A8N-SLI Deluxe/Premium thread - Page 13

DKViper · 01-09-2005, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Glorfy

Doesn't work like that for me with this bios.. I jusr adjust it to what I want (X3 or X4) in the bios and it sticks....

I'm curious; how do you verify this? With nTune? Then there must be some kind of dependency that causes the multiplier not to stick. With the earlier BIOS versions I had no problem with this, so I assumed that the ASUS developers had broken something and I'm eagerly awaiting a new version.

Glorfy · 01-09-2005, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by DKViper

I'm curious; how do you verify this? With nTune? Then there must be some kind of dependency that causes the multiplier not to stick. With the earlier BIOS versions I had no problem with this, so I assumed that the ASUS developers had broken something and I'm eagerly awaiting a new version.

I don't like ntune - we don't get on! I use AIbooster. Heres a screenshot, I've altered nothing, just booted up.

bap4201 · 01-10-2005, 08:27 PM

new beta bios 1003-006 on german site! seems to work well, i've flashed to it and so far so good!

bap4201 · 01-10-2005, 08:50 PM

switched from forceware 66.93 to 71.24 and I have to say the difference is like night and day. I got 2000 more 3dmarks in 3dmark01 for a total of 27,731 with NO OVERCLOCKING AT ALL!!!

I also noticed an extrordinary difference in the colors in Half Life 2. Unbelievable!! Give it a try! I downloaded it from guru3d dot com.

Walt12 · 01-11-2005, 03:57 AM

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Originally Posted by bap4201

new beta bios 1003-006 on german site! seems to work well, i've flashed to it and so far so good!

Mind providing a link for that?

bap4201 · 01-11-2005, 10:14 AM

here ya go asus a8n-sli deluxe beta bios 1003-006

Glorfy · 01-11-2005, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by bap4201

here ya go asus a8n-sli deluxe beta bios 1003-006

I had to flash back

it locked me up hard using the same settings as with 1003.005. Oh well!

Walt12 · 01-12-2005, 02:14 AM

Works fine @ my current overclock for me.

Haven't tested whether it gives me more headroom yet ...

zonetripper · 01-12-2005, 01:30 PM

Does anyone know whether a setting for changing the Memory Divider is something standard on most boards?

This board is my first real overclocking experience, and I am really hoping to be able to manually set the memory divider at some point in the life of this board.

My Crucial Ballistix continues to cause errors in SuperPI when set over 235 with 3,4,3,10 1T Timings and 2.8 volts.

Oh, btw, there's about 100 K8N-SLI Boards by MSI on ebay right now, if you're willing to shell out about $330 USD and wait for shipping from Britain.

Sierra_abx · 01-12-2005, 01:40 PM

Most boards have memory dividers, though I can tell you from personal experience that you're better off running synchronous most of the time on A64 systems. One of the keys is maximizing bandwidth and that's often hard to do when the CPU and memory are running async. Here's a Chart. Terms like 1:1, 5:4, etc. are actually misnomers for A64 systems, though some motherboard makers use them in the BIOS's.

zonetripper · 01-12-2005, 02:09 PM

Unfortunately, with the way my RAM is performing I am unable to fully overclock my CPU. I can pull off about 235x9 with the RAM but giving 2115 on the CPU, but the CPU is capable of around 2500.

I guess the best answer would be better RAM but having just picked up a GB of this stuff, that's not happening for me any time soon. So, the next best thing for me would be to use a memory divider, to get my max CPU.

The A8N-SLI seems to automatically apply some type of a divider to the RAM when you just straight out overclock the HTT from within the BIOS, though I am not sure how it comes up with the number to use. It seriously underclocks my RAM when it does this.

I've found that if I set the DDR speed to 400 in the CPU config, and then go set voltages in the Jumper Free config - but do not change the FSB Frequency Speed - and then start up and use AI Booster to push the frequency up, I can reboot and adjust the frequency as I please without any memory divider coming into play.

Sierra_abx · 01-12-2005, 02:12 PM

On many boards, if you have Memclock set to auto, the dividers will be automatically adjusted for you.

anthony_abx · 01-12-2005, 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Walt12

Or <ALT+F2> as it boots with the BIOS on a floppy in the drive.

