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

Cairnsey said:
1) Does this board have the FSB wall that the older 'Dual-VSTA' had, i.e. anything more than ~33Mhz and the OC fails? Initially the board automatically booted into a FSB of 266Mhz with no hitch but I quickly reverted to stock when I realised it wasn't right.
Cheers
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I was able to get 305MHZ FSB quite easily, so i'm running at 2745Mhz with a e2160. I've see other people get up to 318Mhz FSB with uppping the pci-e bus and i've seen 333Mhz FSB with a volt mod.
 
Speedfan isn't measuring the temp of the actual cores just the socket.
Get Coretemp here
http://www.thecoolest.zerobrains.com/CoreTemp/
Either the 0.95 or the new beta, both give the e2160 correct temp measurements. Test your overclock with Orthos by Jonny Lee. Use blend priority 9. Let it run 30mins so as the first two short FFT tests are tried (8k and 10k) Should stay below 65degrees on the cores.
I personally wouldn't stress the cpu with Intel's TAT. That tool was never meant for public release and is used by Intel Techs to thrash cpu's to destruction.
 
ron3003 said:
Speedfan isn't measuring the temp of the actual cores just the socket.
Get Coretemp here
http://www.thecoolest.zerobrains.com/CoreTemp/
Either the 0.95 or the new beta, both give the e2160 correct temp measurements. Test your overclock with Orthos by Jonny Lee. Use blend priority 9. Let it run 30mins so as the first two short FFT tests are tried (8k and 10k) Should stay below 65degrees on the cores.
I personally wouldn't stress the cpu with Intel's TAT. That tool was never meant for public release and is used by Intel Techs to thrash cpu's to destruction.
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Thanks. Ok readings are Core#0-39C and Core#1-36C. Normal for idle/stock?
(need confirmation before overclocking!)
 
Not liking the temps here:

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since im using an agp card can i up the pci bus without much trouble ?

or does it effect the pci slot too ? only my sound card in pci but still i dont want to fubar it

specs are

4300 core2duo
1.5gb od ddr400 ram
agp 6800gs

at the moment im just on 266 fsb and have been since the first bootup , runing a big typhoon so heat isnt really an issue
 
OK, can anyone advise me on DRAM settings for this board?
Problem is I've overclocked my CPU to 266*9 = 2.4Ghz but memory is now running at 133mhz(DDR266). My 3Dmark05 score has only moved to 5974. 30 points not representative of a 600Mhz CPU OC.
 
is 3dmark 05 even thatr cpu intensive these days ?

your conroe at 2.4 will be eating it , id try a different benchmark

infact i was scoring over 5050 with an athlon mobile and 6800le on air years back :/ madly clocked mind
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=920179

infact since ive never done 3dmarks since then ill download it and try it with my 4300 on this board and with a 6800gs
 
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Have you set memory to auto? Flexibility disabled? Your ddr400 should automatically be recognized as 166mhz at stock, it's a quirk of the board. If it's showing as 133mhz with the fsb at 266 try going to 267fsb and see what it says about the memory after that.
65degrees is ok as I see you're running just small FFT's which are cpu intensive and will generate the most heat. You should actually run blend as I said previously at priority 9 and not just small fft's as blend will stress the memory too. That way memory and cpu are checked for stability.
 
can you not try 3dmark 06 or something ?

i just got pretty much the same score that i used to get with my athlon mobile and this graphics card (clocked 6800GS) of 5900s

my d4300 is at 2700 too
 
andy,
The normal pci bus has it's own setting in bios and changing the cpu fsb and/or pci-e bus wont have any effect on it's default 33.33mhz setting. If you have no pci-e graphics and no sata drives then you can set pci-e bus to 117mhz as it seemed to help the cpu o/c for many dual/vsta users.
If you have sata drives then the max pci-e should be 109mhz. I have mine all (three in total) set at that these days with sata and pci-e hardware and it is solid. I've been using these boards since they first appeared as the original Dual/Vsta last October.
 
You actually set memory to ddr400 (200mhz) in bios? If you did and then upped the fsb then your memory will be running way above spec. Check what cpu-z says it's running at.
 
Anyone tried the 2.0 BIOS?

It adjusts some memory codes.. so may be of some interest.

Just going to winflash it now ;O

Will sandra before and after.

Win Flash here

http://www.asrock.com/mb/from.asp?Model=4CoreDual-VSTA&s=&T=B&ID=1248

Flashed painlessly, gave incorrect CMOS checksum on boot. loaded Optimal defaults and then I restored my overclock settings.

I had been at 2.7 (300fsb) with an AGP 9800Pro but found I had to dial back to 266 with a PCI-E gfx card. Will experiment with the FSB again =)
 
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Hi,
Building my brothers pc and having trouble. Everything seems to be working fine up to the point where I have to install XP. The computer goes through the various loading screen then it comes up with the options :
Press enter to install windows
Press R to repair a partition
Press F3 or something to cancel etc etc

This is where the problem lies - The keyboard doesn't work.

I've tried three different keyboards and non of them work. Perhaps the jumpers arn't set right for the usb. Can anybody help?

Thanks
 
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