crosshair III is here

**cdawall** · 06-22-2009, 09:12 PM

ok now its on

and yes thats a full 8GB load of D9JNM in there hehe

1st boot up into windows

max on air so far

super pi on air

**TheBlueChanell** · 06-22-2009, 09:34 PM

That's a really good 940. What was the max stable on your last board?

**cdawall** · 06-22-2009, 09:45 PM

my M4A78T-E managed about 3.9ghz or so it was benchable at 4ghz but not boot up stable like this is

**gOtVoltage** · 06-22-2009, 09:46 PM

oooooh............

Thats 100% AM3 now correct. It shure looks like it. Dang this is how they shoulda been made a year ago for AMD.

**cdawall** · 06-22-2009, 09:56 PM

Originally Posted by gOtVoltage

oooooh............

Thats 100% AM3 now correct. It shure looks like it. Dang this is how they shoulda been made a year ago for AMD.

what do you mean 100% AM3?

**jpm804** · 06-22-2009, 09:56 PM

Cdawall ... question wondering if messing with the bios if there is an option to unlock cores?

I havent been able to get a proper answer if it could or couldn't.... if it does, this might be my next board

**cdawall** · 06-22-2009, 09:57 PM

Originally Posted by jpm804

Cdawall ... question wondering if messing with the bios if there is an option to unlock cores?

I havent been able to get a proper answer if it could or couldn't.... if it does, this might be my next board

so far ACC will not unlock my 550BE which is a known stepping to unlock. i tried all of the tricks with ACC and it stayed a 550BE with 2 cores. might be an option i missed though i will look more in depth shortly

**ViViD** · 06-22-2009, 10:01 PM

What Hammer Use To Be?

**mav2000** · 06-22-2009, 10:02 PM

Yup looking for the same answer about unlocking have an unlocked 720be confirmed and running smooth on a biostar. Wanted to shift to AM3, but now I am confused between this the gigabyte and the msi......

**cdawall** · 06-22-2009, 10:05 PM

Originally Posted by ViViD

What Hammer Use To Be?

break up DICE blocks

and fix this mobo if it wont unlock my 550BE

**jpm804** · 06-22-2009, 10:07 PM

Originally Posted by cdawall

so far ACC will not unlock my 550BE which is a known stepping to unlock. i tried all of the tricks with ACC and it stayed a 550BE with 2 cores. might be an option i missed though i will look more in depth shortly

I have a 550BE also and was hoping to do the same thing .... thanks for getting back to me, appreciate it.

Made you'll stumble across it or maybe asus will provide in a bios update....

**cdawall** · 06-22-2009, 10:10 PM

Originally Posted by mav2000

Yup looking for the same answer about unlocking have an unlocked 720be confirmed and running smooth on a biostar. Wanted to shift to AM3, but now I am confused between this the gigabyte and the msi......

Originally Posted by jpm804

I have a 550BE also and was hoping to do the same thing .... thanks for getting back to me, appreciate it.

Made you'll stumble across it or maybe asus will provide in a bios update....

i am thinking about going onto their forums and throwing a fit until i get a BIOS that supports unlocking.

phrasing it like i didn't buy what i thought was one of the best AM3 boards to get less options than a $80 biostar

**MusicIsMyLife** · 06-22-2009, 10:19 PM

I have this board too. I got it for a review and it worked fine. It's fast at default clock speed and you have plenty of bios settings.

Unfortunately it is semi-dead now.

I tried to figure out max reference clock with default voltages and Crosshair III bootet up to 325 mhz. But it wasn't stable and after a few reboots it doesn't boot anymore. Lcd-poster says that INIT CPU and DET DRAM is ok but it then hangs on TESTCMOS. I tried lots of things (including hotflash) but I couldn't get it to work up to now. Hopefully a new bios chip from ASUS can help me to bring this baby back to life.