Anyone else had any issues with Maxtor drives and this board? I have a 120GB SATA Maxtor (6Y120M0) hooked up standalone on NV SATA3, and it keeps disappearing and generally makes my system very unstable (cold boot issues, Windows very unstable). Is this a problem for anyone else?

hi, i'm having the exact same issue withthe same hdd model. I have two of those 120gb maxtors sata whch i can't use

gonna try wd and hitachi tomorrow

Wangtree · 01-12-2005, 11:18 PM

I couldn't use the NV SATA/Raid with two WD Raptor 74s. It saw the drives as 69gb and I couldn't install windows due to stop errors. The Silicon Image raid controller works in Raid 0 but I would rather have the native controller working. The bios, 1002, would see my sata drives sometimes and then it wouldn't. The bios 1003 is consistant, it doesn't see them, ever. Sometimes it lets me select my dvdrom when I'm setting boot priorities and sometimes that choice vanishes but, luckily, the cd-rom option is there and works instead.

Pink Panther · 01-12-2005, 11:57 PM

Does anyone know how to disable Asus A8N-SLI CPU FAN Monitoring? I'm planning to water cool my system and found out that you get an error message at boot if you don't have a CPU fan connected. I looked at the BIOS but didn't find anything.

01-10-2005, 08:27 PM	#183
bap4201 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: White Mountains, New Hampshire Posts: 152	new beta bios 1003-006 on german site! seems to work well, i've flashed to it and so far so good! __________________ Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe (bios 1004.001 beta) \| A64 FX-55 (250x11) \| 2x 512 Mb OCZ PC3200 (2.5-3-3-10 1T 1:1) \| 2x eVGA 6800 Ultra / SLI Mode \| OCZ PSU 600w \| 2x 74GB Raptors RAID 0\| SB Audigy ZS \| Lian Li Black Full Tower \| Koolance Exos Liquid Cooling \| Win XP Pro sp2 slipstream \| Viewsonic P95F+B 19” PerfectFlat
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01-10-2005, 08:50 PM	#184
bap4201 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: White Mountains, New Hampshire Posts: 152	switched from forceware 66.93 to 71.24 and I have to say the difference is like night and day. I got 2000 more 3dmarks in 3dmark01 for a total of 27,731 with NO OVERCLOCKING AT ALL!!! I also noticed an extrordinary difference in the colors in Half Life 2. Unbelievable!! Give it a try! I downloaded it from guru3d dot com. __________________ Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe (bios 1004.001 beta) \| A64 FX-55 (250x11) \| 2x 512 Mb OCZ PC3200 (2.5-3-3-10 1T 1:1) \| 2x eVGA 6800 Ultra / SLI Mode \| OCZ PSU 600w \| 2x 74GB Raptors RAID 0\| SB Audigy ZS \| Lian Li Black Full Tower \| Koolance Exos Liquid Cooling \| Win XP Pro sp2 slipstream \| Viewsonic P95F+B 19” PerfectFlat
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01-11-2005, 10:14 AM	#186
bap4201 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: White Mountains, New Hampshire Posts: 152	here ya go asus a8n-sli deluxe beta bios 1003-006 __________________ Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe (bios 1004.001 beta) \| A64 FX-55 (250x11) \| 2x 512 Mb OCZ PC3200 (2.5-3-3-10 1T 1:1) \| 2x eVGA 6800 Ultra / SLI Mode \| OCZ PSU 600w \| 2x 74GB Raptors RAID 0\| SB Audigy ZS \| Lian Li Black Full Tower \| Koolance Exos Liquid Cooling \| Win XP Pro sp2 slipstream \| Viewsonic P95F+B 19” PerfectFlat
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01-12-2005, 02:14 AM	#188
Walt12 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Auckland Posts: 41	Works fine @ my current overclock for me. Haven't tested whether it gives me more headroom yet ... __________________ Cheers A64 3200+@2.43 @ 1.45v \| TT 735 Polo HSF \| Asus A8N-SLI Dlx BIOS 1003.006 beta \| 2x HyperX PC3200 (BH-5) 512Mb 203MHz 2-2-2-10 @ 2.9v \| 2x Albatron PC6600GT's in SLI @550/1100 71.24 drivers\| 2x 36GB Raptors RAID 0\| Maxtor 120GB SATA \| NEC3500A \| Samsung 172X TFT
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01-12-2005, 01:30 PM	#189
