AMD dual socket thread

[LIKMARK]

memory compatability ok? Seeing you're running 800MHz. 8*1gb sticks or 4*2gb?

[jan]

no problems....it's 8x1GB micron pc2-667 reg ecc ram

[jan]

i ran cinebenc hagain on same settings but without any programs running in background.....

i got nearly the same performance as likmark but his opterons are clocked at 2375mhz vs. 2000mhz on my opterons.

i wonder if the l1n64 is so much "slower" compared to a nforce3600 board?
or is this only due to the tlb-patch?




likmarks result (post #111)

[LIKMARK]

I believe my cpu #2 is using TLB patch, and it only uses ht link 200mhz. Furthermore my nb runs at 1400MHz at stock. It is however probably memory performance that kills performance for me. I believe your setup uses NUMA too. My setup is running lower mem freqs and half the memory. Nice result!

Could you do some everest memory benches too? That would confirm my suspicions I think.

[jan]

with newest bios i was able to up the fsb via clockgen...but only step by step...
this does not work very good but i was able to run cinebench at 2300MHz

[msimax]

does ntune work for you?

[jan]

no, system will hang up when i start it. same with clockgen when i increase the fsb by more then one step....

[msimax]

hey jan see if you can try this

http://www.geocities.com/twobombs/ocl-kfn.zip

[jan]

i tried to overclock with rw everything before but without any result

but i ordered a kfn5-d from asus last night i'll see how high the opterons will clock on this board

[karbonkid]

hey karbonkid i dont see any oc options for right now

Hehe, that's how i found out too (hint - check in power management )

[karbonkid]

here you go:

[msimax]

how hi can it go

and they surely go it where you wont look for it

[karbonkid]

I'm not sure how high it will go - i haven't got my system set up yet. The fact it says "Free Form" in PBE suggests you can just type in any number you want. Whether it will boot with the overclock is another issue

[msimax]

i might have to look into this board i wonder how much punishment it was designed to take with some vmods

[msimax]

Hello,

For all BIOS releases please visit http://support.asus.com and select downloads. The release information as to what the BIOS update will fix will be listed under the version information.

Best Regards,

Rob
Level 3/Lead Tech Support Engineer
ASUS Technology
Phone: (812)-282-ASUS
RMA: 510-739-3777 opt. 2
http://www.asus.com
http://support.asus.com
http://livesupport.asus.com







what the heck does that mean its not even a answer to my question besides that bios page has not been updated in about a year i also asked about the ws/b issues and i didnt get a response yet, theirs no excuse for that bios and they're legit problems with it. so please if you have this board ws or ws/b please contact them to correct these issues, we have to get some kind of tech support not just these copy paste responses we have had to deal with.



---------- Original Message ----------
From : .com
Sent : 7/27/2008 7:52:05 AM
To : "tsd@asus.com.tw"
Subject : Motherboard L1N64-SLI WS



[CASEID=WTM20080727711164243]



Apply date : 7/27/2008 7:11:16 AM
[Contact Information]
*Name : carter
*Email Address : yahoo.com
Phone Number : 7189936101
City : ny
*Country : United States

[Product Information]
*Product Type : Motherboard
*Product Model : L1N64-SLI WS
*Product S/N : 76M0ACX20692
Place of Purchase : NEWEGG
*Date of Purchase : 2007/7/1

[Motherboard Specification]
*Motherboard Revision : 101
*Motherboard BIOS Revision : 505

[VGA Card Specification]
*VGA Card Vendor : evga
*VGA Card Model : 8800gt
*VGA Card Chipset : g89
*VGA Card Driver : 7.16

[CPU Specification]
*CPU Vendor : amd
*CPU Type : socket f
*CPU Speed : 2800

[Memory Specification]
*Memory Vendor : crucial
*Memory Model : ddr2800
*Memory Capacity : 2gig

