Asus A8V

[:PopCorn]

There's a free beer in it for you if you make it.

[Sierra_abx]

LOL. Thanks. Core speed needs to be at least 750MHz to have a chance. Hoping to run 750/650 or something close to that. My card will probably end up looking something like the pic below before the week is out.

[:PopCorn]

Those are some serious clocks man. I know a few people have pushed the 800 mark or slightly past it on the Core, but still...

[Sierra_abx]

If things work out, I may eventually buy a phase change cooler for my card. I'm going to be borrowing someone else's cooler for this run. Hopefully my card will survive.

[Blue078]

Yes and hope that sweet lil FX chip survies too. The main thing I've heard the Vapo lacks in a good long term condensation seal. I know two people that used the Vapo before the LS, and had a coupla pins on their P4's corode compleatly off.

And I know one of them forsure used that nasty goop in the CPU socket.


I look foward to hearing what you think of the Vapo's sealing system SB.

[Sierra_abx]

Thanks Blue. You're thinking of the silicone compound (pic below). Yeah, it's messy. But I hate seal string. It's a PITA to remove. Hopefully the LS won't mess up my CPU.

[Blue078]

Yep thats the stuff, you'll never catch me useing any of that goop...yuck...

Seal string is a breeze to me, great stuff.

All I'm trying to get across is take cair you can make $800 back easy...finding another super chip, is a bit difficult.

[Sierra_abx]

Appreciate the warning, Blue. This LS has a custom block. I'll be giving the Giga board another go, this time with more voltage. I'll say one thing about the A8V. I've put it thru a lot of abuse and it's still running fine, aside from the LAN chip that I fried myself. lol

[Blue078]

yea you have dished out some abuse to the A8V.

Are you just testing the Giga Byte again?

[Sierra_abx]

Yeah, Giga 939 again. Different board than the one I used before. Will probably try to run VDimm at 3.5-3.6v. Will also probably test BH-5 along with the 3700EB. I've squeezed as much as I can out of the A8V. I need more voltage. But who knows. May end up coming back to the A8V.

[Blue078]

Well good luck SB in your endless quest for higher scores

I'm mucho happy with 262x11 1:1 with 77xx of bandwidth in a 24/7 setting

[SupDawg]

No subzero cooling here, but I did receive my Zalman cooler today. Hopefully, will be able to lower temps 10c but we will see! I will report back to this thread when I get it up again.

[SupDawg]

I got the cooler installed, and it looked like it dropped 10c like I hoped. I will push tonight for 2.4 ghz. Currently @ 2.33. Wish me luck.

[CUSL2MAN]

i keep reading about superpi and testing systems. can someone tell me how to get it and how to use it.

Thanks

[gocchin]

Hello this is my first post.

I wanted to say that this is one amazing thread though I have a hard time keeping up and understanding everything. I have however learnt a lot and I thank you all.

I do have an Asus A8V Deluxe Rev 1.02 and I got the locks going by installing bigtoe's 1005.021 bios (found out of course by reading this thread).

My system currently has a A64 3800+ (though reading this thread makes me wish I had the FX-53) and am using OCZ Premier PC3200 DDR400 2.5-3-3-7 2x512 memory.

I was wondering if the memory I had was a good choice for my system especially looking down the road if I ended up upgrading to an FX-55. I haven't been able to OC the 3800 much cause of the locked multiplier but I just wanted to make sure I was putting together the best system I could. I still have a hard time understanding memory timings and and ratings and what would be best for my system and most compatible with the A8V.

Thanks for any suggestions you can make!