Thread: Going all out

Rock Solid Heart Touching

I have this Mobo's big brother and have built several systems with that Mobo as well. Rock solid mobo with lots of BIOS options when it came out. Should serve you fine.

Note the SLI mode is dual 8x and not dual 16x.
Also, the chipset cooling on these early A8N boards is a little weak, so if you plan to OC you might want to add some sinks or something.

But this a great, if dated mobo.

Also, there is a bug when using multiple RAM sticks that occurs in many of the A8N mobos. So if you get let me tell you the fix.

Originally Posted by codenamevip3r

Dont plan on running SLI im going to use my 3850 in it. 3 gigs of ram and my heat sinks. I noticed alot of problems with 4 gigs of ram and my current one has a broken slot and only uses 3 now anyway.

If you dont use even numbers of sticks you wont be dual channel.

Also, what problems were you having with 4Gb? I am sucesfully running 4Gb, and you are going to need to reinstall anyway.... Maybe we can you up and running with your 4Gb.

Yeah, your new mobo might eek out a few more points; it overclocks nicely if it is anything like the Premium or Deluxe versions. But OCing nicely in its time was much smaller than these Intel OCs people are doing now.

Really with that AMD CPU you just cant OC as far as people are doing with the new intels. Those guys pushing 3+ Ghz on their 2Ghz CPUs is way out of that CPU's potential range. With care and proper cooling you might get as high as 2.6~2.8 from what I have seen of those AMDs; but dont for a moment go compare your numbers to the Core 2 crowd.

7754 3dmarks is plenty to play most new games just fine. And if you can get up to 2.4~2.6 it will be golden and you might get 8 to 9k 3dmarks...of course most of this is pure speculation! Good luck, and nice find on that Mobo, it was 140 or so when it was the new deal.