775Dual-VSTA BIOS v1.50 Fine tune for Conroe CPU

[jogiba]

ASRock just posted it here.
http://www.asrock.com/support/download.asp?Model=775Dual-VSTA#bios

 

[brianlam425]

thats interesting, i'm getting that board with a 6400...see how that turns out

BUMP

 

[CupCak3]

how did the board turn out for you? i'm looking at it also.

 

[eelw]

Its a great inexpensive way to get a Conroe and still use old components.

 

[CupCak3]

i was more refering to if the bios update increased this boards' poor poor overclocking ability

 

[PingSpike]

Howmuch do the limitations of the pci-e port on this board hurt performance? That seems to be the only real problem with the board. I'm hoping another more robust board comes out that can use ddr1 memory...because anands benchmarks seemed to indicate there isn't a performance increase from using ddr2 so I'd rather reuse my old stuff if I could get away with it.

 

[Gary Key]

Originally posted by: CupCak3
i was more refering to if the bios update increased this boards' poor poor overclocking ability

Overclocking performance has not changed, memory compatibility and performance has changed a little. Still expect a 290~300FSB range for overclocking.

 

[CupCak3]

that's too bad to hear Gary. Thanks for the info though!


i guess I can't expect all what I want out of a 60 dollar board

 

[Just4Ever]

I have that bios for my E6600 and nothing has changed. The highest clock I can get is 293 FSB.

However, it's giving me weird problems with my ram. I have the A-DATA Vitesta DDR2-533 2GB kit and my mobo is running it at speeds of 773 MHz - 790 MHz with a 3:8 divider.
This occurs whether I using "Auto" AND when I'm telling it to run at 533 speed. I have no idea why either. And the memory is running decent at those speeds even when I was running timings of 3-3-3-9 instead of the default 4-4-4-11.
And this is all with no extra voltage!!!

Unfortunately, I seem to be having some stability problems and I wouldn't doubt if this is the reason why. Is anyone else out there having this problem?

 

[Just4Ever]

Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you that the memory speed has now changed to 711 MHz for the memory and I still have no idea why it's running so high.
These speeds are all being found through CPU-Z so I know that it's not the bios that tell me wrong information.

 

[Mr Vain]

I have read in other forums that cpu-z does not pick up correct information from this board.

 

[Just4Ever]

I'm still having stability issues with it though. It can pass 5 runs on test #5 for memtest86 but and it passes the small FFT for Prime95 as well.
However, when I do blend or large FFT for Prime95 I get a rounding error within the first 5 minutes. What do I do?

 

[Mr Vain]

My Asrock 775Dual-VSTA rocks!

I have a 3 GHz 530Prescott in at a max stable (234FSB = 3510 MHz) on
Geil DDR2 667Mhz 2GB dual channel value ram

WOW (510 MHz Overclock) with no voltage increase! (Happy Happy.)

GUY'S this 667 MHz DDR2 Ram is incredible! No compatibility issues and runs out of the box by SPD at 3-3-3-9 1T Wow!
http://www.geilusa.com/proddetail.asp?linenumber=52

Pity that Anandtech did not try this ram out on their 775Dual-VSTA tests!
Tom?s hardware speaks highly of it. It achieved the highest overclocking margin of all their rams 41% and maxed out at DDR2 942Mhz :Q
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/04/11/live_memory_test/page20.html

I have it now on 3-2-2-5 1T on auto voltage with no stability issues at all.


I hope its not late and that Gary can chuck in a couple of these Geil slabs in, for his last Asrock roundup and be very surprised by its performance.

 

[Kougar]

Thank you for the update Gary! :thumbsup:

It is very much appreciated.