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Anyone have a A8N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard?
Anyone have one and if you do what do you think? anyway i can get the
max performance out of it? Naj |
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I have one and think its great... and i only have 1 video card
too....it has alot of other features that will be utilized very soon. On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 01:09:32 +0000, Najum Hussain wrote: Anyone have one and if you do what do you think? anyway i can get the max performance out of it? Naj |
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Im using a Asus EAX800 XT Extreme PE as my graphics cards. Ive set the
PEG at Auto at the moment Performance is amazing il use the SLI sometime in the future. but i need to start utilizing the features on it as well. Do you use any sound card? Naj tecknotot wrote: I have one and think its great... and i only have 1 video card too....it has alot of other features that will be utilized very soon. On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 01:09:32 +0000, Najum Hussain wrote: Anyone have one and if you do what do you think? anyway i can get the max performance out of it? Naj |
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No, Im currently using the built-in sound card because I had an Audigy
1 and I thought the on-board had newer and better functionality. But I dont get sound in Half-LIfe 2 unless I change it to 2 speakers and still trying to figure out why. Do you have Half-Life 2? On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 12:14:07 +0000, Najum Hussain wrote: Im using a Asus EAX800 XT Extreme PE as my graphics cards. Ive set the PEG at Auto at the moment Performance is amazing il use the SLI sometime in the future. but i need to start utilizing the features on it as well. Do you use any sound card? Naj tecknotot wrote: I have one and think its great... and i only have 1 video card too....it has alot of other features that will be utilized very soon. On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 01:09:32 +0000, Najum Hussain wrote: Anyone have one and if you do what do you think? anyway i can get the max performance out of it? Naj |
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I have half life 2 and have updated it using the new catalyst drivers.
Its very smooth and i play at high res. Ive never used the onboard audio codec i disbaled it in order to use the my own sound card Soundblaster audigy z platinum pro. So far so good no problems. Naj tecknotot wrote: No, Im currently using the built-in sound card because I had an Audigy 1 and I thought the on-board had newer and better functionality. But I dont get sound in Half-LIfe 2 unless I change it to 2 speakers and still trying to figure out why. Do you have Half-Life 2? On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 12:14:07 +0000, Najum Hussain wrote: Im using a Asus EAX800 XT Extreme PE as my graphics cards. Ive set the PEG at Auto at the moment Performance is amazing il use the SLI sometime in the future. but i need to start utilizing the features on it as well. Do you use any sound card? Naj tecknotot wrote: I have one and think its great... and i only have 1 video card too....it has alot of other features that will be utilized very soon. On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 01:09:32 +0000, Najum Hussain wrote: Anyone have one and if you do what do you think? anyway i can get the max performance out of it? Naj |
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tecknotot wrote:
No, Im currently using the built-in sound card because I had an Audigy 1 and I thought the on-board had newer and better functionality. But I dont get sound in Half-LIfe 2 unless I change it to 2 speakers and still trying to figure out why. Do you have Half-Life 2? The onboard sound on the A8N-SLI Deluxe is basically just 8-channel AC97 audio, nothing special. Most sound cards will probably have more features. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ |
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Najum Hussain wrote:
Anyone have one and if you do what do you think? anyway i can get the max performance out of it? Got one with a PCIe 6800GT - super. Just the one card for now, SLI comes later. It's a great mobo if you ask me, just one prob: the nForce firewall seems to block certain websites... can't seem to fix that. And it keeps prompting me to disconnect my SATA drives in a raid array. But that seems to be normal. RJT |
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tecknotot wrote:
No, Im currently using the built-in sound card because I had an Audigy 1 and I thought the on-board had newer and better functionality. But I dont get sound in Half-LIfe 2 unless I change it to 2 speakers and still trying to figure out why. Do you have Half-Life 2? Disable the onboard sound (it's just Ghetto-Spec AC97) and use your much-better Audigy 1. |
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Najum Hussain wrote in news:41d749cb$0$21324
: Anyone have one and if you do what do you think? anyway i can get the max performance out of it? Naj I have had nothing but stability problems with mine. This is with a plenty big enough power supply (Enermax EG701AX) and four sticks of Kingston RAM (2GB total) right off the official Asus Memory QVL list. No overclocking. I'm running an AMD FX-55 with factory heatsink. I have a big Silverstone case with huge fans - temperatures are very low inside the case and cooling works very well. Can't figure out why I have so poor stability. Originally, with a single eVGA 6800GT PCIe card, I would get a hardware lockup about once a day. The lockup seemed to always be accompanied by a repeating sound. I'm mostly playing Half-Life 2 and Microsoft Flight Simulator 9.1 right now, so usually the lockups occured there, but I did get at least one lockup when web browsing, accompanied by a repeating sound that happened to be playing at the time. Oh yeah, also got the same crash in Need for Speed Underground 2. I have an Adaptec 2940UW, a Maxtor ATA/133 card, and a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS card. Using the XP SP2 drivers for the first two cards, and the