N2Gaming

I asked the Asus tech support this just yesterday and he was not sure but he thinks if you leave it to auto then it will be set to default. So I looked into it while I was on the phone w/him and read off the list of voltages listed in the bios screen and asked him if the 1.2v was factory default or is it higher. He told me that he could not answer becuase Asus does not support overclocking. What a crock of :turd:, any way why make a mobo for overclockers and then not be able to give tech support to help users better understand the equipment.

So after it was all done and said I told him so is it 1.2 or what and he said I belive that is correct but would not give me a deffinate answer and gave me the email address to the engineering Dept to ask some more technical questions. I have several. Now that being said, please gather all your technical questions becuase I will send them a very professional email with questions and concerns related to this M2N32 mobo.

N2G

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AllenG

sweet, i'll go through everything and see what questions i have.

Other people running phenom II's with the 2101 bios and what not need to chime in too, just dont tell asus it pertains to the phenom II's or they will probably give you the "Not supported" answer. So make questions pertain to bios features and what they do, stock voltages, max rec. voltages and voltage to bandwidth ratios if they know any, etc... anything that might help us get more out of these boards using these newer faster processors, because as i see it were running into barriers as is with regular old am2 overclock-ability... so we must be hindering the performance of these new beasts by quite a bit!

Shift.

Actually, the only issue I ran into while using my M2N32 SLI Deluxe with my 710, was that I could only use 3.5GB of ram. Even Windows said the same thing. And I tried 3 different BIOS versions, all to no avail.

N2Gaming

So you are saying you actually tried the Ph II in your five I Speed system and you can only see 3.5G of ram or you tried it in your Six I Speed system. Please clarify it for us.

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RagingInferno

Sounds like my problem with the 940, I can only use 3837mb but the board and the bios does know it has 4092mb available (it even says it in the bios) but it says that only 3837 is available...

The amount that goes missing goes up if you try to install more ram too

Shift.

Exactly.

Although it doesn't seem to really hinder the system in any way. I mean, the ram is physically there, it's just being used by something. As to what is using it up defeats me. At least we know it is being used, and not just sitting there.

And I did find that when I took out a stick, it would show the full 2GB as usable. It was only when I had the full 4GB in there that it would subtract 512MB from the usable amount.

GANDALF21502

The less, give or take, 512mb running a PHII on this board is a common issue I see, same here. Not 'that' big of an issue to me.

I have my NB volts set to 1.5, very stable, no heat issues.

Yup, nice to know the board has 8 phase power! Might be able to keep this puppy a good little while...

Slink

I just updated my nForce drivers to 15.23. I'm not sure whether it improved anything yet, but I made sure to keep the nVidia data storage drivers out of it (as in NOT letting them install). I have heard off-putting things about their SATA performance. I.E. data corruption. Not sure, but didn't wanna go there. Also updated my nVidia graphics drivers to the latest (v.182.08).

Shift., you don't have this board in your rig anymore? I was going to ask: as a proclaimed "audiophile", what do you think of the on-board audio? I installed the latest drivers and fired it back up again... Sounds decent, i think. EDIT: Nevermind, it sucks.

...But I liked the sound quality of my old OEM Dell SB Live! better. Just replaced that with a faulty X-Fi XtremeMusic. Creative is taking days to respond to my email. Really annoying... /vent
-Slink

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AllenG

The onboard is definately horrible. If all your looking for is 2 channel flat (with the ability to boost areas within reason) but powerful clean preamped audio like most people who do mastering and what not, then i still say the SB Live Digital is the best card ever!

I do love my x-fi, but its hard to get flat audio out of if you want to... its always got some sort of effects processing going.

Slink

Yeah, the live sound really rich, not so wimpy in areas like the on-board (courtesy of Bunk Audio. LoL jk)

For the "flatness", have you tried doing a minimal install so you don't get all the extra crap that Creative bundles with the card? J/w.
-Slink

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