[DarkFoss]

Well I've finally got it up and running.

Athlon XP 2600@333 retail hsf 38c
2 sticks Corsair xms 2700 C2PT sync'ed 6 2 2 2T
Asus A7N8X dx 1001G bios (shipped)
New ATI 9700 pro 8.004 bios DX 9 latest Cat's
Win XP Pro sp1 fully patched
2 maxtor hdds 1 diamond max 9 60g 1 diamond max 8 40g
Lite-on 16x dvd
Lite-on LTR-52246S CDRW 52X24X52
Logitech MX 300 mouse & Elite Keyboard
Creative 5.1 5200 speakers
Sony Floppy
Antec 550 Truepower
Cheftech Aluminum Blue Tower w/window 2 Antec Tri-color fans

OpenGL Excess score

http://www.glexcess.com/xsmark/detai...&bpp=32&id=271

3d mark 2001se score
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=5754121

UT Benches run at 1600 32 bit

dm-antalus?spectatoronly=true?numbots=12?quickstart=t rue -benchmark -seconds=77 -exec=..\Benchmark\Stuff\botmatchexec.txt

26.054976 / 51.870495 / 98.365265 fps rand[31974]
Score = 51.893017

dm-antalus?game=engine.gameinfo exec=..\Benchmark\Stuff\flybyexec.txt -benchmark -seconds=77 -nosound

61.637432 / 87.062820 / 256.228241 fps rand[7524]
Score = 87.075523


Anyone familiar with this board? I'd like to tweak the cpu settings just a bit. Auto settings is 166 with a 6.5 multipier ? Isn't that a bit low ?..Sandra pro rates it's performance somewhere between a 1.8 and 2.2 p4

It seems this bios can unlock the cpu or the cpu came unlocked because I have full access to the multiplier. When I change the setting from auto to menu & user defined I get a cpu over speed warning even if I don't touch the actual settings and have to disable the halt on errors in the bios so it will post..I believe it's a known issue with this bios though.What I'm asking my my rambling way it whats a good multiplier setting ?

Sandra's mem benchies puts the rams performance about 130 points below what they have the nforce2 chipset rated at so I'm guessing the timings are pretty good.

I have 8x agp and fastwrites on/enabled but for some weird reason there is no option to enable sidebanding..

Hdds are operating at udma 5 instead of 6 ..not sure if it's because I put both drives at cable select or that they are different models ..Not really worried about it though since there is'nt much difference between ata 100 and 133.
* fixed the udma problem seems Asus didn't include the ide driver in thier updated 1.16 drivers, installed it off the disk and now udma 6 (ata 133)

I'd appreciate any info on what bios your using and settings. Thanks in advance

I hope everyones having a great weekend!

[kinetic]

Nice system! Your 3dMark 2001 SE link isn't working.

[DarkFoss]

Thanks Kinetic
I'm quite pleased with it with it..Very fast..The wife has banned me from building anymore systems for 2 years. She thinks it's time to put some $$ in the house Guess she's right.. Damn fun and addicting hobby though

Fixed the link I think
Updated the glexcess score to

[Necrosis]

I've already done most of my house "upgrades".

1. New Trane Furnace & Central Air

2. New Siding plus a new room has been added on.

I'm still working on "modding" the new room.

[sacrilius]

I built my rig(fiirst time) with this new board a I'm very pleased so far waiting on the AMD Barton 2500XP


AMD A7N8X Deluxe MOBO
AMD Athlon 1.0
ATI Radeon 128MB DDR 9000 Pro
Cosair Xtreme 256Mb DDR PC-3200/400Mhz (2)
Maxtor 80Gb Ultra DMA 133 8MB (7200)

[DarkFoss]

You'll have a sweet rig when yer done, sacrilius
I didn't have the patience to wait on a barton.

Nice Necrosis I'd best not let the wife see yer post she'll get more ideas and I won't be allowed to build a rig for 7 years

Hmm forgot to add my pc mark score in my first post

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?pcm=1045710

[Vampyromaniac]

truly truly nice computer, man wish it was mine
about 1.5 times my own PCMark score

you didn't list your sound card though what is it?

[DarkFoss]

Thanks Vampyromaniac

I took a break from creative's drivers and didn't install my Audigy1. I'm using the onboard SoundStorm..Sounds very good 2 drawbacks though

1 Asus miswired the outputs and I have to rout the centerspeaker/bass through the mic jack instead of the proper output.Otherwise the center speaker is muffled.

2 Ut2K3 had better soundplacement with Hardware/Eax enabled.

I just broke 15K twice after moving my mem stick from the 1&2 slot to 1&3.
Got the timing set to 5-2-2-2T
Unfortunately I get some can't publish error

[Necrosis]

Well Dark you just helped me out if you know it or not.

My center speaker is muffled too and I haven't really looked into it. Now I don't have to!

Thanks man.

[DarkFoss]

Glad to have helped you out..Rambling sometimes pays off

I flashed to the 1002 uber bios... It didn't get rid of the ! motherboard resource in the device manager. However it is much more stable than the shipped 1001g. I can change bios settings now without it hanging up intermittently. I know it doesn't seem to hurt anything but it annoys me everytime I look at it..Hope Asus releases a bios fix for it.