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Author Topic: GA-K8NF-9 A First Look..! Polygon Admin Member # 1 posted                    OK, here's what we got.... Typical box: Lots of goodies inside: Usual cables and things that come with newer boards: And of course, the board: And were loading W2K as I post. I borrowed a old PCI video card from our IT department at work and it works! -------------------- Too Many Computers,... Too Little Time ..... Damn Phenoms! Posts: 25194 | From: Fire Island, NY | Registered: Feb 2003 Polygon Admin Member # 1 posted                    Some observations while setting it up: 1) The plastic frame that holds the stock HSF to the board, is held in place by plastic push rivits that need to be removed to get a water block mounted. A blade screwdriver pushing from the bachside starts the removal process... 2) For any kind of 4 hole mount HSF or water block to be mounted, the 4 holes are not drilled thru! You will have to drill them yourself. There are clear "pads" where the holes would go and no components around them... 3) I can see where the SLI chip goes which means this board is the same as the higher end nF4-SLI 4)The Vcore power supply is the same as the EP-9NDA3+, but with the BIOS capable of adjusting to 1.75Vcore, so I'm out of a job here.... 5) I booted the board up with a "ancient" Trident PCI video card..! 6) Multiplier settings: 4X to 20X 7) "Robost Graphics Booster": Auto/Fast/Turbo 8) PCI-E Clock: 100Mhz to 150Mhz in 1Mhz steps 9) Vdimm: +.2V max (that will change ) 10) HT Link: +.3V max 11) PCI-E Graphic Voltage: +.3V max 12) The board came with a "F1" BIOS (Gigabyte was never fancy in their BIOS naming conventions!) W2K is loading. Using the FX55 and GEIL PC4400 for now.... Topic closed until I finish... -------------------- Too Many Computers,... Too Little Time ..... Damn Phenoms! Posts: 25194 | From: Fire Island, NY | Registered: Feb 2003 Polygon Admin Member # 1 posted                    Panic!... Panic!... Can't fing DRAM timings, HTT Ratio.... EDIT: OK, Gigabyte has those jiggy BIOS's where ya' need to press "Ctrl" and "F1" to get more options........ -------------------- Too Many Computers,... Too Little Time ..... Damn Phenoms! Posts: 25194 | From: Fire Island, NY | Registered: Feb 2003 Polygon Admin Member # 1 posted                    Damn... Clock-Gen nF3 doesn't work on this nF4 board... Label this "Too much of a good thing!": A 2nd shot to catch the last settings! -------------------- Too Many Computers,... Too Little Time ..... Damn Phenoms! Posts: 25194 | From: Fire Island, NY | Registered: Feb 2003 Polygon Admin Member # 1 posted                    The 1st and only test run for tonight... The System Specs: Gigabyte K8NF-9 FX55 F1 BIOS HTT: 3T Multiplier: 10X Vcore: 1.70V Vdimm: +.2V( added to what, I don't know!) 2X256Meg A-Data Vitesta PC4800 DDR600 TCCD Chips (slots 1&2) 200 1T 2.5-3-6-3 (slots 1&2) Trident 1 Meg PCI Video Card Western Digital 40Gig ATA100 7200rpm Allied 450Watt PSU Maze4 on CPU, stock HSF on the nF4 chip... Win2000 crashed at 10X290, and then I had trouble booting at 10X285... This is going to be tough until Clock-Gen for nF4 is released... -------------------- Too Many Computers,... Too Little Time ..... Damn Phenoms! Posts: 25194 | From: Fire Island, NY | Registered: Feb 2003 Polygon Admin Member # 1 posted                    The "1.75Vcore" setting is reading 1.71V on the DMM... The "Normal" setting for the A-Data memory is reading 2.64Vdimm... The "+.2V" setting for the memory is reading 2.86Vdimm.... The "Shuttle 3.0V mod" will work on this board, FET's are in a different place though..... -------------------- Too Many Computers,... Too Little Time ..... Damn Phenoms! Posts: 25194 | From: Fire Island, NY | Registered: Feb 2003 bypolar Platinum Member Member # 80 posted                    It is ineresting that there is a HTT Voltage. The first Gigabyte I had had the same option. So is 280 the Limit?? 30 secs seems good for those settings. how dose the board feel?? with the New NF4? -------------------- In constant change!! Posts: 1715 | From: US | Registered: Jun 2003 Polygon Admin Member # 1 posted                    I just got the PCX card today and ran right into a huge family computer upgrade problem and haven't had a chance to do anything... In the next hour or 2 I'll install the PCX Video card ad then get a chance a chance to exercise it... I got too many things going at once here.... The PCX card is shown in the All Things Video! Sector.... -------------------- Too Many Computers,... Too Little Time ..... Damn Phenoms! Posts: 25194 | From: Fire Island, NY | Registered: Feb 2003 Polygon Admin Member # 1 posted                    Got a chance to play a little and this looks like a real smooth board also... I'm kind of lost without Clock-Gen for nF4.... It's painstaking to reset this BIOS and try to boot a zillion times.... Board would POST at 9X300 with relaxed Memory timings, but W2K crashes trying to boot... At first blush, this board is similar to the MSI Neo2, and not as good as the Epox-9NDA3+..... -------------------- Too Many Computers,... Too Little Time ..... Damn Phenoms! Posts: 25194 | From: Fire Island, NY | Registered: Feb 2003

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