**Official Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9 SLI NF650i Owners Thread**

I'm still not sure about this board :confused:

By the way is this correct:

BFG 8800 GTS OC

Note: These cards require PCI-E x16 slots, they will not function in a x8 slot so for SLi you need dual x16 mainboard. Finally 500W minimum for PSU and 600W+ is recommended.

I was gonna buy 2x 8800 GTS with this board but i'm not sure now :( .
 
@Nickg
What were the settings you put in which didnt get it to boot?

As the RAM and CPU I'll be using seem to be good, Im hoping to jump straight in with 400fsb, a bit more voltage and just leave it there. When testing with the old mobo, the cpu was hitting about 60 degrees max at this speed, before everything started playing pokey, and thats 60 after an 8 hour streak of small fft orthos!

I dont mind if this board wont take amazingly stupid fsbs like 500, but I'm hoping for 400 and 350 at the minimum. Perhaps a little demanding, but if its billed as a fatal1ty board, Id hope its got some umph to go with it, especially as it should be capable of minimum about 333fsb on the most poor, decrepit board as its meant to support 1333fsb CPUs
 
HugeChopper said:
I'm still not sure about this board :confused:

By the way is this correct:

BFG 8800 GTS OC

Note: These cards require PCI-E x16 slots, they will not function in a x8 slot so for SLi you need dual x16 mainboard. Finally 500W minimum for PSU and 600W+ is recommended.

I was gonna buy 2x 8800 GTS with this board but i'm not sure now :( .
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No, it's wrong. They run fine in 8x slots. They even run in 4x slots.

And, for what it's worth, I'd buy 1 8800GTX instead.
 
Right, first off i am having an absolute nightmare with this board, i will get to that in a minute.

The layout is fine to me. Sata ports are out of the way of the graphics cards and the SB heatsink is clear of the second graphics card (i still have the 7800gt's in my siggy). I also did'nt need to install any sata drivers and loaded XP from a sata Samsung 18x DVDRW. Too many crappy leds though. It would have been nice if they put an led fault diagnosis display on it instead.

Now the negatives. I cannot get this damn thing stable at stock let alone tweaking it. I get freezes at the post screen, random crashing and reboots, alarms going of for no apparent reason, especially on boot up and bloody sli does'nt work. Yes i turned the prehistoric sli board thingy around and yes it is in properly. You even get a light that tells you it's activated. As far as i can see there is nothing in the bios to change for sli graphics cards, only for sli memory. I am running 91.47 which was fine on my old rig. 93.72 do not work with my cards. The motherboard drivers are the ones from the disk as Abits website does'nt even list any downloads for this board apart from the original bios. Absolutely pathetic. No support on their site at all. I went to Nvidias site to see if there are any later drivers for the 650i and there are some from the begining of Feb so i clicked on the UK link and got a blank page. Bloody great!! All the other international links work apart from ours. I downloaded the primary driver and am going to try that.

Temps wise, in PC Health in the bios it's reported as 12 degrees at idle which would be about right as it's bloody freezing up here and the window that the radiator sits on is open. Abit EQ detects it as 225 degrees C :eek: . If the new drivers do not change anything i will have to memtest the ram, if it will stay booted that is.

I have this mobo, a 4300 (which is showing as having an unlocked multiplier ?) and 2GB of Geil Ultra PC2-6400 C4.

I will report back later.
 
Alexrose1uk said:
@Nickg
What were the settings you put in which didnt get it to boot?
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hmm well i was playing with the settings - not really understanding what they do and chose some linked or synched stuff but i dont know exacty what i did to it. a quick CMOS clear and i was able to take a 2nd look and then it worked straight away because i did something slightly different.

ill be going for 3.2Ghz later on.

still no crashes system been on for couple hours now winamping, IE steam ypdate and 100% solid so far.
 
Hope its something simple for you to fix, and I dont get a PITA board like you, it'd be my sheer luck to do so :(

Making me slightly worried about this board now, but am hoping you just have a bad one.

Im hoping perhaps it just doesnt like the 4300 chip.
 
