CFX3200M2/G AM2 version

[tux08902]

A lot of people have had problems with that board. The thing is that it uses an older chipset, and a lot of people have said that causes problems.

What RAM are you using? You may want to look into the board I have. It's in my sig. It's cheap and great.

[|3ourne]

A lot of people have had problems with that board. The thing is that it uses an older chipset, and a lot of people have said that causes problems.

What RAM are you using? You may want to look into the board I have. It's in my sig. It's cheap and great.

WTF ???? Where are you basing your conclusions from ?? I was one of the first people on this forum to adopt this board and its running absolutely puuuurfect . And about the older chipset , not really , the SB600 performs better than the Nforce 5xx series chipsets for AMD and so does ATI RD580X . Look into it , it clocks a hell lot better than most boards out there .

Why Z1 cant get his computer clocking is really beyond me. I had this board for 2 days and already maxed my ram and cpu out. Its one of the simplest boards to oc. I am waiting for Tony to post some pics as I also have some questions about Dram strength settings in the bios and see if that helps me get some more clocks out of these Tracers .

[AonMar]

After reading your experiences with this board (thanks for sharing) I bit the bullet and put together the combo. in the signature.

It looked as though everything would be still-born at the start when it wouldn't post, but eventually got things moving on a stick of cheap ValueRAM. Still running the ValueRAM and waiting for the Team sticks to come back from RMA - perhaps they need more voltage to work. So much for the general idea that DFI boards spit on cheap RAM!!

Before winding things up, I brought the NB temperatures down by fitting the HR-05 (now running up to about 28-30 degrees under load).

Tonight I acheived my first overclock. I used Clock Gen to take the CPU frequency up to 3.05 GHz while running 2 instances of SuperPrime for 30 min. Only thing stopping me for now is caution! And, yes, I need to start playing in the BIOS to see if it will post at that frequency. Small steps, as I'm gaining confidence as I go.

Like |3ourne I've noticed core0 running about 6-7 degrees hotter than core1 (based on Core Temp 0.95 readings).

Even for a noob, this board is working out very nicely, thank you!