DidlySquat
Banned
here we are about 18 months after I first got this board, which I've stuck with despite numerous bios and power issues in the beginning. It's been running OK but still gave me issues with 4 sticks of ram and random times it refuses to boot. But oh well, the POS works most of the time.
My overclock with my Venice 3000+ is a decent (or so I thought) 275x9=2475. But now I want to get an opteron 165 so I want to be able to get the HTT to 300 mhz. So in anticiapation of that I reduced the CPU multiplier to 6 and tried to increase the HTT, but whatever I do I can't get passed 275. In fact 275 is prime stable, but it doesn't even boot at 280. So it looks like a board issue, not a CPU limit (I always thought my Venice 3000+ was a dissapointment, but now I relaize it's actually the board HTT limitation that prevented me from going beyond 9x275). And yes, I did lower the memory divier to DDR266 (2:3) and the CPU multiplier to 6, so I see no reason why 280 HTT doesn't boot, unless it's a board issue. Only hope left is if there is some bios version which fixes this, as currently I'm on 1016 (latest), but I read somewheer someone said he could get passed 300 with some other bios version.....
Anyone got the A8N-SLI Deluxe (not the premium) to 300 HTT ????
P.S. - this is my LAST ASUS board ever. ASUS is a POS company selling overpriced POS products that are all about marketing and not about actual performance. They just want to make money. So they rush to market with a PSO board that has psichotic voltage regulators, bad BIOS (which is never fixed correctly), and bad design (SLI selector [ROFL], chipset noisy fan, etc)
P.S(2) - seriously thinking of just getting the DFI board, but it would be a hassle to transfer everything, and painful to throw away a board which I psent $200 bux on (wish I could get my money back from ASUS POS)
My overclock with my Venice 3000+ is a decent (or so I thought) 275x9=2475. But now I want to get an opteron 165 so I want to be able to get the HTT to 300 mhz. So in anticiapation of that I reduced the CPU multiplier to 6 and tried to increase the HTT, but whatever I do I can't get passed 275. In fact 275 is prime stable, but it doesn't even boot at 280. So it looks like a board issue, not a CPU limit (I always thought my Venice 3000+ was a dissapointment, but now I relaize it's actually the board HTT limitation that prevented me from going beyond 9x275). And yes, I did lower the memory divier to DDR266 (2:3) and the CPU multiplier to 6, so I see no reason why 280 HTT doesn't boot, unless it's a board issue. Only hope left is if there is some bios version which fixes this, as currently I'm on 1016 (latest), but I read somewheer someone said he could get passed 300 with some other bios version.....
Anyone got the A8N-SLI Deluxe (not the premium) to 300 HTT ????
P.S. - this is my LAST ASUS board ever. ASUS is a POS company selling overpriced POS products that are all about marketing and not about actual performance. They just want to make money. So they rush to market with a PSO board that has psichotic voltage regulators, bad BIOS (which is never fixed correctly), and bad design (SLI selector [ROFL], chipset noisy fan, etc)
P.S(2) - seriously thinking of just getting the DFI board, but it would be a hassle to transfer everything, and painful to throw away a board which I psent $200 bux on (wish I could get my money back from ASUS POS)
