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    ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe 1T Issue To Be Fixed Soon!!?

    Please people stop waiting for this magical bios fix. I am hearing the same "Taiwan is working on the issue" since December. That's almost 7 months! The Premium edition has the 1T issue fixed, so it's definately NOT a bios issue, but rather a hardware limitation. Otherwise they would just...
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    a8n-sli "premium" edition

    You can find more info at this topic on xs: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=64351 If you see at the middle of the topic the guy claims that he has reached 320 HTT on 1:1/1T memory. So it appears that Asus has fixed the 1T issue that the Deluxe model had. This means (as we...
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    Mother Board PROBLEM???

    On another topic like yours here, the guy had the same problem with you and the problem was he didn't connect the 4 pin 12V connector which is located on the top left of the mobo near the cpu. Check to make sure you have connected it.
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    Asus A8N-SLi & Ahtlon 3000 Winchester

    I'm glad you found the problem. Have fun with your new system!
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    Sata HDD on an A8n-SLI

    Some early bios (1003) on the A8N-SLI didn't recognise some Maxtor DM10 drives with certain firmwares. It's been solved since then both on the mobo's bios and on the firmware of new Maxtor drives. As for other brands I haven't heard any problems.
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    Mother Board PROBLEM???

    Tried reseating the gfx card? Maybe it doesn't make good contact on it's slot. Same goes for the memory sticks. Also try booting with only cpu, gfx card and one memory stick.
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    Asus A8N-SLi & Ahtlon 3000 Winchester

    Disconnect everything and then reconnect just the cpu, memory and gfx card (and psu ofcourse). Make sure everything has the proper contact (especially the memory sticks and the gfx card). Also try booting with just one stick of memory. And try reseating the ez selector card (the little pcb...
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    ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe 1T Issue To Be Fixed Soon!!?

    TCCD works best at 2.6 - 3.1 V. To be more precise TCCD memory ICs have a sweat spot that allows them to perform best at a particular voltage, in the above range, that is usually diffrent between sticks. It may be 2.7 for you and 2.9 for me so you must experiment. And anything higher than 3.1...
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    ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe 1T Issue To Be Fixed Soon!!?

    Do not underestimate the Dark Side of the Force!!! I went from the Asus to the DFI and I didn't have any problems. Maybe it's because I have TCCD memory so I don't have to use the 5V jumper.
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    confused

    It depends on your needs. If you are just gaming and doing normal desktop work you are perfectly fine with 1GB. In fact your system will be faster and will be able to overclock more, as A64 have problems running tight timmings with 2GB of RAM. On the other hand if you will do heavy video/image...
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    ASUS A8N-SLI DeLuxe - Wich BIOS?

    I was fine with my 1004 bios until I upgraded to 1010 a week ago. Since then my system has been very unstable. I rolled back to my good old 1004 and the problems continued. Tried clearing the CMOS and still nothing. So I went and bought the DFI that I have wanted for 3 months now but couldn't...
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    Asus A8N-SLI Premium

    It is nice to remove this sli card selector. It shouldn't be there from the beginning 5 months ago. People that already have a mobo with a selector card can leave without it but new buyers will like thi future. And they didn't implement this just for our convenience. The selector card is a point...
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    Happy w/ ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe???

    In A64 the real memory frequency is always a little lower than what you get by "Mem Freq = Divider * HTT" because the cpu does some roundings in the numbers. It is acutally: CPU Clock / [CPU Multi * Inversed Mem Dividier] The result of the number in the brackets must be upped to the next...
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    Should I Flash Bios?

    Yeah, that's why we shouldn't get out of our house, so that there is no chance we can get eaten by loose tigers and crocodilles. Yes I know there aren't any tigers or crocodilles around in the major cities but... what if they suddenly appear and you are out there all alone!!! Oh common this has...
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    Should I Flash Bios?

