Soltek K8TPro-939 AGP/PCI lock HELP

[CReatiVe]

I purchased this board about a week ago (going against instinct and trying something new, Soltek)... and after trying the Async AGP/PCI lock enabled and disabled, my graphics card is still eating dirt after 220ish FSB (ATI AX 800XT). I've seen many posts with problems to this... I wish someone could give a SURE answer. I've also been told many times VIA boards dont like to lock very well... so if this is the case im returning this Soltek board and getting an Asus 939 board, this is ridiculous and far from acceptable in my book. =(

Thanks in advance.


(Note: Posted this on sweepingguardian by mistake in the general hardware forum, sorry!)

 

[CReatiVe]

bump

 

[xsilver]

You have to lower the HTT bus (LDT) to 4X if you want to get past 220fsb --- I have the abit and it clocks to 280fsb before it gives out --- I'm also pissed off about that as the mobo's AGP lock kills itself after 280fsb
To achieve maximum overclock - lower the HTT, ddr speed to VERY low levels --- UP the FSB and then slowly start to increase the HTT and DDR again, when its not stable, you may need to increase voltage
On my 280fsb overclock the HTT needs to be set at 2X for some reason -- performance is the same tho -- look at Zebo's great overclocking thread in this forum

 

[CReatiVe]

Hm... the LDT frequency settings are all I see... so 800 being 4X, or seperate setting for the multiplier? I cant find a multiplier for it. First time using AMD!

 

[xsilver]

The LDT is the new AMD64 only bridge between the ram and the CPU -- this is dependant on the FSB - 200 stock multiplied by 5X (stock onyour mobo ==therefore = 1000HTT freqency) -- when your FSB is too high , the HTT frequency will also be too high and cause the mobo to be unstable, what you need to do is lower the multiplier to 4X or lower to make the HTT at or lower than 1000 --- hope this helps

this is not the multipier for the CPU , eg. the multipler should be 9,10 etc, X 200 to get 1800-2000mhz frequency

and then you have the ram speed too, which if too high will also make the system unstable -- set the DDR to 333 to allow for headroom ----
hope this helps