I've fired up my GA-8IHXP with the setup in the sig at the end of this posting, and seem to have gotten a couple of good sticks of Kingston 256 PC1066 (it was stable in Prime95 for a day, and I get 56 seconds for SuperPi 1M after I OC'd to 448, giving 2.8 GHz). OC'd temps with a Swiftech MCX4000-B are 55 C after hours in the Prime95 torture test, and 41 C when loafing along in Win XP Pro.
However, I have one issue: this seems to be a rev 3 board (per the printing on it and the manual supplied), but it physically contains the Creative 5880 chip (somewhat of a surprise; it was a 8IHXP2 from NewEgg). No audio device shows up in the Device Manager...Ok, so I went back to the BIOS to check that I had not disabled it by mistake. Big surprise: no entry on the Integrated Periperals page (or anywhere else for that matter) for the audio device!
I had flashed the BIOS to F7 at the very beginning, so was thinking that tonight I might flash F6 and go back to non-OC settings to see if this helped, until I saw Bingo13's post that stated no problems were observed with F7. So, instead I plan to enable the AC97 stuff on the integrated peripherals screen if they are currently disabled (I'm at work at the moment) and then see if the audio device shows up. If so, I'll load the Realtec drivers I just downloaded from the Gigabyte site. (By the way, in common with others who have posted here and elsewhere, I find that the driver & BIOS CD supplied by Gigabyte is unreadable on any one of a number of optical drives).
I posted an email last night to the Gigabyte support site, but no reply yet. Any thoughts greatly appreciated!
However, I have one issue: this seems to be a rev 3 board (per the printing on it and the manual supplied), but it physically contains the Creative 5880 chip (somewhat of a surprise; it was a 8IHXP2 from NewEgg). No audio device shows up in the Device Manager...Ok, so I went back to the BIOS to check that I had not disabled it by mistake. Big surprise: no entry on the Integrated Periperals page (or anywhere else for that matter) for the audio device!
I had flashed the BIOS to F7 at the very beginning, so was thinking that tonight I might flash F6 and go back to non-OC settings to see if this helped, until I saw Bingo13's post that stated no problems were observed with F7. So, instead I plan to enable the AC97 stuff on the integrated peripherals screen if they are currently disabled (I'm at work at the moment) and then see if the audio device shows up. If so, I'll load the Realtec drivers I just downloaded from the Gigabyte site. (By the way, in common with others who have posted here and elsewhere, I find that the driver & BIOS CD supplied by Gigabyte is unreadable on any one of a number of optical drives).
I posted an email last night to the Gigabyte support site, but no reply yet. Any thoughts greatly appreciated!
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