DFI 965-S is here! For sale @ ewiz

[Jodiuh]

Well...I could only get my BX2 up to 412ish and the DFI hit 500 wo/ pushing hard.

[Dark79]

I think this is as high as I can go:



All voltages at stock except for:

CPU: 1.45v
NB: 1.35v
RAM: 2.10v

Can't seem to get my RAM stable at higher speeds or tighter timings even with more voltage. And my temps with a Tuniq aren't all that great (any recommendations on replacing the stock fan?) as it's starting to warm up in the midwest.

Either way I'm pretty happy as this same setup on a Infinity 975x could only hit 430FSB.

[RealTelstar]

I'm gonna get air conditioning for this summer because I want to keep my overclocked speeds

[The Nemesis]

I was able to hotflash the bios in a different board. Back up and running, & having fun

3DMark06 @ 3.9Ghz 7900GTX @ Stock Clocks



8 X 500FSB 32mb Pi


Quick 1mb Pi run @ 505FSB



32mb Pi 8 X 505FSB 1 GB Kit Corsair 8000UL

[ziddey]

What the hell garbage is this?? I set the thing up. Then I goto flash 424 on there. It flashes successfully and says to remove disk and hit f1 to reboot. I do that and the son of a never posts again. What!?!? I don't have anything else I could use to hotflash either. Damn it!

[The Nemesis]

What the hell garbage is this?? I set the thing up. Then I goto flash 424 on there. It flashes successfully and says to remove disk and hit f1 to reboot. I do that and the son of a never posts again. What!?!? I don't have anything else I could use to hotflash either. Damn it!

I know how ya feel. PM me, I'll send you a bios with 402 or whatever if you will send me yours in return.

[ziddey]

yo, that'd be unbeinglievably appreciately mate. I'd gladly pay shipping and a bit more. I remember the days when I had a ton of motherboards to use and the ability to hotflash. It's a shame most boards now aren't socketed . Please pm me. I'd be happy to work out practically anything you want. (I'm a little inebriated but so it goes ). I remember reading about someone else recently who also had the same problem. I wonder what happened. I've never had a flash gone wrong unless it was when I tried to force flash something. The strange thing about thing one was that it didn't give any errors or say that anything was wrong at all. Everything went perfectly smooth until it asked me to reboot. 402 would work. I was trying to get 424 on there. Once again let me say that I really appreciate your help in this. Let me know and I'll send my chip out vs priority tomorrow. Guys like you make the community great

edit: chip's popped out It's kind of sad, seeing how 3 years ago, I had easily 3 boards that I could have used as candidates for hotflashing, but now I have no socketed boards left. The only old board I have is some dell one with a p3 1ghz and i820 camino chipset, but obviously that's dell and not socketed. Oh well. I don't blame it. It's serving me real good for the $20 I spent on it at a yardsale.

and I will say that this board has potential based off the limited testing I did have with it before I went and flashed it. Seems like 500fsb will require better northbridge cooling than what I'm giving it. Hell, even stock might be better than the mcw30 I have on it. Even with shimming around the chip, I can't get my mcw30 to get good contact evenly since the tubing is pulling to one side. Once I get it up and running, I might just revert back to my old trusty hr-05. That said, one thing that's different from this board from my p5b is that at 400fsb, running 4:5 requires more than just 1.25vmch for it to boot windows without giving corrupt file errors. Then again, that's a decent tradeoff for the ability to consistently warmboot 500fsb. And for the ability to do 515fsb, which my p5b wasn't able to do.

[Praz]

4:5 takes a lot of nb voltage with this board. It is definitely not optimized for that divider. On the other hand 500 fsb will run fine at 1:1 with hardly any increase to nb voltage.

With my mcw30 set up like this it is just about as solid as if it was bolted on.

[ziddey]

cool, where'd you get those standoffs? The way I have mine right now, it kind of wobbles. And then if the system is on and I go to try and put pressure on it or rock it, it crashes on me. I'm getting about 40'c cpu and 50'c nb, whichever that sensor means, since iirc p965 doesn't have a onchip thermal sensor.

[tonyl]

ewiz in stock again, $149.35 before shipping. It appears new shipment coming.

[G H Z]

If you guys used the Winflash DFI mentions you'd have no problem with BIOS flashes.

Nemesis, try this out. Kinda interested if a 6400 can do 2:3 @ 400FSB

[The Nemesis]

I think I'll buy another & keep whichever clocks the best. Anyone know what this month's $5 off coupon code is?

[Viss]

Very fast 1M GHZ, what memory you used?

[Isaac MM]

What this board can do with quads?

[silverphoenix]

Back in stock on ewiz for you guys.

[Praz]

cool, where'd you get those standoffs? The way I have mine right now, it kind of wobbles. And then if the system is on and I go to try and put pressure on it or rock it, it crashes on me. I'm getting about 40'c cpu and 50'c nb, whichever that sensor means, since iirc p965 doesn't have a onchip thermal sensor.

Something isn't making good contact. Every one of these boards I've seen the NB reported temps run mid to high 30's with stock volts and heatsink with the addition of a fan. When the NB is put under water the reported temps drop below ambient. So it appears the the sensor does react to NB temps and also reads low.

The standoffs are just some that I had laying around for circuit board mounting. You should be able to buy them any place that sells electronic components. 15 for a $1.00 or something like that.

I mounted the MCW30 without tubing attached. Milled two small aluminum blocks so their height was just short of the distance between the board and the bottom of the mounting plate. I used shim stock to fill in the gap between the blocks and plate. I took a measurement of each block with the shim stock in place, added the two measurements together and divided by two. I milled the standoffs to match this measurement. Reamed the holes and tapped them for 6-32 screws. It was a lot quicker to do then it sounds.

[nealh]

wonder why ewiz keeps getting stock before anyone else..ie Newegg

[G H Z]

Very fast 1M GHZ, what memory you used?

Corsair 6400C3's

[The Nemesis]

Corsair 6400C3's

Still trying to run the 2:3 divider @ 400FSB but I don't seem to have any ram capable of doing it. Will Fatbody's do it? If so @ what voltage normally?

[The Nemesis]

Wow they stopped the $149 Free ship deal

***Edit Nevermind Out of Stock***

[SoylentBleu]

I managed to get one ordered from ewiz this morning and I had a quick question about a good heatsink. I saw a couple mentions of this board flexing with heavier heatsinks due to it being 4-layer PCB. Anyone having issues so far with something like the Thermalright ultra-120+?

[ziddey]

Just get a backplate and you won't have to worry at all. I had a water block hard mounted and it didn't flex the board much at all.

[NinjaZX6R]

I ordered this morning....

Just got a call saying they're sorry, but it's out of stock until Mid-May. I REALLY hate these companies that do this.

I understand that it's out of stock, but having the nerve to charge my credit card before it's even verified to be in stock is a trick. Officially done with ewiz. I'd rather buy an ECS motherboard without any overclocking options than shop at ewiz again.

-Collin-

[Peter949]

Ya...I'm having problems with ewiz also. I ordered the board a few hours before the price drop and free shipping and now they don't want to credit to me. Few hour difference and they are anal....

[NinjaZX6R]

Ya...I'm having problems with ewiz also. I ordered the board a few hours before the price drop and free shipping and now they don't want to credit to me. Few hour difference and they are anal....

I tried to RMA my Abit Quad GT 1 day after the return period and they said "no." I realize that's the rules, but come on. Newegg would happily greet me with a smile and take it back. Done with ewiz.

-Collin-