Originally posted by: Tummy
Hi all. Well, I got my BG7 back, and sadly, it seems to suffer from the same problem as my GA-8IGX. I'm not sure why nobody else seems to have this problem but me? The BG7 is *slightly* better than my GA board using 2 dimms (if you read page 9 i post my original problem), as it lets me go to 168fsb using both dimms. Again, using each dimm individually seems to have no problem. I picked up a 512mb stick of 333 and that seems to be fine, so i may just stick with that.
One thing I notice that's different between the BG7 and 8igx is that the 8igx seems to let me get my cpu a tad higher stable than the bg7. At what should be the same cpu voltage, 15%/1.725 (i have a 2.26b), the 8igx is seemingly stable at 177 but the bg7 will only get me to 174. I've popped the 8igx back in to retest at 177 but I was sure it worked at that speed okay, but it had soft reboot issues, which the bg7 doesn't. Could this be a result of the supposedly infamous undervolting problem the abit has? Is there any fix for that, other than wire wrapping the cpu?
I tried 177 4:3 on the BG7 but locked up immediately, anybody else have this problem? I'm using the 94 bios. Also wouldn't mind being able to oget 4:5 but am worried about how lucky i will be with that, even to find ram that could do 434. I know right now my ram can't do it but am wondering about the board.
Lastly, stupid newegg didn't send me the retention mechanism, the spdif connector, or the atx backplate. anybody happen to have any of these extra they don't want/need and would be willing to part with?