Firstly, the board is up and running, and the computer works, I am using it now.
I have a pretty weak CPU, one of the bad week 35 winchesters, and it apparently needs extra voltage to be ok. One of my biggest problems with the bios is that there seems to be no cpu multiplier options, that is to say that it is stuck at 9x, so I cannot be sure which is holding back the overclock. I havent tried to find the sweet spot yet, but it will not post at 250fsb, which the winnie should be able to do, even a bad one, at 1.68vcore. I upped the chipset voltage to see if that was holding it back, and dropped the multiplier on the ram that at 1:1 was doing fine, and it didnt help, which leads me to believe that the lack of a PCI lock is what is causing the problems with overclocking. The curious thing is, however, that I have no PCI cards in there, only my video card in the PCIe slot, which I believe is fairly unrelated. Anyhow, I cannot say if the SATA is working, for I only have an IDE ATA HD as of now, but everything seems to be going fairly smoothly.
A VERY IMPORTANT NOTE!!!! I ALMOST FORGOT!!! THE STUPID RESISTOR THINGY IS IN THE WAY OF ONE OF THE CLIPS FOR THE XP-90, AND I ASSUME THE XP-120.
As of now I have no solution, I tried to bend it slightly, but it needs to be bent a fair amount as it comes right up against the black thingy(forgot the name) that holds in the HSF. Right now I only have 3 of the clips in, and not sure that is the greatest idea, but will test more.
A few quick notes on the bios for overclockers. vdimm-2.6-2.9, vcore- 1.4-1.7, chipset volts 1.5?-1.7, and HTT frequency goes waayyy up, havent checked how far yet, as I cannot even get to 250 stable yet.
Overall, the board is working, and that is as much as I ask, I hope some of this helped, and I will post more as I make progress. This is my first build and it is awesome getting it working.
I have a pretty weak CPU, one of the bad week 35 winchesters, and it apparently needs extra voltage to be ok. One of my biggest problems with the bios is that there seems to be no cpu multiplier options, that is to say that it is stuck at 9x, so I cannot be sure which is holding back the overclock. I havent tried to find the sweet spot yet, but it will not post at 250fsb, which the winnie should be able to do, even a bad one, at 1.68vcore. I upped the chipset voltage to see if that was holding it back, and dropped the multiplier on the ram that at 1:1 was doing fine, and it didnt help, which leads me to believe that the lack of a PCI lock is what is causing the problems with overclocking. The curious thing is, however, that I have no PCI cards in there, only my video card in the PCIe slot, which I believe is fairly unrelated. Anyhow, I cannot say if the SATA is working, for I only have an IDE ATA HD as of now, but everything seems to be going fairly smoothly.
A VERY IMPORTANT NOTE!!!! I ALMOST FORGOT!!! THE STUPID RESISTOR THINGY IS IN THE WAY OF ONE OF THE CLIPS FOR THE XP-90, AND I ASSUME THE XP-120.
As of now I have no solution, I tried to bend it slightly, but it needs to be bent a fair amount as it comes right up against the black thingy(forgot the name) that holds in the HSF. Right now I only have 3 of the clips in, and not sure that is the greatest idea, but will test more.
A few quick notes on the bios for overclockers. vdimm-2.6-2.9, vcore- 1.4-1.7, chipset volts 1.5?-1.7, and HTT frequency goes waayyy up, havent checked how far yet, as I cannot even get to 250 stable yet.
Overall, the board is working, and that is as much as I ask, I hope some of this helped, and I will post more as I make progress. This is my first build and it is awesome getting it working.
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