Originally posted by: pavelz
to: ajasr
AGP Fast Write - Disable
.. better settings
Originally posted by: ajsasr
Originally posted by: pavelz
to: ajasr
AGP Fast Write - Disable
.. better settings
I'm also starting to wonder if I have a bad board. The reason I say this is that when I set the FSB manually to say 242, sometimes the computer will post with a speed of 3.40GHz, and other times it will be 3.41GHz. Can someone verify if they've seen this on their board? I've also thought about getting a better PSU. I've got a cheap one that came with the 40 dollar case I have. Does anyone thing it could be that too. I used it for several years on an Athlon system with no problems....I'm about ready to RMA the board.
Thanks.
Originally posted by: timzak
Originally posted by: ajsasr
Originally posted by: pavelz
to: ajasr
AGP Fast Write - Disable
.. better settings
I'm also starting to wonder if I have a bad board. The reason I say this is that when I set the FSB manually to say 242, sometimes the computer will post with a speed of 3.40GHz, and other times it will be 3.41GHz. Can someone verify if they've seen this on their board? I've also thought about getting a better PSU. I've got a cheap one that came with the 40 dollar case I have. Does anyone thing it could be that too. I used it for several years on an Athlon system with no problems....I'm about ready to RMA the board.
Thanks.
I see the same thing, I don't think it is a problem. In trying the various FSB settings, I often see POST report the cpu speed in a .01Ghz variance (even at different speeds). I think it is an issue of rounding. You've seen CPU-Z report cpu speeds in real-time and it fluctuating by a Mhz or two. Probably when the system POSTS, it takes a snapshot of the actual cpu speed at that instance, and if it happens to be 3.404 or less, then it reports 3.4; if it's 3.405-3.409 then it reports 3.41.
What makes you think your board is defective?
Originally posted by: timzak
ajsasr,
I know, it's so tempting to just jump straight to overclocking with this setup! I'm in the same boat, trying to figure out the max stable overclock, and I've hardly run the system at all at stock. My main goal is to be able to run my DDR400 ram at its rated speed...I think I will have to relax the timings to make that happen though. On the one hand, it's sad and frustrating that this system can't run my ram at it's rated speed; on the other hand, the system is STILL worlds faster than my previous system, and only cost me $250 for the mobo and cpu (everything else migrated over from my old system). Smart move on the new PSU...good luck and keep us posted.
Originally posted by: timzak
ajsasr,
Honestly, I don't think disabling fast writes will do anything for you in terms of system stability. That should only affect 3D graphics in games. In some situations, enabling fast writes will cause graphical corruption, but if it doesn't it, framerates should be slightly faster than with disabled. Go ahead and try anyway, though, just to be sure. On my previous system (VIA KT600 with AthlonXP), enabling fast writes screwed up the graphics with an ATI 9800 Pro, but was fine with an nVidia 6800GS. It also gave the 6800GS a few extra FPS in games.
Originally posted by: bl4ckfl4g
Is anyone noticing heat issues with this board?
My cpu is at like 40c full load
Mobo says 38c load
vidcard is like 50c load
When I play WoW the game crashes every 10 min.
I tried everything and switched out all components except mobo and processor. I still got crashes.
I open the case and put a floor fan up against the side of the comp and it hasn't crashed since.
This only happens in WoW. Supreme Commander, HL2, COH, C&C3, BF2142, etc never crashed.
Is there a possibility that the North or South bridge runs hot but isn't being caught by the temperature reading? I'd really like to know why that cooling fixed the problem even though my computer was already running very cool at full load.
Any ideas?
Originally posted by: bl4ckfl4g
Is anyone noticing heat issues with this board?
My cpu is at like 40c full load
Mobo says 38c load
vidcard is like 50c load
When I play WoW the game crashes every 10 min.
I tried everything and switched out all components except mobo and processor. I still got crashes.
I open the case and put a floor fan up against the side of the comp and it hasn't crashed since.
This only happens in WoW. Supreme Commander, HL2, COH, C&C3, BF2142, etc never crashed.
Is there a possibility that the North or South bridge runs hot but isn't being caught by the temperature reading? I'd really like to know why that cooling fixed the problem even though my computer was already running very cool at full load.
Any ideas?
Originally posted by: Pluto
can anyone tell me or point me to some reading on what impact the PCI-E 4x limitation of this board/chipset has on video (non-gaming) tasks? I'm considering this board for an HTPC system and H264 acceleration is something that is becoming very important...
Originally posted by: pavelz
GF 8800 work on this motherboard .. but not work under WIN XP .. only VISTA
see this :
http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/...348-8800GTS-on-AsRock-775DUALVSTA.html
Alex Atkin UK03-20-2007, 04:30 PM
Actually the 8800 GTS DOES work on this board, at least in Vista Home Premium x64 it does and its DEFINATELY a fair improvement over my old 6600GT AGP. I get around 6000 in 3D Mark 06 with a Core 2 Duo 6400 and 1GB DDR RAM (not DDR2). Of course this board was only a stop-gap while I upgraded graphics and got some DDR2 RAM. Once I have DDR2 I will be saving up for a better board and box this up to eventually go in my Linux box once I can afford another Core 2 Duo. Linux seemed to work better on VIA than the nForce 2 its currently running on.
