i'm having some other problems besides the memory timing issue. Whenever i try to play call of duty, farcry, or nba live 2005 the sound gets so choppy. i dropped down the resolution to the lowest as well as all the settings to the lowest but i still have the problem. is there something wrong with this board's audio?
I have yet to find that out, as I haven't got my 3500+ yet, but generally speaking so does onboard audio suck. If you care about soundquality I guess you have to buy a Audigy 2ZS or M-Audio Revolution.
I have Nvidia Soundstorm in my current mainboard, but even Soundstorm gets occasionally choppy despite it has hardware acceleration which Realtek doesn't have. I use my M-Audio 2496 I have for music production instead, rock solid audio but no 5.1/7.1. I you wan't 7.1 then get the M-Audio Revolution.
The only onboard audio I've heard which is rock solid, even if not that great sounding, is the C-Media. I have C-Media on an Asrock-board and in my laptop and it's definitely not choppy. I guess tha VIA -Vinyl is also Ok sounding, but there's almost no boards using it because of cost, it has the same chip as the M-Audio cards but onboard.
But there is a possible solution, I've read that the agp-bus taxes the pci-bus because of modern videocards high bandwidth. The solution is to tweak down the agp-bus latency, default is 256, it can be tweaked down all the way to 32 with the right tool. Reportedly a value of 64 generally removes choppiness.
You can find many tweaking tools att guru3d.com
I have Nvidia Soundstorm in my current mainboard, but even Soundstorm gets occasionally choppy despite it has hardware acceleration which Realtek doesn't have. I use my M-Audio 2496 I have for music production instead, rock solid audio but no 5.1/7.1. I you wan't 7.1 then get the M-Audio Revolution.
The only onboard audio I've heard which is rock solid, even if not that great sounding, is the C-Media. I have C-Media on an Asrock-board and in my laptop and it's definitely not choppy. I guess tha VIA -Vinyl is also Ok sounding, but there's almost no boards using it because of cost, it has the same chip as the M-Audio cards but onboard.
But there is a possible solution, I've read that the agp-bus taxes the pci-bus because of modern videocards high bandwidth. The solution is to tweak down the agp-bus latency, default is 256, it can be tweaked down all the way to 32 with the right tool. Reportedly a value of 64 generally removes choppiness.
You can find many tweaking tools att guru3d.com
i ll try that new driver out. the thing is, my roomate has an athlon xp w/ on board sound, 9600Pro, 512 MB ram and he can play those games perfectly. For me, the video and sound were both so choppy. The weird thing is, when i tried to play the games this morning, everything was perfect and smooth. I don't get wat's going on.
the only thing i changed this morning was that i turned off cool and quiet. could that have been my problem?
the only thing i changed this morning was that i turned off cool and quiet. could that have been my problem?
possibly but I doubt it. did you install a driver and not reboot? thats the only thing I can think of or maybe it was just one of those things. the computer gods were messing with you.
No. I turned mine on and off for testing and nothing felt different in windows or games. Benchmarks showed no significant difference at all. CnQ works well on the Soltek.
Have any of you turned up the Chipset voltage? it seems to make no difference
My CPU will do 2.5GHz and up but when set to 250x10 it fails to post then reboots back at 200FSB
I set vcore to 1.7
AGP to 1.6
DIMM to 2.8
Chipset to 2.8
HTT 800 (x4)
And still it wont work.
My CPU will do 2.5GHz and up but when set to 250x10 it fails to post then reboots back at 200FSB
I set vcore to 1.7
AGP to 1.6
DIMM to 2.8
Chipset to 2.8
HTT 800 (x4)
And still it wont work.
Ok I damn sure this new bios has made Overclocking worse.
Im sitting on 230x11 (2.53GHz) no probs
I tried 245x10 and no post
Its no my memory as that can go past 270
Not the PSU, new TT PurePower 680w 38A 12+ rail
Not the CPU as shown it can go higher
So all it can be is the board. What is the problem with it? Bios issue or just plain crap?
Im sitting on 230x11 (2.53GHz) no probs
I tried 245x10 and no post
Its no my memory as that can go past 270
Not the PSU, new TT PurePower 680w 38A 12+ rail
Not the CPU as shown it can go higher
So all it can be is the board. What is the problem with it? Bios issue or just plain crap?
Well forget that.
I cant run clocked at all now (might have broken something?)
I have to run at stock or Im not prime95 stable
POS!!
I cant run clocked at all now (might have broken something?)
I have to run at stock or Im not prime95 stable
POS!!
why are you runnig at such a high vcore? 1.5 is plenty of juice to get it to run 2.6ghz which is close to the chips max at 2.7 anyway. I wouldn't say that the board is crap YET although they have horrible customer support other than Lydi in this forums I have emailed them twice about my memory issue without response. Kingston told me they no longer support soltek motherboards so thats kind of scary too. err I think I might switch back to my p4c800 if this board can run this memory @250 its very dissapointing.
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Why don't you guys just switch back to the 1.3 bios? Mine is working flawlessly at 250fsb at 1.4 vcore. Sandra might not give you an exact temp, but if you have a baseline at stock speed, then you can just look at the temp difference between stock and OCed.
if it was just that the temp scaled up 30c in the bios that would be easy to fix but I don't know and wouldn't assume that the readings are good at any rate other than at stock. I have had this @ 260 fsb*10 prime95 stable overnight so 1.4 works fine for me.
My default is 1.5v for this newcastle
1.7 is the only way it will go anywhere with this board and now it wont even go anywhere at all. screwed!
1.7 is the only way it will go anywhere with this board and now it wont even go anywhere at all. screwed!
I don't think you would see much of a noticible improvement on the dfi board this board isn't horrible they just need to finish tweaking the bios and it will be good.
Yeah but they have already told me that Im not going to be getting any more voltage that I really need since my memorys default is 2.8v I dont have alot to go on.
I'm just going to try ClockGen and A64 Tweaker. See if I cant getting something going there
I'm just going to try ClockGen and A64 Tweaker. See if I cant getting something going there
Well this is the best I got out of it:
Clockgen
CPU-z
CPU-z Memory
Sandra Memory Score
Wont go any higher without a blue screen and reboot
Clockgen
CPU-z
CPU-z Memory
Sandra Memory Score
Wont go any higher without a blue screen and reboot
the a64's max out at 2.7 or close to it. you have a 240fsb/mem and a sandra of 7000 what more do you want? you wont get anymore out of that chip they just dont clock any higher. man I'm jelous what memory do you have?
I would like it to be stable LoL
Im running 1024 MB of Crucial Ballistix PC3200 DDR400 (x2 512MB)
Im running 1024 MB of Crucial Ballistix PC3200 DDR400 (x2 512MB)
your pushing it to the limits with that oc I don't think you'd fair any better with another chipset. I don't know how far the ddr400 ram can oc but you have it overclocked 40mhz which is a HUGE memory oc you need to get some ddr500 or higher or set a divider I bet that would solve you stability issue. anymore vcore in the a64 winchester's and they will fry.
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