ABit AX78 Overclocking/Stability

[madfaze]

Works fine here. Booted a tester 9600 BE which the owner said "has 3rd core faulty" perfectly first time.

Only tried once though. Nice little CMOS clear switch at the back panel, BIOS looks amazing for any board.

can you posts some temp monitoring screenie?

[LIKMARK]

I'll have to wait a few days more for my board as it was sent to the other edge of Norway by mistake..... KTE: How is max vcore with Phenom?

[madfaze]

I'll have to wait a few days more for my board as it was sent to the other edge of Norway by mistake.....

too bad you should have been using it right now...

[KTE]

Plenty of Vcore and options last I checked. Abit EQ too but better, I have to fix up my GBT Odin and get monitoring info from that first to compare, especially voltages.
Will show how accurate/inaccurate MB software utilities are, especially since I have a n-type temp. probe and a DMM here and GBT Odin P-Tuner software is very accurate.

I don't have spare CPU to start it up again. All of mine are busy and I'm staying at a friends house far away from home (as I foretold). Very little of my equipment here.

I have to bench and analyze GBT Odin with MSI board first before trying it with AX78+X4. Will post as soon as I can, don't worry.

Want to see some N95-2 taken pics?

[madfaze]

lookin forward to it...

[LIKMARK]

Want to see some N95-2 taken pics?

Oh yes please

[Shaz]

Sounds very exciting. It's my birthday tomorrow so I'll attempt to cash in on something.

[KTE]

Their main advertisement is Phenom FX board

I'll try and find some pics but I don't think the lady with me took any as I asked her. Let me ask...
Well there are many rough shots all around the board. Let me know what you want to see specifically before I build it (it's tight in there) and I'll retake better ones (working around clockwise from when she first opened it+some I just took).

Board Opening Tour:


Clockwise Detail:


Other important chips are above and this is PLL:

[roadie]

Looks good. Am looking forward to some good OCs with this board. Would be great to see how it handles Phenom, plus a 6000+/6400+ and a 5000+BE.

[Jethro]

Thanks for the pics! Someone stress this board out plz.

[GenTarkin]

primarily, my question is...does this board have option in its BIOS to turn off the phenom TLB fix?

[KTE]

Abt EQ reports Phenom temps 20C higher than all other utilities.
So 50C load is 70C load with Abit EQ on this board.

No Phenom boots o can't run anything yet (Phenom problem).

Only one boot I had I checked this much.

GenTarkin: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...postcount=1448
According to Abit, yes.

[LIKMARK]

Finally got my board today. Gonna set it up now. I'll try Vista x64 first, and if it's crappy, I'll go for XP x86
Wish me luck

[madfaze]

Finally got my board today. Gonna set it up now. I'll try Vista x64 first, and if it's crappy, I'll go for XP x86
Wish me luck

posts some shots of monitoring temps...

[KTE]

Good luck.

Vista x64? Will still be slow with poor compatibility, softwares and a pain to overclock.

Delayed edit: Sorry I won't be updating on AX78+Phenom. My Phenom is dead with IMC problems. I don't expect to use the one I get in replacement and I'll play with X2 2350/4850e+770+780G and sell one set off while keeping the other for use.

[LIKMARK]

posts some shots of monitoring temps...

I will. I have to say, the bios holds nothing back. It's at least as full of options as the Crosshairs, a high end AM2 board. It's monitoring cpu, system and pwm. The bios read these as 30, 29, 26 degrees celcius at boot up. Ripped off nb heatpipe, and got the nb under water, the rest of the heatpipe (on the pwm) stays though, with a 80mm Nochtua fan humming away on top of it. Not sure how the readings is as of now, but they're probably not correct :p

Good luck.

Vista x64? Will still be slow with poor compatibility, softwares and a pain to overclock.

