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Ordered a Sapphire 3850 on ebay, seller had it at $75 but agreed to a $50 offer. It should take about 10 days to get here by International Priority. In the mean time I'll try to get the 3850 Turbo to work.





Well, the only component that touched the heatsink was the mentioned cap. The caps near the 8 pin connector had about 1mm of clearance from the edge of the heatsink so they didn't need to be removed, everything else fit snugly under it. If the cap would have been 3mm shorter this shouldn't have happened :cry:

Maybe I'm passing something up but I just can't phantom what would it be...

Wooooooh!
Can the ICEQ 3 cooler fit onto it?, I'm surprised you even found a 3850, I was hunting for another 3 of them for agers :(
 
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hi friend, u can post ur bios configuration? i have the same rig but i put the hd4670 instead the 3850 and a phenom 945 instead of 965, i noticed in games like black ops 10 more FPS with fraps when i put the aperture size in 512mb in the bios, when i put 64 or 128 drops 10 or more fps (only in some games), other issue in this building is when i set manually the nb frequency at the most value x11 2000mhz i think (i dont remember) the cpu don't pass the intel burn test, the system shutdown and restart, the same thing happen when i play call of duty, this problem fix when i set to automatic the multiplier of the nb freq. in automatic the value is 1600mhz, btw my ram modules have 2 pair of corsair xms2 800mhz 5-5-5-18
thanks in advance :toast:
 

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system specs please

hi friend, u can post ur bios configuration? i have the same rig but i put the hd4670 instead the 3850 and a phenom 945 instead of 965, i noticed in games like black ops 10 more FPS with fraps when i put the aperture size in 512mb in the bios, when i put 64 or 128 drops 10 or more fps (only in some games), other issue in this building is when i set manually the nb frequency at the most value x11 2000mhz i think (i dont remember) the cpu don't pass the intel burn test, the system shutdown and restart, the same thing happen when i play call of duty, this problem fix when i set to automatic the multiplier of the nb freq. in automatic the value is 1600mhz, btw my ram modules have 2 pair of corsair xms2 800mhz 5-5-5-18
thanks in advance :toast:
 
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hi buddy my system specs are
-ASROCK AM2NF3-VSTA MOTHERBOARD
-PHENOM II x4 945 (95W)
-2x2 gb CORSAIR XMS2 1.8v 5-5-5-18
-HIS HD4670 AGP (H467Q1HDAP)
-1TB WESTERN DIGITAL BLUE
-TT COMMANDER MS-I

that's all, also i have errors (BSOD) related to the "Microsoft UAA Bus Driver for High Definition Audio" i think its a IRQ problem the agp slot can't handle video and digital audio signal at the same time. :cry:
 
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Disable the High Definition Audio in the device manager, that worked for me. You might have to log into safe mode if you get BSOD at boot.

BTW, I have an X6 1065t (2.9Ghz 95w) incoming for this :rockout: I'll order a few more parts and get done with it.

Case changed to a CM Gladiador 600 (my old case).



Wooooooh!
Can the ICEQ 3 cooler fit onto it?, I'm surprised you even found a 3850, I was hunting for another 3 of them for agers :(

No, (oddly) the Sapphire doesn't have a reference design. I got a Scythe Mushashi that fits.
 
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can't disable the uaa bus audio because when i disable and restart the system that damn thing change to enable for itself! again and again, but the solution for me was delete the main driver of that thing allocated in c: windows/system32/drivers with the name "hdaudbus", hope that helps to anyone trying to fix that.
since that fix, no BSOD anymore :roll:

***TRWOV help me to configure mi bios pls i want the best performance for my rig :rolleyes:
 
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I retired my AM2NF3-VSTA to home Minecraft server duties with an Athlon II X4 640, 6GB DDR2, GeForce 4 MX 440 64MB and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x64. I decided to switch back to my 4CoreDual-SATAII some time ago so I could get rid of XP for good. It's currently running an E7500 @ 3.06GHz but I have a QX6800 SLACP (G0) arriving in two days to experiment with. Core 2 Duos just aren't enough for more modern games on the 3850 like Borderlands 2, Minecraft, etc.
 
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A few updates on this:

- I finally got an spare board for testing.
- Legend of Madness, you said that you got a 1090t working with this board? How? I installed the 1065t but it didn't boot. Both have the same CPUID and core stepping so I don't know what to make of this. Did you use a modified bios or something? Could it be due to turbo boost? The 965BE doesn't have that feature. Is there some setting on the bios that I should turn off before installing the X6?

Everything is working fine right now on XP. I think I'll try RAID now since an SSD is no-go ATM.

Got an used half functioning H80 (the pump works but the fan controller doesn't). I have my own fan controller so that issue is moot for my goals.

I also got another HIS 3850 Turbo to replace the Sapphire. I'll move the Sapphire to the P4 machine (overkill, I know).
 
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