ABIT AA8 Duramax

[imported_mlist84]

hi guys,

Id like to combine ABIT AA8 Duramax with :
Pentium 4 3.2G Prescott
Kingston 1G Hypermax pc 5400
GigaByte 6600 GT 128 Mb

Any thought for these? Anyone have encountered problems ?

thanx a lot.

 

[stardust]

I have the exact same setup you just mentioned 🙂 Great minds think alike! 😉

Anyway, I have my system running 250fsb @ 4000mhz. The AA8 is very peculiar in it's PCI-e frequency. If you are overclocking, I suggest an ATI graphics card for higher PCI-e frequency tolerance. My Gigabyte 6600GT can't take anything over 255fsb. I had to set the PCI-e frequency manually to 112mhz to ensure stability. The "auto" doesn't seem to work. With the new bios and uGuru, your nb should be able to handle 1.8V+ no problem and my memory (kingston PC5400) is running fine at 667mhz 4-4-4-10 @ 2.0V

The CPU accelerator doesn't seem to work for me, does anyone know if there is going to be a newer bios to activate this? I have a D0 3.2 and an D0 3.4, neither of which work. The bios v17 seems to have disabled multipliers altogether..

 

[imported_mlist84]

woaaa....glad to find person with the same thinking 🙂

I have 1 more concern about the motherboard. Right now I have 2 ATA devices on my old computer. 1 harddisk and 1 DVD RW pioneer.

Is it possible to use these 2 devices together on AA8 ?

thansk a lot

 

[stardust]

Yes, but I read that SATA Media drives limit the OC ability of the board.. so be aware.

 

[imported_mlist84]

I dont think I will do the OC in the short time 😛

How do you rate your 6600GT so far? Is it doing great in the newest games available now?

 

[stardust]

It is fine for the newest games. It isn't the best performing card, but for the price, it is a great value. I haven't been able to use all the other features such as hardware video processing or rather, but I will soon...