Retail Abit IN9 32X-MAX - Pictures, observations and testing...

[OKsoVRomoSkylo]

might sound silly but have you plugged all the power cons
to the mb and graphics card(s)?
have you double checked your disk-cd-floppy cables?
have u tried all sorts of resets?

[speedfreak86]

Okay, last night I played around and got 3.6ghz stable, then I said, what the hay we'll go for 3.75. So, I got it booted to windows, but never could get more than a few minutes orthos stable. So, I just gave up, reset everything to the old standby 3.375 ghz and rebooted. I left this running and played a game before hitting the hay. Well, this morning I come in and do some stuff and reboot. Gets to the Windows with the moving bar, and restarts. After playing around, I cannot get it to boot to windows now at 3.375. I can have my memory adjusted way down and it still won't even at higher voltages than what I had been running. Anyone got any clue as to why it would all the sudden refuse to boot to settings that are as stable as what I was seeing (24 hours orthos)?

[MikeMK]

Strange, Ive been having similar problems. Been trying to squeeze 4ghz out of my X6800. Got it pi32m stable and then ran out of time. Left it, came back later and booted up the PC to carry on - do some orthos testing, 3dmark etc just to finalise it... no go... couldnt even get it 8m stable! Hadnt changed a thing, just wouldnt play ball.
In the end i cleared cmos and set everything back to stock and then went and put it all back to where it was, and bam... it worked again. Weird.

[speedfreak86]

Sounds similar, only, even after resetting the cmos and going back, it is a no go. I am on here right now at 2.4ghz cause I can't get anything else to be reliable. I am getting random hangs if I do get into windows but mostly a failure to boot. And, Uguru isn't working. Really strange stuff. Maybe a corrupted operating system?


EDIT: I repaired the windows install and uninstalled and reinstalled Uguru and Presto chango...everything is on the level once again.

[JargonGR]

I guess my E6600 @3.7GHZ stable since I bought the board (about a month ago) is not that bad after all I read.

But I am sure I could go higher with a better CPU since this is the limit for it no matter what. It did 3.6GHZ with 1.45v on air (nothing more on air) but needs 1.625 to do 3.7ghz on water and anything above (3.75Ghz did not test in between) is not stable in orthos no matter what. So that is it for me till the next upgrade to a Quad core and probably a new motherboard as well if it does not overclock well with the quad. But this will be in about a year or min 8 months depending on quad prices and games that could use it.

[billdavis]

R.I.P IN9 u P.O.S you have been nothing but dissapointments!!!!!!

well my computer won't even get in to bios and lately my bios has been reprograming its settings and it is not the battery so...

any one wanna sell me there NB SB PWMIC stock heat sink i just need it for RMA

or could somone lend it to me and ill return it after i use it??

im going back to my evga
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[rvd]

nice hi res pics

[NeoRecon]

Anyone else have this problem?

My HyperTransport voltage always seems to jump to 1.4V regardless of what I configure it. When I get into my OS and start uGuru it will be at 1.4V. I'll reset it to 1.2 in uGuru reboot and check in bios and it will say 1.2V..get into OS and wala....1.4V

I couldn't figure out why my temps were so hot, and I guess this was part of the problem.

I have discovered that my Ultra-120 doesn't seem to cool as good when my case is standing as normal (mobo vertical) compared to me lying it on its side (mobo horizontal).

Otherwise I've seemed to top out at about 3.4Ghz and my mem at 1Ghz (4-4-4-12 2T). I need to do something with my PWM's to run at that temp though as they get hot.

[OldGuy]

Got linkboost enabled? It's been several weeks since I've messed with the IN9 (taking an Evga for a spin) but I do remember no matter what if kinkboost was enable HTv and one other voltage would revert back no matter what until linkboost was disabled. Can't remember which bios it was either

Anyone else have this problem?

My HyperTransport voltage always seems to jump to 1.4V regardless of what I configure it. When I get into my OS and start uGuru it will be at 1.4V. I'll reset it to 1.2 in uGuru reboot and check in bios and it will say 1.2V..get into OS and wala....1.4V

I couldn't figure out why my temps were so hot, and I guess this was part of the problem.

I have discovered that my Ultra-120 doesn't seem to cool as good when my case is standing as normal (mobo vertical) compared to me lying it on its side (mobo horizontal).

Otherwise I've seemed to top out at about 3.4Ghz and my mem at 1Ghz (4-4-4-12 2T). I need to do something with my PWM's to run at that temp though as they get hot.

[OKsoVRomoSkylo]

It's been several weeks since I've messed with the IN9 (taking an Evga for a spin)

i guess its the a1 revision. feelings?

[speedfreak86]

Anyone else have this problem?

My HyperTransport voltage always seems to jump to 1.4V regardless of what I configure it. When I get into my OS and start uGuru it will be at 1.4V. I'll reset it to 1.2 in uGuru reboot and check in bios and it will say 1.2V..get into OS and wala....1.4V

I couldn't figure out why my temps were so hot, and I guess this was part of the problem.

