ASRock 775Dual-VSTA for Conroe (Core2) with both AGP/PCI-E and DDR1/DDR2 support

I've taken out one of the sticks of ram and so far so good. On their own the sticks are fine but put together and games crash etc. I've even tried 1.5gb and still the same.
 
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would a 8800gts work in this board but be limited with the slow pci 4x slot?
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I couldnt help laugh at this, £350 on a card for use on a £36 motherboard :p
You'd get more performance from buying a ds3 and an x1900xt (or similar more reasonably priced by high end card)
 
trojan698 said:
I couldnt help laugh at this, £350 on a card for use on a £36 motherboard :p
You'd get more performance from buying a ds3 and an x1900xt (or similar more reasonably priced by high end card)
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lol......

I think the 8800 also requires PCI-E x16, which this board cannot do.
 
For the person that was getting the BSODs try installing Everest and checking your IRQ channels to make sure that no two devices are using the same IRQ channels. If they are you may have to remove one or the other or switch PCI slots. I was having a problem with my soundcard and agp card using the same IRQ channel resulting in nastiness.
 
Darg said:
For the person that was getting the BSODs try installing Everest and checking your IRQ channels to make sure that no two devices are using the same IRQ channels. If they are you may have to remove one or the other or switch PCI slots. I was having a problem with my soundcard and agp card using the same IRQ channel resulting in nastiness.
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Happens on PCI-E systems to, without PCI cards. Normally refers to a hardware fault or something as silly as a loose connection. Can range from a number of things, but i've seen it pop up with ATI cards quite a few times.
 
I'm thinking of getting one of these, but i'm not sure how far my RAM can go. ATM my pc crashes if I put the FSB over about 195 but I don't know if i'm limited by the mobo or if the RAM is crap. So if I get this board and it turns out I can only get 195 FSB because of the RAM am I wasting my money on this? If it turns out my ram is only doing 195FSB max can I get some top quality ddr2 ram and put it in instead that will it still be good for my next mobo upgrade when I get a dx10 pci-e card next year sometime? I read on here that you can't have the best ddr2 in this mobo.

What cpu speed could I get with an FSB of 195? I'm thinking of getting the e6600 for the higher multi but I also read here that the e6300 is pretty much the same in terms of performance (well it would be better now becase the of multi, but when I upgrade everything else the e6300 will be virtually as good as the e6600 won't it?) so should I get the e6600 or e6300 assuming I could be stuck with a 195fsb for a while (if I can't decent ddr2 ram to work with the mobo)
 
I have my RAM at 187, FSB at 300 with a 8:5 divider. Works perfect. My ram is some no name (actually hyundai when I checked :rolleyes: ) 2x512MB PC3200 stuff. I get a couple of errors in memtest when I run it but nothing show-stopping.

To get your CPU speed just multiply the FSB by the multiplier. So my 300FSB gives me 2.1Ghz with the E6300s multiplier. The E6600 would give you 2.7Ghz at the same FSB. At 195 they would give you 1365 and 1755 respectively but there is no reason why you should run the FSB that low and would quite possibly be very unstable at such a low speed on this board.

I got the E6300 because when I upgrade my memory, harddrives and gfx next year then get a new mobo it will be almost as powerful as the £100 more E6600.

As for DX10 cards working on this motherboard then don't count on it. If the G80 is anything to go by then they need a PCI-E X16 slot and this only has a X4 slot. To get DX10 you'd have to upgrade your mobo.


And onto another topic. I just tried out the latest 2.20 bios and found that instead of fixing whatever fan problem there was it simply set my fan going at 100% even after I turned on the auto fan speed thing in the BIOS options. I'm back on 2.10 with a nice quiet fan again :)
 
Thx for that. Now i'm thinking of just getting a cheapo graphics card though for the same price as the mobo and getting a better mobo, 2 gigs fast ram instead of this mobo. Thats as long as I can get a pci-E card thats as good or better than my Nvidia 6800LE (unlocked to 12 pixel thingies) for about the same price as the cheap mobo (about £40). Don't mind going over by a bit though, maybe £60 max.

