*** Official ABIT NF7/S (nForce2) Thread ***

[Stephan28]

Originally posted by: pelikan

Originally posted by: CyNics
I'm thinking of setting up a 2nd PC since I have an extra pair of kingston hyperX pc3500 and an tbredB1700+.

planning to go with the nf7-s rev2.0.
does nf7-s rev2.0 have any compatability problem with the kingston hyperX pc3500?
Cuz I heard the hyperX pc3500 didn't work on nf7-s rev2.0 few months back but I'm not sure whether or not the problem still exist or have been resolved.
FYI, my hyperX pc3500 can be considered as one of the early batch of hyperx, bought it this in january 2003. So any problem?

I'm running hyperx pc3500 on mine. I had some early hyperx that didn't work at high FSB, but Kingston replaced it for free. They actually shipped first, which was pretty darn convenient.

pelikan,
What version of HyperX3500 did you have originally have and what did they send you? I think I may have the old stuff? How did you go about getting them to swap it out for you?!!?

Thanks!

 

[pelikan]

Originally posted by: Stephan28

Originally posted by: pelikan

Originally posted by: CyNics
I'm thinking of setting up a 2nd PC since I have an extra pair of kingston hyperX pc3500 and an tbredB1700+.

planning to go with the nf7-s rev2.0.
does nf7-s rev2.0 have any compatability problem with the kingston hyperX pc3500?
Cuz I heard the hyperX pc3500 didn't work on nf7-s rev2.0 few months back but I'm not sure whether or not the problem still exist or have been resolved.
FYI, my hyperX pc3500 can be considered as one of the early batch of hyperx, bought it this in january 2003. So any problem?

I'm running hyperx pc3500 on mine. I had some early hyperx that didn't work at high FSB, but Kingston replaced it for free. They actually shipped first, which was pretty darn convenient.

pelikan,
What version of HyperX3500 did you have originally have and what did they send you? I think I may have the old stuff? How did you go about getting them to swap it out for you?!!?

Thanks!

I don't remember the revision number of the old HyperX I had. To get it swapped I emailed Kingston, telling them that the memory would not run at specified speed. They gave me a tech support phone number to call. I just told the guy my experience with the memory and he offered to replace it for free. He said that they know about the problem with older revisions of HyperX and the NF7-S. I had the option to give my credit card number so they could ship first. So I did that and got my new memory in two days.

My old HyperX would not even run 200MHz at any timings. It was fine at 166MHz.

 

[demenion]

Does anyone know how to force 333/400 FSB?

I have PC2100 ram but I run it at 12 x 200, but it still saids the FSB is 266 on bootup.

I put in a stick of my friends 3200 ram and it said 400 FSB.

Does it have something to do with ratios?

 

[Megatomic]

Have you tried using something like AIDA32 or Sisoft Sandra to see what your memory is really running at? Maybe your board is just displaying the SPD info from the memory sticks when the system POSTs...

 

[Ardan]

Well I have some questions. To make it easier on you all: I am FAR from being a new user, and I have a huge amount of computing experience so please don't dumb anything down, it is insulting .

First off, I have noticed occaisonally a REALLY high-pitched whine from my computer. It happens every now and then...kinda sounds like when your ears are ringing but a few pitches higher. Its so high it makes me wonder if its at the very top of what the human ear can hear. It isn't very loud, but it is definitely noticable if you are in the room. I run my comp at 2205Mhz with everything stock voltage and its been up for months until this week. I've been shutting it down to see if anything changes, too. I ran things at the default settings (2500+ is normal) for a few days and the high pitched whine still occurs. I have a GF4 Ti4200-128Mb card but that isn't overclocked at all. The hard drives are an 80Gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 and a 30.7Gb Maxtor HDD. Any Ideas?

Second question is overclocking. As I said, I am running it at 2.2Ghz on stock settings and it is rock solid. I would like to see where the limit is some time. What voltage settings do you guys recommend adjusting? The temp at 3200+ stays around 105 degrees Fahrenheit as well...I use an SLK-800(A) with an 80mm Thermaltake Smart Case Fan II. I also have a 120mm fan in the rear that spins fairly quick, and a low-noise 120mm one in the front. The case is an SLK3700AMB from Antec and I know quite a few of you use that model (whether it is the black one or not). I also use the 350W Antec TruePower PSU that came with it. I hope I provided enough info...let me know how you guys would proceed!

