Asus A8V

[xgman]

Originally Posted by sierra_bound

Good luck with the Abit board. I love my NF7-S. It's been rock solid for over a year. I'm going to stick with the A8V for now. I seem to be having fewer problems than some other people. The Gigabyte looks nice, but I'll let someone else be the guinea pig on that one.

Well I heard a couple of things about the abit board which lead me to not even want to try it. DFI 939 boards are supposed to be pretty good. end of month maybe.

[xgman]

SB, is that first one (270) at 1-1 or ?

[Sierra_abx]

Originally Posted by xgman

SB, is that first one (270) at 1-1 or ?

I wish it were. I used 5:3 divider @ 2-3-2-5. RAM maxes out around 225. I had to run 4:3 with loose timings to hit 300 HTT.

[Sierra_abx]

I just pushed it a little higher. 5:3 @ 2-3-2-5 with RAM running around 229.

[xgman]

Originally Posted by sierra_bound

I wish it were. I used 5:3 divider @ 2-3-2-5. RAM maxes out around 225. I had to run 4:3 with loose timings to hit 300 HTT.

so what is the highest you can run 1-1 (ddr200) (not 2-1 ddr400) and is t worthwhile compared to 2-1 225.

[xgman]

Is your cpu stable at 2753 just with the coolance?

[Sierra_abx]

2753MHz appears to be stable. It wasn't a suicide screenshot. I had written off dividers a few days ago, but maybe there're not so bad after all.

To be honest, I haven't spent much time running 1:1 DDR200. I tried it once and the Sandra number was so bad that I gave up. Maybe I'll give it another try this weekend. Here's a screenshot of 2753 with more info.

[xgman]

looks like you got a nice chip. what are the steppings and what temps at 2750. I assume your at 1.8vcore in bios?

[Sierra_abx]

Temps are in the low 40's. Chip is marked as "SAASC". Just tried 277.5X10. RAM at around 231.

[xgman]

awesome, so your bios is set to 1.8v? How is it that temps aren't higher at that speed?

[Sierra_abx]

Yes, VCore is set to 1.8v in BIOS. If I could get RAM that runs at 240 with the 5:3 divider, I would be able to make it over 2800MHz. My temps don't seem to vary that much. At 2775MHz, it was around 42C.

[xgman]

you have a nice cpu there. hold on to it! is it retail or oem?

[Sierra_abx]

It's an OEM chip. I'll see if I can find more info on the CPU code markings.

[xgman]

also, are you setting to 1000 or 800 or ? in the bios.

[Sierra_abx]

HT was at 1000 when I was running at 2775MHz. Timings were 2-3-2-5-7-16 @ 5:3 with 2T disabled. I lowered HT and loosened the timings at 280X10 but it didn't help. I'm pretty sure the RAM is holding me back.