What I meant was: are you certain that if I ordered from that store I would get a socket 939 opteron? Because I see no mention of it being socket 939 from that link, and noone has mentioned this UK store at xs.org
How did you get it to work? I'm trying to change my CPU fan speed (retail HSF) , but nothing happens. I've tried changing all the speed settings, with both QFAN on and off.
Looks like you've answered your own question. If you don't need PCI-express or any of the other features you've mentioned, then you might as well go for an nforce3 motherboard. They will overclock just as well as an nforce4 motherboard, possibly better because the platform is more mature.
I had that screen flickering problem too when I was overclocking, I couldn't get much higher than 210Mhz either. After a while, my windows install was corrupted. What BIOS file are you using? Also which SATA port? I went back to the 1002 BIOS, and used SATA port 1 instead of 4, and now I'm...
I just had a thought, could it be that the sata lock doesn't work when you use certain ports? I had put my hard drive in port 4, has anyone else tried using port 4? Maybe this is the reason behind the 240Mhz wall that some people are hitting. It's worth trying.
I'm having problems with my A8N-SLI deluxe since I tried O/Cing using 1002.05 bios. My setup is:
3000+ Winchester
Stock HSF
Asus A8n-SLI deluxe
2x512MB Patriot pc3200 xblk (Samsung TCCD on brainpower apparently)
Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 80GB 800JD SATA 8MB Cache
Antec...
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