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

Iam thinking of getting this board with a opteron 144 or 146 will these work to allow me to set up to flash bios, if I get a board which as a bios revision less than 1.4 thanks for any help
 
yes your board will most likely come with bios revision 1.2 , but you will have no problems running your opteron with that..
just remember a good Psu , and some ram wich does not want to much voltage and you should be fine
 
thanks a lot I have Kingston value ram will that be ok also 450 watt psu also the opteron 146 number is cacje 0546BPW
 
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Got mine setup and running today. Was I have to say a very easy and painless upgrade, took out old stuff, but new board and CPU in and off she went, no worries.

The only thing I've found so far is it's not happy about having different brands of ram in there, so I had to take out 2 x 256 meg strips as I was getting random crashes in games and so on. Took them out and things seem a little beter. Will flash the bios on it tomorrow I think, have done enough messing about today.

So far very happy with this board, upgrading the gfx card after xmas as I think the old 9800 Pro is a bit of a bottle neck now.
 
paul4647 said:
thanks a lot I have Kingston value ram will that be ok also 450 watt psu also the opteron 146 number is cacje 0546BPW
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should be ok just run your ram on a divider 166 or 133 and raise that HTT up to the hopefull magic 3 ghz ;)

ups forgot to say you will need one of the beta bios if you want to go over 275HTT as on all the asrock bios there is a lock on them so you can't go over 275 HTT
 
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OK so just because I am daft, When you say run the ram on a divider I take it you mean set the memory type to DDR 133 / 166 and where do you set the HTT?

I have my ram set to DDR 200 and the CPU set to 270 x 10 in the manual clockset for the cpu speed. It wont run any faster and the volts are maxed.

Its an Opty 146 and I have 2GB ram, 4 x 512mb.

Runs fine at 2750 Mhz and plays games fine. Wont prime though.

What settings should I use to get to 3Mhz?

Thanks
 
if you have the ram at ddr200 you are runing 1:1 so you ram if running at 270Mhz (what ram have you got ? ) set the ram at 166 and thy that regards your volt if you and maxing out at 1.45V and it is not stable at 2750Mhz i think you need the Vmood so you can get upto 1.55V
 
Xeon said:
i havn't played around with those so i cant help - my guess is leave it at 4 beats the lower the better.

Here are a few bios settings i've collected from thee web which are food for thought, especially the last one!!

#1 - Installed OCWB Beta Bios 1
#2 - Memory altered to DDR200 in BIOS(Async) use only for 1/1 clocking
#3 - CPU-NB Link speed set to 600Mhz
#4 - NB-SB Link speed set to 600Mhz
#5 - Cool and Quiet Disabled
#6 - CPU Voltage set to 1.45V
#7 - FSB set to 317 , in async with PCI Bus(100Mhz)

And Voila. 2853Mhz


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Running a Venice 3000 E6. Bios 1.20. Corsair VS DDR400 (2x512mb), 6600GT 128mb AGP slightly clocked @520/950.

270x9 @ 2.43Ghz, HTx3, stock voltage, C'n'Q disabled.
RAM @173Mhz 133 divider 2.5-3-3-6 1T. Sandra Memory Bandwidth 4953/4962
3Dmark03 - 8411 (max from 3 loops)
SuperPI 1M test - 37.1s

and

262x9 @ 2.35Ghz, HTx3, stock voltage, C'n'Q disabled.
RAM @214Mhz 166 divider 2.5-3-3-8 2T. Sandra Memory Bandwidth 4969/4977
3Dmark03 - 8405 (max from 3 loops)
SuperPI 1M test - 42.38s
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Have you dropped the HTT multipliers?
Stock ASRock BIOS all pretty much stop at 270-274 MHz.
The OCW Beta 1 and 2 will go over 300.
Set CPU/NB, and NB/SB to 600 (3X), or lower.

try ocwbeta bios 2, it helped me getting over the 260...

# normally the official bios blocks at 270, but mine did at 260, now 280 is reachable. Btw you are using async mode?
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"Flexibility Option" seems to lock the RAM multiplier. I've turned it off, and now I get different multipliers for DDR200 and DDR266

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OCW Beta2 BIOS
Opteron 144 (1.8GHz standard, 9x multiplier. CABYE stepping, considered one of the better ones)

Advanced / CPU Configuration:
Overclock Mode: CPU,PCIE Async
CPU Frequency (MHz) 295
PCIE Frequence (MHz) 100
Boot failure Guard: Enabled
Spread Spectrum: Disabled
Cool'n'Quiet: Disabled
Multiplier/Voltage Change: Manual
Processor Multiplier: x9 1800 MHz
Processor Voltage: 1.45
Memory Clock 166MHz (DDR200)
Flexibility Option: disabled
Burst Length: 4 beats

Memory timings - will vary with RAM. Start with 3.0 / 4 / 8 / 4 and lower if running OK:

CAS 2.0
TRCD 3 clk
TRAS 7 clk
TRP 3 clk
MA Timing Auto
DRAM Idle Timer: Disabled
User Config Mode: Auto

Advanced / Chipset Settings

CPU - NB Link Speed: 600MHz
CPU - NB Link Width: Auto
NB - SB Link Speed: 600MHz
NB - SB Width: Auto
HTTtoPCI Bridge Decode Scheme: Auto
DRAM Voltage: High
Gated Clock Function: Disabled
PCIE1 Turbo Mode: Normal
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Settings
Overcloking Async
HTT 394

Boot guard Disabled
CnQ Disabled
Third something disabled

VCORE 1,45
CPU divider x8
RAM 100
Flexibility disabled
Timingi 2,3,10,3
Command Rate 1T
Last something Disabled

Chipset
LAN ENabled
Audio Enabled

CPU - NB 600
NB - SB 600
Memory Voltage High
Everything else on Auto
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this should help you on the way to a good clocking speed :)
 
mp260767 said:
anyone running the ocwbeta4 bios ?
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Mmmmmmmmmm, the 274Mhz limit is still there for me.
Every thing else looks about the same with a few alterations to the bios defaults.
 
ns400r said:
Mmmmmmmmmm, the 274Mhz limit is still there for me.
Every thing else looks about the same with a few alterations to the bios defaults.
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shouldnt be, the ocwbeta's were the ones that lifted the limit, its gone backwards if 4 has re introduced it :(
 
mp260767 said:
shouldnt be, the ocwbeta's were the ones that lifted the limit, its gone backwards if 4 has re introduced it :(
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Erm nope.
The OCWBETA3 also has the 274Mhz limit too. Checkout the OCW forums.
 
Just discovered that systool v1.0 Build 624 lets you up the core volts to about 1.50v with no m/b modification!!
Lets me clock from 260 to 270mz stable with prime95 using standard bios 1.4 & opty146 stock cooler :)
 
HELP ME SOMEONE !!!!!

my pc randomly reboots

ive recently built my pc and ive added a Gigabyte G-Power Pro Cooler instead of the stock cooler.
my temps are cpu 28 degrees case 20 degrees c.
ive not overclocked it, all settings are standard with bios of 1.20
it has rebooted when ive been away from pc, and when ive burnt a dvd.

ive now disabled it from system/advanced so next time i get an error it doesnt reboot

if this keeps happening i aint gonna be happy over xmas, so woulfd like to get it sorted :(

cheers guys, cocker92
 
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