WJA96 you may get your 8400 over 400 but what about quad ?. I did not post any screens of myn at 450 i think it was on the msi as it needed 1.6 volts and was red hot.
I have already explained that I am not able to swap CPUs at the drop of a hat at the moment. I will put a Q6600 G0 in on Friday evening/Saturday morning and run it up again. I was able to get 3.8GHz 8 hours prime stable out of mine, and I have good water cooling so I can put 1.6V through it and it loads at about 65C which I consider perfectly acceptable for 24/7 use - check my F@H scores for proof that my rigs run 24/7 100% - 8800ppd from 3 systems!
I only posted what it was stable at and usable at 24/7 who cares what it does top if it kills its self doing it ?.
Ram was not auto set to 667 and 4.4.4.15 and 5.5.5.15 if set to 800 it does not post full stop even if fsb is over 400
It will be something simple. The board does do odd things - it reboots looking like it hasn't changed the overclock but actually it has reset the DRAM settings for you to get a stable overclock. I'm not entirely sure how the failed overclock reset works, but it seems to maintain all the settings in the BIOS even though it hasn't actually applied them. I suspect that what actually happens is it boots off the spare BIOS and then lets you adjust the primary BIOS again.
Volt seem better since downgraded bios to 1.3.
1.381 set in bios reads 1.32 in bios under load it drops to 1.302 cpuz reports & everest.
I'm not sure if you understand how the voltage monitors work but they are simply converters - the chip returns a value between, say, 0 and 255 and the program interpreting it displays a value according to what it has been told. CPUz and Everest apply a correction factor so you cannot compare the BIOS reading with the CPUz or Everest reading. Download PCWizard 2008 and set it to update every second then check the CPU core voltage at idle. Then load the CPU 100% and watch what happens to the value. On boards like the ASUS P5K with horrible VDroop you can see a drop of as much as 0.1V under load at high overclocks. That doesn't happen on the J&W IP35-Pro.
The only real way you can measure the voltages is with a volt meter and I've done that too, and I can assure you that the voltages are exceptionally stable. I've tested pretty much every P35 board out there (and posted my results/sold most of them on MM if you want proof) and this isn't a bad board at all.
Most i have managed so far is 3.4 but not stable
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OK - well I was able to hit 3.3GHz stable with a G0 on the V1.2 BIOS (see post 20 for the screenies) and then I got 3.6GHz with V1.3 then 3.8GHz with V1.3b once I started to manipulate the PCIe BUS speed and mess with the SATA settings. If you read my posts I have consistently said it's better with dual-cores, and that it loves high FSBs (ie. it's better with 1333MHz CPUs than 800MHz CPUs). I will put a Q6600 back in this weekend and run it up to speed again, then post screenies, although I think it's starting to get ridiculous that I'm basically demo-ing the board for OcUK.
As for sending it back not really thought about it but they say on the web site its a extreme performance, maximum stability and unbelievable overclocking potential so it don't really do what it supposed to well i could be wrong on that thought
I would say for the £65 you paid for it it probably meets most peoples expectations, and then they'll probably just mutter something about your overclocking skillz
Certainly, the blurb has a bit too much hyperbole, but then the guy who's buying/selling these has a tendency to use big fonts....
And as for the web site reviews - they are hilarious;
OcUk Website said:
Reviewed by: John Everitt
ery pleased but Note-Board requires 8 pin eATX not 4 pin ATX from your powersupply.Converters are avalable if your powersupply needs one. I had to stop mid-build for two days till I got one,and I am not very grown up about that sort of thing.Still a very very good budget board.
Well, no, that's wrong.
OcUK Website said:
Reviewed by: juan
mmm were to start, good board pretty sexy aswell, but bad in the OC department, had to overclock by 1mhz at a time, doubt i am doing it wrong like cause when i OC to around 334mhz x 9 wont change and only changes when u put it up by 1mhz at a time pitty, cause i like this board and would reccomend to a first time builder
He doesn't say what CPU he has, but as he's seduced by how pretty it is, let's assume he's skill-less and he's got an E8400.
OcUK Website said:
Reviewed by: MadmarcViper
whilst looking for a quad core based product to upgrade my old athlon xp2700 rsan diego ig i stumbled accorss this board on the bundle deal with the q6600 chip, As the board did not have a badge name like abit,asus,gigabyte,dfi i was very sceptical about its quality and overclocking options. In a nutshell i put my faith in overclockers choic and bought it as part of the bundle set with 4 gig of ram and the q6600 go slacr cpu,i have the rig running at 2.2 gig.
The motherboard lets you control multiplier,front side bus of the cpu, ddr, cpu and chipset voltages. plenty of sata options on the board.
My only gripe so far is the lack of support on the J&W website as there is no old or new bios for this board to download nor flashing option this board is not well known and googling it will bring back minimal results accross the globe.
The documentation that comes with this board is limited but if your not a tech guru dont worry its fully understandable to build a rig. all in all worth it.
You think you've got trouble - this guy has overclocked his Q6600 G0 to 2.2GHz. The fact he says there are plenty of SATA options on a board he claims to have bought on the 5th of January would make me think he never saw the SATA options (there weren't any on the release BIOS).
Hmmmm... A bit of poetic licence perhaps?
There have been a couple of threads I've been reading that have been really good then was nothing but complaining against price and was locked.
