A8R32-MVP what is it

squiffy said:
Sydk- that seems quite poor, as I get 11000. You've got a faster CPU and Crossfire setup.
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I was thinking the same, but i have absolutly no tweaks or anything, bios is set to AUTO everything and no overclocks...etc.

Gonna do some tweaking tomorrow in the bios, once i've thrashed the system tonight alittle gaming, once i'm certain everything is ok at defaults.

Thx for the help guys, hopefully soon i'll be able to enjoy this setup now. :)
 
Hi,


I was having problems overclocking with the new bios at htt's over 220, the only multiplier I could use was 12x , anything less and the board would not boot with a htt higher than 210 or so. So I reflashed, it's now cured, perhaps the first flash was corrupt or even the file. I downloaded afresh from Asus America, it now works fine.

I'm running SuperPi as I type this @ 2.73ghz 2.5-3-3-7 1:1 11X multi.

Gary Key has managed 3.059.9ghz on air with an Amd 64 4000+, he reckons there was more to go, but the air cooling was holding him back!
That OC was benchmark and game stable (he played for 2 hours).
I thank Gary once again, he's been incredible throughout this, has gone out of his way to answer every one of my emails (in depth too), kudos...
I have the images to prove his OC, but don't know how to post them here?

Just to let you guys know, my board is now sold (I really fancied the DFI), this is my last night with this board (I'm not sure If I made a good decision), I'll be moving on to the DFI. I'll still be around though.

Regards
Raja
 
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Hi Raja , your coming over to the dark side then , lol , i hope your happy with it , i havn't really got into the bios to much yet as there is a lot to take in. however i am really pleased with its performance so far the only down side is you have to clear the cmos if you make a mistake which i am thinking of putting a secret switch to the outside of the case so i dont have to go rooting around every time i take it that bit too far, :D

i have got 320htt out of it prime stable but i have to say some of these guys getting these awesome clocks aren't even running with a proper graphics card in , never mind two of them they just use a pci card so thats got to put less stress on the system , not very good for gaming though lol
 
andyr said:
Hi Raja , your coming over to the dark side then , lol ,
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DFI= Dark Force Investigations? :D

BTW, I think Gary Key does run with graphics cards (perhaps even Crossfire), which makes that OC mighty impressive. Even I have managed to boot at 2.83ghz with my Crossfire setup on this new bios, unfortunatley it was not stable with S&M stress test.
 
raja said:
DFI= Dark Force Investigations? :D

BTW, I think Gary Key does run with graphics cards (perhaps even Crossfire), which makes that OC mighty impressive. Even I have managed to boot at 2.83ghz with my Crossfire setup on this new bios, unfortunatley it was not stable with S&M stress test.
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Yes i am sure Gary Key does use a graphics card though i have seen some at xtreme using pci to test
 
andyr said:
Hi Raja , your coming over to the dark side then , lol , i hope your happy with it , i havn't really got into the bios to much yet as there is a lot to take in. however i am really pleased with its performance so far the only down side is you have to clear the cmos if you make a mistake which i am thinking of putting a secret switch to the outside of the case so i dont have to go rooting around every time i take it that bit too far, :D

i have got 320htt out of it prime stable but i have to say some of these guys getting these awesome clocks aren't even running with a proper graphics card in , never mind two of them they just use a pci card so thats got to put less stress on the system , not very good for gaming though lol
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Hi,

My overclock tests were run with a EVGA 7900GTX at 683/878. The system also is run with sound/network/1394a enabled along with a full software load including AVG antivirus running in the background during testing. The board is a retail purchase from NewEgg complete with the Corsair hum at no charge. ;)

This overclock was run at 12x255HTT, 1:1 memory, 2.5-3-3-7 1T, OCZ PC4800 memory. If I had water or phase change, it would have been a different story on the CPU side. The system completed SuperPI 32m, all benchmark tests (8 games, 4 3DMarks, 2 media encodings, PCWorldBench 5, and the Winstones) along with 30 minutes of Prime95 and about 2 hours of on-line gaming in BF2 and City of Heros. I ran several tests at each maximum overclock point, all games and applications were run with the 7900GTX at 650/850 for comparisons to stock settings. The board is happily running at 8x345HTT, 1:1, 3-5-4-15 2T tonight. We test our systems in the same manner most people use them.

:)
 
Gary Key said:
Hi,

My overclock tests were run with a EVGA 7900GTX at 683/878. The system also is run with sound/network/1394a enabled along with a full software load including AVG antivirus running in the background during testing. The board is a retail purchase from NewEgg complete with the Corsair hum at no charge. ;)

This overclock was run at 12x255HTT, 1:1 memory, 2.5-3-3-7 1T, OCZ PC4800 memory. If I had water or phase change, it would have been a different story on the CPU side. The system completed SuperPI 32m, all benchmark tests (8 games, 4 3DMarks, 2 media encodings, PCWorldBench 5, and the Winstones) along with 30 minutes of Prime95 and about 2 hours of on-line gaming in BF2 and City of Heros. I ran several tests at each maximum overclock point, all games and applications were run with the 7900GTX at 650/850 for comparisons to stock settings. The board is happily running at 8x345HTT, 1:1, 3-5-4-15 2T tonight. We test our systems in the same manner most people use them.

