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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

The best way is to install Windows from the start with AHCI support (pressing F6 and installing drivers from floppy) it is not all that easy to do it afterwards, here is an instruction for Intel controllers for example, and as you can see it requires messing with registry. Please note that it...
- nickime
- Post #1,245
- Mar 30, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

last update before powering the board off and taking it out of the case: Radeon 3870, a very quick comparison with x1950Pro AGP: well, it is faster ;) in Crysis it is like 50% + more performance with x1950 I was running Crysis AT 1024X768 with many settings at low or medium and card was...
- nickime
- Post #1,166
- Mar 20, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

sorry, but I don't have Vista and can not try with it, but it bothers me a bit that 64bit Ubuntu does not see all 4GB, maybe there is still some HW issue even if there is no limit in BIOS apparently hopefully I'll be able to try 3870, before passing SATA2 to my brother tomorrow, currently I...
- nickime
- Post #1,165
- Mar 20, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

a quick update, tried with memtest as well, it shows 3327MB Ubuntu 7.10 (64bit) reports 3356044k in top utility and in /var/log/messages there is a line: max main memory to use 3127 Mbytes BTW Linux kernel reports Via PT880 Ultra on my board quick and dirty comparison in Crysis shows...
- nickime
- Post #1,163
- Mar 20, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Yes, it works! BIOS recognizes 4096MB, so does CPU-Z and Windows XP (32bit) reports 3.25 GB 4CoreDual-SATA2 R1, BIOS 1.9A ( modded version ) 4GB (2X2GB) Corsair XMS memory 6400 C5 will also try Radeon 3870, to get an idea what is the impact compared to 16x performance on P35 MSI...
- nickime
- Post #1,162
- Mar 20, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

tomorrow I'll try 2x2GB sticks of Corsair XMS memory: 6400C5 - 800MHz and report back similar to Patriot it seems to be a bit out of JEDEC specs, on the memory itself it says: 1.90V hopefully it will work with my SATA2 R1, at the moment all voltages are set on highest available setting...
- nickime
- Post #1,161
- Mar 19, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

sorry, maybe it was not clear from my post, but both E2160 & E4500 are BSEL modded and mobo selects 266MHz FSB on auto, it is simply a poor overclocker, or poor thing :) has been run on high volts before, something I'll never know...
- nickime
- Post #1,142
- Mar 16, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

conflikt, it is definitely worthy replacing Celeron with any of dual cores, you will see improvement wineo, 80C is too high temperature, are you sure that cooler is mounted properly? now, not sure if it interesting to anyone, but here is my summary with 5 CPUs: E2160 ( 9x multi)...
- nickime
- Post #1,137
- Mar 16, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

done testing E6850, it will boot into windows @304 and even run Crysis CPU benchmark at that speed but fails with Orthos (and I thought that Crysis is new CPU torture test) so max stable FSB (for 8 hours at least) is 290MHz, with 9x multiplier it translates to 2.6GHz motherboard underclocks...
- nickime
- Post #1,125
- Mar 14, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

got my hands on 5 CPUs: E2160 (used it before, max Orthos stable FSB with BIOS 1.8: 284MHz) E6850 (in test now with BIOS 1.9A, so far Orthos stable @288MHz, will leave it over night) E6750 E4500 Q6600 my money is on E4500, but it will be interesting weekend ;-) wineo, can you...
- nickime
- Post #1,121
- Mar 13, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

hi everyone, just want to thank you for a lot of useful information in this thread, thanks to you my E2160 is now stable at ~2720MHz or 9x303 :D it was the BSEL mod that enabled that, before that the FSB was maxing out @ 220MHz yesterday I tried BSEL mod first with a pencil, but failed...
- nickime
- Post #815
- Feb 3, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards

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