ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA

[imported_TechKid]

Do you think my 640 will make it the whole way to 290 FSB? Because I have no idea where to get conductive ink. I live in Australia by the way. Also my default v-core as it says on Intel is 1.287 volts. Should I be fine doing the volt mod for 1.25v? Or do I do the 1.3 volt mod?

Here is the processor specs: http://processorfinder.intel.c...tails.aspx?sSpec=SL8Q6

 

[stevvie]

My Radeon 9800Pro has just died . So seeing as these 4CoreDualVSTA boards arn't working with the 8800GT's can somebody recomend a good midrange cheap mobo to use an 8800GT on.

Thanks

 

[Mr Vain]

Originally posted by: TechKid
Do you think my 640 will make it the whole way to 290 FSB? Because I have no idea where to get conductive ink. I live in Australia by the way. Also my default v-core as it says on Intel is 1.287 volts. Should I be fine doing the volt mod for 1.25v? Or do I do the 1.3 volt mod?

Here is the processor specs: http://processorfinder.intel.c...tails.aspx?sSpec=SL8Q6

Conductive ink pen in Western Australia, post to your state.

http://www.altronics.com.au/in...asp?area=item&id=T0020

To find your default v-core you need to run the program called RightMark CPU Clock Utility (RMClock) Version 2.30.1

http://cpu.rightmark.org/download.shtml

Under Startup column
Req.Vcore [VID] is your default v-core, check if there is a mod for your default voltage first in Shamino's article.

BSEL mod is also worth considering as per picture in post 29 of below link.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...ad.php?t=134550&page=2

 

[Mr Vain]

Originally posted by: stevvie
My Radeon 9800Pro has just died . So seeing as these 4CoreDualVSTA boards arn't working with the 8800GT's can somebody recomend a good midrange cheap mobo to use an 8800GT on.

Thanks

Abit IP35-E

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...AR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear

One of if not the best BANG FOR BUCK Mid range Board out there, from what I have read.

:thumbsup:

 

[Flapper]

Anyone know, or care to take a guess, at whether the 4coredual will have a similar problem with the new ATI HD 3800 series as it does with the 8800GT?

 

[Mr Vain]

Originally posted by: Flapper
Anyone know, or care to take a guess, at whether the 4coredual will have a similar problem with the new ATI HD 3800 series as it does with the 8800GT?

3850 AGP no probs

3800 PCI-e maybe some probs

 

[stevvie]

I too would like to find out if a 3870 would run on the 4CoreDual-VSTA PCIE slot, As my Crucial Radeon 9800 pro that I brought with a limited lifetime warranty died and now Crucial say that they NEVER sold a 9800 with a limited lifetime warranty. Although it refferencies the limited lifetime warranty in the manual and ALL the reviews of a crucial 9800pro on the net refferene it. I have been using a geforce2GTS(32meg) for the last week and a bit.

 

[myersd]

The 3870 is a Gen2 PCIe card and will probably have the same problems that the 8800gt has with PT880pro/ultra boards, unfortunately.

 

[Hlafordlaes]

Originally posted by: myersd
The 3870 is a Gen2 PCIe card and will probably have the same problems that the 8800gt has with PT880pro/ultra boards, unfortunately.

The Gen2 issue is nullifying the transitional upgrade value of this board, sadly. That plus reports of lower OC when using PCIe vid cards have convinced me to make a last investment in a 3850 AGP before shoving the board into an HTPC box and relegating it to fancy playback machine status. Should be good for a few yrs in that role.

I confess I love my quirky 4Core, tho, and am gonna savor it for a while yet.

 

[Flapper]

Well I've ended up buying an X1950XTX 512MB for 90 pounds on Ebay

I won't be going DX10 any time soon and I figured this will last me a good year. I hope the board will be able to handle this card...

 

[imported_stickboy]

it should run it fine and performance should be very good... I am very happy with the 4coredual + x1950pro 512 PCIe.

 

[myersd]

well, i bit the bullet and bought a 8800gts 640 (the ssc model with 112 stream processors)... didn't feel like messing around with trying to flash a 8800gt. I'll post detailed benchmarks once i get it.

 

[imported_stickboy]

EVGA is giving away crysis with the purchase of a 8800GTS 640 SSC

http://www.evga.com/crysis/

 

[imported_stickboy]

3dmark06 score of 8362 with EVGA 8800gts 640 SSC.

4coredual
e4400 @ 2.67
2GB DDR2 533 3-3-3-12

Disabling PCIe downstream pipeline helps alot with this card. With it enabled, there was heavy artifacts.

Update: 8712 with Forceware 169.04 drivers

 

[Mr Vain]

Originally posted by: stickboy
3dmark06 score of 8362 with EVGA 8800gts 640 SSC.

