!UPDATE! abit AW9D-Max (retail) arrived

[Hilfiger]

Welcome to 8 weeks ago

Better late than never though

i live in UK, very hard to find chipset coolers on air, Swiftech is very rare.

[Keiki]

well after playing with this 13 final bios i can say that at least for me this is the best one so far. one major change is that finally i can use multi 6-9x without getting some serious fsb problems, still something easy like 9x390 is just FREEZE. Atm i'm at 360x10 and i can use my ram with 4:5 so this is one nice improvement too and one last thing is that uguru now remembers all settings even when i unplug my psu cause with earlier bioses my oc settings were lost every time i did that...

[Lu523]

I am currently running 365x9 with ram at 1:1. I am getting ready to try the ram at 4:5. With Orthos running my cpu its 41 Celsuis.

[Lalaboy]

BIOS with 1333 strap!!! http://www.lvcoyote.com/betabios9.zip
BIOS Date: 12/19/2006

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[Keiki]

BIOS with 1333 strap!!! http://www.lvcoyote.com/betabios9.zip
BIOS Date: 12/19/2006

wow did u personally test it?

[Virtual]

the guys on abit board test it..

http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?t=117944

[death metal]

The beta BIOS works ok, that means, it didn't kill my board

Anyway, the BIOS is still not the one that Kentsfield guy like me is waiting for. It's not stable for Kentsfield OC, 320MHz is still the ceiling even with lowered multi.

As for Conroe, I am still Priming at 400MHz with 1333Mhz strap. I am happy that there's now a 5:4 ratio (no, not the 4:5) so I can lower down my RAM and CPU frequency and see how far the mobo can go unmodded.

After 30min of Prime, I'll stop it, and push it to 415MHz and Prime again for 30min, and so on and so forth till I know when to add more vMCH.

[Keiki]

haha new record for me 391x9 \o/ lol.

[Lu523]

Looks like I may have to give it a try. Will post back when I give it a go.

[zeeke]

Finally! Ill check it out later

[Bryants97240sx]

Trying the 1333 strap bios now, cpu-z v1.38 give an error it says im running the memory at 4:5 at 525 when, and im actually running it at 1:1 420

[Keiki]

Nothing...

[chefnr1]

well that bios i must trie out

[Hassan]

crystal cpuid shows clock of indiv cores on kentfields, I was hoping 1.3 final fixed the upward multis on quad cores... aw9d allows 300x12 stable while p5b is 292x12 stable for me

[pcmoddingmy]

BIOS 13.A11 works with no problem whatsoever. In fact, I find it a little more stable than BIOS 13 Final. No more missing SATA and LAN options in onboard devices page.

Max FSB applied through BIOS
BIOS 13 F: 470-475MHz
BIOS 13.A11: 480-485MHz
*Max Windows bootable is still limited to 460MHz

Tried running ORTHOS Blend at 400FSB - 1.75vMHC + TR HR-05, but failed on the 56th minute. Yup, CPU-Z 1.38 has issues reading the mem ratio. I'm also seeing that the CPU gets a little overvolting action. Applied 1.4V at "OC Guru" and Abit EQ reads 1.44-1.43v.

[fhpchris]

BIOS 13.A11 works with no problem whatsoever. In fact, I find it a little more stable than BIOS 13 Final. No more missing SATA and LAN options in onboard devices page.

Max FSB applied through BIOS
BIOS 13 F: 470-475MHz
BIOS 13.A11: 480-485MHz
*Max Windows bootable is still limited to 460MHz

Tried running ORTHOS Blend at 400FSB - 1.75vMHC + TR HR-05, but failed on the 56th minute. Yup, CPU-Z 1.38 has issues reading the mem ratio. I'm also seeing that the CPU gets a little overvolting action. Applied 1.4V at "OC Guru" and Abit EQ reads 1.44-1.43v.

Do not believe "OC Guru", measure with a digital multimeter.

[Lu523]

I was able to get 9x390 stable. VCore set at 1.475 MCH at 1.58. I ran orthos for a bit over 10 hours. CPU temp never went over 45C. I have the ram running at 4:5, timing 5-5-5-18-35. I might be able to better if the ram would take it. That and I need to learn more about timing it.

[Bigchrome]

I didn't gain a single mhz from the 1333 strap.

[chefnr1]

e nieghter i not even could save my setting in bios all gets back to default as soon as a save and exit and get in to bios again nothing savet at all strange i have the same issue with the final bios crazy i think, i must be the only one thats stuck with my older bios ..

[Navig]

New strap has done me some good. As y'all may recall I was stuck at 9*379 with minimal voltages.

Swapping to the 1333 strap gave me a bencheable drop in performance.

But did allow me to hit up 9*391 stable:

9*391 memory 1:1
1.2875v/1.6v/2.3v

orthos blend 30min.

sp 1m.


This makes up for the 1333 performance loss, altho required more voltage.


navig

[Nitemare]

For me that 1333 strap didn`t help raising fsb too. Well, I think my AW9 is just a
bad overclocker. I´m still stuck on 2,6GHz / FSB 373 just like without strap.

So yesterday I did what I should have done much earlier.

I swapped my AW9D-Max with P5B Vanilla and before I mounted it into my case and into my water cooling I did vmch-, vcore-droop- and Vdimm-Mod. But those mods are still disabled and now I´m at 3 GHz / 430 FSB rock stable with orthos blend / large and prime95 just as well. And that on first try. Let´s see what I can do with mods enabled. I´ll give feedback again after testing.

Will sell now my AW9D-max.

Greetz!

[pcmoddingmy]

e nieghter i not even could save my setting in bios all gets back to default as soon as a save and exit and get in to bios again nothing savet at all strange i have the same issue with the final bios crazy i think, i must be the only one thats stuck with my older bios ..

I had similar issues too, did you disable the options in CPU Feature?
Leaving CPU Feature in default mode should solve your problem...

[Digerati]

AW9D-Max
Intel Core 2 Duo: 6600
Creative X-Fi
250gb some sort of Maxtor Drive
2 gigs Corsair XMS

FSB: 411 (2.0 MCH)
CPU: 3.7ghz (1.5V)
Ram: 5-5-5-13
No mods, strictly air cooled. Replaced northbridge with some coolermaster northbridge fan. Considering doing a VDroop mod, but I'm not sure how much more I'll be able to get out of aircooled considering how hot the Conroe is running. o.O

Ran Super Pi 32m twice with no stability problems. Will try other benches later.

[chefnr1]

I had similar issues too, did you disable the options in CPU Feature?
Leaving CPU Feature in default mode should solve your problem...

ok but if i leave them at defaults CPU futures i cannot klock that high as i can with them disabled, but i have the same issue with 13 final bios and now even with my older beta bios that never failed , i think i've missed some parameters like /wb /qi /f so that bios will be over written totaly new bootblock and etc etc, will try that and se if that would help..

[Pretender]

ok but if i leave them at defaults CPU futures i cannot klock that high as i can with them disabled, but i have the same issue with 13 final bios and now even with my older beta bios that never failed , i think i've missed some parameters like /wb /qi /f so that bios will be over written totaly new bootblock and etc etc, will try that and se if that would help..

Hi. I have the same problem as you! After I flashed the 13 final bios I had some problem. So i flashed to my old b 13 03 bios and I don't have the same results as before. It is as the 13 final bios screwed my board . So chfnr1 let us know of your results.

Thanks