Sapphire Pure Innovation (PI-A9RX480)

[SmokeyTheBandit]

Hi yesterday i bought the Sapphire Pure Innovation thinking it could be my solution to the DFI headaches.

But unfortunatley i cant get my board past 9x 250.
The Ultrad booted straigt up into windows at 9x 307 without a single glitch, so i know the cpu can handle it.
I reduced the memory divider to the lowest (100) but still i cannot boot past 250 ....
I also messed with the latencys/voltages but it was a waste of time.

My system specs :

X2 4400+
G-Skill 2 GB Kit PC 3200
XFX 7800 GTX Extreme
Silverstone 650 Watt Zeus PSU

But the DFI nF4s had some problems with the first bios revisions so i hope this will be resolved on a very short term

[Afterburner]

Smokey......remember to set the NB HT PLL Control option to Manual and select High Speed while leaving the Stability Calibration alone followed by the other settings you used and remember patience is of the essence when playin with a new mobo .......



Mine's doin 305 HTT so there are no issues thus far xept for the RAMs portion.....

[SmokeyTheBandit]

Allright thx will try this tonight

Did you encounter the same "limits" without changing the NB PLL default settings ?

[Afterburner]

Allright thx will try this tonight

Did you encounter the same "limits" without changing the NB PLL default settings ?

Yes I did.....

[split]

I see saffire have made more software avaliable on their site.

There is links to it in this thread by Coolasmoo here

Northbridge looks a bit warm though.

[Revv23]

that ati systems manager is amazing, well done ati, id like to see the mem tweaker, if its got everything a64 tweaker does it could have killed the need for me to have any of those tools at all.

[Grayskull]

It has most of the settings of the A64 tweaker. It also can show you the contents of the memory's SPD. At some point there will be an update with more features and should obsolete the need for any other platform tool.

that ati systems manager is amazing, well done ati, id like to see the mem tweaker, if its got everything a64 tweaker does it could have killed the need for me to have any of those tools at all.

[Sushi1976]

New Bios for Sapphire pure PI-A9RX480

http://www.sapphiretech.com/en/suppo...s_viewlist.php


Sushi

[SnipingWaste]

Grayskull can you find out why ther are no TUL mother boards here in the US? Newegg had them but looks like only one shipment and that was it. Theres no full ATX bullhead mobo in the US but only mATX, why?

Sorry for the OT.

[Hybrid]

So is it safe to assume Sapphire will support their boards well? LAst hting i want is a board with few bios updates during its lifespan.

[Revv23]

so when will we see this in USA?

[Afterburner]

New Bios for Sapphire pure PI-A9RX480

http://www.sapphiretech.com/en/suppo...s_viewlist.php


Sushi

Thanx......

[Sushi1976]

Thanx......

Did you already flasht the new Bios and did test? Are there any changes?

Sushi

[ken]

Can you guys with the board test and see how high the HTT can go?
cheers

[Afterburner]

Did you already flasht the new Bios and did test? Are there any changes?

Sushi

I see no visible changes and strangely though its an update, Sapphire dated the Bios same as the stock one which is 26/09/05.......

[G-Man]

Just got myself one of these boards with my new opteron 144 system, having a nightmare setting it up though!

this is my first a64 system so not 100% sure on all the settings.

So far the best overclock i can get is by just upping the mem voltage to 3.4, NB HT PLL to high speed and setting the cpu to 250 leaving everything running 1:1. that gives me 2250 at 250 FSB stable. I've got 2 x 512 winbond UTT by the way, not touched the timings as yet.

So, i figure first thing first, i should find the CPU limit. So, set CPU FID to 9x CPU VID to 1.55, CPU HTT ref to 265. To keep RAM limits out of the equation for now, and not fully understanding alot of the settings, I set the following:

memclock index value: 100 (Is this the memory divider? Just figured I'd set it to lowest for now)

LDT & PCI bus control: 200 (What is this? Is this the HT multiplier? again just figured i'd set to lowest for now)

NB - SB Port config: tried both default and enhanced (anyone know what this does?)

