Recent content by Altimeter88

Not sure what you mean. The fix for me was getting rid of this board and going back to my Intel 955x chipset on the Asus P5WD2-Premium. I did some more reading and I think that it is an incompatibility between the P-D 820 and this MB/NF4 chipset. I noticed that the review on Anandtech...

Well after reading different reviews AMD vs. Intel last night until early this morning and adding up the cost I decided to stick with my Intel setup and just get rid of this NF4 MB. I couldn't help thinking that going with an Opteron 170 and 2GB of DDR RAM setup was taking one step forward...

I just got done reading the AnandTech article about the 1GB Dimms and it looks like the 1GB OCZ PC4000 EB PE is a good choice, I sure wish I could use my PC667 DDR2 RAM that I just purchased last week.

Okay I am getting the Opteron 170 and the Asus A8N32-SLI if it will even get stocked somewhere but I am confused about which memory to get. When overclocking intel you usually want max FSB which = higher Memory bus but slower latency. But from what I have read on the AMD side you don't need...

Does this require regestered RAM? I read on a post here somewhere that the opterons requre registered RAM so I was just checking on that.

So this is what you think is best, better than an X2 of comparable price ~$400?: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103586 Opteron, Denmark Core, 2MB L2, 1Ghz FSB?

Well I was all excited, after changing the PCIE freq. to 101.x it posted and booted into windows just fine, I was going to post a sucess here on the thread but I decided to do some more testing first. I rebooted and upped the FSB to 972 (3.4Ghz) and the system would not post. I then set the...

OK I thought that I disabled it but it is possible I just changed it from Auto to Normal so I will try with it Disabled and see if that works Thanks for the suggestions, I really appreciate it

Well it looks like I will need to wait for a BIOS update because there is no option to lock the PCI bus in my BIOS.

The problem is that there is no PCI 33.3Mhz lock option or SATA lock option anywhere in this thread. So I am suspicous that when I up the FSB that other components that are getting overclocked too. On all the other boards that I have used there has been that option to lock the AGP and PCI bus...

OK I will do the following: I will swap 820 chips tomorrow when I get a chance since I am working today. If that doesn't change anything I will swap PSUs. I need a new PSU anyway for another system so I will get a new 12V dual rail PS I will likely get one of the following: Enermax...

OK well before going to bed tonight I decided to test a few things: Pulled the SB Fatal1ty but didn't help. I tried overclcocking with the RAM at 533 not 667 and a 915 FSB (3.2Ghz) but I couldn't boot into windows, it locked up. I then swapped the RAM out with another stick that I have...

Also you mentioned Opteron, wouldn't an X2 OC'd be better than a Opteron OC'd? Isn't the Opteron the mobile proc. similar to the Pentium M? Anyway I thought those were single core and better for general performance at lower clocks but they were still slower than dual cores. Anyway I will do...

Mark, I read your encoding thread and I want to compare the encoding test with the same settings, movie (Annie I think) etc. that you used, do you remember all that stuff and what you did? I still have my other Asus 955x board and I want to compare my times to yours with my processor...

I agree with you 100% and I don't like when Intel users bash AMD/NForce because of "icompatibilities" etc. That is why I tried to be very specific: X-Fi and OC problems, everything else works great. I am hoping to find that my problems are something I overlooked. But if you read some of what...