Thanks

I'm gonna run it under XP x86, only option for Vista x64 were if it could boot without reinnstalling it (=hassle), and it wouldn't load Vista, soo, it's XP for me for a while. The 0,5 gb ram I'll be missing will just have to stay put, idling away.. I'm at work now, so I'll have to install XP when I come home, (after my kids is in bed that is)

[madfaze]

how was your OCing venture?

[LIKMARK]

Sorry, but my time is quite limited in the evenings. I just managed to install XP yesterday, and run a winrar stock benchmark to compare it to Vista X64 with AM2 board.

Vista x64 AM2, TLB patch enabled: 240kb/s
Vista x64 AM2, TLB patch disabled: 1200kb/s

XP x86 AM2+, TLB patch enabled: 540kb/s
XP x86 AM2+, TLB patch disabled: 1650kb/s

That should be the normal XP -> Vista difference...

Looking forward to oc'ing a little this evening, though.

Anyone got any requests? (Not too complex requests please :p)

[roadie]

It's all about the max HTT and max OC you can reach compared to other boards. I reckon all the other benchmarks will be much of a muchness amongst AM2+ boards.

[KTE]

1650KB/s on using 9500?
Can you check your NB speed and the DRAM timings in Memset?

It should be higher. My 9500 had >1800KB/s stock (MEM/IMC dependent bench) using all RD790 boards.

Can you post a pic of Abit EQ and the values it's showing compared to AMD OverDrive and AMD PowerMonitor?

[daytripper67mi]

just ordered this board and a 5000+be

[LIKMARK]

It's all about the max HTT and max OC you can reach compared to other boards. I reckon all the other benchmarks will be much of a muchness amongst AM2+ boards.

For max HTT I'll have to put in my X2 6000+, not happening atm..

Max HTT with Phenom after a tiny bit of testing is 240, but I'll need to test more.

1650KB/s on using 9500?
Can you check your NB speed and the DRAM timings in Memset?

It should be higher. My 9500 had >1800KB/s stock (MEM/IMC dependent bench) using all RD790 boards.

Can you post a pic of Abit EQ and the values it's showing compared to AMD OverDrive and AMD PowerMonitor?

Abit EQ shows nothing at all, totally blank..

I'm running my ram at 800MHz CL4 4 4 12 2t with loose subtimings as my Ballistix ain't my Phenoms best friend yet. NB speed @stock

Tweaked subtimings a little, and made 1700Kb/s, but no more. System became quite unstable too.

Installed Aod 2.17 and Systool, and either one of them is buggy as hell, or both, system crashed repeatedly as I tried to get ss of memset, aod, systool, cpuz etc.

Will have to try again tonight. Bios lacks nb fid control for Ph 9500 btw. Will have to change nb multi with bar edit.

Need to learn the bios too as there is some values I'm not familiar with atm

[KTE]

Which BIOS are you on?
Are you sure you've checked all the menu's for NB FID control? It won't be in the main oc section, it's under CPU Features (for 96BE anyway). It started as a hidden option though and they might have hidden it again.

Try this BIOS, it's the latest I have from Abit: http://www.yourfilehost.com/media.ph...3beta_bios.rar

I hope you meant AOD 2.14 BETA there BTW

You're using Vista 64b, right?

[LIKMARK]

I'm on the latest bios, 12 with the date 01.17.08

Yeah I checked all the menus. According to the manual it should be there, but not in this bios. I'm thinking its not supported by 9500/9600s or its removed from the latest bios.

whats the combination for unlocking bios features again? alt+f2?

No, I meant AOD 2.17 but maybe I read wrong Edit: This one: http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads...ve_2.0.17.html

I reverted to XP x86

I'll test the beta bios you uploaded tonight.

Edit: I got my Phenom stable at 2,5GHz last night, but I want it to run at least 2,6GHz when I'm finished. At reasonable voltages that is.

[KTE]

This ones 2 BIOSes newer IIRC, try it. Dated 26th Feb, internal BETA.

Sorry, I didn't know about the release of AOD 2.17. Can you guys test it please, it is supposed to calibrate temps better. Thanks.

Alt+F1?