1st look on asus P5K-VM: G33 matx board (56K warning!)

[tam2]

Wow, that's sooo cool. What's the FPO/Batch numbers anyway? Thats one helluva chip
Also we're waiting for u to test it on GA mobo that u also have

-tam2-

[The Nemesis]

pvhk,

Is your board installed inside the case or are these open testbed tests. I'm just curious because of the cooler your using. I have the same one, but I haven't bothered to try it yet. It's looking good though

[pvhk]

yes ! case closed!


But this cooler is clearly not sufficient to handle 4Ghz with stability (overheat)!
I will try the ultra120 on the giga g33 (the nsk3400 is compatible with this heatsink) with this cpu
on this screen : the utra90 with "bolt thru kit" fixation

[kenton]

[WoodButcher]

I could not resist any longer. I ordered from newegg 5 min ago. I love my matx case, Silverstone TJ08 lots of wet goodess in a little space, but limited OC. I'm hoping this is the answer. -P5K-VM

[SunFlowerSeeds]

very overclock friendly board with 1:1 memory divider. The PWMIC even though not as cool looking as the gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R, but it work extremely well on a 3GHz CPU.

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

im ordering one asap (with an e6850 of course)

[CyberDruid]

Got one in the cart

[dogsx2]

Got one last night. Using a 4300 with bsel mod. Boots in at 266 and shows 2.4 but when I try and oc in bios it always just stays at 266 when it boots.

Also I did a fresh install of XP pro and it will not just post. I have to hit reset and then it will post and boot. Wonder if it has anything to do with the bsel mod?

[dogsx2]

Took the bsel mod off and now works fine. It also caused the posting problem.

[ziddey]

how did bsel turn into bezel??

[__Miguel_]

lol I thought he was mentioning BSEL, but I was not sure. Seems I was right, after all...

Ok, apart from reiterating it is spelled "BSEL" (short for "bootstrap select", I guess- anyone can confirm this?), not bezel (which usually refers to the cover on drives or drive bays), I must tell you, dogsx2, that Gigabyte motherboards don't like BSEL mods. They usually don't even POST, much less boot. It was the very same thing with the GA-945GM-S2H (if I remember the model number correctly): BSEL mods would result in no POST.

Oh, and btw, very nice OC you have there. That 6x multi was the EIST kicking in, or you could't get it stable with higher multis? Also, are those stock voltages?

Cheers.

Miguel

[dogsx2]

Sorry, still had the bad day at work on my mind.

The Vcore is 1.325 set in bios with 9x. Case is a closed Microfly. I really like this board. It maybe the first Asus I ever really liked out of the few I have had. Just waiting for the Q6600 GO to arrive in numbers.

If the vDIMM to even 2.2v instead of 2.1v I would like it a lot more.

[tam2]

Nice, waiting for your quad result

-tam2-

[Eldonko]

Is there a clockgen program that works with this board?

[dogsx2]

I should never buy an Asus board as it seems I always have some dumb problem with them. On this board when I hit the power button to turn it off, windows shuts down and the LCD goes to sleep but the PSU and all fans keep running. If I hit reset it then boots back up. I end up using the switch on the PSU to turn the computer off. Not sure what's wrong. Never had this happen before.

[Neon Biker]

Looks like it goes into stand-by. Check the BIOS settings in the Power section. But why are you hitting the power button instead of shutting it down from within Windows?

[dogsx2]

Looks like it goes into stand-by. Check the BIOS settings in the Power section. But why are you hitting the power button instead of shutting it down from within Windows?

Quicker to hit power button. Same results either way power button or shutting down in windows.

[PENNYW!SE]

Hi all

We now have the following problem:
In the newest beta bios F4d the 1:1 dividor they gave us in F4a (only for 1066mhz cpus ) is deleted again
So its all like the begin, no new dividors except the "standard ones".

In the official german gigabyte forum i opened months ago (!) a thread with the dividor problem and since some weeks, one moderator: JZ tries to help the G33M-DS2R community ... he stands in direct contact to gigabyte germany and gigabyte taiwan.

Im not sure but i think the F4a is thx to him because it was published 2-3 weeks after he spoke to gb taiwan.

Today he told us, that it looks like GB taiwan doesnt want to give us the dividors because of the name of the board: DS2R (he and other GB contributors told us before that this is the "GB philosophy").
GB taiwan says, the 2 stands for: smart and save BUT NOT speed - so no overclocking ... only motherboards with a 3 or higher ...

