RD600 first look and general questions

[eva2000]

6600 uses a 9 multi as far as I know, 9x500 is 4.5GHZ, is that not enough?

Tony you know the saying, it's never enough

Hope you also will test how 4x1GB overclocking does too on RD600

[Gascogne]

Hope you also will test how 4x1GB overclocking does too on RD600

Nice you read my mind, Tony please try with 4x1Gb ram if you can.

[The Nemesis]

So lets see here

1) 511 FSB at least 4 hours orthos stable (bingo13 was this small/large FTT's or blend?)
2) SLI hacked drivers work
3) Faster in 3D than 680i
4) memory clock is true async
5) up to 1.94 Vcore available
6) vdroop of .006 @ load seen thus far

Seems to be winner for most of us so far. Only Phase users with less than 10 multipliers will be FSB limited.

[metalazzo]

6600 uses a 9 multi as far as I know, 9x500 is 4.5GHZ, is that not enough?

just imagine I have a cascade
or that I have THE golden chip which is awsome with SS
500 is not really enough

[Tony]

just imagine I have a cascade
or that I have THE golden chip which is awsome with SS
500 is not really enough

get a 6800 then

[Tony]

Im pushing 866 4-4-4-12 1T at the moment, infact this is where I installed XP on the raptors so its kinda stable

I had a chat with Oskar earlier, he says i should see over 9001T once I get used to the board. He is pushing for 1000 1T 32M pi stable

1T seems the way to go here with the chipset being a little slower than 975 in 2T.

[Viss]

Ive not seen many E6600 doing over 9x511 on ss phase except for 1M maybe. I think most that would be after the last few mhz only for 1M would pick the faster RD680 board anyway (if that one also does 511).

[bingo13]

So lets see here

1) 511 FSB at least 4 hours orthos stable (bingo13 was this small/large FTT's or blend?)
2) SLI hacked drivers work
3) Faster in 3D than 680i
4) memory clock is true async
5) up to 1.94 Vcore available
6) vdroop of .006 @ load seen thus far

Seems to be winner for most of us so far. Only Phase users with less than 10 multipliers will be FSB limited.

1. Blend, and it made it to 6:53 before giving up the ghost. I need to put a fan on the northbridge I believe. You have to zap the NB with volts to get above 480 or so.

4. 98% true async, a few settings are not available, example, skip from 433 (866) to 435 (870).

[mnemonik23]

bingo13, you wrote you have used 7 images, is that because your RAID got corrupted after locks/reboot as a cause of experiment with OC, OR you see SATA/RAID errors/lockups while running HDD untils (like with current 680i mobos)?

[metalazzo]

get a 6800 then

oh, that's it ?
this mb will rock with 6700 or 6800 that's true
but those cpus are a bit expensive
well, I'll give it a try if I can buy one

[matinez]

Tony you said; I will ask DFI netherlands for stock forcast tomorrow.

Any information about that?
Do we realy have to wait till Feb?

[Tony]

I forgot to ask, but a tech rep from DFI Netherlands did post in this thread quoting new year so lets wait and see.

[Trice]

New Year? I'm afraid I can't wait that long.

[hipro5]

Droop

Idle 1.596
load 1.590

under nature 3d01, Orthos is crashing the board here. (feels like a code issue) All 3d at this time has been fine.

Orthos is crashing ABIT AW9D-MAX as well but noone want's to bellieve and as many times as I told them, that it might be a program's error and not mobo's error.....They can do everything but when they come with Orthos, it crashes.....

[matinez]

New Year? I'm afraid I can't wait that long.

Remember; Asus Commando, P965, abit IN9 32X-MAX nF680

Both will launch in January.

Nice start of the new year, but ok I also want a DFI RD600 NOW

[The Nemesis]

1. Blend, and it made it to 6:53 before giving up the ghost. I need to put a fan on the northbridge I believe. You have to zap the NB with volts to get above 480 or so.

4. 98% true async, a few settings are not available, example, skip from 433 (866) to 435 (870).

I'm sold! Time to get rid of the Evga 680i

[Tony]

Gettin around 64ns latency in Everest at 900 4-4-4-4-12 1T, how does that compare with i680?

Anyone got any results to compare too?

[eva2000]

Orthos is crashing ABIT AW9D-MAX as well but noone want's to bellieve and as many times as I told them, that it might be a program's error and not mobo's error.....They can do everything but when they come with Orthos, it crashes.....

try good old prime95 v24.14 dual instances instead.. i have to revert to this when testing 4x1GB as orthos for winxp pro sp2 32bit only seems to allow allocating a max 1GB per process even with /3GB switch, while prime95 v24.14 allows full use of 3GB usable by windows apps.

[Revv23]

Hey tony, will those timings in 1T get any tighter? 900mhz 3-3-3 would be a golden bench setting.

In 1t will it beat 975 in super pi?

I AM one of those super pi people.

[Tony]

Timings for 900 1T, 8000VX BTW

[Tony]

Hey tony, will those timings in 1T get any tighter? 900mhz 3-3-3 would be a golden bench setting.

In 1t will it beat 975 in super pi?

I AM one of those super pi people.

Fatty may do 3-3-3 at 900 1T, this newer D9 has no chance i feel.

Im getting 4010MB/s in memtest86+ at 900 4-4-3-4-12 but its just not quite stable

[hipro5]

6600 uses a 9 multi as far as I know, 9x500 is 4.5GHZ, is that not enough?

No....Some of them play with cascades or LN2....

Though I think that we will need more income from the owners themshelves when they buy it coz your CPU might do 511MHz MAX and mine can do 552MHz max.....So maybe the chipset could handle/work at 552MHz fsb if our CPU could do it...... Only time will tell though....
BTW, have you tried this CPU on a P5B-Deluxe to see how high fsb is reaching?....

[EnJoY]

What's the word on max FSB improving with new bios revisions?

[Trice]

Remember; Asus Commando, P965, abit IN9 32X-MAX nF680

Both will launch in January.

Nice start of the new year, but ok I also want a DFI RD600 NOW

Ive been without my desktop since October......I have a 628B 660 sitting here as well as 2 GB of RAM, and all I need is a MB!! I just want to run 3.6 and RAID 0!

[EnJoY]

Ive been without my desktop since October......I have a 628B 660 sitting here as well as 2 GB of RAM, and all I need is a MB!! I just want to run 3.6 and RAID 0!

You coulda been on just about any higher end 965P or i975 and had that.