*** Official Soltek 75FRN-L/75FRN2-L (nForce2) Thread ***

[Naruto]

Do you think I should go ahead and get it from newegg? The description makes it unsure whether i will get a sl-75frn-l or sl-75frn2-l. But the price is good, $79 with free shipping.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: passign
I'm at 215fsb now x 10


I can't go any farther though cause i can't go below 10 right?

I just went below x10 with the MRN so I say give it a go, you can always use the insert key to recover if it won't boot.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: Naruto
Do you think I should go ahead and get it from newegg? The description makes it unsure whether i will get a sl-75frn-l or sl-75frn2-l. But the price is good, $79 with free shipping.

It troubles me they don't list them individually and I suspect you'll get a FRN till the stock runs out but if you can live with 211FSB max with no assurance Soltek will release a bios for the FRN with higher fsb then get it because 79$ shipped is a great buy.

 

[Naruto]

Yeah, geuss I will since the cheapest other place I can find on pricewatch is $92 shipped. And although they say frn2-l, i still think i have a chance of getting a frn-l also since they may seem untrustworthy. I plan on getting a DUT3C 1700+, so the highest i can hope for is just 200mhz fsb, which is more than sufficient for me.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I just used a 1700+A in the MRN and didn't have any trouble hitting 211fsb by dropping the multi to 9.5 so I suspect the CPU won't hold you back.

 

[passign]

now I'm at 14 x 166 lol

I went against the grain and went for a higher multiplier

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: passign
now I'm at 14 x 166 lol

I went against the grain and went for a higher multiplier

How's the performance? What clockspeed is the CPU at? Rnning synch? Inquiring minds want to know

 

[passign]

it's a 2700+ with the soltek frn2 board watercooled hyperx 3500 ram northbridge and southbridge are cooled geforce4 128m 8agp

a 200gig, 2 80gig's, and a 40 gig hardrives


well, i wasn't havin mucho lucko in the fsb department sure it was fun insertin the reset key hehe etc etc but seemed to crash games, sometimes close them sometimes completly reboot

so I reset the darn thing

i went to bios after holding insert

set the retarted clock that thinks it's 2002 2002?wtf lol

disabled the floppy (i don't use)

set it to 166fsb overclocked the memory (although i hear it won't help anythink) to x130 percent i think (runs at 220mhz i thinK)



so basically i left everthing at what it should be set at and popped on over to multiplier's and upped it 1

ran a benchy on sisandra and liked what I saw... near the 9000 mark in cpu arithmitik so I left it for testing...gamed on it all weekend so everythings good.

after a few days I may try to up the multiplier 1 more notch but I'm enjoying this temporary oc for now

 

[Naruto]

I noticed that many of you are reporting southbridge overheating problems. Is this a serious problem? Will a minor passive heatsink with frag tape be able to relieve this problem? THanks.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: Naruto
I noticed that many of you are reporting southbridge overheating problems. Is this a serious problem? Will a minor passive heatsink with frag tape be able to relieve this problem? THanks.

That's what I use and it works great!

 

[BuckMaster]

Naruto yea I think it will work fine. I made my own NB HS/Fan mod with AS 3. Atleast 3 times bigger and cooler. Doesnt seem to help me much so I think the stock H/S Fan that comes with it is fine unless it doesnt have enough compound.

You can scroll to the bottom of the link below to see mine.


My Rig

 

[Naruto]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER

Originally posted by: Naruto
I noticed that many of you are reporting southbridge overheating problems. Is this a serious problem? Will a minor passive heatsink with frag tape be able to relieve this problem? THanks.

That's what I use and it works great!

Hmmm, seems newegg has changed prices again. The 75frn-l/75frn2-l has gone up $10 to $89. But the 75frn2-rl with serial ata has fallen to $85. Should i go ahead with this one instead, or are there any negative differences on this board?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: BuckMaster
Naruto yea I think it will work fine. I made my own NB HS/Fan mod with AS 3. Atleast 3 times bigger and cooler. Doesnt seem to help me much so I think the stock H/S Fan that comes with it is fine unless it doesnt have enough compound.

You can scroll to the bottom of the link below to see mine.


My Rig

That came out great! Now you need to pump up the vdd and give that huge NB cooler something to do :beer:

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: Naruto

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER

Originally posted by: Naruto
I noticed that many of you are reporting southbridge overheating problems. Is this a serious problem? Will a minor passive heatsink with frag tape be able to relieve this problem? THanks.

That's what I use and it works great!

Hmmm, seems newegg has changed prices again. The 75frn-l/75frn2-l has gone up $10 to $89. But the 75frn2-rl with serial ata has fallen to $85. Should i go ahead with this one instead, or are there any negative differences on this board?

No other differences I'm aware of and RAID will help with resell value too so I'd snatch it up.

 

[BentValve]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER

Originally posted by: BentValve
Do I gety a cookie for this one?

Schweet! How 'bout some mem scores!.

Never got a chance to get any but I will get some when I get some better ram.
I got greedy and went for 250fsb and threw my board for a loop because I had a hell
of a time getting it going again. I was pretty sure I damaged something because
even getting to to 190fsb was hard at first. I have gradually eased it back up but
I really need to get some decent ram before I go that high again.

I highly recommend OCers to take it 2 mhz at a time when OCing. Also OC one thing
at a time.

To hit 250fsb I think I will need a Barton chip as well as some really good PC3500.
Finding good ram is not easy, it seems alot of the faster stuff is very inconsistant.

 

[Mem]

Another review of the Soltek SL-75FRN-L Motherboard@Twisted Mods .

At a price of around 80 dollars I would have to say that this is the best deal you will ever get on a motherboard. If you?re a price/performance buyer, this is the board for you! Need I say more?

