spaceballsrules

That was the 1000th post in this thread.
Way to go N2Gaming

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N2Gaming

Yup we are no longer a club of less then 1K post's

Thanks for noticing,

N2G

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Do you know of anyone adjusting the PCI-E FSB? The default is 100 MHz. What would increasing it do, positive or negative?

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For video cards it would increase the speed that the GPU's communicate on the main bus of the mother board. Essecially it's one way to overclock your grfx card. Not the best from what I have read. If you want to overclock you grfx card I would suggest either flashing the firmware to settings w/faster gpu/ram speeds or using the software that will do the same. I don't overclock my gpu's so I can not give you any results from running benchmark comparissons.

Hope this helps,

N2G

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True that. Some hardcore OC'ers claim this gives a boost, but I theorize that it would only help once you have reached the bandwidth ceiling of your PCIe bus. For the M2N32, we are soon to reach that limit (PCIe v1.0). However, please note that this has the potential to screw up the mobo or gfx card permanently, afaik. I hear it's somewhere around 110-115 MHz PCIe setting that FUBAR's it.
-Slink

EDIT: Note that PCIe bandwidth shouldn't be fully saturated until you install something in the nVidia GTX 200 line of cards (or equiv ATI card, or 2-Core 9800 GTX, etc.) I'm not sure exactly where the limit lies... see the sig. ;-P The GREAT thing about our board is that once we fully saturate the PCIe bus bandwidth for one slot, we have a full additional 16x slot to saturate, so we can then go SLI. It was a great board to purchase at the time. I'LL BE DAMNED IF I DON'T GET MAH MONEYS' WORTH OF THIS MOBO!!

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AllenG

Wow, was looking to find out if i could drop a phenom x3 720 in my board and came across this thread and just had to subscribe, i love this board. I might also have some info and be of a little bit of use. lol Looks like i am gonna get a x3 720 soon here thanks to you guys

something that might help, running on bios 1701 with the board i have i am running 1066 DDR2 at about 100 mhz over 1066 on a 90nm windsor 6400 BE without a hitch, it straight hauls. 1066 ram worked, but not using the 1066 ram setting in the bios (it would say 1066 during post, but memtests showed it running it at ddr 2 533 {BOO!!!})... i had to set it for ddr2 800 and oc the FSB (HT) to get the higher ram speeds. The 1066 setting may work in the newest bios on any revision of am2+ or better cpu that actually supports 1066 ddr2 native. I'll be able to tell you all more after i get my PII 720, but one of you might beat me to getting 1066 ram before i get the cpu.

Thanks again guys, helped me alot... look forward to being part of the community, especially this club!

spaceballsrules

You have the RAM running at 1166?!
We are both running the same CPU and BIOS version Are you using an 8% OC setting in BIOS, or did you manually adjust the FSB and multiplier?
Also, do you have a difference in temps between the 2 CPU cores?
If you put the 720 BE on this board, you will need to update the BIOS to the 2101.
Welcome aboard

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eh, i played with the auto oc a bit, was very unimpressed could never get over 3.3 something, and wouldnt run the ram or the HT where i wanted. I go by manual all the time usually, i like precision and control. Actually, i think the ram is somewhere up around 1192.. FSB is set at 266 and i dropped the multi down to 13 or 14. With stock multi this should be running a 4.2 ghz. I havent been able to get over 3.52... and i could only run that in xp64 and i could only get the ram to 1002 with the multi used to obtain 3.52. I'm already as tight as i'd like to go as far as temps go, so i stopped here and went with the faster ht and ram with lower cpu clock, was faster this way over all.

Yeah, i caught i would need 2101. Thanks for stressing it though!

N2Gaming

Great information AllenG.

Welcome to OCN the best place on earth. Alow me to warn you, be very carefull cause you can get addicted to this Forum very easy I mean with all the threads and people we have hear that consider this place home and we certainly are not at a loss when it comes to a wealth of knowledge. I always say the more the merry'r. I'm glad you found us.

BTW would you like me to add you to the Club Roster

N2G

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LOL... yeah, i know how addicting forums can be. A few of my other hobbies are motorized scooters and two stroke engine building, been a member on forums for those things for over 7 years.

Thanks for the warm welcome, im sure i'll spend a decent deal of my time on here now that finally decided to sign up.

Go ahead and throw me on the roster for sure... can throw me on the 939 appreciation too if you like. Got a older asus board based 939 compaq that i slapped few decent components in... gosh i wish i could oc it, other than using ntune. I'll get around to putting him and a few other machines in my roster list.