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Nickg said:
hmm well i was playing with the settings - not really understanding what they do and chose some linked or synched stuff but i dont know exacty what i did to it. a quick CMOS clear and i was able to take a 2nd look and then it worked straight away because i did something slightly different.

ill be going for 3.2Ghz later on.

still no crashes system been on for couple hours now winamping, IE steam ypdate and 100% solid so far.
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Im presuming you restarted your system frequently, and checking coldboots etc, thats where several systems I've played with before have fallen over strangely - booting, even if they were fine in windows!
 
yea, many reboots. power offs etc. i installed windows 2times over. SP2 pack afterwards each time, numerous windows update hotix reboots, driver reboots, and after i had it to my liking IDE cable and device swap outs, and its been rock during all of that.

after that ive let it sit and download steamupdates and RO etc. not had 1 crash or prob during that time frame eithe.r
 
Nickg said:
yea, many reboots. power offs etc. i installed windows 2times over. SP2 pack afterwards each time, numerous windows update hotix reboots, driver reboots, and after i had it to my liking IDE cable and device swap outs, and its been rock during all of that.

after that ive let it sit and download steamupdates and RO etc. not had 1 crash or prob during that time frame eithe.r
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Forgot to ask *duh*,how have you clocked your chip so far, or is it still 'warming up' at low OC? :)


And has anyone worked out what this blurb on the abit site is about
'Factory Overclocked
- Supercharged System Bus
Your board runs faster than its peers – with absolutely no overclocking skills needed. Instead, a supercharged, factory overclocked system bus provides the hidden powers you need to Obliterate the Competition and take home the win!'

Im guessing it means its got a 'safe' overclock feature for the less technical minded, but always like to know what the blurb means, BEFORE I have to deal with it XD
 
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What should the stock NB voltage be on this thing guys? Mine is set at 1.18v which seems a bit low to me. Got the newer chipset drivers on but sli still does'nt work. Had dual Orthos blend running for 35 mins now and so far it has'nt fallen over. Temps under core temp are 17 degrees on both cores with Orthos running. :D Abit EQ reports the same now as well after the driver update. Still don't know what the alarm is for on start-up and still get freezing in the post screen. Takes 4-5 starts to get up and running which is not good.
 
Alexrose1uk said:
And has anyone worked out what this blurb on the abit site is about
'Factory Overclocked
- Supercharged System Bus
Your board runs faster than its peers – with absolutely no overclocking skills needed. Instead, a supercharged, factory overclocked system bus provides the hidden powers you need to Obliterate the Competition and take home the win!'

Im guessing it means its got a 'safe' overclock feature for the less technical minded, but always like to know what the blurb means, BEFORE I have to deal with it XD
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Have'nt a clue. Nothing in the manual and nothing in the bios from what i can see.
 
Alexrose1uk said:
Forgot to ask *duh*,how have you clocked your chip so far, or is it still 'warming up' at low OC? :)
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as above; so far im on 2.6ghz

http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/1254/ocedcv2.jpg

leaving at so for a day or 2 so that i can assure stability (pretty much all components are new except gfx and ide's), and know i have a good base to work from.

ram @ 3-3-3-8 2.0V in 1:1 mode with cpu (memtest zero errors for 20+ mins)
 
Right then, dual Orthos blend for an hout at stock, no problems. Memtest for 2 1/2 hours no faults so it looks like the memory and cpu are ok. It must just be the crappy bios then. Still getting the alarm on bootup and freezing in the post screen but at least it has stopped doing random restarts. Still no Sli though. :mad: Getting sick and fed up with this damn thing now. Can't test the second pci-e slot as there is no video output from that slot if only one card is used.

Should have got the Asus!! :(
 
pastymuncher said:
Right then, dual Orthos blend for an hout at stock, no problems. Memtest for 2 1/2 hours no faults so it looks like the memory and cpu are ok. It must just be the crappy bios then. Still getting the alarm on bootup and freezing in the post screen but at least it has stopped doing random restarts. Still no Sli though. :mad: Getting sick and fed up with this damn thing now. Can't test the second pci-e slot as there is no video output from that slot if only one card is used.

Should have got the Asus!! :(
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Hi,

Seems you have the near same system as me, 4300, Abit, 2GB Geil LL 4-4-4-12. Only difference is you have SLI wheras I have a single GPU.

I've been testing out the settings seeing what I can superPI at. So far have got to 3.4Ghz complete superPI 1MB is 17sec. Needs 1.525v though.

Anyhow, here's a few of my settings in case it helps.

On the Softmenu page of the BIOS.

CPU Speed - Unlinked.
CPU FSB - 800 stock, currently 1467 @ 3.3Ghz Orthosing
Mem 800 - unstable at 533 default for some reason
at the bottom
Voltages: user define
CPU - 1.325 default - 1.5v @ 3.3Ghz
DDR - 1.8v - Geil needs 2.1 Have to ensure this is set
Northbridge - 1.2v default. @ 1.3v for 3.3Ghz

Head to the chipset features page and manually set the memory to 4-4-4-12 2T ---- 1T is working for me but the random settings the BIOS picks can make it unstable 5-5-5-23 ???


