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

[soundood]

Dang...the second outrage that happened on Saturday 4/18 deleted all our posts since last week. Dang it....

Okay, would the person that supposedly sent me his X2 3800+ please PM me again...the outtage last Saturday erased all my PM communications with this user and now I don't remember what his username was. Thanks...

hi there PM sent, how bizzare with the outage...lol, all my PM's are gone as well,

but i bet a lot of users on here could forget Soundood so easily lol, speak soon

[Brother Esau]

WOW NEVER LOOKED AT THIS THREAD BEFORE BUT mOTHERBOARDS ON cRAPET SEEMS KINDA RISKY

[CannonFodder]

Does anyone know if the Bios versions after 1303 offer a memory divider between 133 and 166? That would be very helpful for me now.

[QuietIce]

IIRC there weren't any new memory dividers added to the official BIOS - no 3:4 ratio if that's what you're asking. IDK about unofficial ones (if any), I never use them.

What are you clocking that you'd need the 150 divider ...?

[jcniest5]

Where's everyone? Anyone still enjoying this board?

[PaganII]

I still use mine as my main online gaming computer with a single 260SC and headphones.
Single player and Flight Sim is in sig.

[QuietIce]

I'm still using five of them for individual computers around the house - mine, my wife's, two for the grandkids, and a file server. All five still crunch SETI 24/7 as well ...

[jcniest5]

Long Live the King of S939 Mobo!

[jcniest5]

Since I got mine free from a very generous gentleman off another site, I intend to keep it for life...it's more like a present to me. If I ever sold it, I will send 1/2 of the money back to him.

[fbmbirds]

im using this board with a amd fx-60 overclocked to about 3.2 ghz. 4 gigs of ram and 2 geforce 8800gts 320mb video cards watercooled.

so heres the thing. i want to put some spunk back into this old girl. so what would be the best upgrade for this system besides a new build. i was thinking a new video card. but would a new video card bottleneck the system?

go to this thread to see what my usual overclock looks like and please tell my the best route to go. i just dont want to spend alot of money and build a new computer im waiting about 4 years to build another http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=451552

[fbmbirds]

im using this board with a amd fx-60 overclocked to about 3.2 ghz. 4 gigs of ram and 2 geforce 8800gts 320mb video cards watercooled.

so heres the thing. i want to put some spunk back into this old girl. so what would be the best upgrade for this system besides a new build. i was thinking a new video card. but would a new video card bottleneck the system?

go to this thread to see what my usual overclock looks like and please tell my the best route to go. i just dont want to spend alot of money and build a new computer im waiting about 4 years to build another http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=451552

[richierich]

I don't think this mobo can handle socket 940 processors.

[QuietIce]

Oops! I'll delete my post - thought I was in the M3A32 thread and I really should have known better since he was talking about an FX-60. Need more coffee ...

[fbmbirds]

well guys i found a good deal online for geforce 250 gts 2gb for 100 bucks. so i bought 2 of them,
so do you think these will run ok with this board and a fx-60 overclocked to 3.2ghz. and 4 gigs of ram.

[[XC] Oj101]

You've sort of future proofed your graphics cards but I really think you're going to be bottlenecked unfortunately I hope I'm wrong though.

[fbmbirds]

do you think waterblocks from a geforce 8800gts will work on these cards?

[BeepBeep2]

No, and you probably won't see an improvement with the new cards. Your CPU is a bottleneck. I ran a 5600+ @ 3.4 and I know it's a bottleneck. I was running a 4850 and frame rates skyrocketed when I got my Phenom II 965. You were better off with a new motherboard and CPU. Those 8800 GTS weren't too bad in SLI...

You are running a way overkill PSU, way overkill GPU's, CM HAF932?, 4 gigs ram and a slow as heck CPU+RAM. Not really slow as heck but nowadays...it's about 1/8th the performance of a stock 1055T.

[fbmbirds]

yea i wanted the new cards becuase of the memory. my geforce cards are only 320mb ram. im thinking about building a quick rig around those two cards i just bought. any ideas. all i need is a cpu motherboard and some ram

[QuietIce]

You can go cheap and run an Athlon II 630 in a cheapie AM2+ board with DDR2 RAM ($250) or you can go hog-wild (for an AMD system ) and run a 1090T, Crosshair IV, and DDR3-2000 RAM ($700). What's you're price range, maybe we can narrow that down ...?

[fbmbirds]

i think im going with this.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814134098
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103846
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231277
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131636
hopefully i can unlock the 2 cores on that cpu and overclock it. i have a good watercooled set up right now so every thing will fall into place.

i think this is a good 500 upgrade of a system compared to the one i have now in my sig.

[fbmbirds]

Also im getting 2 of the memory and 2 of the video cards. i have my 850w power supply and a good case for this. ill just use my old system for well ill use it for what ever. its still a good old 2006 system.

[QuietIce]

i think im going with this.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814134098
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103846
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231277
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131636
hopefully i can unlock the 2 cores on that cpu and overclock it. i have a good watercooled set up right now so every thing will fall into place.

i think this is a good 500 upgrade of a system compared to the one i have now in my sig.

Personally, I'd spend a little more for CAS 7 RAM or, if you can't afford it, go with DDR3-1333 CAS 7 RAM. With AMD it's almost always better to run tight timings than fast speeds.

I would also suggest an AMD chipset over nVidia. The 790X chipsets have a great OC'ing history and cost about the same. nVidia has definitely fallen behind over the past two generations (AM2 & AM3) when it comes to OC'ing. I do admit, though, you cannot run SLI with an AMD chipset but a single nVidia card is fine ...

[fbmbirds]

yea but the thing is i wanted to base a build around those 2 cheap cards. when you start going bigger you go BIG and before you know it the shopping chart has over 1500 dollars worth of parts in it. i just wanted to spend around 500 bucks for the main parts i have every thing else. so i think these parts will hopefully do fine. i mean i cant complain right now with the build i have. i built it back in 2006 it was almost top of the line back then. i can still play all the new games but my cpu just bottlenecks my system and i cant play the games at a max setting. well i hope this goes well. btw the cpu will be watercooled and overclocked hopefully unlocked if im lucky.

[BeepBeep2]

You can get 50% better ram for $30 more though...that ram sucks.

Buy this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231279

[fbmbirds]

i didnt even see those. the cas is 7. well its to late i already bought 8gbs