Hi all thanks for this amazing thread you people have come up with. I'm running a 775dual-vsta with a celeron 330j which I plan to volt-pin mod to 1.55vcore and overclock to 4+ghz and/or eventually buy a wolfdale with the highest multiplier (maybe e5400 or e3400?). I read in some other posts that wolfdales run fine on this mboard.
My question, does the ati radeon 5850 (or 5870 for that matter) run on this mboard? I really want that card and be able to play starcraft 2, resident evil 5 and id software's rage. I also don't get why people are so against the pcie 4X slot. I've read in so many other forums and threads that it's such a bottle neck for the ati radeon 48xx cards and to get a new mboard.
According to this article http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_5870_PCI-Express_Scaling/25.html it really isn't a bottle neck for a 5870 which is way faster. It only really bottle necks at 1X speed despite what that articles conclusion says. So in my opinion people are just talking out there buttox and are full of it. I'd be more than happy to be within 5% from pcie 16X mboards.
My only concern would be the PCIE pipeline request and the other bios option that would in fact alter performance and/or compatibility. It would be great to know if these cards are capable on this mboard.
I've now upgraded my trusty Asrock to a new i5 750 and 5850 video card system, all the weird quirks I had are now gone. like ctd's in certain games, also not being able to play dvd movies on any operating system including Linux Ubuntu.
Nevertheless the Asrock will live on in the spare computer again in a few weeks.
To answer some questions here, as far as fitting a 5850 or 5870 to the Asrock I am fairly certain that others with even 4890's got no higher benchmarks than a 3850 AGP could manage, due to the limited abilities of both the version 1 4x pcie slot as well as the Via chipset, don't expect too much as this mobo is a bit of a contradiction with AGP/pcie and ddr1/ddr2 and was not designed as a gamer mobo, it definitely helped me get the most out of my video card for another 18 months though.
a 4850 without a power connector again I don't think so, the power regulators on this motherboard are not designed for such a workload, see if You can exchange it for a non green model.
Same problem after flashing 3.19a BIOS. Does anyone know if this MB should work with Dual Core E6500? When I press the power button it starts for 0,5 sec (fans and leds) and then turns off.
kingpin-cts link=topic=11845.msg73853#msg73853 date=1254528125 said:Hi lokis065.
Did you mean Celereon E3200 or E3300.
If you mean this two processors I think they will work correctly.
What I found out, that you must look at following things for the 775-Dual-VSTA:
The processor have R0-Stepping
The processer have max 1066 MHz Bus Speed (FSB).
I\'ve installed yesterday my new processer. A Pentium Dual Core E6500 (new one) with 2.93MHz frequency, R0-Stepping and an FSP of 1066MHz.
I think more frequency than 2.93MHz will work (for exapmle when you plan to update to an Core2Duo - E7600).
If you are not sure, the processor you would like to install have above requierments check the Intel CPU Spec Site: http://processorfinder.intel.com/
Greetz...kingpin
Link for BIOS 3.19a
http://www.pctreiber.net/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=11845.0;attach=8
Greetings
Guy's I have been out of the loop for quite awhile now, for which motherboard is this bios intended for?