Performance problems with Asus A8N-SLI mobo

[discworld]

My PSU supplies much of the needed power. Its the Cooler master 450W Real Power model (even my old 400W Zalman was able to handle full load)

And I?m getting patter CPU performance with my AMD64 3000+ (the clock is lower than the Pentium but it provides the same power and speed than the Pentium 3GHz model, but I?m sure everyone knows that already)
The P4 was so hot and so dam slow. It wasn?t 3.2 GHz it was originally 2.8 GHz so even slower that I have now. I had slow ups in games and got my ass kicked in test buy slower AMD possessors (the other system setup was the same as mine). Like 3.2 GHz VS 2600+ or smt and I got owned.

And when I get this problem fixed I have now I will overclock this CPU as much as I can.

As we know the Gigahertz doesn?t mean that the possessor is better or faster. The Architecture counts more.


And I?m going to try if the Video card downclocks itself.
I get temps 70-80 and over that in some 3Dmark03 tests. But it seems the video card has some momentns in there where it can cool down (the temperature drops down and then goes up again). So the pest way to find out should be some hard gaming ?


And what to you think. Is my computer hardware (mobo, cpu, video) all ok or can there be some hardware problems (besides the video high temps)?

Ran memtest and there where no problems there and my hard drive is working properly to

Thanks all for your help. And I hope I get this problem fixed soon.


And sorry for my English it is not good as it should be. If I make some grammar or other mistakes please correct me.





edit: Ok I played CS S about a hour or so. Then suddenly my pc freezes and heard windows error tone. Dint c what was it because my system was freezed. Only ting I did was in the nVidia driver settings I enabled the "notify me if GPU temperature exceeds this temp".

Ran some 3Dmark03 test and the GPU temp was constantly changing and got very good score (7900 points). The Internal Clock maximum was 1800 MHz.
I think that the 3700 nr was 3Dmark03 bug. I had those sometimes when I ran other systems. It just gives false info about hardware and other settings (it?s for testing not for hardware info so that?s ok).

So can anyone confirm that my hardware is all ok and this problem is caused by overheating video card? I would sleep better if I knew that my only problem is getting a new cooler.

 

[coyrls]

How about looking in the Windows event log? Perhaps the tone you heard was the "Notify" and perhaps (if you're lucky) and event was written to the log.

 

[discworld]

Haven?t used this thing called: event viewer.
I know it?s in the administrative tools and found it but don?t know what to look for

I found this: Event Viewer and there are 3 options: Applications, Security and System. Can?t find any errors from there which are associated with my system freeze and error signals (windows error tone).

I think I?m looking at the wrong place.

 

[coyrls]

you are lookng in the right place .... it was just a thought .... it still might be worth looking to see if anything was logged about the time of the freeze in either the application or system log. If you double click on an entry you get more details.

 

[discworld]

Originally posted by: coyrls
you are lookng in the right place .... it was just a thought .... it still might be worth looking to see if anything was logged about the time of the freeze in either the application or system log. If you double click on an entry you get more details.

Dint find any error logs there.

Does some one know any good hardware testing programs for motherboard and video card (except 3Dmark).
I need to test the mobo to see if something is wrong with it (but I hope not).

And what volts I should use for my CPU and memory?

 

[Regulator07]

i had the same problem with ntune, it gave me that error message. i was able to fix it though by changing the HTT frequency from 200 to 201, cpuz was reporting that it was running at 201 anyway even when i had it at 200 in bios, when i switched it to 201, the voltage increased to above 1.4 (which i was having to do manually in order to run prime95 on blend and be stable) and the ntune error message went away. i also have my pci locked at 33.33 and now everything runs fine, i am thinken it is a bios problem.

i dont know if anyone else has this with the a8n sli but when i click on the sli option in bios and then click on second option (there are only two, i forget what it is) it just locks up on me.

 

[discworld]

Originally posted by: Regulator07
i had the same problem with ntune, it gave me that error message. i was able to fix it though by changing the HTT frequency from 200 to 201, cpuz was reporting that it was running at 201 anyway even when i had it at 200 in bios, when i switched it to 201, the voltage increased to above 1.4 (which i was having to do manually in order to run prime95 on blend and be stable) and the ntune error message went away. i also have my pci locked at 33.33 and now everything runs fine, i am thinken it is a bios problem.

i dont know if anyone else has this with the a8n sli but when i click on the sli option in bios and then click on second option (there are only two, i forget what it is) it just locks up on me.

Ok thanks. I will try if it works.
I also have the bios problem that you have. When I click on the SLI option in BIOS the system crashes and have to restart the system. I think its bios related problem and it will be fixed in the next bios update.

I personally thinking about buying a new mobo because I don?t need the SLI and the problems I have with this are starting to get annoying. And the capacitors make noise sometimes. The Abit mobo should have better capacitors than this one.
I?m thinking about Abit AN8 Fatal1ti mobo which has nForce Ultra chip.
Had Abit IC7 mobo before and that was very good and easy to overclock.

-Edit- But how much volts to I have to give to CPU (I have 3000+) and to the memory?

Thank you :gift: .
This fixed my nTune error. Now the PCI value is 33.000 MHz in nTunes.

It seems that the mobo bios has some bugs in it. Setting the PCI value to 33.33 doesn?t work. So overclocking the CPU it locks the PCI bus automatically to 33.33.


nTunes

 

[discworld]

I updated the bios to official 1004 and replaced the Mobo chip cooler with zalman and the 6600 GT cooler with Zalman VF700-CU. The video card temps are now normal (max 55 C, the stock cooler gave me 90 C). But still there is something wrong. I still get bad FPS and bad 3Dmark03 score. Any one has more ideas what to try or what?s wrong ?



and the nTune error is gone now thanks to Regulator07


http://ftp.hot.ee/discworld/nTunes.jpg


-edit-

I just remembered one thing about my mobo. When I opened the box I saw that the selector card was in "Dual Video card" not in "one Video card mode". I heard there where some thing related to this "mobos chipping with selector card in dual mode".
Is there any chance that I have faulty mobo whish doesn?t want to work in single card mode and therefore loses the performance?
Its just stupid idea but I?m desperate. This is my first problem with pc that i can?t fix (had many problems but found a solution for it at least in a week or so, but this thing is just over my head).