My Chaintech/Winchester rang in the new year running Prime95 - 16hrs, 5mins w/ 0 errors or warnings. It's a gamble buying a new chipset this early but this time it seems to have paid off. 
Originally posted by: Wyck
My Chaintech/Winchester rang in the new year running Prime95 - 16hrs, 5mins w/ 0 errors or warnings. It's a gamble buying a new chipset this early but this time it seems to have paid off.
Are you running stock or Oc'ed?
So far my new rig is runing good no lock ups in games the on board lan is working fine.
It has bin runing 18 hrs with no problems. those are the pros.
the cons;the lack of BIOS for OC,ing. oh and onboard sound is o.k for games and music it could be
a little better in treble and midrange. But i can live it .So im for now.
It has bin runing 18 hrs with no problems. those are the pros.
the cons;the lack of BIOS for OC,ing. oh and onboard sound is o.k for games and music it could be
a little better in treble and midrange. But i can live it .So im
for now.Stock. I run with very little cooling in the interest of peace and quiet. This thing is fast enough.Originally posted by: Freez
Originally posted by: Wyck
My Chaintech/Winchester rang in the new year running Prime95 - 16hrs, 5mins w/ 0 errors or warnings. It's a gamble buying a new chipset this early but this time it seems to have paid off.
Are you running stock or Oc'ed?
Yep, just put in my order not too long ago! I'm happy these are available again, I didn't know how long I'd have to wait. Now I can FINALLY start building my first new system in 4 years!
I hope you die. I had been waiting on these for days. They were in stock last week, I got paid the day they went out of stock. Got back from class an HOUR after my auto-notify to find them sold out again.
That SUCKS!
Good board tho, and worth the wait (I have had mine for 8-10 days now, and running good). I DO wish some damn reviewer would get ahold of one of these, and do a writeup tho.
I bought the ChainTech board and had it rush delivered the day before xmas. (woo-hoo!)
The first major problem I ran into was that the SATA connections also would not recognize my Maxtor SATA drives. (300GB versions, $200 at newegg) I had bought them a week before with a PCI SATA card (Sil) and had them working in my old system, but found that they were flaky on whether they would show up or not.
After seeing only 1 show on the nForce4 chaintech mb 1 out of 30 boots, I tried moving them back to the old system, which now stopped seeing them as well. Yikes! I had 1/2 way convinced myself that the drives had gone bad (1 was a backup for the other with all my music + digital pics) so I was quite upset.
I then found an updated BISO for the Silicon Image PCI card I bought, and now the SATA drive always shows up in my old system. I moved the PCI card to the nForce4 motherboard, and all is now ok. I still sometimes have problems with the 2nd drive being recognized, but at least 1 will always be recognized.
I'm keeping my eyes peeled for an updated BIOS so I can switch back to using native SATA on the MB. The chaintech site for this motherboard is pretty lame at this point, and I haven't heard a peep back from their tech support.
Other notes:
- The included nTune app crashed my machine, and corrupted my WinXP boot disk partition. WinXP would not boot, nor would it boot off CD to go into recovery mode, nor would ghost boot. I had to reformat the partition and restore (Thank god for Norton Ghost 9) to get back up and runing again.
- The nVidia drivers have a monitoring app (I'd like to see cpu speed, temps, etc.) but it will not run, saying the BIOS does not support it.
- There are no Win98 drivers at this point.
- The nVidia firewall will not work with my VPN (Nortel Contivity) - I have to turn it off.
The first major problem I ran into was that the SATA connections also would not recognize my Maxtor SATA drives. (300GB versions, $200 at newegg) I had bought them a week before with a PCI SATA card (Sil) and had them working in my old system, but found that they were flaky on whether they would show up or not.
After seeing only 1 show on the nForce4 chaintech mb 1 out of 30 boots, I tried moving them back to the old system, which now stopped seeing them as well. Yikes! I had 1/2 way convinced myself that the drives had gone bad (1 was a backup for the other with all my music + digital pics) so I was quite upset.
I then found an updated BISO for the Silicon Image PCI card I bought, and now the SATA drive always shows up in my old system. I moved the PCI card to the nForce4 motherboard, and all is now ok. I still sometimes have problems with the 2nd drive being recognized, but at least 1 will always be recognized.
I'm keeping my eyes peeled for an updated BIOS so I can switch back to using native SATA on the MB. The chaintech site for this motherboard is pretty lame at this point, and I haven't heard a peep back from their tech support.
Other notes:
- The included nTune app crashed my machine, and corrupted my WinXP boot disk partition. WinXP would not boot, nor would it boot off CD to go into recovery mode, nor would ghost boot. I had to reformat the partition and restore (Thank god for Norton Ghost 9) to get back up and runing again.
- The nVidia drivers have a monitoring app (I'd like to see cpu speed, temps, etc.) but it will not run, saying the BIOS does not support it.
- There are no Win98 drivers at this point.
- The nVidia firewall will not work with my VPN (Nortel Contivity) - I have to turn it off.
I understand this board has trouble getting above 220 FSB...this true? I went with a Winnie A64 3000+ with the intent of OCing to roughly 3500+ speeds (2.2 Ghz), so if this board can't take me home, I might need to start looking at the ASUS...
No one on AT & xtremesystems.org reported being able to gain great success in O/C with this MOBO. The K8NF-9 on the other hand, though not-so-good on paper, did show good results - with relations to the Chaintech that is. In general, both seem unfit for hardcore O/C.
I agreed with you until this morning. I have had my VNF4 Ultra for 8 days, and could not get past 220 with the bios (seems to be a common theme with this board). I finally did it this morning ( got it up to 255 at one point, but did not want to leave it there untested). The trick is that you have to drop the HTT multi as you go (I have not played with voltages at all yet). IT seems very stable still, and I think I have room for more OC once I up the voltages. I wrote a detailed thread about it here: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...4167&enterthread=y
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