Asus A8r-mvp

[shimmishim]

@ althes, did you have a dfi board before hand?

just curious to see if you have gotten a higher overclock.

i got my board today but I don't think I'll be installing it until tomorrow since I need to redo my watercooling loop.

[althes]

I had the dfi board and could only hit 280 with this board I can hit 300 1:1 no problem at all.
The thing this board really lacks is more mem volts for bh5 sticks.

[althes]

First set back, the board has a bad ide port.
Guess it will have to go back.
At least I know my 200gb hd is not dead, had me real scared.

[jrw]

Anything beyond 300MHz FSB possible?

[althes]

Upon further testing of the board it hates 1t, sometimes it wont even boot up.

[muzz]

Upon further testing of the board it hates 1t, sometimes it wont even boot up.

Well I guess for some folks chasing World records that will steer them away, but I want stability at high clocks, as I will be using my next mobo to replace my POS Ultra-D that continues to have cold boot issues(what good is a mobo that ya have to unplug crap/clear cmos to get it to boot).
I will be running 2x1GB GSkills ( haven't got yet) in it for my HTPC.
I am a bit concerned about the Vcore limitations though.....
It seems Asus doesn't like giving big Vcore to folks..

I can't believe I'm even considering an Asus product tbo, as the flakiest/most unstable board I ever owned was also the most expensive I ever bought....
K7m(original Athy)- Biggest hunk-o-crap i ever owned.

I'll be watching this thread, as I really need to find a fast board that overclocks well, and doesn't have cold boot issues ( unlike the DFI RDx200, I cant believe they have cold boot issues... AGAIN!!)

[STEvil]

I'm really hesistant.. every asus board I have owned has backfired on me.. but this is the only RDX200 board with the ULI chip thats any good probably.. (not going to be bothering with MSI for a while...).

[althes]

Well I guess for some folks chasing World records that will steer them away, but I want stability at high clocks, as I will be using my next mobo to replace my POS Ultra-D that continues to have cold boot issues(what good is a mobo that ya have to unplug crap/clear cmos to get it to boot).
I will be running 2x1GB GSkills ( haven't got yet) in it for my HTPC.
I am a bit concerned about the Vcore limitations though.....
It seems Asus doesn't like giving big Vcore to folks..

I can't believe I'm even considering an Asus product tbo, as the flakiest/most unstable board I ever owned was also the most expensive I ever bought....
K7m(original Athy)- Biggest hunk-o-crap i ever owned.

I'll be watching this thread, as I really need to find a fast board that overclocks well, and doesn't have cold boot issues ( unlike the DFI RDx200, I cant believe they have cold boot issues... AGAIN!!)

The funny thing is the board is really stable.
On the dfi board it took 1.65-1.7 to get my cpu stable at 2700(300*9)
The asus has it stable at 1.50-1.52v (1.55max)
It seem they are using the 2t command so any ram used will be stable.
It is dead on when it says 3.2v
I am testing ocz vx now1gb.
There is no cold boot on this at all.
Finishing up some spuer pi scores after ruuning some 3d benchies with the ocz.
The board is fast and very responsivess.
All in all so far I have to recommend the board as extremely stable with the ability to run crossfire at present its the only board that can do it without a mastercard.

[muzz]

Thanks for the info althes, I appreciate it.
.15-.2volts MORE on the DFI at the same speed?
Anand said it defaults to 2t, but 1T was no problem, have you found this to be true?

Like I said fast, no cold boot, stable.

Pretty simple right?

Thx again althes

m

Edit: Boston Ma ?

I live 20 miles south of Boston

[STEvil]

well, unless a different board comes out between now and when I order this one it looks like this will be my new board for a while.

I blame you if it sucks althes

[flopper]

The board seems rock stable though, all the boots has been by adventure.
No bluescreens or strange behaviours as far.

[LowRun]

Upon further testing of the board it hates 1t, sometimes it wont even boot up.

Same here, i had a hell of a hard time to clock my TCCD sticks, they woudn't do more than 280 1/1 DC and that would be 2T then, but the board makes an overall good impression and playing with bios settings doesn't bring this scrary feeling you have with some boards, anyway, as i was not completely satisfied with the board i went to the shop and switched it for another one that i will soon put to the test and see it performs any better.

[althes]

The updates continue I have switched over to the ocz 3200vx and have gotten 1t to work.

[jinu117]

So far so good on my end with v-mod. Having hard time cracking into dual core 3.1ghz dual prime stable without going over actual 1.7v v-core. Been playing with some memory related thing just in case but no luck yet The board is very stable. I must have ran about 40 hours worth of prime 95 all over the place by now and no BSOD so far.

[Supertim0r]

nice board and cheap solution

Is it a great performer with nvidia cards ?

edit : is it possible to run CF with 2x X800GTO2 with this board ?

[LowRun]

The updates continue I have switched over to the ocz 3200vx and have gotten 1t to work.

Hmmm, then your problems were even worse than mine, first board would have primed even a little tighter timings 1T at those speeds, problems were surfacing around 250-260ish. Don't know if i will be brave enough to test tonight as i didn't sleeped last night but then i also switched my pos Sapphire x1800xl, so it makes it 2 good reasons to get back to testing.

[althes]

Cant wait to see what happens lowrun, I am testing the hell out of it right now, wont be home much tomorrow so my playtime is right now, going to load up some doom on it and see how it goes later this evening.
Running it at 300htt with 133 divider using the ocz 3200vx, going ok so far.
I may just do the vmod, i hope asus does release a bios at least allowing us to go to 1.7

[jinu117]

Not that high htt myself, somewhere around 277-278 mhz I think. Been very stable so far?

[Supertim0r]

is it possible to run 2x X800GTO2 in cross fire ?

[jinu117]

is it possible to run 2x X800GTO2 in cross fire ?

Can someone answer this? Never looked at CF board... it was just get away ticket from DFI for me ;P How do this crossfire thing work anyway? ;P What is this master card thing which really confuses me.

[jrw]

is it possible to run 2x X800GTO2 in cross fire ?

No it is not.

[althes]

The only cards that dont need a mastercard for xfire are the x1300 and x1600.
I dont think the x800gt0 will run cf without a mastercard.
295-300htt is about the highest I can bench at with totally stability and I am running 1t but have to run a divider for my ocz 3200vx at 2/2/2/6.
I am about to try 1.5Gb see if I can get it stable with 4dimms.
All in all its a very stable board if you treat it properly.
Definitely not for world record benches.

[jrw]

The only cards that dont need a mastercard for xfire are the x1300 and x1600.
I dont think the x800gt0 will run cf without a mastercard.
295-300htt is about the highest I can bench at with totally stability and I am running 1t but have to run a divider for my ocz 3200vx at 2/2/2/6.
I am about to try 1.5Gb see if I can get it stable with 4dimms.
All in all its a very stable board if you treat it properly.
Definitely not for world record benches.

Have you tried upping the chipset voltage and apply active cooling on the chip for higher HTT?

[Supertim0r]

dual X800GTO2 in CF would be a killer setup

[saaya]

good news althes and everybody else, nicke^ just did a 5v vdimm feed mod on the p4gd1 with the help of persivore!
since the boards seem to have similar vdimm circuits im sure this mod can be done on the a8r-mvp as well! this mod allows up to 5v vdimm

you need to unsolder a mosfet and do a vdimm mod though:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...t=81795&page=5
(post on the bottom of that thread)