    Yes, I agree with ohnnyj, it's really difficult to mess something nowdays when flashing a board. And most of them support recovery from bad flashes (A8N-SLI indluded I think). And with companies releasing unstable/"incomplete" boards using the initial bios, it's absolutely recommended imho to...
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    1006

    Did the bios setting actually work for Deluxe owners with SLI cards? Didn't you guys also had to switch the EZ Switch pcb to dual vga operation? If yes there was no point of this bios setting in the first place. So I believe the removal of this option was made intentionally. They will probably...
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    *** Official ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (nForce4) Thread ***

    Framelord the issue with the 250+ 1:1 appears when you want to run 1GB (2*512MB) with 1T. It will not appear if you are running 1GB (2*512MB) with 2T OR 512MB (2*256MB) with 1T. You have the latter setup and that's why you can get 282 1:1 1T.
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    A8N SLI DLX wont post plz help.

    Does anything happen when you boot it? E.g Do the fans spin (cpu, case, power supply)? If yes then unplug from the power outlet and reseat the vga, the memory modules and the vga EZ selector card. You see there is a possibility that something isn't making proper touch, especially this damn...
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    A8N-SLI memory frequency problems

    As far as I know the 2GB @ DDR333 is not a motherboard issue but rather an A64 cpu memory controller limitation which will be addressed in the new steppings/cores. So GuitarDaddy is very right on this one!
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    ASUS A8n-e Premium NForce 4

    Here is the final package of Asus A8N-E Box Shot: http://img186.exs.cx/img186/1184/1109140115mainef0fw.jpg Layout: http://img186.exs.cx/img186/4958/1109140118img16pk.gif Close Look: http://img186.exs.cx/img186/5610/1109140122main223hj.jpg Specs: http://img186.exs.cx/img186/780/17te.jpg...
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    DDR Booster with A8N-SLi Deluxe?

    Hehe thanks, I upgraded last night after I posted here and it seems to be fine, no issues so far. Haven't tried to go beyond 242 1T though. I'll try this evening and let's hope I can break the 250! :)
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    DDR Booster with A8N-SLi Deluxe?

    On the OCZ website it states that it's not supported. Link: http://www.ocztechnology.com/displaypage.php?name=DDRBoostermobocompatibility
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    Asus-SLI Deluxe Great Mobo

    Everything is fine for me with this board and I really love it. Absolutely stable and feature rich with all advertised features working at least for me! Some people say it's bad for overclocking which is really general and it's misleading. What this board really lacks is high memory clocks...
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    Are NF4 and Diamondmax 10 incompatible?

    I have my A8N-SLI and the dm10 300GB sata 3 for 3 weeks now, no problems at all even with ncq enabled when using either the 1002 or the 1004 bios and the 6.39 nvidia drivers. The 1003 bios sometimes failed to recognize it so I didn't use it but I must admit I didn't clear the cmos on it which...
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    OCZ Platinum Rev.2 working GREAT with DFI Ultra-D

    If something works ok for you it doesn't mean that it will always work for others. People much more experienced than you and me combined, will tell you that when building a system diffrent people can have diffrent results even with similar components. And there can never be identical components...
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    A8N-SLI Deluxe & Winchester 3500+. Help with OC for new user

    In A64 the real memory frequency is always a little lower than what you get by "Mem Freq = Divider * HTT" because the cpu does some roundings in the numbers. It is acutally: CPU Clock / [CPU Multi * Inversed Mem Dividier] The result of the number in the brackets must be upped to the next...
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    ATI Radeon X800 XL

    Powercolor definately. I searched all of them and it was the only one that comes with ViVo and Dual DVI. Mine also has 1.6ns DDR3 but it doesn't overclock much (5-10%). Anyway that was expected from my side, as it's a 0.11 part. Maybe I can get better results out of these nice ram timings if I...
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    *** Official ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (nForce4) Thread ***

    shredder016 with regular A64 cpus you can't increase the cpu multi. You can only decrease it. This is allowed by AMD so that the cool and quiet feature can work (it lowers your multi automatically if you have it enabled). On the other side the FX cpus can change the multi in both ways. Fair...
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    *** Official ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (nForce4) Thread ***