zonetripper Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Fargo, ND Posts: 11	Does anyone know whether a setting for changing the Memory Divider is something standard on most boards? This board is my first real overclocking experience, and I am really hoping to be able to manually set the memory divider at some point in the life of this board. My Crucial Ballistix continues to cause errors in SuperPI when set over 235 with 3,4,3,10 1T Timings and 2.8 volts. Oh, btw, there's about 100 K8N-SLI Boards by MSI on ebay right now, if you're willing to shell out about $330 USD and wait for shipping from Britain. __________________ A64 Winchester 3000, 2475MHz 1.5v \| Asus A8N-SLI-D (Bios 1.003.006) \| 1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR400 \| 250GB WD SerialATA \| XFX GeForce 6800GT PCI-E w/NV5 Fan 425/1120 \| OCZ PowerStream 520W \| Thermaltake XASERIII LanFire \| LG 1720P TFT Last edited by zonetripper : 01-12-2005 at 03:09 PM.
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01-12-2005, 01:40 PM	#190
Sierra_abx Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 13,880	Most boards have memory dividers, though I can tell you from personal experience that you're better off running synchronous most of the time on A64 systems. One of the keys is maximizing bandwidth and that's often hard to do when the CPU and memory are running async. Here's a Chart. Terms like 1:1, 5:4, etc. are actually misnomers for A64 systems, though some motherboard makers use them in the BIOS's. Last edited by Sierra : 01-12-2005 at 01:48 PM.
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01-12-2005, 02:09 PM	#191
zonetripper Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Fargo, ND Posts: 11	Unfortunately, with the way my RAM is performing I am unable to fully overclock my CPU. I can pull off about 235x9 with the RAM but giving 2115 on the CPU, but the CPU is capable of around 2500. I guess the best answer would be better RAM but having just picked up a GB of this stuff, that's not happening for me any time soon. So, the next best thing for me would be to use a memory divider, to get my max CPU. The A8N-SLI seems to automatically apply some type of a divider to the RAM when you just straight out overclock the HTT from within the BIOS, though I am not sure how it comes up with the number to use. It seriously underclocks my RAM when it does this. I've found that if I set the DDR speed to 400 in the CPU config, and then go set voltages in the Jumper Free config - but do not change the FSB Frequency Speed - and then start up and use AI Booster to push the frequency up, I can reboot and adjust the frequency as I please without any memory divider coming into play. __________________ A64 Winchester 3000, 2475MHz 1.5v \| Asus A8N-SLI-D (Bios 1.003.006) \| 1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR400 \| 250GB WD SerialATA \| XFX GeForce 6800GT PCI-E w/NV5 Fan 425/1120 \| OCZ PowerStream 520W \| Thermaltake XASERIII LanFire \| LG 1720P TFT
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01-12-2005, 02:12 PM	#192
Sierra_abx Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 13,880	On many boards, if you have Memclock set to auto, the dividers will be automatically adjusted for you.
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01-12-2005, 11:18 PM	#194
Wangtree Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2	I couldn't use the NV SATA/Raid with two WD Raptor 74s. It saw the drives as 69gb and I couldn't install windows due to stop errors. The Silicon Image raid controller works in Raid 0 but I would rather have the native controller working. The bios, 1002, would see my sata drives sometimes and then it wouldn't. The bios 1003 is consistant, it doesn't see them, ever. Sometimes it lets me select my dvdrom when I'm setting boot priorities and sometimes that choice vanishes but, luckily, the cd-rom option is there and works instead.
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01-12-2005, 11:57 PM	#195
Pink Panther Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2	Asus A8N-SLI CPU FAN Monitoring Does anyone know how to disable Asus A8N-SLI CPU FAN Monitoring? I'm planning to water cool my system and found out that you get an error message at boot if you don't have a CPU fan connected. I looked at the BIOS but didn't find anything.
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