DFI Nforce 3 LP UT Ultra D + Venice 3000+

[inveterate]

I've become extremely frustrated at this board's refusal to OC.. I put in 1.552 volts and it still won't boot properly. However once it actually boots, it's PRIME stable. Does anyone have this board and got an OC out of it..

 

[furballi]

Raise the RAM to 2.5-3-3-7-1T and retest. Use 5:6 memory divider @ 10x and 255FSB. You may be limited by the CPU. 2.5GHz is the norm for this CPU.

 

[Matt2]

If you're using a divider, put the divider back to 1:1 and lower the HTT as low as you have to to get the memory to run stable.

If it boots up with the 1:1 divider, then you had the same problem I did when I first put together my system. The computer would crash if I used any divider at all.

I thought I got a busted chip.

After going through all the BIOS that I could find, I tried the 7/4/05 BIOS and the damn thing booted 2.7GHZ first try.

I highly recommend you flash to the 7/4/05 BIOS.

It can be found on the dfi-street.com forums.

 

[Homerboy]

read the OCing AMD64 sticky in this forum and the DFI sticky in the Motherboard forum. All your answers lie there.

 

[Shimmishim]

this is for the nf3 board...

so the 7/4 is for the nf4 board... unless they released one for the nf3 board on 7/4 as well

 

[Crashedout]

You can get the latest bios from DFI's site. I did and now I can overclock very well(9x295), the memory dividers are still iffy. 1:1 and 1:2 seem to work but the ones between...lets just say they need some work. Hopefully DFI will get that right in the next release.

 

[inveterate]

guys,, I can OC ,, and it is prime worthy at 2.6ghz.. HOWEVER,, we're tlaking about my nforce 3 here, i think some r getting lost... IT won't reboot properly.. and sometimes it won't boot.. How can it not cold boot, when it's PRIME WORTHY>>>>

 

[Matt2]

damn, I did get lost.

Your sig threw me off!

PSU issue?

mobo chipset overheat?

I dunno.