- Aug 20, 2006
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I recently bought an Asus A8V Deluxe, 3700 San Diego & RAM and seem to be having a few problems getting the best out of it, specs are as follows:
Athlon64 3700 (San Diego)
Asus A8V Deluxe (rev 1.xx)
Corsair 2Gb TwinX XMS 3200 C2
At the moment it's running like this:
CPU
RAM
Temps are 35 idling and 45ish under load using the stock cooler.
This is all nice and dandy but I reckon I should be able to push this a bit further but whenever I ramp up the FSB another 5Mhz system stability goes right out the door and it starts doing all sorts of truely random things. I've tried increasing the cpu voltages to 1.55v and it still doesn't seem to stabilise.
From my very limited knowledge I'm assuming the AGP/PCI lock (or lack thereof on this board) is causing me problems? At the moment I'm using the latest BIOS rev (1017) but I've heard the 1005 version does have a working AGP/PCI lock. My problem being that I don't know if this BIOS supports the 3700 San Diego cpu's, the BIOS the mobo came with did not which was a bit of a pain in the arse and I'm a little concerned about randomly downgrading my BIOS without a working floppy drive (ahem, don't ask). Or is there another way of 'fixing' this?
Any help or advice as to how to push this little beauty of a cpu any further would be much appreciated.
Cheers,
Athlon64 3700 (San Diego)
Asus A8V Deluxe (rev 1.xx)
Corsair 2Gb TwinX XMS 3200 C2
At the moment it's running like this:
CPU
RAM
Temps are 35 idling and 45ish under load using the stock cooler.
This is all nice and dandy but I reckon I should be able to push this a bit further but whenever I ramp up the FSB another 5Mhz system stability goes right out the door and it starts doing all sorts of truely random things. I've tried increasing the cpu voltages to 1.55v and it still doesn't seem to stabilise.
From my very limited knowledge I'm assuming the AGP/PCI lock (or lack thereof on this board) is causing me problems? At the moment I'm using the latest BIOS rev (1017) but I've heard the 1005 version does have a working AGP/PCI lock. My problem being that I don't know if this BIOS supports the 3700 San Diego cpu's, the BIOS the mobo came with did not which was a bit of a pain in the arse and I'm a little concerned about randomly downgrading my BIOS without a working floppy drive (ahem, don't ask). Or is there another way of 'fixing' this?
Any help or advice as to how to push this little beauty of a cpu any further would be much appreciated.
Cheers,