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Info:
Gigabyte GA 8N-SLI (Rev 1.1)

Processor
LGA775 IntelŪ PentiumŪ D / PentiumŪ 4 processor
Supports 1066/800/533MHz FSB
Chipset
Northbridge: NVIDIA nForce4 SLI IntelŪ Edition
Southbridge: NVIDIA MCP04
Marvell 88E8111 Gigabit LAN PHY chip
Realtek ALC850 AC'97 Audio Codec
Memory
Type: Dual channel DDR2 533/ 667 -240pin
Max capacity: Up to 8GB by 4 DIMM slots
Internal I/O Connectors
4 x Serial ATA II connector (Bandwidth 3.0Gb/s)
2 x UDMA ATA 133/100/66 Bus Master IDE connectors
1 x FDD connector
3 x USB 2.0/1.1 connectors (supports 6 ports)
3 x cooling fan pin headers
1 x S/P-DIF input pin header
CD in
Expansion Slots
2 x PCIe X 16 slot, supports two PCI-Express interface Graphics cards with SLI mode
2 x PCIe X 1 slots
2 x PCI slots (PCI 2.3 compliant)
Rear Panel I/O
4 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports
1x RJ45 ports
Audio (4 x Line-out/ 1 x Line-in/ 1 x MIC) connector
Coaxial S/PDIF output
Optical fiber S/PDIF output
PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse
1 x COM port
1 x LPT
Form Factor
ATX form factor
30.5 x 24.4 cm
H/W Monitoring
System health status auto-detect and report by BIOS
Hardware detecting and reporting for case open, CPU voltage, and fan speed
BIOS
1 X 4M bit flash ROM, Award BIOS
Other Features
NVIDIA SLI multi-GPU support
Support NVIDIA Firewall
Norton Internet Security
XpressTM Installation
XpressTM Recovery 2
C.I.A. 2 (CPU Intelligent Accelerator 2)
M.I.B. 2 (Memory Intelligent Booster 2)
EasyTune(tm) 5
M.I.T. (Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker)
S.O.S. (System Overclock Saver)
Download Center

Utility Program that Can be use with this Motherboard
>>NVidia nTune
>>Riva Tuner 2.0 Final
>>Bios Update

Original Question:


This post has been edited by mcchin: Jan 23 2007, 01:32 PM

mayb sli board dun clocks as good as intel chipset board...i mean for intel setup lar...

my mobo chipset is havin d same probs as ur..
very2 hot..
when i touch it.. i can feel it burning my skin..
but after i used the CM Blue Ice II(modded the 40mm fan).. i can feel the temp is lower..
ch33rZ...

mr ah sai,

when u oc ur pd did u set ram and pci at default...set ur ram divider runing at 533~550 then timing lose abit..then only u pump ur fsb..if u din set ur divider..ur ram speed increase as well...thus ur ram maybe unstable with normal vdimm....

Mr. Tatt...

for sure the the ram fsb is set
or maybe i done wrong...

but AFAIK i set the cpu to expert
it shows 800mhz (this is the fsb)
and the ram will uses 533mhz.

but when i increase the cpu,
my ram actual fsb will run between 529 and 549, no more no less
the ram timing
i use 4-4-4-15 (hmmm loose enuff?)

Ah sai,

can give me a screen shot a.. from cpuz first 3 tabs

u today no work a....wan me go ur house see see a... duno raymond wan to follow or not..

BTW,

evening laaa

stil working today

okay me again wif the questions

the pic above, please focus on the top red circle
now look alittle left towards the black molex

according to the manual
it is use to supply 12v to the pcie card-depending to the system requirements

now... do i need to connect the molex
or just let it be

now using a xfx 7600gt ....

erm as far as i know no need....

Hiya,

Me using the same mobo as you...No you dont need to connect that black molex.

My north bridge also got quite hot when i was using a 945 a couple of weeks back and that proc only managed to overclock to around 3.8ghz. My northbridge was aroun 60 degrees.

now using back my 805d and the north bridge is around 48 degress, guess it get warms the higher you clock your fsb.

ur using a 930 rite? I read that thats one highly overclockable proc..

not on my case

max oc is ~3.4ghz

In the Gigabyte Bios, there is this Option called High Performance, try enabling that..what it does is;

- increase the vmem to 2.1
- increase the fsb volt dunno by how much
- and others which I've not discovered yet

after enabling it I am able to get a stable 3.9ghz on a 805.

give it a go....

3.9ghz is quite high oc edi....probably he still a fresh in oc as he onli change from p3 866 to pd 930...he is outdated for 5 years edi

This post has been edited by stevenlee: Oct 23 2006, 10:32 PM

woot!!

your PD 805 can go 3.9GHz..
whoa.. i might try this..
im also using GA-8N-SLI.. but a PD 820 as a CPU..
maybe can reach 4.0GHz.. who knows..

by the way, what kind of HSF do u use?
zalman, thermaltake, or just the noisy stock fan?

edit:
1.what's your temp, idle and full load?
2.owh, just found out that u r using the gigabyte cooler..

This post has been edited by coolmast3r: Oct 30 2006, 02:28 PM

My idle temp is around 37-38C and full temp load with 2 instances of prime95 is around 56-58C, it doesnt hit the thermal throttle limit of the CPU

Have you started to overclock your 820? whats your max overclock?

I'm trying to hit 4Ghz but I think its my ram holding me back, rated only ar 667Mhz so its pretty overclocked at the present fsb of 780Mhz, I'm running a 1:1 divider for the memory.

Used AS5 for my proc and GFX GPU, but the temp didnt drop much

i see..my idle temp is also around that, 37-38C..(i checked using everest ultimate edition)..im using stock cooler by the way..

but i might change to the gigabyte cooler..
after that then i'll OC my cpu..
i'll try it by the way..and will post the result here..

just curious, how do u check your cpu temp?
using what software ar?

Yeah you better change to aftermarket cpu cooler, the stock cooler just doesnt cut it, especially the variable fan speed sensor, mine was going cuckoo once i overclocked it, the fan speed kept on speeding up and slowing down...weired...

I am using MBM 5 but you can also using Everest to monitor the temps, you should also have installed a utility to monitor for CPU throttle when ur doing your load testing after overclocking.

Good luck buddy..

just bought a new bigtyphoon vx yesterday from fantasy_kenny 's shop..
not installed yet.. mau makan megi 1st..

pagi pagi makan maggi