 

[pelikan]

The high-pitched whine is probably a hard drive. Maybe you can unplug the front intake fan and put your ear down by the drives.
I don't know if your memory can handle it, but I'd try to run at least 200FSB. If you set the memory at Cas 2.5-3-3-6 with 2.9V it will probably do it. You may want to boot to memtest86 and run test five before going into windows so that you don't corrupt the install. Pushing memory too far is the best way to kill windows.
Once you find your max FSB start pushing the cpu, testing with Prime95 along the way. You've got good cooling so it's up to you how much voltage to use. I am personally comfortable with about 1.9V or less.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: Ardan

First off, I have noticed occaisonally a REALLY high-pitched whine from my computer. It happens every now and then...kinda sounds like when your ears are ringing but a few pitches higher. Its so high it makes me wonder if its at the very top of what the human ear can hear. It isn't very loud, but it is definitely noticable if you are in the room. I run my comp at 2205Mhz with everything stock voltage and its been up for months until this week. I've been shutting it down to see if anything changes, too. I ran things at the default settings (2500+ is normal) for a few days and the high pitched whine still occurs. I have a GF4 Ti4200-128Mb card but that isn't overclocked at all. The hard drives are an 80Gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 and a 30.7Gb Maxtor HDD. Any Ideas?

I have the high pitched whine also. It's impossible to hear when my CPU fan is above 2500rpm (I have a variable fan speed controller) but below that it can get annoying. It has to be either the motherboard or my PSU (Antec 430W) because I've changed virtually every component in my computer and only those two remain constant. I'm leaning towards the PSU, though. What kind of PSU do you have Ardan?

 

[Ardan]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
I have the high pitched whine also. It's impossible to hear when my CPU fan is above 2500rpm (I have a variable fan speed controller) but below that it can get annoying. It has to be either the motherboard or my PSU (Antec 430W) because I've changed virtually every component in my computer and only those two remain constant. I'm leaning towards the PSU, though. What kind of PSU do you have Ardan?

Originally posted by: Ardan
I also use the 350W Antec TruePower PSU that came with it.

 

[drewdogg808]

i've noticed the whine when i put in a new enermax ps....before i didn't hear the whine at all. the whine sounds whenever i'm running prime or when i open up programs, but it's definitely from the ps.

 

[Ardan]

Just like Pelikan said, and I was contemplating, it is the Hard Drive. I am not concerned because I backup everything important to a few CDRWs at the end of every week . However, why do you suppose it would be doing this? My concern is because it is the Seagate 80Gb 7200.7 Hard Drive doing the whining and I find that particularly odd because it completely withstood the lightning strike...didn't even have any bad clusters/sectors either and now it whines? I first tried what he said and unplugged the front 120mm fan and I could hear it...then I put in the Enermax 350W PSU I have and there was still whining. It was obvious from the noise location by itself but I had to be sure.

 

[pelikan]

One good way to quiet down a whining hard drive is to sit it on some 1/2" foam at the bottom of your case, in front of an intake fan. The main benefit is decoupling it from the case and also the foam helps absorb some of the whine.

 

[Ardan]

The thing is that it already is screwed in there with some rubber grommets w/ the case. the other, older HD made noise when it accessed and stuff and this new case has that one completely silenced. This one makes a faint HIGH pitch sound (highest pitch I think i've ever heard!) whenever it is in use. if I just idle, it makes no noise...but once I load up windows or a program, it starts to whine slightly and stops when the HD isn't being used. Who knows.

 

[JustStarting]

All I have to say about this board is.....WOW!!!


Booted up my NF7-S v2.0 (bios10) w/ a Barton 2500+. warming up memtest86 @ 10x215FSB first try= 12 passes so far on test 5- going to test 8. I'm running in DC w/ 2x256 Buffalo BH-5, 6/6 @430DDR, timings @ 7-2-2-2@ 2.9v vdimm, 1.6 chipset and 1.65 vcore- temps 46C after running memtest86!! Happy so far looking for more later. I got this from an AT member who ran it at 225FSB with the same memory. Airflow will be better when it's in a case- it's just sitting on a cardboard box right now!!

This is on stock cooling NB, nothing on the SB- yet! Mofset coolers and SB cooler are on order. No mods on the CPU or mobo.

AWESOME BOARD!!

 

[pelikan]

Originally posted by: JustStarting
All I have to say about this board is.....WOW!!!


Booted up my NF7-S v2.0 (bios10) w/ a Barton 2500+. warming up memtest86 @ 10x215FSB first try= 12 passes so far on test 5- going to test 8. I'm running in DC w/ 2x256 Buffalo BH-5, 6/6 @430DDR, timings @ 7-2-2-2@ 2.9v vdimm, 1.6 chipset and 1.65 vcore- temps 46C after running memtest86!! Happy so far looking for more later. I got this from an AT member who ran it at 225FSB with the same memory. Airflow will be better when it's in a case- it's just sitting on a cardboard box right now!!

