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The Other said:how long is this gonna last?
Pkirk618 said:so far so good. The board itself looks nice and doesn't feel cheap. I purchased a fan from Altex for 9 bucks. It the cheapest thing in their overpriced store lol. I rec'd a 32bit processor but that fine for me. If I decide to upgrade the processor, I have some room to do so. I heard people getting up to 2.4 on this processor. Combine that w/say a 6800 or higher, you can game very well. I got mine from OP too and arrived in 2 days.
Im formatting my HDD as we speak but did get a decent look at the BIOS. Looks like this board has some decent overclocking options. It locks AGP and PCI seperately too so you can OC those areas on your own if you like. It was very easy to hook up my case's lights too--usually I dread figuring out which goes where because the manual is vague. Not with this board. The book is pretty detailed. I've received mobos w/o any literature and that sucks. Comes with Sata and IDE cables. Of course you get ur IO backplate.
I heard that we shouldn't install a driver or two off the CD. I forget which one but I'm going to research that here in a few. I think its the NFORCE HDD drivers or something like that.
In all for 80 bucks, this was a great deal. Thanks OP.
RGMBill said:2) I have a slightly different experience than you with the connections... I can't get the power LED onto the board because my old legacy case has a three pin connector with a dead middle pin, and there is only room for a two pin. Everything else connected fine, although I noticed an honest to god bias in the reset switch; it works only in one of the orientations on my system, normally the switch doesn't care, since it's supposed to just be a quick ground to reset the board, but it mattered, at least with my old case.
RGMBill said:Two points from your post:
1) From personal experience, get the NFORCE drivers from NVIDIA; DO NOT INSTALL drivers from the CD, they hose the installation. You'll need to semimanually install the SOUND drivers from the CD, though you could probably get them elsewhere (Realtech AC97).
3) Darn it, my RAID 0 array from my old MB isn't instantly recognized by the new NVIDIA NVRAID on the board... which means the data on those drives needs to be transferred to another disk (I have a drive big enough, with a minor amount of pruning, since the drive isn't full), rebuild the RAID under the NVRAID, then reload the data... PITA, I'd be DONE installing the darn thing now if not for that.
br0k3nman said:How well does the OCed version of this setup compare to a p4 2.4 @3.1 on a an abit 865 board?
Actually you did pretty well, remember the clockgen average with this combo is right around 260ish htt with some getting more, and some getting less.The Other said:How do you guys get it past 250 I used the clockgen but I can only get it to 268 before it gives...
Is there any software or hacked bios out there that can do that...
SJetski71 said:Actually you did pretty well, remember the clockgen average with this combo is right around 260ish htt with some getting more, and some getting less.
As long as your familiar with, and have ruled out the other vagaries like voltages, HTT multiplier, ram divider, mem timings etc, then you've probably hit your wall. Try disabling sidebanding and fastwrites in the bios since they "can" limit your overclock bigtime, ymmv. The ECS bios lacking chipset voltage adjustments is seen as a handicap, not sure what can be done about that though.
Are you familiar with overclocking NF3 based rigs?
http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1029234447&postcount=116Doctor Carta said:anyone got a link for a tutorial for OCin on a NF3 platform?
SJetski71 said:Try disabling sidebanding and fastwrites in the bios since they "can" limit your overclock bigtime, ymmv.
You may have already thought about this but your ole Barton 2500+ and Chaintech mobo are still fetching decent prices on ebay (but not for long i bet). If you were to sell those then your almost getting this Sempron combo for free.The Other said:Not very familiar at all... this was my step up from the XP in my sig...
I kinda figured that I hit the wall... But the 2250 with this Sempron does do better than my XP did at 2200, much better... I think my old superpi 1m was at 46 and now I get it at 42...
SJetski71 said:You may have already thought about this but your ole Barton 2500+ and Chaintech mobo are still fetching decent prices on ebay (but not for long i bet). If you were to sell those then your almost getting this Sempron combo for free.
BTW, you could try horsing around with bios setting some more, but you may end up just setting clockgen to 267HTT for an even 2400mhz, and sit back and enjoy
/Deal still alive/
CentronMe said:I got mine in yesterday and let Prime95 run all night.
Not a bad little combo for the money. Results below...
Talonz said:I hope that 78 in your taskbar isn't the CPU temp
MiXdNuTs said:I currently have the system in my sig....well actually I think the mobo bit it. It won't post anymore. I wasted money on a new PSU and that wasn't the problem so now I want a new mobo but I can't find my model on the net.
My question is, how much of an ugrade would this system be over my current rig? Assuming I ran this sempron at stock vs my current rig how would it compair?
Would I need to OC to make this system faster than my current rig? My NF2 is running very tight dual channel ram timmings and single channel on this system would seem a bottle neck. Also, as sad as it seems, I do plan to game on this a little. Some BF2 and maybe WOW. Also lots of DIVX and XVID encoding. Thanks for any input.
Doctor Carta said:what kind of temps?
Be sure to check the review links i added in the original post. I went from a [email protected] dual-channel, to this Sempron@ 2.34ghz single channel and it has speeded my tasks up noticeably. IMHO dual-channel on socket-A was a sham, all reviews seemed to only show a 2~4% speed increase which imho classifies it as a "tweak" and nothing too special.MiXdNuTs said:I currently have the system in my sig....well actually I think the mobo bit it. It won't post anymore. I wasted money on a new PSU and that wasn't the problem so now I want a new mobo but I can't find my model on the net.
My question is, how much of an ugrade would this system be over my current rig? Assuming I ran this sempron at stock vs my current rig how would it compair?
Would I need to OC to make this system faster than my current rig? My NF2 is running very tight dual channel ram timmings and single channel on this system would seem a bottle neck. Also, as sad as it seems, I do plan to game on this a little. Some BF2 and maybe WOW. Also lots of DIVX and XVID encoding. Thanks for any input.
MiXdNuTs said:Is THIS CPU cooler overkill for this? Its the CNPS 7700