But he wants to help us!
We have to send him our serialnumber of the motherbard and our name (first & last).
If he has enough user, he will send a accumulative complaint to GB taiwan, it seems this is last chance to change GB taiwans mind.

Here ist that thread in the german GB-support forum: http://62.109.81.232/cgi-bin/sbb/sbb...ow=278&start=0

So, if you would send me your serialnumber with your name and country, we all got better chance to get our dividors (especially for 800mhz cpus!).
I will give them all to JZ!

[zoob]

Just picked up this board with an E2140.
Hitting an FSB wall @ 333 max. One higher and no post.

This chip is doing quite well, I lowered the voltage to 1.25V in BIOS. Currently testing with a crappy WinXP live CD that doesn't know what to do with two cores, but one core is Orthos'ing just fine. CoreTemp buggers out and gives me a BSOD and Intel TAT won't install.

EDIT:



Onboard video limits this board quite a bit. I switched to onboard from a TNT2 m64 and I had to point a fan at the NB sink otherwise the display would corrupt.

EDIT 2:


Needed to bump voltage a bit for it to be (somewhat?) Orthos stable. 1.2750 set in BIOS. CPU-Z reports 1.200V drooping to 1.168V at load.

EDIT 3:

I dropped in my E6700 and can run 9x400 no sweat.. so I guess my NBCC is too high. If I enable spread spectrum CPU and PCI-E, I can post but get a scrambled display (using onboard video). Looks like I'll head to RadioShack for a CircuitWriter. I want to see 3 ghz on this!!

[PENNYW!SE]

I made (and make) a online petition for more dividors!

So PLEASE EVERYONE who has the G33M-DS2R (whether needs more dividors or not) sign up!

Full name (first and last) and the serialnumber of the motherboard (found on motherboard itself and the box too) are only needed!

http://www.g33m-ds2r.de.vu

THX

PENNYW!SE

[Think]

I made (and make) a online petition for more dividors!

So PLEASE EVERYONE who has the G33M-DS2R (whether needs more dividors or not) sign up!

Full name (first and last) and the serialnumber of the motherboard (found on motherboard itself and the box too) are only needed!

http://www.g33m-ds2r.de.vu

THX

PENNYW!SE

I'm confused, I thought the divider issue was solved on the gigabyte mb?

[__Miguel_]

I'm confused, I thought the divider issue was solved on the gigabyte mb?

As far as I was able to understand from the last posts, it seems the dividers were added on one BIOS version, and now the latest BIOS dropped them again. Anyone care to confirm this?

Now, about the whole "well, it's not an OC'ers board" subject. Pardon my french, but that's the most idiotic excuse I've EVER heard (and I'm a lawyer, I hear plenty of them daily... ). So that motherboard is NOT for OC'ers... Hmmm, let's see...

- 800MHz FSB - the 1:1 ratio would give DDR2-400
- 1066MHz FSB - the 1:1 ratio would give DDR2-533
- 1333MHz-FSB - the 1:1 ratio would give DDR2-667

Instead, the owners of this "NOT OC oriented" and "semi-budget" board MUST use DDR2-533 for 800MHz FSB, DDR2-667 for 1066MHz FSB and DDR2-800 for 1333MHz FSB... Last time I checked, DDR2-533 was the cheapest RAM one could buy for a "budget" RAM stick, DDR2-667 being "semi-budget", DDR2-800 being upper-end, and anything above that is OC memory.

So, for a "semi-budget" system with a "semi-budget" 1333MHz FSB CPU (they do start below the €200 mark...), you MUST use upper-end DDR2-800 RAM... Or if, instead, I want to upgrade my rig, migrating my OEM DDR2-667 sticks, I'll either have to stick to first-gen C2Ds Does ANYONE besides me think this is, well, I don't know, maybe COMPLETELY ABSURD?

So, the lack of this feature is clearly not because of the "OC oriented issues". If that were the case, Gigabyte would NEVER have enabled them in ANY BIOS. Here in Portugal we call that behavior "stubborness" (as the very least). This board seems terrific in every department except the BIOS. Why Gigabyte is limiting its own market share with this approach is beyond me...

Cheers.

Miguel


P.S.: I am NOT a G33M-DS2R owner.

[kenofstephen]

not bad, however, I've done 503 FSB on air today.

another board

costing <$100 EURO

[Mphs]

yes ! case closed!

What Zalman you use?

And case?