!UPDATE! abit AW9D-Max (retail) arrived

[Rubiconx3]

Mine wont boot over 420..... tried everything, three different bios, all the volt options everything.....

[Phil The Greek]

Try also PCI Latency = 128 OR 255.....

Didn't make any diference

[NicoOCZ]

Oh is that why my oveclock wasnt the same. With 1.2 my TRFC was 28 and stable @ 400fsb. If i do 40 and above i can get more of an overclock?

Maybe ... that's why I'd love to see you try it

Hazzan: Good job mate

[Rubiconx3]

Maybe ... that's why I'd love to see you try it

Hazzan: Good job mate

I tried it at 45 and at 40 nothing different. My board wont boot over 420 no matter what i do

[Booj]

Hi everyone. Here are my results with the AW9D-MAX w/ bios 1.2 with a TT big Typhoon

24/7 stable settings 410x8


Highest FSB without going over the top with volts and temps 434x8

I got this with 1.88v vMCH and and some 12cm fan doing about 4000rpm pointing straight at the NB. I took off the little max plate off the heatsinks, no doubt this improves airflow.

I gotta say this board rocks, I have had zero problems with it so far. Having said that, My 6400 can go higher, but I will wait for a RD600 board

[Revv23]

There's no secret......Only the mod for the Northbridge - a wire soldered on the back of the mobo - , some capacitors here and there, AND a heatsink on the Northbridge chipset - Swiftech with a Delta fan 4 x 4 cm 10000 rpms.......

Haha thats the same SB sink you used on your IC7-G isnt it? That thing will never die.

Cmon hipro if you can get 400FSB on i875 then 500FSB on 975 should be no problem for you!!!~

[clone38]

Wohoo got my 4GHz.

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=131284

Cant get it prime stable

Cpu core volt 1.6v
Ram volt 2.35
MCH 1.5V

Getting there as a couple of days ago i cound`nt get 4ghz to boot

[hipro5]

Haha thats the same SB sink you used on your IC7-G isnt it? That thing will never die.

Cmon hipro if you can get 400FSB on i875 then 500FSB on 975 should be no problem for you!!!~

Yes the same....Also on Dothan too.....

To be honest, I didn't try "hard" for the 500MHz fsb......I'll do one of these days....

[VoRtAn_MaDgE]

Yes the same....Also on Dothan too.....

To be honest, I didn't try "hard" for the 500MHz fsb......I'll do one of these days....

Tell us the add-ons and i will try the 500mhz on the weekend
cheers m8

Go grab those last mhz

[Ultrazauberer]

Argh, time for time this board began to suck. It won't boot over 425 MHz FSB and just 400 MHz FSB I can't get orthos blend stable. Really crap. No mods done on this board, but I tried all BIOS and all necessary voltage and speed options.

No way, can't get it stable. Additional fans are on the NB, won't helpt to reach higher FSB. I can test if it is useful to put water on the NB. But I don't think so. Sorry, but I'm fed up with this board. I bought it because I thought it is the best board for my E6600, but now I have to look for an Asus (cold boot issue and no mounting holes on the NB, but I hope, I can use the stock fan).

Does anyone has an idea to boost up my Abit AW9D Max before I sell it?

[Zucker2k]

Argh, time for time this board began to suck. It won't boot over 425 MHz FSB and just 400 MHz FSB I can't get orthos blend stable. Really crap. No mods done on this board, but I tried all BIOS and all necessary voltage and speed options.

No way, can't get it stable. Additional fans are on the NB, won't helpt to reach higher FSB. I can test if it is useful to put water on the NB. But I don't think so. Sorry, but I'm fed up with this board. I bought it because I thought it is the best board for my E6600, but now I have to look for an Asus (cold boot issue and no mounting holes on the NB, but I hope, I can use the stock fan).

Does anyone has an idea to boost up my Abit AW9D Max before I sell it?

I say wait till next bios release.

[fhpchris]

Argh, time for time this board began to suck. It won't boot over 425 MHz FSB and just 400 MHz FSB I can't get orthos blend stable. Really crap. No mods done on this board, but I tried all BIOS and all necessary voltage and speed options.

No way, can't get it stable. Additional fans are on the NB, won't helpt to reach higher FSB. I can test if it is useful to put water on the NB. But I don't think so. Sorry, but I'm fed up with this board. I bought it because I thought it is the best board for my E6600, but now I have to look for an Asus (cold boot issue and no mounting holes on the NB, but I hope, I can use the stock fan).

