Official Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9 SLI NF650i Owners Thread

geff_r · 2 Mar 2007 at 22:46

Can anyone confirm the tuniq tower and ninja fits ok
with the fan pointing toward the rear extraction?

BUFF · 2 Mar 2007 at 23:32

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

pronbably means that it runs at the typical abit 204/272fsb out of the box instead of 200/266.6

WJA96 · 3 Mar 2007 at 08:31

BUFF said:
pronbably means that it runs at the typical abit 204/272fsb out of the box instead of 200/266.6

That's exactly what it meant on the mATX Fatal1ty board I bought. Straight back to the shop.

Torquar · 3 Mar 2007 at 09:02

geff_r said:
Can anyone confirm the tuniq tower and ninja fits ok
with the fan pointing toward the rear extraction?

I can confirm that the Tower fits fine and has a fair amount of clearance. I couldnt boot with the tuniq though, had to put the stock cooler on. This is probably down to my n00bishness, and I've already posted a thread about it.

Torquar · 3 Mar 2007 at 09:05

WJA96 said:
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.

According to the manual, both PCIe slots are x16 anyway.

The Running Man · 3 Mar 2007 at 11:12

Torquar said:
According to the manual, both PCIe slots are x16 anyway.

but not when used at the same time in sli config

decto · 3 Mar 2007 at 12:53

The manual isn't clear.
The board does have 2 physical x16 slots however the chipset does not support both simultaniously therefore when using SLI the slots are electrically configured as x8 slots.

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pastymuncher · 3 Mar 2007 at 13:54

Got it all working at last. Apart from the freezing at the post screen that is. Sli was'nt working because 91.47 does'nt appear to support Sli with this board. I loaded 93.71 and the second card was detected on rebooting. So at least i have Sli now. The only thing is my cards don't like 93.71 which is why i have always stayed with 91.47. I cannot overclock with the latest driver as it keeps causing the pc (old one) to crash. It's about time Nvidia released a new driver that actually works. Not everyone has a 8800 series card or Vista.

Now for some clocking.

decto · 3 Mar 2007 at 14:14

pastymuncher said:
Got it all working at last. Apart from the freezing at the post screen that is. Sli was'nt working because 91.47 does'nt appear to support Sli with this board. I loaded 93.71 and the second card was detected on rebooting. So at least i have Sli now. The only thing is my cards don't like 93.71 which is why i have always stayed with 91.47. I cannot overclock with the latest driver as it keeps causing the pc (old one) to crash. It's about time Nvidia released a new driver that actually works. Not everyone has a 8800 series card or Vista.

Now for some clocking.

Here's a starter

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WJA96 · 3 Mar 2007 at 14:15

pastymuncher said:
It's about time Nvidia released a new driver that actually works. Not everyone has a 8800 series card or Vista.

I hate to break it to you, but the Vista drivers are a disaster too, and last time I checked ther weren't any non-beta drivers for the 8800 series either. It's very, very poor.

bluntslide · 3 Mar 2007 at 15:06

hey all
so far with the fatal1ty i have got to 3ghz thats with 1.52v to get it to run stable.
do you think that 65c on load is pushing my 4300 a bit much with the stock cooler?

WJA96 · 3 Mar 2007 at 15:13

bluntslide said:
hey all
so far with the fatal1ty i have got to 3ghz thats with 1.52v to get it to run stable.
do you think that 65c on load is pushing my 4300 a bit much with the stock cooler?

Nope.

pastymuncher · 3 Mar 2007 at 15:14

WJA96 said:
I hate to break it to you, but the Vista drivers are a disaster too, and last time I checked ther weren't any non-beta drivers for the 8800 series either. It's very, very poor.

It would seem that having the fastest cards available has made them complacent. This is what happens when you have a single company with no (at the moment) competition. ATI/AMD needs to get their act together and get out a competetive card asap.

bluntslide · 3 Mar 2007 at 15:16

WJA96 said:
Nope.

hurrah!

Alexrose1uk · 3 Mar 2007 at 15:17

decto · 3 Mar 2007 at 15:20

bluntslide said:
hey all
so far with the fatal1ty i have got to 3ghz thats with 1.52v to get it to run stable.
do you think that 65c on load is pushing my 4300 a bit much with the stock cooler?

Hi,

Seems a little high on the voltage, I got 3.0 @ a BIOS setting of 1.400v. The previous setting 1.375v gave me an error after 90 mins of Orthos. Didn't need to bump the northbridge for this.

I did find though that just using a 20pin ATX supply and the 4pin +12v made the system less stable. I'm now back to the same supply with a 20-24pin converter, +12v Atx and a molex to modified +12v ATX connector in the other 4 pins of the 8pin power connector.

Using a Big Typhoon for cooling

@ 3.0

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decto · 3 Mar 2007 at 15:35

Alexrose1uk said:
Decto, you mentioned you couldnt get the board to OC without the additional 4 pins botched from a molex to fit in the extra 4 slots in the ATX12v1 socket.

The PSU Im working with also only has a 4 pin, not 8 pin connector, and doesnt seem to boot with an overclock, which could be down to the same issue.

Would you be able able to explain how you botched the pins in and in which order, as Id like to try this myself, but dont want to attach the wrong molex pins to the wrong inputs.

Hi,

Botched is a little strong

I had a couple of molex to +12v ATX leads however if you look at these then then two of the diagonally opposed pins are angled on the corners. The other two are square.

All I did was carfully stanley knife the two square connectors so that all of the 4 connection shrounds had the same two corners missing. As shown in red.

This will then allow it to fit in the socket however I also had to take a slice of the rear part of the plug to allow it to fit next to the other +12v. As shown in blue

The key part that when installed, all of the yellow (+12v) cables and all of the black (0v) cables are aligned.

What settings are you using etc. At unlinked I could OC to 3Ghz without any issues without the extra connections. Only as I got over 3.2Ghz did I have the stability/boot issues without the extra connection.

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Alexrose1uk · 3 Mar 2007 at 16:01

bluntslide · 3 Mar 2007 at 16:07

cheers decto, will try that later.
im a right noob when it comes to power and that but i am still useing the 4 pin connector, i have a hyper 580 and that seems to have the option to run a 20 or just add the little 4 pin spltting from it for 24.
either way i am well happy with 3.0ghz so just need to tweek those volts and cool it down a bit.
can i just say that so far this is turning out to be a pretty usefull thread, thanks all!

decto · 3 Mar 2007 at 16:12

I don't have the specific pinouts however the +12v is yellow on both molex and the +12v ATX and the 0V is black. Red cables are +5v so ignore that.

TBH unless you are in a real rush you can purchase 4pin to 8 pin converters and molex to 4pin or 8pin converters for a 2-3 pounds delivered pretty much next day. Keeps all you standard plugs intact Incase you need to RMA.

looking at the 8pin connector on the board with the CPU at the top and the external connectors to the rear the connections are:

0 0 0 0 Black
+ + + + Yellow

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