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Don't get me wrong I'm a big fan of abit but they just issued a recall |
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on the AN9 motherboards.
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check out xbit for the details.
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http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mainboards/display/20060721235533.html
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sad, sad, day to see Abit recalling products.
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Unless you are doing heavy multitasking I would stick with a single |
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core processor with 64 bit. I'm not impressed with dual core, yet.
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Chris Forsyth
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Brian Litzinger wrote: |
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On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 03:45:03PM +0200, Dieter Ries wrote: |
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hi, |
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currently i am running my gentoo on a 3000+ with 1g ram single channel. |
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are there support problems with am2 chipsets? which mb's are the best? how big |
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I setup two systems using the Abit KN9 SLI motherboards. |
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http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=315 |
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It is AM2 and DDR2. I had an Athlon X2 4200 cpu. |
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At first I tried using 800MHz Cosair memory. But the system would |
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not boot. Just beeped the BIOS beep of death. |
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I read on some of the gaming forums that others were having troubles |
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with this motherboard and running memories at their top rated speed. |
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As it is a gaming MB every last detail is configurable in the |
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BIOS. Others had success fine tuning the DRAM parameters for |
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the particular memory they had. |
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Others suggested running the memory at one notch below maximum. |
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I.E. 800 -> 667, 667 -> 540, and so on. |
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This latter trick worked for me. |
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The gamers report the system is quite reliable and I found the same |
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thing with RAM speed downgrade. |
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An interesting problem with running the memory below rated is |
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how do you get started? |
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The BIOS defaults to 'DRAM speed by SPD', so if your 800MHz memory |
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doesn't work you can't get into the BIOS to change the settings. |
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The solution there is have some slow memory laying around to |
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boot and set the CMOS. |
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There where also cases (I tried lots of different memory) where |
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some memories would boot at their rated maximum but would fail |
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memtest86. |
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