**The ASrock 939dual-SATA2 (ULi M1695) thread**

[GingaNinja]

I'll be greatly interested in how you get on Stu, as I just received a 146 CABYE 0540 FPBW. Our rigs a quite similar (well after the mobo and cpu are installed), so your experience should give me an idea of what to expect.

Ginga

 

[Fireblade2K4]

Yeah it will be interested as it always is when building a new rig, lol....

I think with this board I can expect a pretty decent overclock on stock volts with RAM and CPU, if I get to 2.5Ghz i'll be happy, until now i've not really done much overclocking so this will be a learning curve for me, but after seeing how these Opterons are overclocking and the mucho cheepness of this board, its a cheap enough experiment that maybe very rewarding indeed

Will keep you all posted from tomorrow on my progress anyway, but for now work

Stu

 

[smithy1983]

ive just flashed my bios from 1.4 to ocw beta 3 and its a lot better now i dont lose my voltage setting for my cpu anymore evertime i reset

 

[Fireblade2K4]

What is the onboard sound like from this motherboard, anygood?

Stu

 

[Raves]

Good enough sound for me. I have had some issues with the mic however - i need to use mic boost in order to pick-up sounds. At first when mic boost was enabled I got some static when using the mouse wheel, but now I have it set to 'push key' to activate and its all good.

 

[Fireblade2K4]

What hardware monitoring software works with this board as MBM5 does not seem to include it in the list of supported boards?

Stu

 

[bungle]

Speedfan will monitor the temps and volts just fine. Unfortunately there is no support for fan speed adjustment on this board which is a real shame as my case now sounds like a 747 taking off!

 

[GingaNinja]

Stu - I recall reading somewhere that it does work, although for the life of me I can't remember where. I think it's a pretty benign program, so you could just install it and see. That's what I'm planning to do.

Ginga

 

[MeddlE]

I run MBM5 on mine, no problems at all.

Got conductive paint, gonna try the vcore mod tonight.

 

[peter]

275 htt barrier

anyone got past this yet ?
runs fine at 275 but will not go higher , have seen that there is a restriction in the bios
memory is not the problem
suggestions needed please

 

[Yorkshirepadd]

I've the same problem even after installing various bios's like asrock1.40 or Ocwbeta3. If I raise the htt over 274 and drop the multi to anythinf, I've got to reset the bios by powering off a few times.

I'm currently limited to 2740mhz with my 146 Opteron and it should be good for 2.9-3.0. I've also got an unopened 144 opteron cab2e I may give that a go and see if it'll enable me to raise it past 275 but I sure it the bios holding me back.

Has anyone got any advice on what I can do to break the evil 275 celling ?

 

[peter]

opteron

i have a cab2e 144 so am limited to 2.4 no matter what i do
still a bargain chip but it is just knowing that it will do more
that is annoying

 

[smithy1983]

anyone got past this yet ?
runs fine at 275 but will not go higher , have seen that there is a restriction in the bios
memory is not the problem
suggestions needed please

i beleave that the ocw beta2 was the best bios for overclocking

 

[Fireblade2K4]

I run MBM5 on mine, no problems at all.

Got conductive paint, gonna try the vcore mod tonight.

What motherboard did you select from the list to allow it to work as this one is not listed?

Stu

 

[mp260767]

anyone flashed the bios on this mobo using something other than a floppy drive ?

cheers, mark..........

 

[Fireblade2K4]

I have my RAM in slots 1 & 2 for dual channel mode but it only shows up as single channel mode and also reports the memory to be DDR333 as default, anyone help with this??

Stu

 

[MeddlE]

What motherboard did you select from the list to allow it to work as this one is not listed?

Stu

I didn't, MBM still thinks I'm using an Abit NF7!! (Just checked, surprised me too)

 

[Fireblade2K4]

I didn't, MBM still thinks I'm using an Abit NF7!! (Just checked, surprised me too)

I've picked that same board now and all is good

Stu

 

[Fireblade2K4]

What do the HtperTransport Multipliers on this board do, there are settings Auto, 200Mhz, 400Mhz, 600Mhz, 800Mhz and 1000Mhz.....how do these impact system performance, stability and what other settings effect/impact these?

I've been messing with the HTT and DDR clocks most of the day knowing pretty much what I'm doing but im lost with these other settings, there appear to be 2 places in the bios where they show up, some for the Northbridge and some for the Southbridge, I am new to A64 systems, little different from the old XP's when it come to overclocking, lol.

Any pointers greatly appreciated.


Stu

 

[markeh]

Any way of knocking up the multiplier? As the current 275HTT limit wont let me go past 2400 (x9), i remember I tried it once on the original install bios (which didn't have an option for upping the htt that i could find) and it just set itself back to 9...