Why can't my new Asus P5N32 NF4 SLI Intel OC worth a crap

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Originally posted by: abs0lut3
OP-Do you mind posting such fixes so future referrence seeker of such board would be able to fix of said problems such as yours?

Not sure what you mean. The fix for me was getting rid of this board and going back to my Intel 955x chipset on the Asus P5WD2-Premium.

I did some more reading and I think that it is an incompatibility between the P-D 820 and this MB/NF4 chipset. I noticed that the review on Anandtech tested the 820 for dual core support which does work, but they did not appear to test any overclocking features on the 820 from what I read, only the 840EE.
It also appears that this is just a tweaked version of the P5ND2 board which claimed support for the 820 but when consumers purchased it and noticed that the 820 only ran in single core mode, a statement was release confirming that it did not support dual core. They said that it only dupported 830 and 840 chips in dual core. So I wouldn't be surprised if this is somehow related.

If someone does find a way to OC this board with an 820 please post for the benefit of other readers. I have linked this post on several other forums for reference.

FYI my 820 is still running great at 3.6Ghz and 1030FSB since going back to the Intel board, my temps never go above 62degC under load with my Zalman heatsink and my Stealth case fans nearly silent. Temps are 40-45 idle.

 

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I had simular problems with this mobo after too moving everything over from a well configured P5WD2 Premium wanting to experience the new 8 phase power for low heat overclocking potential. But I was dissapointed to find that even with good core temp (29c idle/47c 98% load) it could not hit a high FSB on the lower multiplier. The biggest quirk I do have to date is the RAM sync issues. Does anybody have any problems getting RAM to link or even manual select for 1:1 or 4:5. My Corsair TWIN2X1024A-PC4300C3Pro can't even reach DDR333 on this mobo in several different BIOS settings. I tested later that the low multi OC forr the D series is common amung the nF4 SLI mobos. I'm running a P4 660, so it now seams to be the same for this. So giving up on the 14x I switched to 18x at 880FSB and get a CPU:RAM ratio of 11:7 and only when I set to auto, it will not post outside of linked or manual to even a 1:1 at FSB800. In FSB800 I get 3:2. Is it something to do with the DDR500 RAM cause I see a lot of peepz using the lovely PC5400UL (I'm waiting for min, out of stock)? It ran great in the P5WD2 & P5AD2-E to 714 @ 4-4-3-8, 2.1V, So what gives?

 

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Originally posted by: Markfw900
I got the 820D just so I could evaluate it honestly, without people telling me I'm talking out of my a$$. As you notice I have 3 X2's and a dual Opteron (and an opteron 170 coming next week).

So again, the 820D is a furnace, doesn't OC for crap, and the X2 3800 wipes the floor with it in every benchamrk I have run, and none of those are games !

I stand by my initial post, cut your losses and get an X2.

This guy is asking for a technical help, not a buying advice. He has built 300 or so systems and I'm sure there was reasons why he picked Intel platform. Cut the losses? What, the CPU? He has the motherboard and DDR2 memory, too.

I know you've contributed in the forum once in a while, but your posts of late are getting really obnoxious. Why crap out a help-seeking thread with your f*nboy scream? Make your own thread for the sake of yourself.

For the OP, sorry I'm not familiar with the Pentium Ds so I can't give you any advice. I just came in out of curiosity of Intel SLI chipset, and happened to see your long, detailed post getting crapped thanks to some forum regulars. Hope someone can give you help, here or elsewhere.