Recent content by sreams

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    buying a 939 board & chip in 2hrs! should i...

    This is not the only difference. nForce3 supports AGP (for video only), while nForce4 supports PCI Express (high bandwidth for video cards and other devices). nForce4 also supports SATA2 at 300MB/sec. -S
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    No PCI Lock on Gigabyte K8N Ultra SLI?

    PCI clock always rises with the HTT on this board no matter what I try. Overclocks become unstable even with HTT as low as 210MHz as a result. I've verified with ClockGen that PCI is not locked, whether I overclock from the BIOS or from Windows. Any thoughts on how to get past this problem? I'm...
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    New A8N SLI DeLuxe Bios 1011 Final

    Remember that it is always a good idea to clear the CMOS and redo your settings after updating to a new BIOS revision. This may very well explain the crashing. -S
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    *** Official ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (nForce4) Thread ***

    The memory settings aren't setup very intuitively in the A8N SLI Deluxe BIOS. All the memory clocks you see listed are based on having your HTT fixed at 200MHz. As soon as you change the HTT, you change the memory clock by the same percentage. As an example... a memory clock of 400MHz really...
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    Pic. of my A8N-SLI Deluxe

    Heh... that first pic may as well be the inside of my own system. I have the exact same trio of coolers, although I have a fan mounted over the video card as well. -S
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    Overclocking with A8N-SLI deluxe 1007 bios?

    I've got 1007 running with HTT at 300MHz here. -S
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    Sudden decrease in BIOS updates for A8N SLI Deluxe

    Hmmm... have my FSB at 312MHz on the A8N SLI Deluxe. Works great. -S
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    Nvidia IDE SW Driver

    This statement is blatantly incorrect. -S
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    A8N-SLI Deluxe 1003 Final

    NCQ is enabled per-drive in Device Manager. -S
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    A8n-SLI (Single channel vs Dual Channel Memory)

    Dual-channel definitely does work. Sandra memory scores nearly double when running dual channel here. -S
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    Bios 1002-Asus A8N sli deluxe/How do I lock the pci?

    The latest 1003 beta BIOSes lock the PCI bus properly. -S
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    *** Official ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (nForce4) Thread ***

    Hmmm... I wouldn't be so sure this is "illegal". Is it also illegal for AMD to disable higher multipliers on "lower-end" Athlon64 chips? Is it illegal for NVidia to disable Quadro features on GeForceFX chips? The truth is... the law probably allows them to do what they are doing, because they...
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    *** Official ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (nForce4) Thread ***

    http://www.zalmanusa.com/usa/p...ew.asp?idx=71&code=014 Fits perfectly... and even has cutouts in the heastsink so that this can fit on your video card(s): http://www.zalmanusa.com/usa/p...w.asp?idx=138&code=013 I have both. -S
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    Why does anyone care about NCQ support?

    You might want to check once more... I find 3 benchmarks where the gain is greater than 5%. From the article's conclusion: "The MaXLine III performs just as well as any of the fastest desktop hard drives available today, but when used with an NCQ-enabling controller, the performance...
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    Why does anyone care about NCQ support?

    How about an article from Anand: http://www.anandtech.com/stora...oc.aspx?i=2094&p=1 They conclude that NCQ increases performance. -S