Commando Results by Tony and Andre (and others...)

[BLHealthy4life]

is this board available for purchase yet?

[nealh]

ok if Tony's board has become vdroop but retail does not ...what are others seeing with respect to vdroop

[RichUK]

ziberia – You’re so close to a sub 10 second super pi time.

[RichUK]

I'm getting my Asus Commando on Tuesday.

Thing is, i've got G.Skill 6400 HZ's, so am i going to have an issue with booting for the first time due to the default VDIMM?

[The Nemesis]

I'm getting my Asus Commando on Tuesday.

Thing is, i've got G.Skill 6400 HZ's, so am i going to have an issue with booting for the first time due to the default VDIMM?

G. Skill HZ's are rated DDR2-800 4-4-4-12 @ 2.0-2.1v. They will boot will less easily, you'll be fine. Especially if less is 1.93v

[shimmishim]

commando shown as OOS at ZZF

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...uctCode=247128

$299 is starting price.

[Dani]

Yes, layout is same around socket, I think Vcore is same too

[ziberia]

Here are my accomplishments after 3 nights with the board. All in all, the Commando behaves a lot like a P5B Dlx. It is a very quick board.

I had to flash the BIOS once after setting VMCH to 2.025 volts messed it up. It is also quite easy to fry your memory. Believe me.

The Hardware Monitor in the BIOS shows massive voltage fluctuation for Vcore and especially Vdimm. I think that all the voltage readings are purely indicative. I did not have time to verify the readings with a mm.

So, here is what you can expect:

1M



8M



32M



PiFast

[Tony]

I can mod Core 8 code yes but as Stilt says you will have to boot once with 1 dimm, then set defaults where the 2V kicks in and reboot.

if you want me to do this i will have to get the tools off my workstation, im in Vegas now for CES.

T

[ChaosMinionX]

Does the Commando seem to be generally a faster board? maybe a lil more stable with stuff? Or is there still no noticeable improvement on speed and oc ability?

Because ive been seriously considering getting this or the DFI RD600 and I cant seem to make up my mind, the independent memory clocking is a really nice feature and thats whats makin me lean towards the RD600. Could anyone elaborate on any of this, because specifically with my P5B Deluxe my ram latency goes through the roof running anything over 400fsb because of the strap, so being able to run say like DDR2 1000 or 1100 at a 400fsb sounds really good, anyone know?

[Extera]

OMG, I wise I were there 2.
have fun

(still waiting to see this board do +600 fsb)

[Yay for Cheese]

Does the Commando support CF with the future ATI cards? I read somewhere that most boards couldn't it as the new cards had the new internal CF thing instead of master + slave.

[RichUK]

Does the Commando support CF with the future ATI cards? I read somewhere that most boards couldn't it as the new cards had the new internal CF thing instead of master + slave.

I think I read somewhere that the new ATI/AMD graphics cards (R600) when in crossfire mode require the full x16 lanes for its operation. If this is the case, maybe the driver will reject the crossfire functionality with two R600 cards in place, maybe, I don't know.

This Commando board in crossfire mode offers one slot at x16 and the other slot at x4. So if the above logic is correct, this board will not support the new ATI/AMD graphics cards in crossfire mode.

[nealh]

I think I read somewhere that the new ATI/AMD graphics cards (R600) when in crossfire mode require the full x16 lanes for its operation. If this is the case, maybe the driver will reject the crossfire functionality with two R600 cards in place, maybe, I don't know.

This Commando board in crossfire mode offers one slot at x16 and the other slot at x4. So if the above logic is correct, this board will not support the new ATI/AMD graphics cards in crossfire mode.

what the hell is AMD/ATI doing with CF...they seem to be boxing themselves in huge corner with virtually no 2 x16 pci-e mobos out..do they think people will only buy a mobo to support there graphics cars..nope, only a few extreme enthusiasts would do that...it appears they will kill themselves with this stupidty

Also to drop intel chipset support is moronic...you may as well kick your competition at its own game and have a part of there market share and yours as well....

[The Nemesis]

what the hell is AMD/ATI doing with CF...they seem to be boxing themselves in huge corner with virtually no 2 x16 pci-e mobos out..do they think people will only buy a mobo to support there graphics cars..nope, only a few extreme enthusiasts would do that...it appears they will kill themselves with this stupidty

Also to drop intel chipset support is moronic...you may as well kick your competition at its own game and have a part of there market share and yours as well....

When you think about it, Nvidia has done this all along. Only a nvidia sli board could run sli until hacked drivers became available that enabled it to run on Intel chipsets. Nvidia's monoploy worked and sold fine as we all know.

[Tallman]

I think I read somewhere that the new ATI/AMD graphics cards (R600) when in crossfire mode require the full x16 lanes for its operation. If this is the case, maybe the driver will reject the crossfire functionality with two R600 cards in place, maybe, I don't know.

This Commando board in crossfire mode offers one slot at x16 and the other slot at x4. So if the above logic is correct, this board will not support the new ATI/AMD graphics cards in crossfire mode.

If I am not mistaken, even the RD600 chipset only offers 8x by 8x for crossfire mode. So it cannot use the new R600 graphics cards?

[Dani]

It's 1066

[dinos22]

It's 1066

does 4:5 RAM ratio clock the RAM exactly the same as other rations ie 1:2

[dinos22]

one more question this high FSB was clockgened to such MHz from sub-400MHz FSB boot to stay in the 1066 strap right?

[dinos22]

does 4:5 RAM ratio clock the RAM exactly the same as other rations ie 1:2

pls check this for me

pretty please

[Chri$ch]

today arrived my E6400 Rev. L2

Max FSB is 480 (watercooled)





in a few days arrive 3 X6800, i hope one of them do more than 500FSB

Edit: Rev. L2 has very good temps (or is it a coretemp failure?)

[krampak]

Arg.. I can't get the "soundcard" installed on my Asus Commando (I've just recived it), I'm always getting an UAA High Definition Audio error. I've installed the KB835221 and KB888111 hotfixs but still getting the UAA error.

Anyone ?

Edited: Problem solved !

[Pt1t]

does 4:5 RAM ratio clock the RAM exactly the same as other rations ie 1:2

check it for me too PLZ

[krampak]

I've just tried the 1:2 divider and it works ok. FSB 266 MEM @ 533Mhz.



I Will try to put it now @ FSB 426 MEM @ 533 using the 4:5 divider.

Edit:

It does it using the 4:5 also.



PD: It's a gskill pc8000hx at 2.4v

[dinos22]

I've just tried the 1:2 divider and it works ok. FSB 266 MEM @ 533Mhz.



I Will try to put it now @ FSB 426 MEM @ 533 using the 4:5 divider.

Edit:

It does it using the 4:5 also.



PD: It's a gskill pc8000hx at 2.4v

i am talking about the obsolute max clocks on RAM...........can you test that RAM for fastest possible mhz on 4-4-4-x with 1:2 and 4:5 dividers please and report whether there is any difference in top MHz obtained