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

Street said:
There wouldn't be any problems using an X1900XT with this board would there? I need to get a new motherboard and I'm thinking that it would be better off me moving to Conroe, getting this board and keeping my DDR memory for now. Seems pointless spending loads on another 939 board...
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I am about to order the X1950XT, so we will see if it works :D

As Darg says, it is limited to 4xPCI-E... I don't know how much this effects performance?
 
Well I have now ordered the ATI HIS X1950XT Silent. If that works then the 1950 Pro should work, I think. But I am going away for a week, from tomorrow, before the card arrives.
 
Just got a job so hopefully I'll be able to afford new gfx card, memory and mobo and then ill finally be rid of the bugs im suffering. I just cant play games at the moment and thats what the damn thing is for.
 
Like Darg, I seem to be running into graphics issues causing freezes and reboots.

Using a 6800nu AGP everything was fine.

Swapped to a 7600GT pci-e and started to get screen corruption even just on windows after around 30 minutes. Thought it might be the card so got a 7900 GS which has been fine but is now starting to show the same symptoms.

After I get Christmas out of the way, I think I'll be looking for a new mb & ram too :(
 
i was going for a x2 amd upgrade, but is it worth me just geting this and an e6300 and using my geil 1 gig value and agp 9800 pro?

i wanted the dual core for editing whilst surfing etc.

do i need a new psu as well?
 
If on a budget then this is a great choice especially if you have decent RAM. I think a lot of my problems are down to poor memory. First thing I'm going to do is order myself some Geil 2GB DDR6400 stuff and see if that fixes any of the problems. If not then I'll go ahead and get myself a PCI-E card and the P5B or DS3 mobo.

I'll need a IDE to SATA connecter though or else I'll be limited to an 80GB harddrive :(

Anyone know if these exist and where I can find them? I've checked out OCUK and can't find them but I've heard of them before.

This board is great unless it has a problem with your hardware. If it does then it really gets bitchy :rolleyes:
 
Think I've got one you can have Darg. Give me a chance to look through my box of spares today and I'll get back to you
 
Thanks! Take your time. I've got a massive bag full of cables and random junk. 2GB HDD anyone? Looking through it for anything specific always takes forever. sometimes I just pick out random things and try to include them somehow in one of my setups. :rolleyes:
 
yes, i think i'm going to risk it as can't get a 2nd hand x2 processor and these core 2 duo's are the bee's knees so i'll risk it :)
 
Got my board & E6300 on Thursday, Didn't like how the heatsink is attached much preferred the retention bracket.

Apart from that it's rock stable running at 2ghz at the mo cause im only on stock heatsink but its running sweet not gone over 47c yet.

E6300
1gb ocz pc4000 gold
XFX 6800GT AGP Stock
 
Darg said:
Thanks! Take your time. I've got a massive bag full of cables and random junk. 2GB HDD anyone? Looking through it for anything specific always takes forever. sometimes I just pick out random things and try to include them somehow in one of my setups. :rolleyes:
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Sorry mate, I've got a few boxes full of "spares" that will probably never get used again, but I couldn't find any sata-ide convertors.
 
No worrys I'll check out some high street places. I might just go ahead and get a 250GB SATA drive. They're ridiculously cheap at the moment :)

Can anyone post some bios settings to start trying to overclock my 6400 (ddr 400)
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CPU Overclock set to aSync.
CPU FSB set to 290 (to start with)
PCI-E set to 117 or 119 (whichever you think is most stable, I use 117. If you have a PCI graphics card then you might be best leaving that at 100.)
PCI set to 34.78
All settings below to disabled.

Chipset:

Set to DDR 166mhz speed. (will set it up to around 220+ otherwise and kill your ram)
Compatibility mode disabled.
Set your timings to around 3.3.3.8 or higher if you have ram problems. If you leave it at auto then it'll set the timings too low as you have it on 166 ram speed.

In the second advanced menu just below the timings settings (cant remember exact names here):
The first setting DHCQTL or something set to enabled. This will radically improve your memory throughput.

Set both volts to normal for now. If you have ram errors you can try setting the volts to high. You can try setting AGP volts to high if you have stability errors but that's not recommended for most people.

If you have an AGP card then set it to AGP and keep fast writes off. Set the AGP timing to 8X.

If you have your own soundcard disable the onboard sound down at the bottom.

That should give you a decent stable overclock. From there you can try upping your cpu FSB to 300. That should be stable too. Anything over that can get dodgy though but you might get a lucky board.
 
thanks for those settings, will help me to.

bit of a 'thickie' question. but this board is for 'conroe' processors and the E6300 is an allendale.

am i worrying for nothing and it'll work fine :confused:

i have ordered this mobo and a E6300.
 
Darg, First of all many thanks for a how-to on overclocking, I've really been wanting to do this. However, how would the settings differ for overclocking my lesser E6300? any figures I should be using instead of the ones above? many thanks again that guide is :cool:

In fact looking at your specs in your sig, that overclock is exactly what I'm looking for. Can you give me the figures for that O/C with this board please?

In fact I think I'll wait to overclock until I have 2 x 1GB of the geil 6400RAM. I've got one strip of cheap 1GB 5300 Memory in there at the mo. :rolleyes:
 
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