4coredual
e4400 @ 2.67
2GB DDR2 533 3-3-3-12

Disabling PCIe downstream pipeline helps alot with this card. With it enabled, there was heavy artifacts.

Update: 8712 with Forceware 169.04 drivers

That's a good result with this mobo IMO.

:thumbsup:

 

[imported_stickboy]

I'm definitely pleased. Crysis on high settings is a sight to behold. I'm playing Oblivion at 1680x1050 with HDR and everything on max and its smooth as glass. If the last 16SPs can be unlocked and with some overclocking, it might be able to break 10K with the 4coredual.

update:
i'm hitting 9000 in 3dmark06 with the maximum stable overclock i've tried so far with the 8800gts 640 SSC (620/940). The 4x PCI-E is producing diminishing returns at these levels and appears to be the end of the line unless i can overclock the other system components even more (unlikely). Still, 9000 for this board isn't bad.

 

[Raikku]

---sorry, wrong thread----

 

[tonyg996]

just put a saphire 3870 in the 4coredual, seems to run fine in xp64.
3dmark06 is 9540 with the 3870 at default clock.
had to disable pcie downstream, nothing else needed changing- bus is ok at 300.
memory is 3-3-3-10-1t

 

[imported_stickboy]

very nice... i am starting to wonder about 3dmark06 as a benchmark, though... i recently benched an 8600GT in the 4coredual and got almost 6000. The x1950pro gets only 5000 but runs circles around it in games, older games at least. maybe newer shader intensive games are different.

 

[Bunditzar]

First off - Hi everybody.

Sorry if I'm OT but I'm looking for help with an Asrock 4coreDual-vsta. I've got an E2second-cheapest-one in it, 2 sticks of geil Black Dragon, an IBM HD and a "Suntek 300W" PSU.

The problem I have is that I can't get the board to do anything at all. The little LEDs on the Ram sticks (I didn't know they had them when I bought them don't come on, the CPU fan doesn't spin up, the HDD doesn't spin up. The sticker on the BIOS chip reads P1.70-12B

The PSU works with an old Dell P4 server I have kicking about but I don't have another LGA775 mobo to try swapping nor do I have another PSU with the 4 pin connector on it.

Does anybody have any advice before I throw the board in the trash?

 

[bigsnyder]

Find another PSU like a FSP/Sparkle unit from a local shop if funds are an issue.
These are about the best "cheap" PSUs you can get IMO. I would also try booting
with only one stick of memory at a time.

 

[Mr Vain]

Nirvana Bios for the 4CoreDual-SATA2 board that if true may also work with the 4CoreDual-VSTA board.

Looks Like a hidden Via Bios exists that lets you changes all sorts of settings.

Could someone Techy please try it and explain what it?s all about.

Thanks Javver for making this known in another forum.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813157115

GEEKS.TECH
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week 11/30/2007 4:40:33 PM TECH AND TEST


Pros: IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS WITH THE BORD TRY F9 DEL AND THEN LET THE BORD RUN A TEST WITH WILL TAKE ABOUT 2 HOURS ON A PENTIUM 4.1GHZ AFTER THE TEST THE BORD WILL ADJUST ALL THE SETTINGS WITH YOU'R SYSTEM --WARNING IF YOU RUN THE TEST AND NOT COMPLETE IT IN THE CON DOWN TIME AND YOU SHUT OFF THE SYSTEM YOU'R BORD WILL BE FRY'T BEFORE RUNNING THE TEST GO TOO BIOS AND FOR BOOT CHOICE NOTHING IT'S NO CD NO FLOOPY NO DVD NO HD DISK AND KEEP TRYING TOO RESTART THE SYSTEM AND PRESS F9 AND DELL KEY IF IT FAILS AFTER TRYNG IT MORE THEN 2-3 MINNUTES HIT THE F9-AND TAB YOU WILL GET IN A VIA BIOS NOT THE F2 BIOS THE VIA BIOS IT'S HIDDEN BIOS BUT CAN NOT BE ACCESS EASY IT TAKES TIME IT CAN TAKE HOUR'S PLESE DO NOT ADJUST ANYTHING IN THE VIA BIOS ONLY RUN THE AUTO TEST VIA BIOS HES LOT'S OFF FUTURES AND VOLTAGE ADJUSTMENT'S AND LOCKING FUTURES FOR F2 DO NOT OVERCKLOCK THE VIA BIOS DO NOT TRY TOO CHANGE ANY NAMES IN THE VIA BIOS LIKE THE MODEL NUMBER OR THE IBC NUMBERS OR THE SPCIPPNS VOLTAGE OR AGP

Cons: YOU CHOICE ALL ATT YOU'R RISK

Other Thoughts: IN THE VIA BIOS YOU MAY CHANGE THE FSB-1066-OR-800-533 AND YOU CAN ADD MORE FSB LIKE 1666 FSB OR MORE AND AFTER YOU ADD MORE FSB PLESE ADD THE MHZ FROM CPU AND THE MB SO THE PROCESSOR SUPPORT IT HIH GEEKS AND TECH AT ---NEWEGG,COM




