**Official ABIT AB9 QuadGT Review/Overclock/Guide Thread**

[Finguz]

Upset??

Who's upset?

Regardless, from your initial reply I presume that you are merely guessing and don't actually know how much is too much. Would that be reasonable?

 

[WJA96]

Quite the opposite, the BIOS options are all there to be used. The only danger with a big MCH voltage is chipset cooling and the board cooling should be built with capacity to handle all the available BIOS options. The PWM is only one that felt remotely hot on my board.

 

[Finguz]

I thank you, luckily I have a 120mm silverstone FM121 leaning across the ram and northbridge and an 80mm blowing directly onto the PWM heatsink so cooling is, hopefully, not an issue

3.8 here we come; these tuniq towers kick some serious backside

Thanks for the help WJA96

 

[BigBANGtheory]

How far sensibly should I consider OCing a QX700 on this board with a Tuniq Tower HSF and no mods on the board?

 

[Duke]

Ordered one of these today, to replace my Gigabyte DS3. Although the DS3 is a good board, I've had only average overclocks from two different E6600s, so am going to give this a try

Results in a day or two

 

[paul8811]

What are you guys using to measure temps on this board?

 

[Nelly]

Driver section has been updated, the ones dated 30/04/07 are the new ones.

 

[BigBANGtheory]

My new Abit AB9 QuadGT just booted & recognised all 8GB

 

[Nelly]

My new Abit AB9 QuadGT just booted & recognised all 8GB

Cool, which ram are you using?

 

[Duke]

Replaced my DS3 with this today but cant get it to post. Everything powers up fine - hd, fans, etc - but nothing on screen. Reseated cpu, ram, gfx but no joy.

Going to take it to work tomorrow to test with different parts, but wondering if anyone had any other ideas in the meantime?

When do you need the 4 pin molex connected in? It doesnt say you actually need it in the manual, doesnt post with or without it anyway.

 

[BUFF]

Replaced my DS3 with this today but cant get it to post. Everything powers up fine - hd, fans, etc - but nothing on screen. Reseated cpu, ram, gfx but no joy.

POST code?
You do have an rpm signalling fan attached to the CPUFan header?

When do you need the 4 pin molex connected in? It doesnt say you actually need it in the manual, doesnt post with or without it anyway.

you would only really need it if you had 2 power hungry gfx cards installed as it's there to bolster the PCI-E bus if required.

 

[BigBANGtheory]

Cool, which ram are you using?

2 kits of G.Skill 4GB PQ series, with a Corsair Dominator Memory Fan.

I will be installing Vista Ultimate 64bit later this week.

 

[Duke]

POST code?
You do have an rpm signalling fan attached to the CPUFan header?


you would only really need it if you had 2 power hungry gfx cards installed as it's there to bolster the PCI-E bus if required.

The POST code is 25 which is related to VGA. I have a 3 pin fan on the header, does it need to be 4 then?

 

[paul8811]

Anyone have a overclocking guide? I can run fine at 2.8 with everything at default, but if I then change any voltage options or up the FSB more I cant even post. I was Orthos stable at 3.5 with this chip on my p5ne

 

[Datamonkey]

So guys,

before i hit buy, do you really? and i mean REALLY rate this board.

Im using a bad axe2 at the mo, which i know isnt the best for overclocking a 6400 or a x3210 chip on, both have a low multi of 8.


Any one tried this board with a quad core chip on it.

 

[Duke]

Found the problem - my GSkill 2GB PC6400 kit. It boots fine with a generic 1GB 6400 stick in it!

Bit annoying as it does list my ram on the opening post I'll flash to latest BIOS and try it again later.

 

[Datamonkey]

duke, what gskill ram is it?

im thinking of getting the board, but im using 4gb of 6400 hz stuff.

 

[Duke]

I'm 99% sure its G.Skill 2GB DDR2 HZ PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS4 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400PHU2-2GBHZ).

I'll flash the BIOS and let you know anyway.

 

[Datamonkey]

noooooo lol

soo glad i havent hit buy yet then, as i dont have any other ddr2 to use to get the board up and running to flash.

Oh well such is life.

 

[Nelly]

Found the problem - my GSkill 2GB PC6400 kit. It boots fine with a generic 1GB 6400 stick in it!

Bit annoying as it does list my ram on the opening post I'll flash to latest BIOS and try it again later.

Indeed quite a few people are using the G.Skill 2GB DDR2 HZ PC2-6400 Kits on numerous forums. Infact it should boot at the default 1.8v because it did for me when I owned the QuadGT & HZ's. Have you adjusted the voltage to the reccomended spec 2.1v?