I have discovered that my Ultra-120 doesn't seem to cool as good when my case is standing as normal (mobo vertical) compared to me lying it on its side (mobo horizontal).

Otherwise I've seemed to top out at about 3.4Ghz and my mem at 1Ghz (4-4-4-12 2T). I need to do something with my PWM's to run at that temp though as they get hot.

I have left my HT voltage at 1.4V for all of my testing. I still have lower temps than you are seeing.

[OldGuy]

i guess its the a1 revision. feelings?

Yes, T1 (same thing, less goodies). It's pretty polished compared to the AR I bought the first week of release (and returned due to the many many many dead spots ). They've come a long way in that regard, boots pretty much everywhere in between 1066 and 1800. I like the board alot more at this point compared to the Abit FP IN9 and the IN9 32X-MAX.

[OKsoVRomoSkylo]

Yes, T1 (same thing, less goodies). It's pretty polished compared to the AR I bought the first week of release (and returned due to the many many many dead spots ). They've come a long way in that regard, boots pretty much everywhere in between 1066 and 1800. I like the board alot more at this point compared to the Abit FP IN9 and the IN9 32X-MAX.

Thanks! i think the time is right to check it out! i also had a brief encounter or should i say nightmare (i had the famous erratic raid data corruption) with an early board, and was disappointed to the point that i became allergic to the evga brand name.

[OldGuy]

Thanks! i think the time is right to check it out! i also had a brief encounter or should i say nightmare (i had the famous erratic raid data corruption) with an early board, and was disappointed to the point that i became allergic to the evga brand name.

I think anything with an Nvidia chipset right now is a bit of a hit or miss. There are plenty of guys popping into the Evga forums with problems but I also think this is probably due in part to the Evga being in many more peoples hands than any of the others. As soon as I read about them offering replacement boards I started watching for A1/T1's to hit the shelves. Not disappointed at all so far. First board I've been able to actually "try" and run memory at DDR1200 Just waiting for a 6800 to arrive before I put it back together again. Pulled it to add a swiftech MCX159 NB cooler and used an old DFI LP NB cooler on the SB till I can find a VC-RE in stock somewhere...

[billdavis]

so any one want to sell/lend me there stock heat sink
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[OldGuy]

so any one want to sell/lend me there stock heat sink

Sorry bud...I need mine for the first board I killed

[speedfreak86]

Only thing that I am disappointed about on this board is the fact that it is 70 dollars cheaper now than what I payed 1 month ago. Other than that, I am fairly satisfied. I am now running 3.46 ghz and 1025Mhz ram w/ the same 4-4-4-12 2T timings. Orthos stable so far for 25 minutes. I'll post more info if the setup passes a few more hours.

ON EDIT: Got orthos stable for 2 hours and 40 minutes with 1.485 volts vcore and 2.15 vdimm. I need to do some more testing with increasing other voltages, but this is probably stable enough for me.

[DukeMaster]

I'm suffering the same ill fate of not being able to OC at all after a crash and can only run at stock settings. POS! Hopefully my WC and pelty will be in by this weekend and I can jump over to the Striker Extreme.

[PRJ]

I just got my setup assembled and could really need som help with basic bios settings for a stable overclock.

I cant get anything stable at the moment, not even "optimized defaults" ( causes crash in 3dMark06)

I have read a lot about this board, but have never found a Overclocking guide about what to enable and what needs to be disabled.

Any help would be very appriciated.

PRJ

[axlros75]

hello PRJ,
nice setup.Me too I have installed MIPS wb.

I see you have also a Fatal1ty sound card.Did you have compatibility troubles installing it?

Thanks

[steeldragonnyc]

hello PRJ,
nice setup.Me too I have installed MIPS wb.

I see you have also a Fatal1ty sound card.Did you have compatibility troubles installing it?

Thanks

I am about to upgrade my sound card so let us know about the compatibility issue if any with X-Fi and your board. thanks

[PRJ]

hello PRJ,
nice setup.Me too I have installed MIPS wb.

I see you have also a Fatal1ty sound card.Did you have compatibility troubles installing it?

Thanks

No that part went smoothe, used the Vista Driver 2.13.0012 driver...

Only problems yet have been bios was difficult to save settings and now I am having some problem reaching the rated speeds of my OCZ PC-9200 ( cant get past ~ 900 )

oh yea.... and the Quad core problem :o(

PRJ

[sedg.raven]

I am having some problem reaching the rated speeds of my OCZ PC-9200 ( cant get past ~ 900 )
PRJ

hello i was have the same problem, you must to up all the voltages to set your mems at their stock speed even if you keep the cpu at stock speed



bye

[PRJ]

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Thanks, thats interesting

How high CPU Vcore do i dare on a QX6700 ?

I am still on stock vcore @ 3300 ( 1.35 bios / cpu-z 1.238 )

By the way, some nice memory you got there.

PRJ

[sedg.raven]

How high CPU Vcore do i dare on a QX6700 ?

PRJ

so many you can keep under control the temps, before are dangerous the temps goes 80º

i cant put it 600 4-3-3-10


(Sorry for the english)