:)
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Hi Gary now they are all offically released is there going to be a comparison test of the big 3 , Asus , Dfi and Abit as it would be helpful if we could see some of the settings used in the bios ( :o btw the people testing using pci i was referring to were on a thread on the xtreme forums :o )
 
andyr said:
Hi Gary now they are all offically released is there going to be a comparison test of the big 3 , Asus , Dfi and Abit as it would be helpful if we could see some of the settings used in the bios ( :o btw the people testing using pci i was referring to were on a thread on the xtreme forums :o )
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We are working on a shootout. :D No offense about the PCI video card, my take on the whole subject is why not test in the same manner the system will be utilized. I can get those types of scores or better also, is it going to make Outlook less suspect to viruses or improve my questionable gameplay abilities?

I liken it to open road track driving abilities, passing 500rwhp Porsches in my little 200rwhp Mustang SVO is priceless, should not happen because of how much power the Porsche has, but it does because how well I utilized my car and abilities. The same holds true here, too much emphasis is placed on HTT/FSB speeds now, when having a board tuned properly (quick, full featured, and stable) at normal operating modes is much more important in my opinion. In the end for most games today, performance all comes down to the video card anyway. The difference in F.E.A.R. with a AMD64 4000 at 12x200 compared to 8x345/9x315 is less than 5 FPS, can get 3 of that FPS back by overclocking the GPU a safe 5%. Look at the strain running at a 315 or 345HTT places on the system not too mention the quality of components you need to run reliably at those settings. A different story for encoding or folding obviously, but dual cores are meant that purpose anyway. I have yet to see someone "backing" up their media collection complain about losing 11 seconds by running at the stock HTT. ;) I just wasted at least 11 seconds writing that sentence. LOL......
 
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I am waiting patiently for the upcoming reviews, although the Asus is now gone, I think the DFI won't beat it substantially (not enough to reflect the price difference atm), the Asus has a 2 month advantage in terms of bios refinment. Hopefully people won't flame the reviewers this time, we have seen already that some bios updates are 100% compatible with certain configurations, whilst others have real issues. I have learned quite a lot from this thread, I'll certainly be more understanding of issues when/if they arise in the future. FWIW it's difficult for us to imagine how much work goes into a review, using this board with the earlier bios, showed me how difficult it can be to reinstall settings/software to the point of exhaustion. ATM the renowned review sites have to test in so many different ways, I think it would drive me insane. Couple that with the writing/grammar abilities a reviewer needs, most of us (myself included) would come up short.
 
Hi, I'm keeping to my Asus as I've achieved my objective, that is making the upgrade to PCI-E and a stable platform. Certainly the overpriced DFI isn't a option at the moment as it will only give me, maybe, a few extra fps's, and who wants to chase numbers anyhow. My next thing is crossfire and a CPU upgrade to x2, but I'm waitng for a price reduction and seeing what, if any, develops from the ATI driver side of things. If it is the case that the Asus can't do crossfire, or the x2's correctly, then I'll look at another mainboard, by then the DFI's will, hopefully, lost the rediculously inflated price. But I'm a few months off that anyway and I want to just enjoy the benefits this upgrade has brought to my gaming experiances...
ChrisC
 
chriscatt said:
Hi, I'm keeping to my Asus as I've achieved my objective,
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Me too. It's running well enough for me at the moment.

Has anyone identified any real improvements with the latest bios? I installed it this weekend but haven't tried doing any more overclocking with it yet. Been busy setting up the watercooling. Now that's finished, I'll have a go at pushing it a bit further.
 
It maybe worth reflashing the bios, to let the ram skew settings get a grip, I had problems with the initial flash, could not overclock very well, but things began to shine after the reflash.

I did not jump ship from the Asus board, there were a few things that drew me towards the DFI, if it were available at the same time as the Asus launch, I would have purchased the DFI from the start. My financial position allows me room for a little mindless experimentation, curiosity got the better of me I suppose. It is invariable that I'll purchase a Physx card, I'm running Crossfire, the DFI has nice spacing betweeen PCI slots, should allow a little more room for the heat to dissipate. The rest is trivial, to be brutally honest, I can't really justify my decision, based on those factors alone, so for the majority, I agree there's no sensible reason to get rid of the Asus board in favour of the DFI.

As was pointed out to me, the AM2 launch should be a lot smoother, the chipset will have matured, we should see some cracking boards from both Asus and DFI.


Raja
 
Hell raja, we all do daft things for the sake of 'something or other', thought I was there when I first tried running this mainboard- no need to justify. Yes the AM2 may well be worth waiting for, for me it depends on how much the CPU's price out at. However I can still want to indulge with this mainboard, crossfire, watercooling, new case even to make it all nice, roomy and cooler...
ChrisC
 
My first impressions of the DFI board, freakin awesome, cooler cpu @ same voltage (cpu is idling @24deg @ 1.47v using the stock amd fan cooler (lapped by me), easily oc'd to 2.7 without even experimenting, S&M stress test software was running whilst I was replying to posts on ocuk, not one error since installation. I'm not regretting my decision atm, especially as I was able to sell my Asus board for £100 on the infamous auction site (£93 after fees).

Hope your system works out Chris, will keep in touch.
 
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