Do you think the faster ram and higher FSB will make quite a big difference compared to my current ram/FSB I would get with the Asrock?
 
Darg said:
You can't clock this board that high. The highest stable FSB I've managed is 295mhz. That gives me just under 2.1Ghz with the same cpu. It's still quite fast and when you've upgraded your RAM to DDR2 and gfx card to PCI-e you can get a more expensive mobo that will be able to overclock the chip to around 2.8ghz if you're lucky.

To overclock it now just set the overclocking setting to aSync and set the CPU speed to 295 and PCI-e to 117. Set the RAM speed to AUTO and turn the compatibility to disabled if you can. Set your RAM voltage to High and you can see if command rate 1T works. if not leave it at 2T.
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Cheers for the above tip. I have been running my system at stock since I got it because it just didn't want to run stable even with the smallest overclock. I used the settings you listed above and now my E6400 is running perfectly stable at 2.37Ghz.
 
I find that my box crashes when I get past the windows login prompt unless I boost the PCI-FSB to at least 106mhz. Anything over 109mhz causes data corruption (unconfirmed). This is with the 2.10 BIOS.
 
I have mine on 117 but am not using a PCI-E card or SATA drives. The person that got their FSB to 340 used 119 I think but that was along with a crap load of volt mods and various other things and I think he just had a lucky board.

btw Judge I'm not running on 300FSB. You should try and see if you can get up that high. Depends a lot on your RAM tho. My DDR400 RAM is set to DDR 333. That gives it an actual value of 187 FSB or DD374 :)
 
I'm running a e6600 c2d at 300mhz no problems. Still using ide hard drive and agp gfx though. My old kingston pc3200 value ram is set to auto in bios (that apparently is 333mhz according to this asrock board) and hwinfo reports it's running at 187.5. That gives 2.5 3 3 7 1T. Ram voltage is set normal or low, cant remember which just now but certainly not high as that setting seemed to induce memory errors. I can run faster FSB but memtest eventually starts giving the occasional error if I go quicker than 300. At 312 it fails to boot at all. No data corruption here with pci-e set at 100 though as I say I'm not using sata.
I've unrarred large files (several gigs) copied them across via usb2 to & from a portable HD, burned data dvds, encoded xvid to mpeg2 and burned to video dvd and given some demanding games a bashing. I'm very happy with my board, superpi 1m ran in 19.233 secs.
I have a pci-e 7600gt coming in a couple of days. I hope that isn't going to upset the apple cart.
 
Do you think we should have a post that has a lot of the info people want to know in it? instead of having to search through the 8+pages?

like.. video cards supported that arnt on the ASrock list..

ram brands and models support..

a 'how to'.. for getting your ram running at the right speed..

general tips on how to get a the best overclock on this board?

stuff like that.. though who ever posted first would have to keep editing his first post.. would you mind?
 
Just thought I would post here since I received my Dual Vsata board a couple days ago.

Currently my setup is:

Celeron D 356 (512k L2 cache) 3.33ghz
1gb PC 3200 memory
Leadtek 7600GT Extreme

Out of the box I had no issues and it seems to be overall very stable.

I currently have the cpu running at 4.3ghz (172 x 25) completely stable which is very nice indeed.


The 4x PCI-E slot doesn't seem to hinder the 7600GT in anyway as I am getting decent (6.7k) results in 3Dmark05 and gaming performance is spot on.

The only issue I do have however is that if I set the ram to 1T the system will not run 3Dmark05 at all once I OC past 3.7ghz on the cpu. I currently have it sitting at 1:1 with the FSB but at 2T command rate,

Anyone have any ideas on this as I am a bit lost when it comes to memory (please note I have not adjusted anything on the memory in the bios apart from changing it to DDR400 from DDR333 when it first booted).

One slight annoyance with the design of this board however is the stupid placing of the 20 pin psu plug. I hate having wires showing and this really annoys me but then again for £40 I shouldn't really complain.

So overall excellent board for the money.
 
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