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

encephalopathy said:
plus i initially had thought my memory was duff, so ordered 2gb g-skill hz from here :)
it has arrived at my fathers (to keep her indoors from finding out i have spent even more) and i will pick it up tomorrow
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lol... I usually get stuff delivered to work for that very same reason :)
 
i'm not sure if its been posted in this thread, but i have found SYSTOOL a very useful piece of software while tinkering with this board and so on.....
plenty of useful info from this.

Ninja

PS o/c'd my cpu to 2.4 with no problems, yes i know its not much but its free :)
what is a nice safe temp for the Opty? (still using stock heatsink) :p
 
A new BIOS, OCWBeta5, is now available linky.

It looks like it's based on the official Asrock BIOS, v1.6, but I don't know whether the HTT value can be raised above 274 with this beta.
 
I hope someone else has modded this bios. The last one I could have done myself with a bios editor. Nothing was altered from the 1.5 bios apart from some default settings.

Where is the official 1.6 bios?
 
ninjapilot said:
i'm not sure if its been posted in this thread, but i have found SYSTOOL a very useful piece of software while tinkering with this board and so on.....
plenty of useful info from this.

Ninja

PS o/c'd my cpu to 2.4 with no problems, yes i know its not much but its free :)
what is a nice safe temp for the Opty? (still using stock heatsink) :p
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my one tops at 48c with the stock heatsink and 252x10 as my HTT doesn't like to past the 1000 limit (260 was stable but giving a few errors with memtest)

by the way I read the new OCW beta 5 has the 274 limit :mad:
 
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luismenendez said:
my one tops at 48c with the stock heatsink and 252x10 as my HTT doesn't like to past the 1000 limit (260 was stable but giving a few errors with memtest)

by the way I read the new OCW beta 5 has the 274 limit :mad:
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yes i read that about the OCW beta as well, give it time they will sort that out. this board has a big following :)
have you set your ram to 133 with the o/c of 252? i have my ram set to 166 but its @ 200 with my cpu running 2400 at the moment.

Ninja
 
my ram is at 133 i think but 146 opteron @274 (max as of P1.50 Bios) haver also recently tried playing with my steppings on memory but if i play about with them, ie change em from auto to anything than Super PI wont work, or gives errors.


You guys when you OC your motherboard (ASRock) are ALL you doing is changing the cpu frequency then ? i type 274 (being the max) and leave the vcore voltage and the other thing (same menu) stepping ? set to auto. I realise that 274 is the max on this board without OCW Bios, but i dont understand my memory (in Sig) in CPU-z it says under memory tab that its running at frequency 181.5 mhz, FSB/DRAM CPU/15


Under CPU tab, HTT 272.3mhz
core speed 2723.3 mhz
multiplier x10.0

Maybe I am and have done everything correct, just always like to double check that i have and should be happy.
 
ninjapilot said:
yes i read that about the OCW beta as well, give it time they will sort that out. this board has a big following :)
have you set your ram to 133 with the o/c of 252? i have my ram set to 166 but its @ 200 with my cpu running 2400 at the moment.

Ninja
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my ram is at 166 so real speed 210 mhz at 2.5-3-2-10

My OCZZ 3500EBPE used to run faster with 2.5-2-2-10 timmings on my nforce2+XP :confused: I guess is the low memory voltage on the asrock

I had it at 260x10 stable benchmarking (so ram at 217 Mhz) but i found some errors in memtest so i guess the HHT doesn't like to pass beyond 1000 Mhz :(
 
ns400r said:
When running at speeds over 250Mhz why don't you alter your HTT to 600Mhz(x3) or 800Mhz(x4) ? ? ?
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HTT must be limited to <1000 Mhz! I think this is the same for all nf4 boards?

I have never found it affects much though. :confused:
 
ns400r said:
When running at speeds over 250Mhz why don't you alter your HTT to 600Mhz(x3) or 800Mhz(x4) ? ? ?
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I am not an expert overcloking a64 but I red a few times that is more impotant to have a HTT speed around 1000 that high clock speed with lower HTT

is it true????

by the way my HTT is a 800 and I tested 260 x11 with prime95 without errors for 50 minutes. I will try longer tomorrow ;)

I also tried 274x10 at 1.4v with HTT at 3x (600) and the system was stable but memory running too slow at 133 settings (so about 167MHZ).

It's a shame we can't give 2.8v to the memory :mad:
 
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HTT must be limited to <1000 Mhz! I think this is the same for all nf4 boards?
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HTT isn limited to 1000 mhz but over 1000mhz it may become unstable i personally am running my opty at 300fsb with a HTT of 1200mhz and have never had 1 crash in the month ive had this setup.
 
NightSt@lk3r said:
HTT isn limited to 1000 mhz but over 1000mhz it may become unstable i personally am running my opty at 300fsb with a HTT of 1200mhz and have never had 1 crash in the month ive had this setup.
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that's incredible, have you run prime95? my one failed prime95 in just 2 minutes with HHT at 1080 (270x4)

I wonder if you can damaged the mobo or processor with that high HTT ???
 
One also has to wonder if the 274 cap in the official BIOS is there for a reason. Perhaps the components on the motherboard can't take anything higher in the longer term. Still, for a £40-£45 board and for most people here who upgrade frequently, that is likely not to be a concern.
 
Tuvoc said:
One also has to wonder if the 274 cap in the official BIOS is there for a reason. Perhaps the components on the motherboard can't take anything higher in the longer term. Still, for a £40-£45 board and for most people here who upgrade frequently, that is likely not to be a concern.
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Or it may be that as it is a cheap board, they don't want to shoot themselves in the foot and offer features that are only normally available with a more expensive motherboard.
 
yes i reckon the same as dagwood - if this board didn't have the 274 limit there would be no competition, still can't go wrong for the amount that it costs :)
i think that the limit will be sorted with a new OCW bios (well hopefully)

Ninja
 
Have just had a nightmare with this boards, it's been working happily since I got it with my cheap and cheerful Ocuk Value RAM. Loaded up Trillian lasty week, blue screen and Windows refused to boot. Dropped the ram speed down to 333 speeds and machine would work fine, tried different memory, 3 different hdd's and in the end flashing the bios cured it !!

What a nightmare.
 
problems with new corsair memory

Hi there

I have recently installed some new corsair ram as per my signature. The ram is supposed to have timings of 2-3-3-6 at 1t. When I run my system at auto cpu speed (200), memory at 200mhz and my timings as 2-3-3-6 1t, my system crashes, not initially on start up but when i go to outlook 2003 and reply to emails, i get a nv4.disp stop message.

However I have managed to run the system overclocked to 220 at 2.5-3-3-6 and 2t and it doesn't crash at all.

Are there any other settings that i should fiddle with in the bios? Its annoying that i cant run the memory at the speeds it should be run at.

cheers for any help
 
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