TECH -AND TEST
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week 11/30/2007 2:30:53 PM BORD TECH


Pros: BORDS PERFECT 4 OVERCKLOCKING SUPPORT'S ALL PROCESSORS SOCKET 775 TESTED WORKS PERFECT THER IT'S A TRICK IN THE BIOS AND F9-AND DEL BUTTON WHER USERS CAN OVERCKLOK VIDEO MEMORY VIDEO VOLTAGE THER ARE MORE OPTION'S ON THIS MOTHERNBORD JUST CHEAK IT OUT CHANGE THE clrs TOO CLR AND PRESS THE START BUTTON AND PRESS TAB AT STARTUP AND UNLOCK THE WORLD WARNING OVERCKLOCKING THE VIDEO FROM 64MB TOO 10 GIG WILL FREY THE DDR OR DDR2 MEMORY SOO YOU CAN USE THE INTERNALL VIDEO MEMORY AND OVERCKLOCK IT TOO 1GIG SHARE MEMORY CLICK IT TICK IT

Cons: BORDS PERFECT 4 OVERCKLOCKING SUPPORT'S ALL PROCESSORS SOCKET 775 TESTED WORKS PERFECT THER IT'S A TRICK IN THE BIOS AND F9-AND DEL BUTTON WHER USERS CAN OVERCKLOK VIDEO MEMORY VIDEO VOLTAGE THER ARE MORE OPTION'S ON THIS MOTHERNBORD JUST CHEAK IT OUT CHANGE THE clrs TOO CLR AND PRESS THE START BUTTON AND PRESS TAB AT STARTUP AND UNLOCK THE WORLD WARNING OVERCKLOCKING THE VIDEO FROM 64MB TOO 10 GIG WILL FREY THE DDR OR DDR2 MEMORY SOO YOU CAN USE THE INTERNALL VIDEO MEMORY AND OVERCKLOCK IT TOO 1GIG SHARE MEMORY CLICK IT TICK IT

Other Thoughts: BORDS PERFECT 4 OVERCKLOCKING SUPPORT'S ALL PROCESSORS SOCKET 775 TESTED WORKS PERFECT THER IT'S A TRICK IN THE BIOS AND F9-AND DEL BUTTON WHER USERS CAN OVERCKLOK VIDEO MEMORY VIDEO VOLTAGE THER ARE MORE OPTION'S ON THIS MOTHERNBORD JUST CHEAK IT OUT CHANGE THE clrs TOO CLR AND PRESS THE START BUTTON AND PRESS TAB AT STARTUP AND UNLOCK THE WORLD WARNING OVERCKLOCKING THE VIDEO FROM 64MB TOO 10 GIG WILL FREY THE DDR OR DDR2 MEMORY SOO YOU CAN USE THE INTERNALL VIDEO MEMORY AND OVERCKLOCK IT TOO 1GIG SHARE MEMORY CLICK IT TICK IT CPU OVERCKLOCKT FROM 3.2 GHZ TOO 4.2 GHZ VIDEO FROM 64 TOO 776MB BIOS CHANGET FROM PCCHIPS TOO MOTHERNBORD.

 

[imported_stickboy]

that's alot o caps...sure would like to change the cpu voltage

 

[VChuck]

Dear ASRock America Customer,

Sorry, 4CoreDual-VSTA does not support PCIE GEN2 mode VGA card.

The only solution is to set HD 3870/3850 GEN2 mode PCIE VGA card to GEN1 mode. Please refer to the video card manufacture to have further information on how to flash the firmware of the VGA card to GEN1 mode.

Hmmm,at least Asrock responded within a day
Well,I guess either ATI,Sapphire needs to step up (or who ever your cards manufacturer)
to get this to run on your Dual 775/Asrock 4core dual vista/sata2.
I will submit a ticket with Sapphire.hopefully they will respond with a firmware update.If enough people submit the same complaint.

Thanks Mr.Vain .Thanks for the heads up.

Dang it! Sorry wrong thread but still applies I guess!

 

[JohnWeg54]

Hi all My 1st time in a long time. I even had to re-register but lurk alot.
I got a Diamond Ati 3870 which I tried to instal in Vista Buisness 32 bit.
The card would post fine but when I loaded the drivers using the 7.11 or the CD drivers
RCA 8.3 the computer would just keep rebooting. Using the 7.10 drivers the computer would post but no 3d. I tried loading in XP Home and the card works using Drivers on CD.
I get 9600 in 3d mark06 with no tweaks. I have a E6600 @2.4 ghz and 2GB of pny 5300
I would like to get this working in Vista if anyone has any ideas