Recommend an nForce2 Mobo

[Fat Tone]

NP - enjoy.

/me looking forward to a commission cheque from ASUS

[GNEP]

I must say I've been v. happy with mine so far... now just need to get 2 sticks of 512Mb RAM (to give me a gig) that will happily go to 220MHz or so, to give me a bit of headroom playing around with the speed and getting everything running synchronously. Might wait a bit longer first though...

[Kastuvas]

Wehey everything is in the box and running smoothly, I bought a new case for £30 but it was so crap the built quality so i took it back.

I put all the stuff in my old box with 250watt power supply, it works fine at the default speed but when i overclock it to 3200+ the computer keeps shutting down itself, is that the sign of not enough power or is that the processor playing up and I am not one of them lucky people that will be able to keep it stable at 3200+

[GNEP]

My first guess would be the 250W power supply. I've had no problems but then am using a decent 450W PSU.

[Kastuvas]

I have the same feeling as well, because when i assembled it, i didnt connect DVD, ZIP, or floppy drive, just the cdrom and 2 hard drives, and it was running fine. Then when i connected floppy those random restarts started. Also what voltage should i use is 1.85v enough that is the highest that it will go on the deluxe-E

How high can you go up GNEP on your asus?

edit: typo

[GNEP]

I'm still at stock voltages - 11x (locked) mult and FSB is at 200 with mem at 166 (until I get new mem) - haven't tried any higher than this - but may do in the future... All is 100% stable (touch wood) with the machine on 24/7 and 100% CPU usage all the time.

[Kastuvas]

I just wanted to ask you how high you can up voltage in the bios is it 1.85V or you have the ability to go higher?

My one is locked as well. I can change the muliplyer but it doesnt make any effect.

Scored 9204 3dmarks with a radeon 9000pro clocked to 300core/300mem

And 110 fps in quake3 at 1280x1024x32 everything to the max and default setting in the drivers.

Also the sound in the centre speaker doesn't seem to work properly the sound comes and goes in the centre speaker when listtening to mp3. Do you get simillar problem?

[GNEP]

I had to get used to fiddling with the nForce Audio control panel - not immediately intuitive... but seems to work fine now. Just make sure you've got the right settings going on - google a bit for explanations (am at work now so can't help much...)

Not sure about the max V in BIOS - haven't actually been back into the BIOS since I took the FSB to 200 and it just ran (mem won't go above 169 though) As we both have Rev 2 boards though I'd imagine the limitation would be the same - the ASUS forum on http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/ is a good resource though. Have a read through there.

[Kastuvas]

Thank you GNEP.