GA-K8NS Pro-939 question

[David]

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Is anyone using the GA-K8NS Pro-939 and can you comment on it's virtues?
Especially stability.

Thanks.

 

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I have the K8NS-939.

It is running a Winchester at 20% overclock with four Kingmax 512's at
pc3200 speed (set for 166, + the 20%) in dual channel. Passed an overnight
session of p95.

You can only add .2v to the memory.

CTRL+F1 brings up the advanced menu item. Some people think it hasn't got
one. Or was that ALT+F1?

bootitng couldn't see a SATA RAID 0 pair, so I abandoned that for now.


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it runs well. The ability to overclock depends on the quality of the ram.
When I had 2x256 sticks I could overclock as much as I wanted, but the new
generic 2x512meg sticks I replaced them with will bluescreen windows even
with the "optimal" bios settings

"David" <maasman5@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Is anyone using the GA-K8NS Pro-939 and can you comment on it's virtues?
> Especially stability.
>
> Thanks.

 

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"ChangeGuy" <change.this@change.that> wrote in message
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> it runs well. The ability to overclock depends on the quality of the ram.
> When I had 2x256 sticks I could overclock as much as I wanted, but the new
> generic 2x512meg sticks I replaced them with will bluescreen windows even
> with the "optimal" bios settings

If you set the memory to 166 to overclock, and have the timings (?) on auto,
it tightens them up as if you were running at 166, so you can force it into
200 un-overclocked and boot a couple of times to goad it into setting the
200 SPD settings, then copy them down and lock it to manual so it will be at
those slower timings after you set it to 166.

But if it crashes during o/c experiments it will go back to auto so you'll
have to set the settings again.

Or you could just get the timings from CPU-Z and set them in the BIOS.

Weird thing, my K8NS-939 gets a higher speed rating in memtest86 when
running at 200 with the slower timings, though it will run with the faster
166 timings at 200.

Using Kingmax pc3200 Super Ram, 4 sticks, 2 Dual-Channel kits, 2 gigs. Runs
dual-channel set at 166, actual 200 (clock=240), which pleased me alot!


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