AM3+ Build

[hieuhef]

That's the plan Biding my time for another month is hard when there are so many tasty bits available now [NOW!]. My income isn't so disposable to being able to buy parts now and getting rid of them in a month's time to swap out for the latest and greatest in mobos and CPUs.

[god_43]

god 43 did you get the new bios

yeah i had 1.30 at the time of my overclocking spree, i just upgraded to 1.40 a couple of days ago; but i havn't tried to OC.

So what OCs were you able to achieve once you figured out what was wrong? And is the board everything you'd hope it would be?

yeah i really like the board and the features, file transfers are great! i sure love all the cool things that asrock packed in here. my oc's were about the same that other thuban ppl have had, 4.6 at 1.46 i believe it was. temps stayed around 38 c (h70 cooler). i mainly got this board for BD and i really needed to upgrade from the old am2+. i was kind of hoping for better oc's though. i could do 3.8 on stock...but...its like the warp barrier apparently, its really hard to jump from one factor to another?

I have no complaints with the deluxe5 except the bios still need a little work. It is almost the same as my deluxe3. I am running at 4mhz/ fsb at 200 / mem set to xmp profile 7/8/7/24/40. these are g skill eco ram at 1.35 volts. 1090 voltage set at 1.4125 and will run with llc 1.46. mem and cpu volts are lower than the deluxe 3. The problem i have now is when i set the fsb to 250 mem volts must be set to 1.475/ cpu nb volts 1.3 I can still run prime stable at 4mhz same as the deluxe3 at fsb 250. The bios will hold my settings when i adjust them and continue. When i shut down and start up it does not like it and will default the cpu to 3.2 mhz. restart and enter bios exit and save back at 4mhz. I have not found a way to solve this problem. May need bios update or i am missing a setting when I adjust. All in all i would rate this board very very good. If i was to buy another board today it would be a deluxe5 or in the future a deluxe6.

its still a great board, i like it and i am sure bd will preform better than the thubans.



ps. the line in the names seems to hide the underscore in my name. its god_43 ; ).