    I have more info on the HTT multiplier. I was fine running 4x with 241 HTT (964 total) but when I rebooted without changing anything, nTune reported that the multiplier was set by itself (!!) to 3x (I repeat I didn't change anything/ not even entered bios). I rebooted and entered bios and saw...
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    *** Official ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (nForce4) Thread ***

    For people having trouble going beyond the 220 HTT (FSB) make sure your HTT multiplier is actually set to what you have configured in the bios. All these days I had mine on 4x in the bios and couldn't get beyond 220 and today I found out via nTune that it was set to 5x thous ignoring the bios...
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    Asus A8nSLi deluxe

    You won't believe what I just found! The HTT multiplier on the 1004.001 bios doesn't work as expected! All the time I had it to 4x and today I decided to install ntune in my system just to see what it is. To my suprise I saw my HT to 1100. I had my HTT set to 220 as I said above. That means...
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    Asus A8nSLi deluxe

    I have almost the same setup with you Yonner. I fitted the XP-120 the opposite way and I didn't have any problems with the 4pin 12v connector. Now onto the OC. It seems to be pretty hard to OC this mobo at least for me. I have followed all the directions here by reading many helpfull posts...
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    RAM for DFI NF4 Ultra

    I still haven't seen a direct comparison between those two. All we have is the known impact on low latencies and high bandwidth as a general. Oh and I just saw that at the xs forums OPB managed to do 294 @ 2.0-2-2-4/1T/1:1 with his Dfi. That's 8070MB on sandra at low latencies! This is...
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    *** Official ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (nForce4) Thread ***

    For anyone that didn't see tha other topic, nvidia has released the nforce4 drivers in their website. They are the 6.39. Please try them as soon as possible and let's hope they fix the issues we are having especially the one with the NCQ drives like the Maxtor. Info...
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    The Dual Rail v. Single Rail Challenge

    Great post m8! I am building a system with an Enermax 495 (dual rail 485W) and although I am going to use an X800XL (no SLI for me) I was scared by all of the people here saying bad things about dual rail psus.
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    RAM for DFI NF4 Ultra

    If you want moderate overclock like 260 with tight timings (2.0-2-2-5/1:1/1T) get some OCZ Gold VX and use the high vdimm options of this board. If on the other hand you want the highest overclocks get some TCCD memory preferably the OCZ EL Platinum Revision2 or the GSkill PC4400 LE Crucial...
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    SLI and the Scam behind it

    "We were interested to see exactly what performance you could get with two video cards on the Ultra board before the mod to SLI, so we also ran benchmarks of the performance of x16/X2 Ultra dual-video card mode. All tests were run on a DFI LANParty UT nF4 Ultra-D and a DFI LANParty nF4...
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    SLI and the Scam behind it

    Just wanted to correct you here aeternitas. A modded Ultra becomes a fully capable SLI chipset that can re-adjust the lanes exactly like an original one. You can have 16x + 1(or 2 or 4 or whatever)x or in dual mode 8x + 8x. This of course happens only on motherboards where their manufacturers...
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    a8n-sli chipset heatsink fan

    Here is a new topic on OcUK forums where someone has successfully installed dual GPUs (6600GTs) with the Zalman. It seems they fit ok and by the pictures I think it's ok to fit 6800GTs also, as long as they don't have massive heatshinks (like an arcitic cooling nv5 or a leadtek one - even then...
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    Radeon 800XL Available Yet?

    You can find the Powercolor X800XL for $374 (or 200 English Pounds exluding VAT) in OcUK. It's a bit expensive (keep in mind though it has VIVO and Dual DVI) so you better wait for them to appear in the States and hopefully priced at MSRP unlike this one.