lastest Sound Blaster drivers. Meanwhile, my second eVGA 6800GT arrived, and I of course installed it and went SLI. Now I get even more frequent crashes - several times a day. These crashes do not involve repeating sound. I've hardware locked twice now during initial loading of Half-Life 2 (loading the actual program, after the "Valve" advertisement), but there was no sound repeating - just a hardare lockup. I've done less game playing due to trying to troubleshoot the problem, so most of my crashes now occur during standard Windows browsing, or while the computer is just sitting there. These usually start with massive video corruption - i.e. the screen is all scrambled. This is followed by the screen going completely black and the machine totally locking up (i.e. Windows XP is frozen at that point. I have used NT/2000/XP enough to recognize when the video driver is simply crashed and the rest of the machine continues to run. That is not the case here - once the screen goes black, the computer is totally frozen). Suspecting a hardware conflict, I removed the Adaptec and Maxtor cards, and this did not help. I then removed the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS and uninstalled it's software, so that now all I have installed are the two video cards. I reactivated the motherboard sound system. I still get the same crashes described above - i.e. video corruption followed by black screen and complete hardware lock, even with nothing but the two eVGA 6800GT cards installed. So far, I am very unhappy with this system. I feel like I "gold plated" all of my hardware, and tried to buy the best components available, so it's not like I skimped and went with a marginal power supply, case cooling, etc. I'm not sure what to try from here. I've been using BIOS version 1002, and the release Nvidia drivers. Since going back to the baseline configuration has not helped, I'm not sure what to try next. My only next options a 1) Remove the second 6800GT and go back from SLI. I hate the idea of doing this, for obvious reasons (i.e. the expense of this system just to get SLI). 2) Start trying the Asus BETA BIOS versions. 3) Try the latest Nvidia BETA drivers. I'm never a fan of BETA drivers and BIOS, but I'm getting desparate.... |
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fsda wrote:
Najum Hussain wrote in news:41d749cb$0$21324 : Anyone have one and if you do what do you think? anyway i can get the max performance out of it? Naj I have had nothing but stability problems with mine. This is with a plenty big enough power supply (Enermax EG701AX) and four sticks of Kingston RAM (2GB total) right off the official Asus Memory QVL list. No overclocking. I'm running an AMD FX-55 with factory heatsink. I have a big Silverstone case with huge fans - temperatures are very low inside the case and cooling works very well. Can't figure out why I have so poor stability. Originally, with a single eVGA 6800GT PCIe card, I would get a hardware lockup about once a day. The lockup seemed to always be accompanied by a repeating sound. I'm mostly playing Half-Life 2 and Microsoft Flight Simulator 9.1 right now, so usually the lockups occured there, but I did get at least one lockup when web browsing, accompanied by a repeating sound that happened to be playing at the time. Oh yeah, also got the same crash in Need for Speed Underground 2. I have an Adaptec 2940UW, a Maxtor ATA/133 card, and a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS card. Using the XP SP2 drivers for the first two cards, and the lastest Sound Blaster drivers. Meanwhile, my second eVGA 6800GT arrived, and I of course installed it and went SLI. Now I get even more frequent crashes - several times a day. These crashes do not involve repeating sound. I've hardware locked twice now during initial loading of Half-Life 2 (loading the actual program, after the "Valve" advertisement), but there was no sound repeating - just a hardare lockup. I've done less game playing due to trying to troubleshoot the problem, so most of my crashes now occur during standard Windows browsing, or while the computer is just sitting there. These usually start with massive video corruption - i.e. the screen is all scrambled. This is followed by the screen going completely black and the machine totally locking up (i.e. Windows XP is frozen at that point. I have used NT/2000/XP enough to recognize when the video driver is simply crashed and the rest of the machine continues to run. That is not the case here - once the screen goes black, the computer is totally frozen). Suspecting a hardware conflict, I removed the Adaptec and Maxtor cards, and this did not help. I then removed the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS and uninstalled it's software, so that now all I have installed are the two video cards. I reactivated the motherboard sound system. I still get the same crashes described above - i.e. video corruption followed by black screen and complete hardware lock, even with nothing but the two eVGA 6800GT cards installed. So far, I am very unhappy with this system. I feel like I "gold plated" all of my hardware, and tried to buy the best components available, so it's not like I skimped and went with a marginal power supply, case cooling, etc. I'm not sure what to try from here. I've been using BIOS version 1002, and the release Nvidia drivers. Since going back to the baseline configuration has not helped, I'm not sure what to try next. My only next options a 1) Remove the second 6800GT and go back from SLI. I hate the idea of doing this, for obvious reasons (i.e. the expense of this system just to get SLI). 2) Start trying the Asus BETA BIOS versions. 3) Try the latest Nvidia BETA drivers. I'm never a fan of BETA drivers and BIOS, but I'm getting desparate.... Assuming you've already run MemTest overnight, to eliminate your RAM, and Prime95 overnight to check CPU/RAM stability, then the instability can only really be caused by your video card(s). I'd swap out the 6800s and run a PCI video card for a few days to be sure. I'd also remove two of the Memory sticks, just to eliminate the too-many-sticks-at-too-higher-speed problem that seems to plague most modern chipsets. |
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