Solution for Running High FSB on NF7-S with 333FSB CPU's

[makatee]

Praetereo-
Well, Im glad someone figured this out. I wouldnt have the balls to screw around with my own 300 dollar chip if it hadn't been done before. Now I can't wait until my brother leaves. I'm wondering what I can do with his system...maybe 20K 3DMarks? 256 megs of HyperX, Radeon 9700 ( if only I had a pelt i could be number 1 I thinks ) and i cant forget the 2600+ with vapochill......this could very well get me the 20K i need. I might need to do some Vmodding...220 fsb wasnt stable. Lets pray that i dont kill his computer.....thanks again guys...Praetereo and Aceman are truley Xtreme.

-Makatee-

edit: More good news...my friend has a a7n8x that he has problems with data corruption on when over 200 mhz fsb. Im gonna see if this bridge mod will help out with that too. He is bringing it over tonight. Lets hope all goes well.

[TheDude]

Originally posted by Aceman
I finally stopped being lazy and stopped by and made myself an account.

Welcome Aceman!

Nice job, you and Praetereo did on sorting this problem out!
Glad to see you here.

[sjohnson]

lol makatee, stealth overclocking at it's finest

[nikhsub1]

Originally posted by makatee
edit: More good news...my friend has a a7n8x that he has problems with data corruption on when over 200 mhz fsb. Im gonna see if this bridge mod will help out with that too. He is bringing it over tonight. Lets hope all goes well.

Yes please do... I can run my A7N8X at 200 sync dual channel, but any higher and stability goes out the window. Have tried with 5 separte sticks of 3500C2 and some EL DDR 3500, same result. Are you running in dual channel mode or single stick?

[twiggy]

Awsome, it worked on my bro's 2700+.


Thanks Guys!!

[makatee]

I was testing in single channel with 256 megs of hyperx 3500...i only have one stick of that, but i could try with my friends stick of corsair xms 3200. Will there be any problems with the mismatched ram? If not, I'll be happy to try out dual channel. best regards to all.

-Makatee-

[nikhsub1]

Originally posted by makatee
I was testing in single channel with 256 megs of hyperx 3500...i only have one stick of that, but i could try with my friends stick of corsair xms 3200. Will there be any problems with the mismatched ram? If not, I'll be happy to try out dual channel. best regards to all.

-Makatee-

There 'shouldn't' be any probs with the mixed ram, they say it is 'best' to use identical sticks but for testing purposes, it's not ganna hurt anything.

[makatee]

Just to let everyone know, I've begun all of the testing and on the NF7-S...Seems to do fine at 220 fsb with Dual Channel. I'm going to run tests to make sure everything is stable and such. My friend will be arriving soon with his A7N8X and we will also be testing that...im excited now. Not that i dont like Intel's, but its always nice to have AMD winning. Wish me luck

-makatee-

[gokickrocks]

anyone successfully vmodded the vcore and vdimm?

[OPPAINTER]

Originally posted by gokickrocks
anyone successfully vmodded the vcore and vdimm?

V-core is simple, 6301 Hip chip, pin 7, 50k VR. The V-mem is another story, I broke mine 2 days ago attempting it The next time I'll have my Bros at Xtreme Tek Werkz take care of it.

OPP

[TheDude]

Originally posted by makatee
Just to let everyone know, I've begun all of the testing and on the NF7-S...Seems to do fine at 220 fsb with Dual Channel. I'm going to run tests to make sure everything is stable and such. My friend will be arriving soon with his A7N8X and we will also be testing that...im excited now. Not that i dont like Intel's, but its always nice to have AMD winning. Wish me luck

-makatee-

I do wish you luck makatee,

I probably will not be able to put mine thru it's paces at high fsb until this weekend with the L12 mod. From the results of those who have, it's looking good.

OPP....Do you think the vmem mod is really needed or could I get good results with just vcore mod using 2 x 256 kingston hyperx?

[makatee]

Back all...well, an interesting night to say the least. After we confirmed that the mod worked on the NF7-S, we tried the A7N8X....popped the chip, and nothing happened. It posted and then would not load into windows...well we restarted and it still wouldnt ( we tried this at 220 fsb by the way ) well, we took the chip out and i figured that i should try recutting the bride. Cut myself up pretty well with the knife, however I got the chip too...I guess i just didnt get it well enough the first time. Kinda curious how that happened...Anyways, it DOES work with the A7N8X, however it wouldnt go as high as the ABIT....i didnt have time to really figure out why, i had to go to the hospital and get 11 stitches on the area between my thumb and index finger...Hobby knifes are sharp...imagine that. Oh well, at least i got my testing done, however i would have had more time had i not been so worried about cleaning the blood off of my brothers carpet.

