Massman Posted June 9, 2010 Posted June 9, 2010 I've bought this board months ago, but it shipped with the totally wrong bios making it impossible to boot the X4 Deneb straight away. So, bought an old Sempron CPU, flashed the bios, mounted the X4 Deneb again and everything should be working. Sadly enough, that wasn't the case: gave up on the board for a few weeks, then last weekend decided to give it another spin. After much trying, I finally got it to boot just the one time ... and after much more trying I finally got it working somewhat properly ... Just wondering if there are other guys or gals out there who have touched this board and if they are willing to share some info. I had a great time with the LGA775 Asrock variant last time ... hoping this board can do the same magic! Quote
Massman Posted June 9, 2010 Author Posted June 9, 2010 First it didn't boot with my 2x1GB Crucial, so I tried 2x512MB sticks (which worked perfectly). Now the crucials are working again ... but booting after crash remains an issue. Also will need to figure out loads of hardmods, I think :-/ Quote
Crew Antinomy Posted June 9, 2010 Crew Posted June 9, 2010 Looking forward to see an excellent review pretty much like the AsRock LGA775 was. I managed to find such a board in our city and send to my team member, looking at the results I can say that he has made good use of it. Quote
Massman Posted June 9, 2010 Author Posted June 9, 2010 It's not looking all too bad ... this is on air cooling. Vdimm is set to 2.1V or, as Asrock bios states ... 'ULTRA HIGH' Note: use orange DIMM slots for dual channel overclocking. Quote
Crew Antinomy Posted June 9, 2010 Crew Posted June 9, 2010 Nice! But you brought it not for Superpi, did you? If you're going to extreme and high frequencies, I would suggest to get a dual-core. Our member used a Phenom II X4 965 and it made bad to the PWM. Now, under high load the voltage drops about 0,2-0,25V and this is very high. As you understand this is not the time that you can turn the FB resistor a bit further. I think that this happened because the voltage regulator is kind of weak for quad cores. And you don't need quads in almost all but one benchmarks. Quote
Massman Posted June 9, 2010 Author Posted June 9, 2010 Just getting to know the board. I've no idea how the HT Link will affect 3D performance, or whether CPU power will do anything. Going to take the setup apart again and do some hardmods first ... Quote
Massman Posted June 10, 2010 Author Posted June 10, 2010 Tested the platform in 3DMark01. It's worthless, don't waste your time. Quote
Crew Turrican Posted June 10, 2010 Crew Posted June 10, 2010 Tested the platform in 3DMark01. It's worthless, don't waste your time. is it really that bad? so my asrock with 5ghz+ qx9770 is still the best choice. Quote
Massman Posted June 10, 2010 Author Posted June 10, 2010 With the GF2 GTS I get 1/2 of your 3GHz score with my 3.8GHz. Quote
Crew Turrican Posted June 10, 2010 Crew Posted June 10, 2010 hmm, ok, that's really slow. what a pitty. Quote
Oliverda Posted June 18, 2010 Posted June 18, 2010 Hi all, I bought an AM2NF3-VSTA mobo last week for a preview. AGP + Phenom II. I updated its BIOS to the latest 3.30 and it works perfectly with an AM3 Sempron 140. Unfortunately there is no official Thuban support for it (yet). AGP + six-cores would be the true combo. Quote
Crew Antinomy Posted June 18, 2010 Crew Posted June 18, 2010 True combo for what? Can you tell how many percent of cards will gain anything? And in what tests and how much? As for me it's only 3DMark06 and only 5-6 cards like 4670 or 3850. Quote
Oliverda Posted June 19, 2010 Posted June 19, 2010 To merge the past with the present. 3DMarks are useless. I won't use them in the preview. Quote
Crew Antinomy Posted June 19, 2010 Crew Posted June 19, 2010 Quite funny. In the games the situation about multiple threading is even worse than in 3DMark. You won't achieve anything significant moving from 4 cores to 6 cores. It would be interesting to read such an AGP + AM3 review still. Quote
Oliverda Posted June 19, 2010 Posted June 19, 2010 Quite funny. In the games the situation about multiple threading is even worse than in 3DMark. You won't achieve anything significant moving from 4 cores to 6 cores. It would be interesting to read such an AGP + AM3 review still. In games I probably won't achieve but I'm going to test with other (non-3D) benchmarks and applications as well. Mainly I would like to show that you can use the latest AMD CPUs in a four years old motherboard. Maybe I'll compare it with a new AM3 mobo as well. Quote
Crew Antinomy Posted June 19, 2010 Crew Posted June 19, 2010 I thought the idea was about using the AGP video. Well, it's a different case then. Be careful with the VRM Quote
Oliverda Posted June 19, 2010 Posted June 19, 2010 I thought the idea was about using the AGP video. Well, it's a different case then. Be careful with the VRM I'm going to try some popular games but not the 3D performance will be the key. I'll put a fan above the PWM. Hopefully it will be enough. Quote
George_o/c Posted June 19, 2010 Posted June 19, 2010 I have that board sitting here since January, along with a X2 250, but didn't even bother to test it so far Quote
Oliverda Posted July 11, 2010 Posted July 11, 2010 Unfortunately the mobo can't boot up with Thuban (1090T). Quote
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