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

I'm very interested in this board, will it work with components listed in my sig (excluding CPU of course)?

Also has anyone managed an upgrade without a clean install of XP Pro.

And I have IDE based disk drives, are these ok or will I have to upgrade also?
 
Just wondering if anyone got their Audigy 2 ZS working on this board.

Just got myself a E4400 with the board, going to be using my old Geil BH5 ram with a 6800LE unlocked to 16x6.

Waiting to see how well it'll clock... I have watercooling for it but probably not going to make any difference other than my system being quiet.
 
Mitch007 said:
......And I have IDE based disk drives, are these ok or will I have to upgrade also?
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You should be fine with IDE's as this board has 2 IDE sockets. As to the memory, is supports DDR, but you'd have to see if you could run it with such aggressive timings. I ran 2Gig of Corsair XMS at CAS 2.5 without any problems.

Can't help with the upgrade with-out clean install question as I always do a clean install.
 
dagwoood said:
You should be fine with IDE's as this board has 2 IDE sockets. As to the memory, is supports DDR, but you'd have to see if you could run it with such aggressive timings. I ran 2Gig of Corsair XMS at CAS 2.5 without any problems.

Can't help with the upgrade with-out clean install question as I always do a clean install.
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Thanks for the info... this old P4 is getting tired, just hate to do a complete re-install with all the crud i got on my rig, its the family PC also, just a little hotter than most!
 
I switched over from an A7N8X to the 4Coredual-VSTA. Uninstalled nforce chipset drivers before shutting down doing the transplant. Windows booted up fine, installed new chipset drivers and it's been running totally fine, all benchmark scores and tests are what they should be. so I'm satified there is no immediate need to destroy this installation of XP. I was intending on doing a clean install but given the fact there have been absoloutely no problems so far I've not got round to it.
 
Just wondered if anyone can help me.


I have the 775Dual-VSTA board and i was using a xfi music for sound with sennheiser pc150, the problem was when i used teamspeak everyone could here a really loud crackling/buzzing sound so i thought my headphones were goosed. I bought some beyerdynamics and a USB speedlink mic and i still have this problem. Now i know its not the sound card as i took it out and used the onboard for my headphones and still the same problem so it has to be something in the machine, anyone got any ideas what it could be?
 
Thanks for the reply.

Tried that, even went as far as disconnecting fans and still no difference :(

Could it be a power supply issue, ive got a 420 watt levicom in at the moment?
 
just a little update for people about my GFX card situation

I was asking if a 7950GX2 would fit and work and the end result is yes it does.

I have a power issue however with the computer randomly restarting now which will be sorted when I actually start to use the system as my main rig but other than that the drivers went on fine and allow you to change options, etc.
 
Not tried it but apparently it would work in Vista and not XP however according to some users the recent new driver releases from Nvidia have fixed this problem. The 8600 works and is currently listed on the supported VGA list as the Asrock homepage. At half the price it's a reasonable compromise for 7900 performance with DX10 support.
 
Howdy. 2 months ago I bought the 4CoreDual-VSTA, last month I bought the Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 7 and this month i bought my CPU! I finally get to get rid of this old p4 prescott 3.0ghz. I've never really overclocked before, although I've been reading about it for years now, since the early celeron models came out. Anyhow, the CPU that arrives tomorrow is the E2160 (i was going to get the e4400 for the 10x multi, but finances got tight all of a sudden). I know that the maximum FSB of this board without modding it is about 285-300. I will be using pc3200 ram, and have seen good overclocks withough increasing the vcore. What is the best method to go about overclocking it?


From what i've read about these C2D's i can basically just up the FSB to about 270 or so and go from there, as long as I use the proper ram divider. This motherboard doesn't use a divider I've read though, so shoudl i just set the ram to 133Mhz? What do you guys recommend? I'm really excited to get this setup up and running tomorrow!

Cheers for the help guys
 
Ok, i've put my system together, and for some reason the default FSB was 190Mhz...anyhow, i've run 3dmark05 on stock speeds, and got 4x higher score than my old P4 3Ghz system...stock temps were 38 degrees idle, unfortunatley i didn't stress it at stock levels to see what the temps are. I've increased the FSB to 215, and the ram is running at 150Mhz at the moment...the temp under SP2004 load goes up to 52/53 degrees...what is a safe temp level to go for? at idle i'm still at about 38 degrees

this by the way, my cpu is a e2160 and i have 2x512MB pc3200

also, another question...what speed should I set my ram to in the bios? at FSB 225Mhz I had it set for 133, and it was 150Mhz, i just now increased the FSB to 240 and i'm now running at 120MHZ....what do y'all make of that?
 
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