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

Good news. I'm reduced to playing M2TW on my gfs computer when I'm over there. That only has a 6200LE. Hideous graphics but fair does to them for being able to scale down that low. I just gave her my old dell comp that has a 9800Pro. Hoping to get it installed on that and hopefully find myself a good few hours some day to put the time into my French empire that it deserves.

When I try and play it on my main comp it just sputters and dies within a minute of entering the battle map. Damn memory.. desperate job searching so I can afford that lovely looking Geil 2GB set.

Can anyone tell me if they're running Geil 2GB 6400 on this motherboard without any problems?
 
ive been running M2TW with 1GB of very lousy Geil DDR400 (cant run stock, total P O S), and still get ok frame rates on decent settings. You sure you are not having a bottleneck anywhere else? What 3Dmark's do you get?

Just got my Crucial 10th and X1950Pro today though, looking forward to realy letting the game rip once i sort out the mem timings.

The board only outputs 2.0V at "high" for DDR2 (10th is 2.2V), so you may have some probs, with the little tweaking i managed this morning before having to go to Uni, stock listed speed/timings dont work, i may have to try the ones quoted in CPU-Z, or try the 5-5-5-12 that someone said worked for them. Geil is rated at 1.9-2.3, so you *should* be ok.

French? Pah.... they tried to attack me, got thier behinds handed to them, and i managed to get them to give me Rhiems in return for a ceasefire (benefits of "supreme" power!).... Now onto Germany, Scotland, and Milan who all decided to have a go in the space of 3 turns..... Milan lost 1500men in 2 turns trying to take one of my Fortreses, and Scotland took Antwerp, but got thier butts whipped trying to take York, 5 units of Town Watch and a Levy Spearman unit beat up 3 units of Feudal Dismount Knights with Catapult backup.
 
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X1950Pro runs great. A realy boost over my old X800XT PE, and the temps arent much hotter, even though i was running an Arctic Cooling Silencer Rev4 on the old card! The new ICEQ3 is actually SMALLER than the old rev4 that it is based on, longer, but a fair bit less tall. Still nice and quiet too, and a factory overclock at stock is a nice thing indeedy!

My Crucial isnt playing game though (even 266Mhz 5-5-5-15 @ 2.0V), and im getting serious probs with my old DDR400..... memtest fail after 30% on sub-stock settings.

Anyone know a memtweaker that works with this board...... reboot, bios tweak, load, test, fail, reboot is a cycle that is getting bloody annoying!

I think i've almost outgrown this mobo.... i chose the Crucial knowing that it might have some probs, and that it was the best thing to get for when i DID upgrade the mobo
 
The rest of my system should be able to run the game fine. I got around 3500 in 3DM06 so M2TW shouldn't be a problem. I did manage to play it for a while and never had a slowdown but then something happened and suddenly I just couldn't play through this one battle. Now that I've moved on from that battle on my gfs system I may try again.

As for the memory volts I think the Geil should work ok with 2V. I think someone else on this thread had Geil ram working ok on it. My major problem with this board is that it doesnt give you any decent voltage options and the volts for the memory are just way too low.

You may be able to do a volt mod. If you look on page 5 or 6 of this thread I gave a link to a volt mod thread on a different forum and I think there was a RAM volt mod in that thread somewhere but you'll have to hunt through it to find it I think.
 
i have a ATI branded x850xt pe and it wont boot past the winxp start page, screen goes black.

how do update the bios, do i plug it in to the pci-e slot with the agp card in as well and then do a windows bios update on the card just plugged in?

where do i find the correct bios?
 
Scooby-DoobyDoo said:
Hi, the new Allendale 4300 should be good for these boards. As we are limited to 300 bus speed and these are 200x9 we could get about 300x9 = 2.7ghz.
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Thats what I'm thinking.... :D

Then when we realise we want more power, swap out the mobo, ram and gfx card and clock the saame cpu higher.... it maybe worthwhile waiting for the e6320 in this case... :)
 
Scooby-DoobyDoo said:
Hi, the new Allendale 4300 should be good for these boards. As we are limited to 300 bus speed and these are 200x9 we could get about 300x9 = 2.7ghz.
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Before you get too excited you probably ought to know that P4's don't clock well on these either (220FSB max. usually).
 
WJA96 said:
Before you get too excited you probably ought to know that P4's don't clock well on these either (220FSB max. usually).
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I think ppl see this as more a jump to cheap c2d and nothing much else. (I know I do) however, they've released a quad core ready version of this board based on a modified chipset which I think is a bit pointless - buying an expensive quad core cpu and putting it in a low budget board.......
 
I got the FSB on my E6300 up to 295, i tried up to 300, but it started to hang when it got to the memory info on the POST, so i knocked it down and it boots fine now

Is this because of heat? im not very knoledgable with overclocking, could it just be this board? ive seen some amazing speeds with this cpu, but i cant seem to get near them myself
 
Greenboi said:
I got the FSB on my E6300 up to 295, i tried up to 300, but it started to hang when it got to the memory info on the POST, so i knocked it down and it boots fine now

Is this because of heat? im not very knoledgable with overclocking, could it just be this board? ive seen some amazing speeds with this cpu, but i cant seem to get near them myself
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It's not an overclocking board really, 300 is about the maximum stable fsb when using a 6300. To go higher you'll need to invest in another board.
 
Dravic said:
It's not an overclocking board really, 300 is about the maximum stable fsb when using a 6300. To go higher you'll need to invest in another board.
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A question.

If say you bought an E4300, got your ASRock 775 DUAL to 300 Mhz or so to produce an overclock of 2.7MHz. What would be the best type of memory to make it run "efficiently"? e.g. DDR 400 or DDR2 533?

Is there a definitive answer?!?!?
 
I remember reading about some voltmods for this board that allow higher bus speeds, I'm not that confident with a soldering iron though. :p
 
ramirez said:
Does anyone know what SATA chipset this board has?
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root@dualvsta:~# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT894 Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT894 Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT894 Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT890 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT894 Host Bridge
00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT894 I/O APIC Interrupt Controller
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT894 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 04)
00:0c.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3512 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 01)
00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A SATA 2-Port Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to ISA Bridge
00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 Ultra VLINK Controller
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 7c)
00:13.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to PCIE Bridge
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R350 [Radeon 9800 Pro]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R350 [Radeon 9800 Pro] (Secondary)
02:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio Controller (rev 10)

Its the nasty VT8237A as highlighted in red. I had trouble with getting both linux and windows to co exist on this RAID so I ended up buying a cheap SIL controller as in yellow for Linux to live on whilst windows lives on the other.

Trouble is that I hardly ever boot into windows :rolleyes:
 
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