3400 Sempron + Asrock k8nf4g

[Bigbrit]

I don't know why M1CK calls Asrock "crap", the are a breakaway from ASUS and use the same

design staff.

If PRATHAPML uses one, they must be OK, he does a lot of research first.

I have used several 939's in the field and have never had a problem.

[puntoMX]

Yup, ASRock is ASUS in many ways . D*mn good products, only the first P4 motherboards they had were a bit picky on RAM and Harddrives...

EDIT: PRATHAPML uses it b/c it cheap and runs a few games too .

There is also a rev 2.0 of this mobo... "Windows Vista™ Hardware Ready" added

Edited April 26, 2006 by puntoMX

[m1ck]

I don't know why M1CK calls Asrock "crap", the are a breakaway from ASUS and use the same

design staff.

If PRATHAPML uses one, they must be OK, he does a lot of research first.

I have used several 939's in the field and have never had a problem.

i was actually making a joke i dont think asrock boards are crap but it there are net a lot of ppl on the net who seem to think they are cheap and cheerful *crap*, i personally am on my 2nd asrock board and i love em because from my experience the are very reliable and also very cheap to buy. Just wanted to make that clear

edit :also just in case its important, mine is a socket 754

Edited April 26, 2006 by m1ck

[m1ck]

If C'n'Q is working you will be able to set the CPU voltage settings; can you do that? If you can´t set the voltage then your CPU is not C'n'Q compatible.

Let me download and update the BIOS now, give me a hour ...

Edit: looks like a better BIOS then 1.6, before I got it to 250MHz FSB, now to 266MHz. I use 2800+ CPUs @ 2127MHz and RAM on 425MHz (DDR, cas. 2.5, "brand" A-DATA).

Question: What kind of DIMM do you use? What do you run on that computer? Any games?

i have 1gb ddr400 ram but i dont know what make it is (cas 2.5 (-=Bios the black arts=-)), i run battlefield 2(which runs gr8 albeit on low settings) half life 2( on board gfx cant handle it), gta sa

call of duty 2 however does run pretty good also

also fl studio 6 demo seems to be good seeing just how stable my system is after overclock change or speed update.

oops sorry about that....should of made this all 1 post

Edited April 26, 2006 by m1ck

[puntoMX]

if you could get RAM that supports 488MHz DDR then your video performance would be better. HL2 runs great indeed on this onboard video .

Just used neweg.com again : http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList....SubCategory=147

[m1ck]

if you could get RAM that supports 488MHz DDR then your video performance would be better. HL2 runs great indeed on this onboard video .

Just used neweg.com again : http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList....SubCategory=147

wow!, i always thought onboard gfx was a bit limiting but i learn something new everyday, i have decided to get a Sapphire Radeon X850 XT 256M GDDR3 PCI-E VGA which will hopefully do a good job fingers x'ed as its getting harder and harder to justify the cost of all this to my wife.

pci-e vga card

[puntoMX]

Nice card indeed for the price. Always better then the onboard VGA. Why did you buy the motherboard you have now? For over clocking a NV8 from ABIT would be a nice choice. On all CPU´s I got 300MHz HTT with 1.5/1.6volts for the CPU and that with a “room” temperature of 25-28oC .

[m1ck]

Nice card indeed for the price. Always better then the onboard VGA. Why did you buy the motherboard you have now? For over clocking a NV8 from ABIT would be a nice choice. On all CPU´s I got 300MHz HTT with 1.5/1.6volts for the CPU and that with a “room” temperature of 25-28oC .

well it was a bundle off ebay which worked out cheaper, overclocking hadn't even entered my mind until i got this board who knows next time i might look into it more.

[puntoMX]

For more information you could look here. I´m sure you will like it .

[m1ck]

For more information you could look here. I´m sure you will like it .

great link thanks for that.

i have just been reading i think on about page 3 approx.

Where they're discussing the onboard gfx and it got me thinking to try hl2 again when i loaded it up everything was set to high, so i set all gfx settings to low and to cut a long story short worked my way through the settings.

i am now playing hl2 again but on all high settings albeit with an 800x600 resolution but wow! this motherboard never fails to amaze me. theres also no stuttering anymore and i get an average fps of about 40 which makes this game very playable indeed, now.....wheres my far cry dvd

thanks again matey its very much appreciated

Edited April 28, 2006 by m1ck

[puntoMX]

Far Cry runs great, also DOOM 4 en Quake 3 at 800*600 / 1024*768. HL2 runs here at 1024*768 at high settings.

The link I gave you get´s more interesting when it comes to voltmod that motherboard to get 1.55v, you only have to make one bridge with a "conductive-inkt"-pen. . With 1.55v I bet you will get a 200/300MHz more out of your CPU.

[m1ck]

Far Cry runs great, also DOOM 4 en Quake 3 at 800*600 / 1024*768. HL2 runs here at 1024*768 at high settings.

The link I gave you get´s more interesting when it comes to voltmod that motherboard to get 1.55v, you only have to make one bridge with a "conductive-inkt"-pen. . With 1.55v I bet you will get a 200/300MHz more out of your CPU.

i will read further also half life 2 substance runs great too but that conductive pen job sounds very very interesting.

[puntoMX]

"Soundblaster Live 5.1 for game/midi port only"

What the...

Why would you do that? The onboard sound isn´t half as good as your old SB Live! 5.1 .

[m1ck]

"Soundblaster Live 5.1 for game/midi port only"

What the...

Why would you do that? The onboard sound isn´t half as good as your old SB Live! 5.1 .

because i use the audigy 2 (also has no midi port) for sound which has a much lower latency than a soundblaster 5.1 because it can use asio drivers. and this motherboard has no midi/game port which i need.

Edited April 29, 2006 by m1ck

[puntoMX]

Phew, I thought some thing else .