-makatee-

Well, should be more specific...the Asus would originally not post at 211...after the mod it did. The Abit was stable at 221...anything after was crap...I tried 230 and could get into windows but would soon crash...Hope this helps

[makatee]

I cant believe none of us saw this before...the only people who seemed to be getting these huge fsb overclocks were those who were using chips with the 266 fsb...i had been looking at Twiggys screeny just yesterday and i couldnt figure out how he was doing it when none of the "masters" could get there chips running like that...thanks to Praetereo and Aceman for opening their eyes.

[TheDude]

Damn dude...talk about bleeding for the cause! Sorry to hear you cut yourself, I will be extra careful after reading that!
Glad to hear it worked for you. I know what you mean about missing this...it all makes good sense after the fact doesn't it? Glad someone was on the ball and made the connection....or I guess I should say...unmade it.

[OPPAINTER]

You guys are truelly the saviors for the NF7. I cut the 2700 and made it a 2100 And sure as :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana: the board now hums along without a hickup at 200 plus, I haven't maxed it out, still loading windows at the moment. Somebody make this thread a Sticky and put it over in AMD
Great job guys, if I can run at 220 I will be a happy camper, about time Abit has one of these High FSB AMD mobos, and Abit doesn't even know it yet

OPP

[OPPAINTER]

Dude,

I'm not sure how good it will be with this voltage yet, I'll let you know.

OPP

[Fewture]

Originally posted by makatee
I cant believe none of us saw this before...the only people who seemed to be getting these huge fsb overclocks were those who were using chips with the 266 fsb...i had been looking at Twiggys screeny just yesterday and i couldnt figure out how he was doing it when none of the "masters" could get there chips running like that...thanks to Praetereo and Aceman for opening their eyes.

I have said in another thread it was the "B" holding it back... I saw A's flying...and B's stuck on low fsb's. So must be the B then

[N8]

Originally posted by OPPAINTER
Somebody make this thread a Sticky and put it over in AMD
OPP

Done...now you want me to take the word "Possible" out of the title too? LoL

[mdzcpa]

And all of this time I've been §§§§§ing about low FSB speeds on the NF2 mobos So many NF2 boards have been sold with the 333mhz XPs that it is not surprising that we have seen so much apparent FSB limitation with the NF2.

Great work guys! This is superb news.

Methinks it time for me to reconsider another NF2 mobo

[OPPAINTER]

Originally posted by N8
Done...now you want me to take the word "Possible" out of the title too? LoL

Yea I say retitle the thing

BTW:
Dude, I have 2 sticks of Kingston doing 220 in this mobo. I would still like higher mem voltage to make the timings more aggressive. I probably will only run it as high as 5-2-2 timings will take me.

Hey, what 2 dimm slots are suppose to be used for the Dual ram 128 thing??

OPP

[MrIcee]

OPP

Dimm 3 and dimm 2 are preferred according to the book. Load ram starting with Dimm 3 anyway..even if you only use one stick....kinda like the KG7 used to be

Hey OPP..go take a look at the ORB:thumbsup:
I'm ready to switch to the NF7-S now

Randi

[N8]

Originally posted by OPPAINTER
Yea I say retitle the thing
OPP

Done

BTW, great find Praetereo!

[Praetereo]

Thank you for all the kind words. We're glad to finally be able to give something back, because we learn so much from here.
I am at Aceman's right now, and we are running 3DMark on my 2700 at 10x225 FSB-Cas2-4-2-2 at 2.8 volts with one 512MB stick of XMS3500
Hopefully we'll get more out of her soon. This RAM is very new, and this is the second time my NF7-S has been run

[TheDude]

Opp wrote" Dude, I have 2 sticks of Kingston doing 220 in this mobo. I would still like higher mem voltage to make the timings more aggressive. I probably will only run it as high as 5-2-2 timings will take me."

Thanks Opp,

If I can get 220 even relaxed, I may skip the vmem mod and just do vcore...think I can handle the vcore, but not sure about vmem unless you come up with something easy.

This board is gonna be a great multimedia/video board! especially when I add DDs modded 9700.

[Svenn]

Hate to Hijack the thread, but I'm looking at getting an NF7-S and I've got a question or two. First, has anyone tried both NF7-S and 8RDA+ and have any opinions either way? Second, as far as volt mods, the vcore I hear is easy but the vmem is hard. Anyone have links to either? Thanks and sorry again. Btw, great work Praetereo!