Aw9d-max

[ABIT Max]

Has anyone heard anything about this board yet?

Chris,
Overclock get the stock today and Scan will also get the stock on Wednesday

[Max Tractor]

I saw it, and the 164 price tag.

thanks

[BUFF]

£152 @ Aria & Tekheads ...

[chrisg22]

OK, I gave in... I just bought it for £139.59... Oh yeah!

Plus a week 28 E6600 as well. :| My wallet hurts...

Will post pictures soon! Won't be tested till tonight though... The rest of the rig is at the girlfriends in "storage".

**edit** Where I bought it = Microdirect.

**edit 2** Had about 5 in.

[chrisg22]

OK pictures.

Enjoy:

[Max Tractor]

Nice 1 chris, look forward to the results

[chrisg22]

OK, got here at 8pm, thought I would take my time with this one.

XP64 is installed and the machine is up and running.

Just sorting out drivers and programs etc. Will post some O/C results either tonight, if its not too late, or tomorrow night when I have come back from work.

I like the little LED modes you can select, they are really cool.

[chrisg22]

Some more pictures:





The infinity is HUGE!

[chrisg22]

Just got home now... Damn that overtime!

Can't really do an awful lot I'm nackered.

Got my chip to 2.7Ghz on a 1:1 FSB : DRAM:


I know its nothing special but I'll try tomorrow night when its not hectic.

[chrisg22]

OK update!

Got to 3.0GHz:

But I'm wondering why CPU-Z is saying my memory is 5300... Will get started on that now.

[jimborae]

Can anybody and Chris in particular confirm whether the AW9D-Max shows any wierd glitches with Geil ram (and other makes) when overclocking past 400fsb? i.e. with my PW5DH ram has to be set to SPD but it cant read the SPD right & sets very lax timings.

I thinking of changing from my Asus P5W-DH to this board because of the ram issues it has and lack of redress with the new bios releases. But before I swap I want to try & make sure that it likes my ram when heavily overclocked.

[chrisg22]

I have actually got mine to 3.2GHz at the moment, just leaving it to settle down and make sure its stable... I'll give it another try tonight tho try and get a little higher clock speed and check the memory "issue".

[cjs150]

I think I will wait as I am watercooling a Silverstone TJ6 I would have taken the fancy heat pipes off in any event but only 1 PCI slot is an absolute error: I want X-fi plus dual TV tuner: Has any manufacturer got the guts to drop the IDE interface (and floppy interface) and use the extra room to give us 2 or even 3 PCI slots and dual graphics board.

[jimborae]

I have actually got mine to 3.2GHz at the moment, just leaving it to settle down and make sure its stable... I'll give it another try tonight tho try and get a little higher clock speed and check the memory "issue".

Thanks Chris If you could drop the multiplier down to 6 or 7 and bump up the fsb past 400 that and report back that would be fantastic.

[chrisg22]

Thanks Chris If you could drop the multiplier down to 6 or 7 and bump up the fsb past 400 that and report back that would be fantastic.

Aye aye capt' will try it now.

**edit** Can't seem to get it to boot at 400fsb at 6 or 7... Will keep trying though...

**edit 2** Any got any BIOS settings I can try? I must be doing something wrong for it not to want to go over 365 x 9...

[Nox1]

I just took delivery of mine yesterday from Ebuyer, along with a C3D X1800GTO, 2GB of Crucial memory (Best value in the Custom PC mag last month with wkd overclocking potential), E6600 CPU and a Hyper 580W modular PSU (note you need to buy the P8 connector seperately for it to work the board, also bought it from the same site, i think newer Hyper PSU's may have it included though so worth checking).
Ordered it on a 3 day but turned up next day, very happy with that
Working tonight on the system after loading Vista beta on at 1am this morning
Will comment further when playing around with it. Any comments on the GTO card? Any overclocking etc?