**FlanK3r** · 06-23-2009, 01:07 AM

nice MB

. Try please tweak with AIR superpi (higher NB). What is max +-stabil OC? Its better than 3900MHz? Can u to try in 64bit system Cinebench? thanks

**~~soundood~~** · 06-23-2009, 01:38 AM

i am still soooo disapounted that it isnt an SLI board, but will be interested to see how it goes, thanks for posting cdawall

**cdawall** · 06-23-2009, 07:32 AM

Originally Posted by FlanK3r

nice MB

. Try please tweak with AIR superpi (higher NB). What is max +-stabil OC? Its better than 3900MHz? Can u to try in 64bit system Cinebench? thanks

will install vista 64b on my other SSD shortly i need it for vantage runs anyway. max boot to windows stable right now is 4ghz@1.45v i'm tweaking 4.1ghz right now

**FlanK3r** · 06-23-2009, 08:05 AM

try please then Cinebench 64 (if u will get to 16 000 points, u are great gold man :-) )

**SNiiPE_DoGG** · 06-23-2009, 08:11 AM

Originally Posted by soundood

i am still soooo disapounted that it isnt an SLI board, but will be interested to see how it goes, thanks for posting cdawall

thats because nvidia's AM3 chipset is the worst piece of.... ever, it doesnt even have true 16x16 IIRC

**cdawall** · 06-23-2009, 08:24 AM

Originally Posted by SNiiPE_DoGG

thats because nvidia's AM3 chipset is the worst piece of.... ever, it doesnt even have true 16x16 IIRC

980A is just 780A with DDR3 it is no different at all there should be no issues with the chipset that didn't already show up with 780A

and hows 32m@4.1ghz sound?

**cdawall** · 06-23-2009, 09:31 AM

ok so i admit flat out i am no where near the oc'r chew* or msimax is but i consider myself pretty damn good but this is the max i can get the ram to boot into windows at right now....these did 1800 CL7 on my M4A78T-E and 2000 CL7 on a i7

wtf?

**theoldtimer** · 06-23-2009, 09:35 AM

I have been looking at the crosshair III but I already have the Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P paired with the 955 and I was trying to see it there is enough of an improvement to warrant buying the crosshair III.

BTW I also have the Asus M4N82 Deluxe which uses the 980A chipset and it’s DDR2 with three PCI-e 2.0 slots dual X16 or triple X8. The same 955 will run 3D benches @4100+MHz on both the Asus and Gigabyte MBs listed above using liquid cooling so the M4N82 can’t be that bad. IMO the M4N82 Deluxe isn’t as refined as my other Asus MBs but it allows me to run the GTX 260’s in Tri-Sli with the 955. The M4N82 is kind of like my Asus M3A79-T Deluxe using a very early bios.

**cdawall** · 06-23-2009, 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by theoldtimer

I have been looking at the crosshair III but I already have the Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P paired with the 955 and I was trying to see it there is enough of an improvement to warrant buying the crosshair III.

BTW I also have the Asus M4N82 Deluxe which uses the 980A chipset and it’s DDR2 with three PCI-e 2.0 slots dual X16 or triple X8. The same 955 will run 3D benches @4100+MHz on both the Asus and Gigabyte MBs listed above using liquid cooling so the M4N82 can’t be that bad. IMO the M4N82 Deluxe isn’t as refined as my other Asus MBs but it allows me to run the GTX 260’s in Tri-Sli with the 955. The M4N82 is kind of like my Asus M3A79-T Deluxe using a very early bios.

me and one of the members of TPU are currently having a bench off between the UD5P and corsshair III i sold my 955BE so i don't get to post benchies off it but i have a 910 that clocks just as good lol.

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=97389

**Welshmangt4** · 06-23-2009, 10:52 AM

me and one of the members of TPU are currently having a bench off between the UD5P and corsshair III i sold my 955BE so i don't get to post benchies off it but i have a 910 that clocks just as good lol.

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=97389

lol makes me want to bin this abit ax78 and get a crosshair III now, though ive gotten 47k (3dmark 2001 )with a single 4850 at 3.6ghz before now ?

**Power5** · 06-23-2009, 10:56 AM

Wait, this is a socket AM3 supporting a AM2+ Phenom2??? I thought you couldnt physically fit a AM2+ into a AM3 socket?

**theoldtimer** · 06-23-2009, 10:56 AM

Thanks, I'll check it out.

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