 

[BentValve]

More CPU voltage anyone?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: BentValve
More CPU voltage anyone?

Link isn't working, none for me anyways thanx, but it is yet another factor that puts it closer to the Epox for extreme overclockers, just the holes around the skt are the lone missing element now.

 

[Mem]

Some news on new Soltek boards,

The company will launch six new mainboards powered by NVIDIA?s new Socket A chipsets shortly and I expect more mainboard makers to adopt new core-logic products from the number one graphics company as well.

Four of six mainboards are based on more powerful nForce2 Ultra 400 and two of them are made on exactly the same PCB as utilised for less expensive nForce2 400 what leads us to conclusion that NVIDIA?s nForce2 400 and nForce2 Ultra 400 are pin-to-pin compatible.

Here are some more technical specs of the upcoming products:

SL-KT75FRN2-RL: nForce2 Ultra 400 and MCP I/O controller; 200/266/333/400MHz FSB; 3 DIMM slots for up to 3GB of PC2100, PC2700 or PC3200 (DDR400) memory; dual-channel memory configurations supported; AGP 8x, 5 PCI slots; 2-channel ATA-33/66/100/133; 2 channel Serial ATA-150 RAID; 10/100Mb/s Ethernet controller; 6-channel AC'97 sound; 6 USB 2.0; ATX, 245mm x 305mm.


SL-KT75FRN2-L: nForce2 Ultra 400 and MCP I/O controller; 200/266/333/400MHz FSB; 3 DIMM slots for up to 3GB of PC2100, PC2700 or PC3200 (DDR400) memory; dual-channel memory configurations supported; AGP 8x, 5 PCI slots; 2-channel ATA-33/66/100/133; 10/100Mb/s Ethernet controller; 6-channel AC'97 sound; 6 USB 2.0; ATX, 245mm x 305mm.


SL-KT75FRN2-CL: nForce2 Ultra 400 and MCP I/O controller; 200/266/333/400MHz FSB; 2 DIMM slots for up to 2GB of PC2100, PC2700 or PC3200 (DDR400) memory; dual-channel memory configurations supported; AGP 8x, 5 PCI slots; 2-channel ATA-33/66/100/133; 10/100Mb/s Ethernet controller; 6-channel AC'97 sound; 6 USB 2.0; ATX, 210mm x 305mm.


SL-KT75FRN2-C: nForce2 Ultra 400 and MCP I/O controller; 200/266/333/400MHz FSB; 2 DIMM slots for up to 2GB of PC2100, PC2700 or PC3200 (DDR400) memory; dual-channel memory configurations supported; AGP 8x, 5 PCI slots; 2-channel ATA-33/66/100/133; 6-channel AC'97 sound; 6 USB 2.0; ATX, 210mm x 305mm.


SL-KT75FRN2-64: nForce2 400 and MCP I/O controller; 200/266/333/400MHz FSB; 2 DIMM slots for up to 2GB of PC2100, PC2700 or PC3200 (DDR400) memory; AGP 8x, 5 PCI slots; 2-channel ATA-33/66/100/133; 6-channel AC'97 sound; 6 USB 2.0; ATX, 210mm x 305mm.


SL-KT75FRN2-64L: nForce2 400 and MCP I/O controller; 200/266/333/400MHz FSB; 2 DIMM slots for up to 2GB of PC2100, PC2700 or PC3200 (DDR400) memory; AGP 8x, 5 PCI slots; 2-channel ATA-33/66/100/133; 10/100Mb/s Ethernet controller; 6-channel AC'97 sound; 6 USB 2.0; ATX, 210mm x 305mm.

All products will be available shortly, but I have no pricing information at the moment. It looks like the mainboards will not be expensive because Soltek installs a not really expensive NVIDIA's nForce2 MCP I/O controller without FireWire and DolbyDigital encoder.

Link.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Schweet! Thanx mem :beer: I'd love to see a next generation IGP with a more powerful graphics engine too but that's a ways off yet no doubt.

 

[LastRide]

Whats the CPU vcore reading on these mobo's on Idle and under load?.I was thinking getting one but I like to know how much they undervolt.For the price its hard to beat and sounds like a pretty good board.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: LastRide
Whats the CPU vcore reading on these mobo's on Idle and under load?.I was thinking getting one but I like to know how much they undervolt.For the price its hard to beat and sounds like a pretty good board.

@idle mine actually slightly overvolts, probably because just like Asus they use a 2 phase power stepping so they increase the voltage for stability during drops in the line. However, while processing a F@H WU it undervolts from the default 1.75v I have it set@ now to 1.744v-1.728v neither of which affect stability with my current overclock even while processing a Gromacs WU the toughest single stress test for an overclocked CPU I've personally found so far. I'm continuing to reduce the voltage slowly to see the minimum I can use and remain Gromacs stable and still use for other tasks while it runs in the backround. I'm hoping the drop to 1.725v stays solid but only time will tell...

 

[LastRide]

Thats actually pretty good and doesn't undervolt much.I was thinking getting the NF7-S 2.0 but I don't like how much this board undervolts and the crazy temp readings it gives.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: LastRide
Thats actually pretty good and doesn't undervolt much.I was thinking getting the NF7-S 2.0 but I don't like how much this board undervolts and the crazy temp readings it gives.

I haven't kept up with the Abit but hear that is a great board! If you do the Soltek get the FRN2 if you have good ram so you can realize it's full potential, and remember this board doesn't have the holes for bolt-ons or water blocks! Other than that a great board and all the issues seem to be generic NF2 issues and nothing particular to the Golden Flame

 

[LastRide]

I have 2 sticks of OCZ PC3500EL Dual Channel memory that top out at 476 and 474DDR,not stable.I should squeeze 450DDR from them.