As for XP though, I cant get it working at all I just get BSOD or a blank screen. However this is CLEARLY something that COULD be fixed in drivers if anyone could be bothered otherwise how would it work fine in Vista? If its ASRock, VIA, nVidia or even Microsoft at fault - who knows. But fact is, the 8800 DOES work on this board quite happily at PCIe 4x which decent performance on current games even with the bottleneck. It would be a perfect stopgap while saving for a better motherboard if you want to run Vista NOW, just a PITA it doesnt work in XP.
Originally posted by: bl4ckfl4g
Is anyone noticing heat issues with this board?
My cpu is at like 40c full load
Mobo says 38c load
vidcard is like 50c load
When I play WoW the game crashes every 10 min.
I tried everything and switched out all components except mobo and processor. I still got crashes.
I open the case and put a floor fan up against the side of the comp and it hasn't crashed since.
This only happens in WoW. Supreme Commander, HL2, COH, C&C3, BF2142, etc never crashed.
Is there a possibility that the North or South bridge runs hot but isn't being caught by the temperature reading? I'd really like to know why that cooling fixed the problem even though my computer was already running very cool at full load.
Any ideas?
Originally posted by: bog
Originally posted by: bl4ckfl4g
Is anyone noticing heat issues with this board?
My cpu is at like 40c full load
Mobo says 38c load
vidcard is like 50c load
When I play WoW the game crashes every 10 min.
I tried everything and switched out all components except mobo and processor. I still got crashes.
I open the case and put a floor fan up against the side of the comp and it hasn't crashed since.
This only happens in WoW. Supreme Commander, HL2, COH, C&C3, BF2142, etc never crashed.
Is there a possibility that the North or South bridge runs hot but isn't being caught by the temperature reading? I'd really like to know why that cooling fixed the problem even though my computer was already running very cool at full load.
Any ideas?
I had this problem with the north bridge. I noticed it was OK only till 34 degrees, than games crashes (WoW but also CS for me). Try to increase agp voltage, some say it increases also north bridge voltage. Also you can try to enable flexibility for memory, it will degrade your performance but may help.
What really worked for me was, as stupid as it sounds, to overclock the processor. I run D820 and my best setup is FSB242 PCIE113 with DDRII auto, flex off, and any timings you like. As I mentioned before, AGP voltage on high
Originally posted by: bog
Originally posted by: bl4ckfl4g
Is anyone noticing heat issues with this board?
My cpu is at like 40c full load
Mobo says 38c load
vidcard is like 50c load
When I play WoW the game crashes every 10 min.
I tried everything and switched out all components except mobo and processor. I still got crashes.
I open the case and put a floor fan up against the side of the comp and it hasn't crashed since.
This only happens in WoW. Supreme Commander, HL2, COH, C&C3, BF2142, etc never crashed.
Is there a possibility that the North or South bridge runs hot but isn't being caught by the temperature reading? I'd really like to know why that cooling fixed the problem even though my computer was already running very cool at full load.
Any ideas?
I had this problem with the north bridge. I noticed it was OK only till 34 degrees, than games crashes (WoW but also CS for me). Try to increase agp voltage, some say it increases also north bridge voltage. Also you can try to enable flexibility for memory, it will degrade your performance but may help.
What really worked for me was, as stupid as it sounds, to overclock the processor. I run D820 and my best setup is FSB242 PCIE113 with DDRII auto, flex off, and any timings you like. As I mentioned before, AGP voltage on high
Originally posted by: timzak
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Edit: turning on memory flexibility in the bios simply runs the memory at DDR266 on my system (E4300 with DDR400 ram), so you might as well set your memory speed @ DDR266 and leave flexibility off.
Originally posted by: ajsasr
Well...I just tried to run 3DMark06. And I don't know if it's my video card or what, but the test crashes to a windows error in the middle of the Return to Proxycom video test. This gets worse and worse. I'm going to try 3DMark03 and see what happens.
Originally posted by: ajsasr
Originally posted by: ajsasr
Well...I just tried to run 3DMark06. And I don't know if it's my video card or what, but the test crashes to a windows error in the middle of the Return to Proxycom video test. This gets worse and worse. I'm going to try 3DMark03 and see what happens.
Well as I was installing 3dmark03, the PC had a random reboot. So I went ahead and down-clocked my FSB back to 200, and changed the IDE Strength to Highest. I was able to run 3dmark03 with a score of 6450, and 3dmark06 with a score of 856. I would say I have a GPU bottleneck. I'm going to put my new PSU in tonight. Change the FSB back to 242, and try to run both tests again. If it crashes on my, then I'm going to reside myself to the fact that overclocking this rig is just not going to happen.....