Does anyone has an idea to boost up my Abit AW9D Max before I sell it?

I would not be suprized if it is just your cpu walling.

[Nettwerk]

I would not be suprized if it is just your cpu walling.

heh my super E6600 L628B121 cpu walls a 375fsb on my board.

New board next month

[SLi_dog]

First to 5Ghz on the AW9D-MAX?




The time is slow as bat I know but I'm just proud I managed to complete the 32M run.

[Deke]

I'm running an Asus 7950GX2 on this board with BIOS 1.2. The problem is, CPU-Z is reporting the PCIe link width as X8 instead of X16. Anyone have an idea how to get this thing into X16 mode?

[shimmishim]

I'm running an Asus 7950GX2 on this board with BIOS 1.2. The problem is, CPU-Z is reporting the PCIe link width as X8 instead of X16. Anyone have an idea how to get this thing into X16 mode?

i think this is going to happen with this card.

i can't remember what page it's on but there's a discussion about this.

[shimmishim]

well.... 24 hours later and i'm still fighting with this board...

so far i've been able to do 7 hours orthos blend at 10 x 365 with the 4:5 ratio

1.45 vcore
2.20 vdimm
1.70 vmch


i was also able to do small fft 9 x 412 1:1 or ~3708 for 7 hours as well

1.50 vcore
2.20 vdimm
1.75 vmch

i tried doing blend with these settings and i errored out w/in 5 minutes.

i've determined orthos/dual prime to fail at either 3 minutes, 5 minutes or 10 minutes.

anyone else notice that instance of prime/orthos does about 3 iterations before the other instance does the 2nd one?

maybe it's just my board.

i've also played with moving the mem around the slots.

i was using the blue - blue configuration but whenever orthos/prime would fail, i'd get a blue screen

then i tried blue-black configuration and it'd get an error instead of blue screening.

tried black-black and got the same thing (error rather than blue screen).

so after 24 hours, 10 x 365 4:5 is as stable as this board will get.

[Madellga]

I'm running an Asus 7950GX2 on this board with BIOS 1.2. The problem is, CPU-Z is reporting the PCIe link width as X8 instead of X16. Anyone have an idea how to get this thing into X16 mode?

All 79050GX2 cards will give you the same. The other 8x is used "inside" the card to link the 2 GPUs. The "thing" connecting the 2 cards is a PCIex bridge (8x).

This is why a 7950GX2 SLI setup requires just 1 SLI bridge. On the 7900GX both GPUs had access to the PCIex, that's why it shows 16x - on the other hand, it required 2 SLI bridges.

[Ultrazauberer]

I would not be suprized if it is just your cpu walling.

Why do you think my CPU is walling? It's running great: 3,8 GHz @ 1,55V-1,57V tested for 3 hours orthos small ftt. So I don't think my CPU is walling, it's the board. Also 3,6 GHz @ 1,5V are 6,5 h orthos small ftt stable. How can I find out if my cpu is blocking?

Sorry, but this board is annoying me!

[Nettwerk]

shimmishim, try running regular prime95 instead of orthos.

[shimmishim]

shimmishim, try running regular prime95 instead of orthos.

i'm using stressprime. i'll switch it up and try regular prime when i get home this afternoon from work.

thanks.

[crotale]

First to 5Ghz on the AW9D-MAX?

The time is slow as bat I know but I'm just proud I managed to complete the 32M run.

Not first (http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=119338), but very nice to see some high benching numbers on the AW9. What week is that CPU?

You should try running the 11x or 12x, and maybe 4:5 aswell

[dinos22]

Not first (http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=119338), but very nice to see some high benching numbers on the AW9. What week is that CPU?

You should try running the 11x or 12x, and maybe 4:5 aswell

ID ERROR on the link

[SLi_dog]

Not first (http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=119338), but very nice to see some high benching numbers on the AW9. What week is that CPU?

You should try running the 11x or 12x, and maybe 4:5 aswell

D'oh, that was more than a month ago too . Nice one crotale . First in southern hemisphere maybe??? ha ha.

CPU is week 26.

ID ERROR on the link

Delete the bracket at the end of the web address.

[mykeos]

what coolin' were you using SLI_dog?My x68 is also a week 26,so I'm hoping for simmilar results when my mobo arrives Please,could you share the whole CPU batch number with us?