This is on stock cooling NB, nothing on the SB- yet! Mofset coolers and SB cooler are on order. No mods on the CPU or mobo.

AWESOME BOARD!!

Rock and roll.

 

[Samus]

i'm getting hard disk corruption from the sata controllers. i tried my seagate 80gb sata and a wd 250gb sata drive. both exhibit file corruption (not being able to execute various files, not extracting zip files, chronic crc errors) but i actually got a copy of windows to fully install and boot without bosd'ing after 3 tries. i've got bios 10, i've tried 1.1.0.21 and .4x sata drivers, and different memory. i'm running a thermaltake 420 watt psu (all my components are reaching for that magic 420 number such as the fsb, total storage capacity, videocard ram & gpu, exc )

any idea's. i'd test some ide drives but i don't have any lol. i bought this board to replace my old a7n8x 1.1 that wouldn't do above 190mhz fsb.

and... i also have a high pitch whine. it comes from my videocard. it makes a whine whenever i scroll through a webpage, exc. very odd.

 

[suklee]

RE: USB problems

I have 6 USB ports (2 on back I/O, 2 on back panel, 2 on front panel) and 90% of the time only the front ones would work. My mouse would die as soon as they got into Windows. I found the solution here. You have to uncheck "allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" from the usb root hubs inside device manager.

 

[pelikan]

Originally posted by: Samus
i'm getting hard disk corruption from the sata controllers. i tried my seagate 80gb sata and a wd 250gb sata drive. both exhibit file corruption (not being able to execute various files, not extracting zip files, chronic crc errors) but i actually got a copy of windows to fully install and boot without bosd'ing after 3 tries. i've got bios 10, i've tried 1.1.0.21 and .4x sata drivers, and different memory. i'm running a thermaltake 420 watt psu (all my components are reaching for that magic 420 number such as the fsb, total storage capacity, videocard ram & gpu, exc )

any idea's. i'd test some ide drives but i don't have any lol. i bought this board to replace my old a7n8x 1.1 that wouldn't do above 190mhz fsb.

and... i also have a high pitch whine. it comes from my videocard. it makes a whine whenever i scroll through a webpage, exc. very odd.

Bios 10 is why you get corrution. You should flash to the latest bios.

 

[Rosencrantz]

Hello all, im getting an NF7-S and I'm so confused at which memory to buy... I'm on a limited budget, so cost is a factor.. I've been looking at PC3200 as I'm getting an XP2500+ so I could oc it. I can't decide between the Kingston Value, a Samsung (all it said was pc3200, had no description of CL) and Buffalo. Am I missing any other memory companies? Anyway, I'm just trying to get at least 200fsb with okay timings. Any useful info is appreciated.

 

[Megatomic]

Hey Rosencrantz, if I'm not mistaken, Buffalo ram sticks use Winbond chips which are notorious for being able to overclock and run with fast timing settings. And their inexpensive. You should at least look into the Buffalo stuff.

 

[Rosencrantz]

Yea, I looked at Newegg today and it was out of stock till 10/21/03... $83 per 512mb stick of pc3200 but I gotta pay tax and shipping... doh!!!

 

[Rosencrantz]

I have another question: Should I use my Audigy 1 or the onboard Soundstorm?

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: Rosencrantz
I have another question: Should I use my Audigy 1 or the onboard Soundstorm?

soundstorm, but try it out and if you don't like it ditch it.

i have an extra TBSC and i decided not to use it and give soundstorm a chance. it rocks and it's better for gaming than my TBSC

 

[trmiv]

I just got mine setup, and I'm happy so far. I'm running a 2400+ that I got for free, and it's humming along at 205 FSB right now at 1.675 core. 2x256MB of Kingston HyperX PC3200 running at 410 cl2 6-2-2-2, running great so far. Lets see how far I can take this thing. I haven't even touched the other voltages yet, just the CPU.

 

[culex]

I'm about to purchase a NF7-S 2.0 which is to replace my dying Epox 8K7A.
Before I buy it, I just want to know if everything will be gravy.

1. Will my heatsink, Thermalright SLK-800U, fit on this thing?
2. Because of my budget, I'll probably have to use my old RAM until I save up enough money. Will a first gen PC2100 Crucial DDR ram work without a problem? (I won't OC until I replace RAM)
3. I'm hearing a lot of good things about Buffalo RAMs for this board. As I'm on a tight budget, and it seems like the Buffalo 3200's are actually pretty similar to Crucial's 3200... should I get Crucial or Buffalo for my next RAM?

Thanks.

 

[PUNKtotalled]

Originally posted by: culex
Will my heatsink, Thermalright SLK-800U, fit on this thing?

Yep it will fit gently. My brother's got that setup.