Originally posted by: najames
Rule of thumb, health first, job second. Glad you're back.
I have not installed the 3/27 "deleted missing string" BIOS for the Biostar TA690G yet, but as shipped mine seems to stop cold at 264 no matter what I do. I was trying to test it at 270 last night and temps were going up just sitting locked up in the BIOS so I said enough, screw it. I'll likely run it near stock or might even leave it undervolted. This thing is will even run undervolted and overclocked. I am curious to see what BIOS you used.
My only real gripe is no firewire chip. I have not tested video and audio outputs yet though. I originally inteneded to simply do a few benchmarks on this board with WinXP and install Linux, but am still trying to sort out the 10million BIOS settings. Hopefully you'll provide them ALL in your review!!
Update your BIOS if possible, should allow a few more FSB. The one item I have noticed is the Brisbane cores are getting above 300HTT, the Windsors around 270~280 right now. I have asked AMD about this problem. I will have a review on most of the BIOS settings. The BIOS that Biostar and Sapphire are using is the reference BIOS from AMD and as such every setting available is unlocked.