The OFFICIAL Asus A8V is one INCREDIBLE motherboard, a true piece of art thread!

[Sheik]

mdzcpa ... you really wanna make me cry, don't you ?

Good luck guys. Me just drools.

[Mongoose420]

Originally posted by mdzcpa
I decided to wander on back to XS and get in on the fun:



It might be tough to make out, so:
Asus A8V (awesome board indeed)
FX 53
X800 Pro (already modded to 16 pipes and under the TEC )
1 Gig of Corsair XL 2.0-2-2-5

It's all up and running and under the Mach II.

The memory does at least up to 215 at 2.0-2-2-5 1T...haven't tried for more yet.

Hafta work now....benches tonight.

oh yea, oh yea. my 3500+ and asus a8v will be here today matched up with my khx3200 bh-5 and my crappy overclocking 9800xt. so there

[Rukee]

Originally posted by bmg
Yeh, enabling 2T or setting it to auto kills the memory bandwidth.

Thanks!! Dissabling 2T helpped a bunch!!
..any other special settings on this board??

http://www.justwebit.com/sites1/42124/6566.jpg

[LilGator]

mdzcpa, what were the codes on your core ?

Specifically the lines like this:

GA9000.1
0416AA

Can't wait to see how these 3500s OC

[Mongoose420]

Originally posted by Rukee
Thanks!! Dissabling 2T helpped a bunch!!
..any other special settings on this board??

http://www.justwebit.com/sites1/42124/6566.jpg

only 6 more hours. you guys are killing me

[mdzcpa]

Originally posted by LilGator
mdzcpa, what were the codes on your core ?

Specifically the lines like this:

GA9000.1
0416AA

Can't wait to see how these 3500s OC

I'll pull the pelt and take a pic of the core when I get home from work tonight. I saw your thread just now...I'll add my numbers to the list.

BTW, I heard the gigabyte x800 had "a better chance" to be modded...that's why I chose it. Hopefully someone else can confirm shortly.

[pkrew]

This looks to be the max I can go without mods and finish spi. Tried 236 x12.5 but would only get though 15 loops.

[charlie]

excellent... and your cooling is: ??

C

[pkrew]

It's on an LS Charlie. You should really do well on DI or cascade.

[OPPAINTER]

mdzcpa

Glad to see you back at XS my friend

OPP

[charlie]

Originally posted by pkrew
It's on an LS Charlie. You should really do well on DI or cascade.

29s SuperPi..... nice.
My last Prescott project ran 32s @ 4271mHz

If you could loop 15x @ 3gHz+ then I'm sure it'd be 3D stable on your LS at about 3030mhz.... very nice

C

[Mongoose420]

my a8v is here! now where is that damn fedex guy with my case and my 3500+

[pkrew]

Yeah, I'm a happy man atm. I'm going to try the vdimm mod later today and see how high I can get the fsb. Right now I'm starting to think that the locks are functional despite the lack of control in the bios. After that I'll try to figure out the vcore mod, but my electronics skills are pretty rusty.

[Rukee]

what chip do you have pkrew?
and what voltage?

[Mongoose420]

have any of you guys done any testing with win64 beta? from the sound of a poster yesterday about the buggy drivers that they support that OS even tho its not spec'd in the manual.

[sierra_bound]

Originally posted by pkrew
Yeah, I'm a happy man atm. I'm going to try the vdimm mod later today and see how high I can get the fsb. Right now I'm starting to think that the locks are functional despite the lack of control in the bios. After that I'll try to figure out the vcore mod, but my electronics skills are pretty rusty.

Some info from Jason on A8V volt mods. Link

[pkrew]

Originally posted by Rukee
what chip do you have pkrew?
and what voltage?

Its a OEM FX53 I picked up from gameve. I don't remember the stepping, but I'll look at it next time I tear it down.

I have it set at 1.8v. It seems to undervolt a tad. mbm reads 1.79v. cpu-z fluctuates between 1.72-1.808v.

[pkrew]

Originally posted by sierra_bound
Some info from Jason on A8V volt mods. Link

Thanks, that does the vdimm. I need to know what resistor for the vcore.

[OPPAINTER]

Originally posted by pkrew
Thanks, that does the vdimm. I need to know what resistor for the vcore.

Try the one I posted, see what happens

OPP

[sierra_bound]

Another review of the A8V. Link

[LilGator]

Will they be selling a stripped down version of this board without all the junk ? Wireless crap and such ?

[xgman]

It may be that I just got a bad board, but this A8V is the biggest POS board I have ever owned. 90% of the time I can't even get any bios to save any settings. My Fx53/940 blows this away so far. I may try one more to give it a chance, but it doesn't look good. Trouble is there isn't much choice right now)

[pkrew]

Originally posted by OPPAINTER
Try the one I posted, see what happens

OPP

I'll take a look at it OPP

Also, Asus tech support called me back. They told me that they had some stability issues with the pressent bios, but needed to get the board to market and so they took out the lock in the bios. He said the the next release will have that feature back in.

[charlie]

Originally posted by pkrew
I'll take a look at it OPP

Also, Asus tech support called me back. They told me that they had some stability issues with the pressent bios, but needed to get the board to market and so they took out the lock in the bios. He said the the next release will have that feature back in.

Beautiful.... we'll all look for that future BIOS then.
And about your 12.5 x 235 OC, that's a more than decent 1:1 OC...no BIOS corruption? What VC? What HDD?

C

[pkrew]

I'm running it right now with a ati 9800np and using a highpoint 1520 sata raid adapter with 2 74G raptors. I was going to try the promise controller, but everytime I tried to load windows it said I didn't have any drives in the system. I didn't have the via raid driver on floppy. I'll try that again later

Edit: no bios corruption at all. Have one bank interwieve set to enabled, the other set to auto and using 1t setting.