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I changed the frequency in adavanced mode of EasyTune. Restarted. Tried to play CSS and it crashed.

I've tried upping my fsb in the bios to 300 and it resulted in high voltages.
 
IMPORTANT INFORMATION!

I was having a problem of no overclock at all.

I solved it by changing to the f4 bios and disabling legacy usb support.

It seems the legacy usb support is causeing a few problems.

I just did that and put my memory divider to 2, fsb to 400 and it overclocked no problems!

Hope that helps some people
 
RobK said:
I'm probably going to look stupid here but shouldn't the Precharge delay (tRAS) be set to 15 and the ACT to ACT delay be Auto? I thought 5-5-5-15 timings referred to CAS Latency - RAS to CAS delay - RAS Precharge - Precharge delay?
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I think you're right.. I'll check :)

edit: Yep well spotted, ta. Edited opening thread
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another thing to look at. with me at least, my pc was unstable (at least the RAM) at anything over 430 fsb. that was with the pci-e frequency at 100. I have now switched it to 105, and its much happier. now totally stable on 440 fsb, and going to play around with it throughout the week, to try and take it higher.
 
At last I've broken the 300fsb barrier :D

Set vcore 1.45v
Vdimm 2.0v

Currently running 2.17Mhz (310fsb) and seems pretty stable with a few benchy's.

Like others suggested I had to disabled all USB support in bios and here I am. I have a usb mouse which I've converted to ps2.

Just got an error run SP2004 on the ram test may up the volts to 2.1 and try again...
 
CatMangler said:
At last I've broken the 300fsb barrier :D

Set vcore 1.45v
Vdimm 2.0v

Currently running 2.17Mhz (310fsb) and seems pretty stable with a few benchy's.

Like others suggested I had to disabled all USB support in bios and here I am. I have a usb mouse which I've converted to ps2.

Just got an error run SP2004 on the ram test may up the volts to 2.1 and try again...
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Your ram should be set to 2.1v straight away, i am running at 2.2 at 400fsb.

My vcore is also only 1.37
 
anyone got problems with the front panel for sound? I have to unplug the speakers at the back if I want to use the front panel for headphones. Very annoying!

Also the sound is very tinny over headphones :*(

Apart from that the board is great!!!
 
Onboard sound is a load of rubbish

I think the onboard sound is rubbish and will be purchasing a SB XFi in about a weeks time.

When I play CSS I have to set the sound on 2.0 because it sounds very strange/distorted on 5.1.

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Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music - OEM £58.16

or

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 4 7.1 EAX Sound Card - OEM £35.84

Is it worth spending £20 more on the XFi?
 
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Which is the best to plug sata hardrives into , one of the 2 jmicron ports or the other 4 gigabyte ones ? and any bios settings i should change ? like enabling ahci?

Ive only got 1 drive so i dont want raid or anything like that.
 
evening all currently running at 2.8ghz with fsb at 400,(400x7), not altered voltages or ram settings yet as new to o/cing running sp2004 temps hold out at 50degrees, my ram shows in cpu-z as frq 400,ratio of 1:1,5,6,6,18. delving into the bios should i alter these settings and up the voltage? or do i just keep upping the fsb till i hit a brick wall or stability issues.
running 3dmark 2001 as well as sp2004 getting score of 28013 is this about right or do i wanna start altering setting in bios? thanks in advance for your opinions and thoughts new to the forums so be gentle with me :)
 
neocon said:
So I might be able to buy a pci-express sound card to go in one of those slots?

But not a graphics crad?
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Yep basically anything which is PCI now (soundcards, network/wireless cards, firewire etc) will be replaced by this. I don't see it happening for a good couple of years though.

There maybe graphics cards for 1x slots, used for workstations for motherboards that don't have onboard, but I expect most will just design 16x slot cards.
 
foamfollower said:
evening all currently running at 2.8ghz with fsb at 400,(400x7), not altered voltages or ram settings yet as new to o/cing running sp2004 temps hold out at 50degrees, my ram shows in cpu-z as frq 400,ratio of 1:1,5,6,6,18. delving into the bios should i alter these settings and up the voltage? or do i just keep upping the fsb till i hit a brick wall or stability issues.
running 3dmark 2001 as well as sp2004 getting score of 28013 is this about right or do i wanna start altering setting in bios? thanks in advance for your opinions and thoughts new to the forums so be gentle with me :)
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Welcome to the forums :)

You can just keep going until you hit a wall before needing to increase the volts, which maybe quite soon.. you might as well increase them a touch anyway by 0.25v on the cpu and 0.1v on the ram.
 
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