Recent content by CptGrey

Heidfirst, Thanks for the info. I'll keep that site bookmarked. lolper, Yep, I've raised Core, MB and VTT. Last night I tried using 402 FSB (7x) on someone's suggestion and past success. No joy for me, even when I raised the NB pretty high. On a side note, has anyone heard if Abit is...

Well the official 14 BIOS seems to work better for me. I'm now stable at 375 MHz FSB, giving my E6420 3.0 GHz or about a 42% O/C. I tried pushing it further, but I still can't get 400-430 using 7x as I had hoped. Bests...

Sc00terx, It's not you. Abit USA is saddly lacking support for this board. Right now going to the UK site is the best way to get info/support. BIOS 11 - 14 came out as betas and Abit seems to have chosen to only make 11, 12 & 14 as "official" release BIOS. I'm currently running Beta 14 and...

Lolper, Sorry, yesterday was a bad work day. Here are a few places to get info on O/C'ing: http://forumz.tomshardware.com...-v1-ftopict197995.html http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=28&threadid=1947261 http://www.tomshardware.com/20...rtakes-core-2-extreme/ You can ignore what...

3.0 is fairly lite O/C'ing for a E6600, but I don't know your setup. If you can handle the heat (CPU & NB), you can try for 3.3. People have hit 4.0+, but that was on water or other active cooling. You can also try to tighten your memory timings and/or raise its speed if you haven't already done...

I'm currently running stable at 356 FSB. It also was stable at 360 but I backed it down a hair (1%) to give the board a small bit of head room. I tried 375, which worked fine for an hour of WoW, but didn't pass the 30 min OCCT. At 400 (using 7x) I could POST but would lock-up when I started...

This is a quote from Ropey @ overclock.net (Credit to where credit is due!) "The CPU and most types of memory have an 8 byte data transfer bus. They transfer 8 bytes of data once, twice, or four times per clock tick. However, for efficiency the basic unit of data transfer is a 32 byte "burst"...

From the Hexus site, 1.3 seems to be able to O/C faster than 1.4. But 1.4 also fixes the 1T memory timing issue. I may go back to 1.3 to see if I can do 400+ FSB, but I'll miss the 1T. Maybe 1.5, whenever it shows up, will be the mythical "perfect" BIOS for this board? Bests...

Honestly, they are a bit mixed. I like the bling-bling factor and it is a (fairly) well designed board. I don't like the problems it has with overclocking. I'm hoping that improved BIOS will fix most of the problems. But you'd still have the no previous BIOS fall-back issue. I haven't...

Beta 1.4 seems to be running okay. I test stable @ 350 FSB but haven't been able to hit 375. I was playing with it last night and was still having problems @ 362.5. I'll try again tonight. Bests...

Finally got these. Running stable (according to 30 min OCCT & ~4 hours of WoW) at 900 MHz 4-4-4-12-2T @ 2.2v. Still need to do more tweeking. I sent in the rebate before I read the comment regarding the packing slip. I hope it still goes through.

Beta BIOS 1.4 is out. http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?t=122393 Beta 13 is stable at 312.5 (slowing raising my numbers) linked, according to OCCT. Give the new bios a try. Also, try setting your PCI clock to 101, it seems to help for some reason. Bests...

I've got everything in now and am starting to assemble the system. From what I've read, here's my plan. 1) With just the floppy, 1 stick of RAM and an old PCI video card (in the upper slot) installed, boot the system into BIOS, adjust the VDIMM to 2.2v to match the RAM spec's. Save and...

I ordered this deal on Monday morning and it's still at the "sent to warehouse" stage. I also ordered a HSF from Newegg on Monday afternoon and received it last night. <sigh> If the deal wasn't so good...

I'm building a (mostly) new system and just purchased this board as part of a Fry's deal (MB & E6420 for $259 AR.) I'm planning to do a mild OC (maybe 2.5 GHz) but nothing bleeding edge. What BIOS I should use? I've read that one of the modded BIOS has killed a couple of boards, so that makes...