These settings resulted in no boot. I had to clear the cmos to get the board to boot, however the exact same settings botted fine at 250. Really confused on this when i have set everything else to lowest.

Can anyone offer some suggestions on what im doing wrong? I did also try upping the ATI chipset voltages but it did'nt seem to make any difference. still no boot. I know these CPUs don't top out till well over 300 x 9 so why do I get no boot with my RAM on a divider?

Any help much appreciated!

[Bar81]

Alright, this is just fing ridiculous. Any stores anywhere that have this in stock and ship to the US?

[biohead]

holland, €180 x 1,19 = $215

[Afterburner]

memclock index value: 100 (Is this the memory divider? Just figured I'd set it to lowest for now)

yes this is the Memory Divider.

LDT & PCI bus control: 200 (What is this? Is this the HT multiplier? again just figured i'd set to lowest for now)

yes this is the HT Multiplier.

NB - SB Port config: tried both default and enhanced (anyone know what this does?)

am not sure myself but leave this @ default till we receive enlightment from the Wise ones


- Set the LDT Bus to 600
- Ensure NB HT PLL @ High Speed at all times
- Set Overclockin attempts to Three
- Turn Off AMD 'Cool n Quiet'
- Set RAMs to Manual, 133mhz, 2, 5, 2, 2, 2, 8, 10, 4, 133mhz 7.8us, 1 bus clock, 2 bus clocks, Manual, 1T, 5.5ns, 7ns, 8, Disabled, 16 Cycles, 4, Not Reduced, Disabled, Normal Drive, Enabled, Enabled, Nominal, Enabled, 4 beats, Continous, Disabled, 2.90v , 0.0%
- Leave all NB and Chipset voltage @ default

[Afterburner]

Here's the thing dude.......this mobo from the info I got is designed to be swtiched off then turned back on after Bios changes are made. Weird I know but what I practice is using the Reset button instead so bear this in mind. Continue to set the FID x 9 and CPU Vcore @ 1.55v and then start playin with the HTT once the above settings have been changed. Remember that this mobo wont boot at times so you will have to hit Reset and it will boot Overclocked. Use CPU-Z to verify this. You can refer to the Bios pics I posted to guide urself. Cheers......

[G-Man]

Thanks for the reply. about to give those settings a go.

When you say turn it off though, how do you mean exactly? Do you go to save setings and exit, then once it saves and does'nt boot you hit reset? I don't have a reset botton my lian li v2000.

[alpha0ne]

Hey 'burner why have'nt you plopped an Opty in this board yet ??

[Afterburner]

Thanks for the reply. about to give those settings a go.

When you say turn it off though, how do you mean exactly? Do you go to save setings and exit, then once it saves and does'nt boot you hit reset? I don't have a reset botton my lian li v2000.

No prob Yes thats what I mean but oh bummer you dont have a reset Button You could try turning the system off and on instead. Note: If you are turning the unit on and off multiple times, it would be a good thing diconnecting the HDD first to avoid straining it

[Afterburner]

Hey 'burner why have'nt you plopped an Opty in this board yet ??

Coz I dont have one coz I am no longer in the Armed Forces so I can no longer keep up the Hardware expenditure and not to mention the pay-per-hour here SUX big-time so the Grouper is basically my last purchase till Jan 2007

[G-Man]

OK, yeah see what you mean after having a little play with it. If it does'nt boot, turning on and off twice always seems to bring it back. It just turns the overclock settings back to auto.

Got a little higher with your settings, but now stuck at a less than impressive 270 HTT with just 2432 mhz on the CPU. The CPU can do this at default volts, its not even breaking a sweat. Any ideas why its not going any higher? What HTT are you running out of interest?

I did try upping the chipset volts but it made no difference.

thanks