseing to him as we both run the same type of rigs....lol

[chew*]

chew,
I have a question for you...on the first set of benches your everest scores for read and write are like 1700 apart but on later benches they are very close...what settings do you tweak to get write higher and more equal to the read bench ....it seems to me that i used to have closer scores using the same hard drives that i have now...
mine are like 2000 apart an as i remember they used to be a few hundred apart...
i even reinstalled vista on a single raptor 36gig and the benches are close to the same as on my raid 0 setup....just kinda curious .....
maybe it was on my abit ax78 but i know they were closer....my son and i who is 15 have bench offs and i hate looseing to him as we both run the same type of rigs....lol

That would most likely be the NB speeds........In the first round of benches they were near default speeds.

Make sure the board did not drop it down to stock.........This board and the ddr III board both have a bug where when pushed hard they will drop your NB clock down to stock.......The fix is to drop the nb down a notch, reboot then bring it back up and reboot....

Really annoying bug, not as bad as the ddr III board though, that drops vcore settings to when it feels like it also.......

[wez]

Last viking my readings with my 750 W silencer......

If I used my turbo cools the readings would be higher.....

12v line 12.098
5v line 4.945
3.3v line 3.384

My +12 and +5v reads a bit low in bios (3.3v is fine), but stays over 12v and 5v if measured externally. This is on a 700w tagan.
I actually ordered another PSU yesterday, so will get back with results if the readout changes.

Edit: I'm such a liar, it is my +3.3 and +5v that reads a bit low, not +12.

[leeuk]

Just got this board all going good so far

Can someone tell me is it cpu dependent on how far you can push the northbridge or is it to do with the motherboard i can not seem to get over 2800 mhz but i have seen some at 3000 mhz ?

[chew*]

CPU and motherboard dependant......you will not get 3000 stable on air....You might get it stable in a particular bench.......thats about all.

[leeuk]

It was Hondaguy off here i saw who had his Northbridge at over 3000mhz mine will post at that speed then just crash

there's a new bios out by the way on the ftp v1702

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so.../M4A79_Deluxe/

[chew*]

It was Hondaguy off here i saw who had his Northbridge at over 3000mhz mine will post at that speed then just crash

there's a new bios out by the way on the ftp v1702

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so.../M4A79_Deluxe/

sometimes cpu speed must be sacrifced for NB speed. Try it at stock cpu speeds and I bet 3000 is a cinch......

I'll stick with this bios till I see a change log

[wez]

It was Hondaguy off here i saw who had his Northbridge at over 3000mhz mine will post at that speed then just crash

there's a new bios out by the way on the ftp v1702

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so.../M4A79_Deluxe/

2800 was my max prime stable on air, but its a no go now with the summer heat, it was on the edge before


BIOS 1702
1. Support new CPUs. Please refer to our website at: http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx
2. Support H/W C1E function only for AM3 Athlon II X2 family4 CPUs.

[afireinside]

Man they can't stop pumping out BIOSes for this thing...

Anyone ever have their CPU fan STOP? The other day I BSOD'd (at stock speeds) and rebooted to see FAN ERROR PRESS F1 or whatever it says. Got back into windows and by the time I opened hw monitor my CPU was still at 79C. Apparently the fan decided to stop spinning... I have it set as a DC fan in the BIOS control setup.

[soundood]

im sticking with 1602 for now, all i can see is new CPU support



shamon, wooo hooo, WHO'S BAD?