[HDD Specification]
HDD Vendor :
HDD Model :
HDD Capacity :

[Add-on Card Specificatio]
Add-on Card Vendor :
Add-on Card Type :
Add-on Card Model :

*Operating System : WinXP

[Problem Description]
i was wonder for the next bios ver. can you add timings to adjust drive strengths on the
memory . i
use a program called memset in windows but it only changes the timings for cpu 0
and not cpu 1 also.
also can you enable cool&quiet to work with other multipliers instead of must the stock
one.

these are the timings that would be most helpful changeable at the bios level\


DRAM Configuration Settings:

Memclock Tri-Stating............. - Disabled
Memory Hole Remapping............ - Enabled
Auto Optimize Bottom IO.......... - Enabled

DRAM Drive Strength.............. - Level 12
RAM Drive Weak/Normal Mode....... - Auto
CLK Enable Drive Strength........ - Auto
Chip Select Drive Strength....... - Auto
MEM Address Drive Strength....... - Auto
MEM Clock Drive Strength......... - Auto
Memory Data Drive Strength....... - Auto
Data Strobe Drive Strength....... - Auto
CS/ODT Pin Fine Delay............ - Auto

SLI-Ready Memory................. - Disable
Timing Mode...................... - Manual
Memory Clock Value/Limit......... - 400Mhz
Command Per Clock (1/2T)......... - Enable
CAS Latency Control (Tcl)........ - 003 CLK
Min RAS Active Time (Tras)....... - 005 CLK
RAS to CAS Delay................. - 004 CLK
Row Precharge Time (Trp)......... - 003 CLK
RAS to RAS Delay (Trrd).......... - 003 CLK
Row Cycle Time (Trc)............. - 011 CLK
DIMM 1 Row Refresh (Trfc0)....... - Auto
DIMM 2 Row Refresh (Trfc1)....... - 105 ns
DIMM 3 Row Refresh (Trfc2)....... - Auto
DIMM 4 Row Refresh (Trfc3)....... - 075 ns
Read Precharge Time (Trtp)....... - 003 CLK
Write Recovery Time (Twr)........ - 005 CLK
Read to Write Delay (Trwt)....... - 004 CLK
Write to Read Delay (Twtr) ...... - 003 CLK
Refresh Period (Tref)............ - 03.9 us
Max Asynch Latency............... - 006 ns
Bank Interleave.................. - Enabled
DRAM On-Die Termination.......... - 075 ohm
Read Delay From Rx FIFO.......... - 2.5 CLK
Read/Write Queue bypass.......... - 08 time
Bypass Maximum................... - 04 time
32 Byte Granularity.............. - Auto
Idle Cycle Limit................. - 04
Dynamic Counter.................. - Enable
Read DQS Skew.................... - Auto


thank you so much for your time

[msimax]

why o why didnt i think of this before

i guess every here has bad batterys

Dear Sir/Madam

Try replacing the CMOS battery to possibly correct the issue.

Best Regards,
Tim P.
Asus Tech Support
(812) 282-ASUS

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---------- Original Message ----------
From : fastwifi@yahoo.com
Sent : 7/27/2008 8:05:14 AM
To : "tsd@asus.com.tw"
Subject : <TSD> Motherboard L1N64-SLI WS/B

[CASEID=WTM20080727724265355]

Apply date : 7/27/2008 7:24:26 AM

[Contact Information]
*Name : carter
*Email Address : @yahoo.com
Phone Number :
City : ny
*Country : United States

[Product Information]
*Product Type : Motherboard
*Product Model : L1N64-SLI WS/B
*Product S/N : 82M0AI674496
Place of Purchase : newegg
*Date of Purchase : 2008/5/1

[Motherboard Specification]
*Motherboard Revision : 1.01g
*Motherboard BIOS Revision : 501

[VGA Card Specification]
*VGA Card Vendor : evga
*VGA Card Model : evga 8800gt
*VGA Card Chipset : g80
*VGA Card Driver : 7.16

