homonculus
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bluescreen1337 (sic), why the hell are you using this motherboard when you 'obviously' have more spare income than donald trump (8800GTX indeed!).
Thread hijackers aside, I've just discovered an easy way to find your highest stable FSB on this board (with PC3200), simply down spec your RAM to 3-4-4-8 and set to DDR333, then just keep pushing the FSB until the chipset falls over. 317 in my case, now you can reset to DDR400 and away it goes.
The Bios settings are simple, since my graffix are AGP I ignore PCIe and leave it synchronous, disable everything else on the CPU screen except boot guard.
On advanced chipset features set the memory timings manually, flexibility disabled, dual channel, 1T command, DDR voltage to high (AGP voltage normal since my 7800GS falls over on high), drive strength highest, DRQCTL pipeline enabled, everything else on default or auto.
Superpi 1M = 23.891 secs.
Aquamark 3 = 101,898
Happy results, gonna keep fiddling maybe look at the 12v line since the board reports 11.31v (definitely NOT the PSU), try 2T command and maybe tighten up the timings a little, and mod the 7800GS cooling system since it's definitely the heat holding my O/C back (crappy stock cooler doesn't sit on the memory chips) .
I did change the NB heatsink for a better Zalman NB47, and used the stock sink on the SB (waste not, want not), I think this helps.
Idle temps 35, 36C on the bundled cooler, peak at 46C! Who needs expensive heatsinks with C2D
BTW you guys were right, Quietfan does not work on bios 2.20 it's just a coincidence that the temps were at the level I set in the bios. Sorry.
Bring on the modded bios's, worked a treat on my old NF7! (thanx merlin)
Thread hijackers aside, I've just discovered an easy way to find your highest stable FSB on this board (with PC3200), simply down spec your RAM to 3-4-4-8 and set to DDR333, then just keep pushing the FSB until the chipset falls over. 317 in my case, now you can reset to DDR400 and away it goes.
The Bios settings are simple, since my graffix are AGP I ignore PCIe and leave it synchronous, disable everything else on the CPU screen except boot guard.
On advanced chipset features set the memory timings manually, flexibility disabled, dual channel, 1T command, DDR voltage to high (AGP voltage normal since my 7800GS falls over on high), drive strength highest, DRQCTL pipeline enabled, everything else on default or auto.
Superpi 1M = 23.891 secs.
Aquamark 3 = 101,898
Happy results, gonna keep fiddling maybe look at the 12v line since the board reports 11.31v (definitely NOT the PSU), try 2T command and maybe tighten up the timings a little, and mod the 7800GS cooling system since it's definitely the heat holding my O/C back (crappy stock cooler doesn't sit on the memory chips) .
I did change the NB heatsink for a better Zalman NB47, and used the stock sink on the SB (waste not, want not), I think this helps.
Idle temps 35, 36C on the bundled cooler, peak at 46C! Who needs expensive heatsinks with C2D
BTW you guys were right, Quietfan does not work on bios 2.20 it's just a coincidence that the temps were at the level I set in the bios. Sorry.
Bring on the modded bios's, worked a treat on my old NF7! (thanx merlin)