Issues I've had

Freezing in BIOS and refusing to boot
- low northbridge voltage when OC'd though I got to 3150 with 1.2v
- PSU connections at higher OC's
expanding on this, had booted at 3375 using 20-24pin adaptor and 4 pin ATX+12. Re-routed cables and for neater install and accidentally unpluged the 20-24 which I couldn't reconnect. result, no boots restarts etc above 3.2Ghz. Had to reset the BIOS to get back in for a number of settings. Anyhow, out of interest I butchered a molex to 4 pin adapter cable to fit in the other part of the ATX +12v connector. This fixed the issue and I could boot and run SuperPI 1M in XP@ 3.4Ghz . Can boot as high as 3.6Ghz but only get into windows 1 in 3 times and then it fails SuperPI, this is at 1.575v so I guess I've well reached the limit if the CPU. Anyhow, it may be worth checking out what connections you have to the board as it seems to need plenty of +12v inputs to boot at the higher OC's so it seems the board is sensitive to +12v inputs.

Anyhow, I'm happy enough with this board.

AD
 
yea just ramped it up a notch at this end,

CPU Speed - linked.
CPU FSB - 1466 @ 2933mhz
Mem - 732mhz @ 3-3-3-10 T2 2.1V
Voltages: user define
CPU - 1.35
DDR - 2.08
Northbridge - 1.34

SuperPi1M - 19.5s

VDROOP is apparent; i set as 1.35 this drops to 1.28 under full load (2x instances of Orthos)


linky;

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=173920
 
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Orthos uses both cores, you need only run one instance (but theres no harm if you do 2 of course)

Thanks for the info on the droop, slightly disappointing but obviously it hasnt held you back much. On the asus 650i a quick run of orthos shows a 1.62v to 1.535v drop
 
decto said:
Hi,

Seems you have the near same system as me, 4300, Abit, 2GB Geil LL 4-4-4-12. Only difference is you have SLI wheras I have a single GPU.

I've been testing out the settings seeing what I can superPI at. So far have got to 3.4Ghz complete superPI 1MB is 17sec. Needs 1.525v though.

Anyhow, here's a few of my settings in case it helps.

On the Softmenu page of the BIOS.

CPU Speed - Unlinked.
CPU FSB - 800 stock, currently 1467 @ 3.3Ghz Orthosing
Mem 800 - unstable at 533 default for some reason
at the bottom
Voltages: user define
CPU - 1.325 default - 1.5v @ 3.3Ghz
DDR - 1.8v - Geil needs 2.1 Have to ensure this is set
Northbridge - 1.2v default. @ 1.3v for 3.3Ghz

Head to the chipset features page and manually set the memory to 4-4-4-12 2T ---- 1T is working for me but the random settings the BIOS picks can make it unstable 5-5-5-23 ???


Issues I've had

Freezing in BIOS and refusing to boot
- low northbridge voltage when OC'd though I got to 3150 with 1.2v
- PSU connections at higher OC's
expanding on this, had booted at 3375 using 20-24pin adaptor and 4 pin ATX+12. Re-routed cables and for neater install and accidentally unpluged the 20-24 which I couldn't reconnect. result, no boots restarts etc above 3.2Ghz. Had to reset the BIOS to get back in for a number of settings. Anyhow, out of interest I butchered a molex to 4 pin adapter cable to fit in the other part of the ATX +12v connector. This fixed the issue and I could boot and run SuperPI 1M in XP@ 3.4Ghz . Can boot as high as 3.6Ghz but only get into windows 1 in 3 times and then it fails SuperPI, this is at 1.575v so I guess I've well reached the limit if the CPU. Anyhow, it may be worth checking out what connections you have to the board as it seems to need plenty of +12v inputs to boot at the higher OC's so it seems the board is sensitive to +12v inputs.

Anyhow, I'm happy enough with this board.

AD
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Cheers for the settings. The correct memory timings were picked up while set to auto. Interestingly though it's only using 1.85v. Tried putting it up to the proper 2.1v but it did'nt make any difference. Power wise, i have a 24 pin connector plugged in, 8 pin connector plugged in and a molex with nothing else on the same string. Plus of course the two pci-e 6 pin plugs. All from a Seasonic S12 650w Energy+. Voltages are stable and bang on so it can't be a power issue. I need to get it running properly at stock before clocking anything.

I am begining to think i have a dead lower pci-e slot. I have had both graphics cards seperately working in the top slot (not so easy when they are water cooled and connected by reinforced hose) with the selector thingy set to single card and they both work. I even tried using one then the other pci-e 6 pin plugs. Switched the selector card back to sli and also tried the sli bridge both ways around. The sli light is on so the selector is working. There's no way to test the lower slot though and i think that's causing the problem.
 
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