[CPU Specification]
*CPU Vendor : amd
*CPU Type : socket f
*CPU Speed : 2.0ghz

[Memory Specification]
*Memory Vendor : crucial
*Memory Model : ddr2 ecc
*Memory Capacity : 2gig

[HDD Specification]
HDD Vendor :
HDD Model :
HDD Capacity :

[Add-on Card Specificatio]
Add-on Card Vendor :
Add-on Card Type :
Add-on Card Model :

*Operating System : WinXP 64bit

[Problem Description]
i have a problem with the bios nothing that i set in the bios applies when i exit and save. i cant set
the cpu vcore, change the htt or ht multi, also can memory timings be included so that they can be
changed manually. the curret bios is setting the timings to tight on different mem dividers. also the
overvoltage settings dont apply when set to any other than auto


thanks for you time

[msimax]

i wish asus would add the additional timings because the only way to overclock this board with high htt is when you lower the memory div to 667 or 533 and 800 is a no once you start getting near 1170mhz

[yankeex86x]

Hey MsiMax, how did you reached 330 HTT speed with nTune???
Did you use a modded version of it?
I thought that the limit was 250 for nTune...
PS: I also sent some msgs to aSuS and still no response... I think we won't have any new bios for our "enthusiast board", yeah... it was supposed to be enthusiast... and no support....

One more question:
Is there any relation between registers and bios data???
especially: is there any way to edit the registers permanently by editing something in bios code like the bios registers...

[msimax]

ntune will work upto 250 unless you have higher in the bios which is why i wanted to see if we can edit the config file to raise the limit

[Kayin]

Just for curiosity's sake, a few questions.

I'm ordering this weekend, the K9ND-Speedster WILL support Barcelonas, correct?

If so, what BIOS and am I going to have to pick up a DC opty (or send it to someone) to flash it over?

And, are http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...Category=80142 these a good buy?

[karbonkid]

Just for curiosity's sake, a few questions.

I'm ordering this weekend, the K9ND-Speedster WILL support Barcelonas, correct?

If so, what BIOS and am I going to have to pick up a DC opty (or send it to someone) to flash it over?

And, are http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...Category=80142 these a good buy?

It will (with the 2.xx BIOS) BUT you will have to replace the BIOS chip with a WINBOND W39V080APZ, so you will also need a dual-core and do a hot-flash. Easiest option (if you want to go straight to quad-cores) is to pay an extra fiver and get a pre-flashed chip - I'm going to get mine from www.bios-repair.co.uk but I'm sure you can find someone local who stocks them and offers a flashing service.

EDIT: Alternatively, I am going to be using dual-cores to start with and could send you a flashed chip at cost price. Will still be a couple of weeks before my system is up and running, though.

[Kayin]

Thanks for the heads-up. I can make BIOS chips, so i think i'll do so while I wait...

Cause I ordered it. Least this has a bit of roadmap to it, I can hold out for a decent while...

Finding pairs of quads for pretty cheap, and I have a pair of 8800 GTS cards for it, should make a decent rig...

[yankeex86x]

Hey Likmark,
I found a turnaround to solve the 533 and 800 mem dividers...
The OSs capable of booting with these memory settings are only 32bts OS based systems...
I tried to run the OpenSuSE 11 (Official) in both 64 and 32 versions with the 800MHz setting in bios and the only system that booted up was the 32bit one.
It happens also in the windows side.....
Is it a memory controller problem???? (I know that in 64bit OSs the IMC is much more stressed than in a 32bit one)

But now there is another problem: I have 8Gb of ram, how can I use the rest of my ram??? should I enable the PAE??

[Kayin]

All right, I got my board.

One of the memory controller heatsinks is missing-what can I do? Glu BGA sinks to it, make a custom block, or what?

[msimax]

i would measure the stock one and see if you can match it with a aftermarket one