To all Asrock dual sata2 owners

[song414]

Hello I just hooked up my new rig. Im having a problem and can't overclock my cpu (opteron 165) and im using 2x 1gb of those gskill ram from newegg wih those red heatspreaders. Anyways i have updated my bios to 1.6 and i cannot see a option for my vcore to go to 1.45 I only see up to 1.4 what gives? Alsoi dont see the option of a mem divider. There are tons of options on he chipset features that i have no clue what they do. For example many of them have options of 200,400,600,800,1000. There are others that say 8 bits and 16 bits.


Also I cannot find the way to increase the htt. Is it the cpu frequency? Because it stays at 200 and my pci-e is at 100 no matter if i make it sync or async. It wont allow me to change that for some reason. I am using my old 9800 pro agp card is that the reason?

No matter what I do it stays at 1.8 ghz. I am really dissapointed in my temperatures too because I see people geting 25-30C idle... while im getting a whopping 40-42C idle...

I invested into the arctic 64 pro and 2 120mm fans (front is intake and rear is outake) also got 1 80mm fan blowing air out on the side and this is in the coolmaster centurion 532 case. Any ideas on how to make it cooler?

 

[imported_Seer]

Ok, first of all, check out the massive thread on this board. Read the first post AT THE LEAST. It will contain information on how to modify your board to get higher vcore (DO NOT DO IT ON YOUR BIOS THAT YOU HAVE INSTALLED NOW). Its very tricky and requires soldering or something similar, though. If you are uncomfortable soldering on your board or some such, you're stuck with 1.4 v

The mem divider is listed as the frequency, ro dram speed. It is (roughly) equal to HT Speed (listed as cpu speed I think? It's the first one in the cpu config menu. Be sure to set it to Async., too, so that pcie stays at 100) multiplied by x/200. In this bios, x can be 200 (Synchronous, ie no divider), 166 (5/6), or 133 (2/3). Actual speeds may be slower due to a more complicated formula. (Tough luck) These options are towards the bottom of the CPU config menu, btw.

In the chipset menu, the HT frequencies listed (there's a pair of them that go from 200 to 1000 mhz in 200 mhz increments) as well as a pair of bus width options (8 bit v 16 bits). Once again, the Mhz listed is not really the speed, but the multiplier. 200 Mhz =1, 400 MHz = 2, 600 = 3, ...1000 Mhz = 5. You take this multiplier and multiply it by that cpu speed option I was talking about (the first one in the cpu config menu) to get your HT speed. You generally don't want it over 1000. You have to set BOTH options down to keep it under 1000, I think its listed as CPU-NB and NB-SB. And, go ahead and set the bus width to 16 bits on both.

Where are you checking your idle temps? In the bios? They are usually pretty high there, for some reason. Don't ask me why, you'd think a bios would not need much computing power @_@. Try speedfan or something. Also, keep in mind your ambient temps. Like, it was 35 C today here. There's no way I was getting 25 C idle (sans phase change).

Chances are you just don't need that side out fan, but whatever. I favor a simpler front to back flow.

And remember, check out the mega post. It's the one with 2thousand something replies, started by SynthDude2001. Lots of good info, even in the first post

 

[song414]

i looked at that thread and skimmed through it alot. So i know what it is and thats the whole reason i bought this mobo. Anyways...

I cannot get the first option in the cpu section to do anything. It is the one called cpu frequency and it is set to 200 and then the pci-e is set to 100 and i cannot do anything to that either. They aret greyed out but when i press enter to open a box to change them it wont open the box or do anything. Even when i run pci-e async or sync. Now how the heck do i fix this? I am using a agp card so is that the problem?

Also i know this board can do 1.45v and that is the perfect max voltage. I know you can volt mod it but thats for 1.55v i know the max voltage without a voltmod is 1.45 so why is my max volt 1.4?

Also about the htt multiplier. How do i determine my cpu speed? There are 2 or 3 options in the chipset features that i can mess with that have 200,400,600, 1000. Which ones do i use or do i use all of them? The mem divider is 133, 166,200 option?


Also i have speedfan installed but when i start it up it just hangs. I give it maybe 2 min to load up. Should it take longer than that?

 

[LED]

Have the settings set @ manual and if you do not want to OC the Vid card then make sure it is not in Sync

 

[imported_Seer]

the mem divider is under cpu configuration. HTT multiplier is either 200 (1x), 400 (2x), 600 (3x), 800 (4x), 1000 (5x). It is located under chipset configuration, and is labeled as CPU-NB Link Speed and NB-SB Link Speed. You need to change BOTH. To get CPU speed, you set the option CPU Speed and the Multiplier. Multiply the CPU Speed option by the multiplier (Both of these are in the CPU configuration section. To change cpu speed, just hit enter and start typing the numbers WHEN THE OPTION ABOVE IT IS SET TO ASYNCH. There wont be a box, you just hit enter and type and it will replace whats currently there).

I don't believe that there is a mem divider in the chipset menu. It's in the cpu menu. And yes, the mem divider is the 133, 166, 200 (aka 2:3, 5:6, 1:1).

Max vcore for your chip is 1.4. For others, like single core ones, I think, its 1.45.

I dont know whats up with your speedfan. But as I said, temps in bios are usually high.

PS keep AGP Aperture at 64 MB