Abit AW9D-Max on Vapochill LS

[SilveradoJ442]

My system with AW9D-MAX

Very Nice. I cannot wait to get my 6800/AW9D-Max under phase. Soon I hope. What voltage do you have set? Maxed out? My 6800 only seems to make it rock stable to 3.6 and tops out around 3.9 (unstable)with my current watercooling . Should I expect similar results? Jinu117 is building me a v2000 w/ single stage down below. Im hoping for the numbers that your getting.

[G H Z]

Update with ln cooling. The mb is very very good

Nice results roro

Have you tried 13 Beta BIOS for up multi's?

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=784

DL Here:

[mr_knowitall15]

Also, the heatsinks on this board are CRAP. I removed them yesterday and they almost seem as if they're there for appearances only. You can pratically bend the heat pipes with your little finger. I removed the NB heatsink and heatpipe (which practically came away in my hands) and replaced it with a thermaltake extreme spirit. I also removed the Southbridge thermal pad and replaced it with ceramique.
I'm wondering if the dodgy heatsinks are the reason for such bad FSB oc's.

Got my board in yesterday (go fedex!) and am waiting for EVERYTHING else to come from the egg tonight. (not their fault, they shipped the day i ordered... f-ing UPS)
After reading that, i went up and inspected, and oh man they look it. The LOOK cool, but they also look like they perform mediocre. The heatpipe looks like its just silconed to the NB heatsink... Also, it looks like they all use fairly thick thermal pads . I may be taking the assembly off and putting some AS5 on the north and southbridge.

[mr_knowitall15]

well... Im pretty impressed thus far. Just got windows and some drivers installed (currently DLing SP2... damn old SP1 disk on mine) Everything seems to be running GREAT! ive done nothing for tweaking, minuse changing the ram to its rated 4-4-4-12, but at only 800Mhz. At completely stock, i got a 20.xxx Pi, and 40xxx 3DMark01. I will start pushin this weekend hopefully (frickin work)

[kenofstephen]

1.3 beta is out, have a good time with x6800

30x multiplier

[kenofstephen]

just for fun

[Dr.No.pt]

471 FSB ?

Very nice !!

[Charles Wirth]

Review posted to front page with updated verbage.

http://www.xtremesystems.com/modules...wcontent&id=33

I will be doing the proper SLI review on an Nvidia based mobo next for comparison.

[Raja@ASUS]

Review posted to front page with updated verbage.

http://www.xtremesystems.com/modules...wcontent&id=33

I will be doing the proper SLI review on an Nvidia based mobo next for comparison.

excellent review for the xtreme user fugger, well written and concise. I found I can game at 420fsb on water too on the 9x multi.

regards
Raja

[qdemn7]

FUGGER, Your review has strongly influenced me toward this board. What kind of performance increase do you think one could get on all W/C if they replaced the NB/SB coolers with waterblocks?

[ochw]

475 think u will get any more out of it?

[zicl]

i just got one of these boards today, its going to replace the p5w-dh im hoping for good things tbh looking at the results people are getting here!!

[Charles Wirth]

One thing to note, the only useable PCI slot has a clearance problem with the audio card below it.

It is impossible to install an Iram.

[flewpastu]

well thats an awsome review Fugger .... i cant tell ya how many times i read it

there have been several Beta 1.3 bios's out and here is the latest Beta 1.3b 04 havent a chance to push it yet as i'm only on water with an open window in florida .......... but the prior beta 1.3b 03 i managed aprox 447 X 9 but need to stabilize it but so far this and the 1.3b 03 both have solved many SPD issues and CMOS issues when unplugged still testing 04 tho

i'm hoping to order a Vapo for it in the next couple of weeks but with 5 kids and the holidays closing in .... not sure when it will actually be ordered


otherwise i love the board and have been running it since 1st released in the US ( paid over $300 at the time but just had to have it ) now if we could get some SLI drivers to support 8800GTX that will be next after the Vapo till then i'll keep the 7900GTx's intact

[LarsK]

It's a great oc/benchmark board for conroe, but so far it doesn't work too well with kentsfield. Fsb isn't even orthos stable @ 290 Mhz fsb, 3dmark06 will only run up to around 295 MHz fsb, and it won't even post past 310 Mhz fsb.

Going upwards on the multiplier 11 and up on my QX6700) only clocks 2 of the 4 cores and leaves the other 2 @ 10x. Installed bios 13 beta 4 today and there's no improvement over any of the previous versions.

My E6700 is smoking in the AW9D-Max though, so I guess I'll just have to wait for another motherboard for the QX6700 unless Abit can fix some of those issues with a bios update. But I'm not entirely sure they can.

[ckoons1]

FUGGER,
how far down should i trim capacitor pins on back of motherboard before installing backplate for my lightspeed?
thx
ckoons1