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

Processor
LGA775 Intel® Pentium® D / Pentium® 4 processor
Supports 1066/800/533MHz FSB
Chipset
Northbridge: NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Intel® 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

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?)

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 ....

not on my case

max oc is ~3.4ghz

finally thought out the whole system of mine..
might be a problem with the northbridge
based on this article

http://www.bcchardware.com/index.php?optio...=1&limitstart=1

i identify with his temperature

my taking of the temp
also using laser temp
is ~ 73 C
using NXsensor ~93 C!!!

so anyone knows where i can get the zalman NB Heatsink in Penang?

ya
i know what you mean
my condition pulak is default
diode: 17~19 degree idle and ~24 load

if change with speedfan, to
thermistor: ~73 degree!!!

but i dont have complaint cos got the chip 1/2 price from relative

Three thing I got from modernopc
(btw thanx modernopc)
you can get these and more here >> http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=177141

They are

ZALMAN VF700-LED-ALCU Copper/Aluminum VGA Cooler



ZALMAN ZM-STG1 SUPER THERMAL GREASE



ZM-NBF47J Zalman northbridge chipset heatsink


My own picture will up load afterwards
cause I just got the stuff yesterday night

As for now, all i have assemble is the VF700-LED-AlCu cooler
on my XFX 7600GT
and boy what can I say
Using only the supplied,(not the STG1) the temperature decreased
from the idle : 52 degree (ambient ~22, rainy night, non aircon)
to idle : 43 degree(ambient ~22, rainy night, non aircon)

and load : ~72 degree
to load : ~60 degree
that is around ~10 degree reduction
and this is with the use of thermal paste supplied along with the HSF.

Overclocking wise
I have able to OC core only,
(tested stable with 3DMark2006)
on stock fan : max - 627mhz
VF700 HSF : max - 650mhz

my ram w/o ramsinks are able to clocked @ 897mhz
but with this new array, I havent OC yet cause no time.

(disclaimer - all 3dMark2006 test are done with the check for hanging mid-benchmarking and in mid-NFS:MW, artifacting was not check cause I don't know how to check )

Okay when I finish the northbridge HS operation
let see how much higher i can get with my Pentium D 930
As for now, it stand at 3.6ghz (bootable, playable)
and my NB temp is ~73 degree

If according to this article
>> http://www.bcchardware.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=2663&Itemid=40&limit=1&limitstart=1
the reduction is ~26 degree, from 89 to 63 !!!
let see how mine will go

This post has been edited by mcchin: Nov 16 2006, 01:16 PM

then it's OC all over again hehe?

Okay
Yesterday night i assemble every thing possible

and below are pictures of the assembly
(disclaimer: looking at these picture will cause blindness due to bad camera!!!)
-it also means the whole shennanigan is the real deal!!!



to be-continued...

continution????

now I've got the NB HS off
lets continue shall we?
AGAIN>>(disclaimer: looking at these picture will cause blindness due to bad camera!!!)





the rest pics and result of non oc up next...


This post has been edited by mcchin: Nov 17 2006, 11:57 PM

the last two pics
you know the risk...




after 2 hours starting this ops, everything is assembled back. Quite a rush job.
on the way of assembly, I remove the Batt. to clear cmos. It been said that this mobo jumpers doesnt clear properly and requires removal of batt.

here are the results after ops
(before and after)
(no pics cause bro. already hogging the pc and just scanned thru)

CPU temp (ambient ~28, night)\
- easytune, speedfan, mbm....
old GPower: ~14 idle
ZM STG1 : ~12 idle

VGA temp (ambient ~28, night)
- rivatuner
old HSF : idle-50, load-77
new HSF: idle-45, load-62
new+STG: idle-44, load-60

NB temp (ambient ~28, night)
-laser temp thermometer
old HS : ~75 max
ZM HS : ~51 max

there you go
the point of existance for 3rd party manufacturer
to cover up the sH1t hole major company is feeding us.....

p/s OC level will be done over the week end

my regret here are only not buying a better Camera
(the one used here is a 1.3 mpx w550 phone cam)
why .... why.....WHY!!!!!!!!

This post has been edited by mcchin: Nov 18 2006, 12:15 AM

now able to get 3.68gig stably
tried upping until 3.85gig but quite unstable

and the north bridge area temp increases from 50 to 60!!!


more cooling are required.....

it is used to be 70 ~80 (hand burning hot!!0
thats the difference between stock and zalmans'

i use a infrared laser thermometer


initially i thought that the Zalman HS will not fit with the G-Power Pro
but the thing is "ngam-ngam"
as well as fan cooling from the proc HSF

my could run stably @ 900...
but no time to monitor
so revert back to stock

cause sharing wif my big bro...

currently very busy wif work
and counterstriking

so not much time to tweak my system

it is just that
when i tweak the graphix too much
(from default 570++ to 640 - core)
i will get hang-ups (blue screen of nvdisp_dll error)
and no artifact show up at all

so any body here tweak the pcie voltage b4?

plus one more quirk
when i oc my proc to 3.6
my graphix will oc along as well to a default 628 core automatically...

hmmm... weird...

cs nick is redrum
mostly play in singa/thai servers

i am using a xfx7600gt
i actually did not jump straight from 570 to 640
the 640 is the max i can go without getting the freeze problem
by then even, no artifact at all

to oc the graphix
i use riva tuner

and in riva tuner
the max mem mhz is ~900(when it tell me to lower my setting)
while when i oc-ed the proc
the maxed out at ~920, more to that will ask me to reduce the mem hertz

Oiii Oiii Oiii!!!!
this is not a thread to sell stuff laa

hahahha
jz jk nia..

so coolmast3r
what for did you sent your board back to rma ?

how long has it been sent to rma

feels like a long time

btw they sent back to gigabyte aa?? (sorry 4 the stoopid questions)