Asus M2a-vm

W1zzard · Feb 27, 2007, 09:41 PM

To read this review go to: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/M2A-VM/

Wile E · Mar 2, 2007, 02:39 PM

Excellent in depth review, Wiz.

Decent little board. Hopefully ASUS will add memory timing in a future bios revision. That would make this a killer budget board for sff or htpc setups.

Kasparz · Mar 2, 2007, 04:48 PM

W1zzard, can we see some benchmarks done with IGP? Hopefully some 3dmark03 or 05, because 01 is too cpu dependant.

dmce · Mar 2, 2007, 04:52 PM

Can any comments be made on HD (both 720p and 1080p) playback. I wouldnt imagine that CPU would be of much use in that area but this ability is a crucial factor for a HDMI equipped board surely?

unsmart · Mar 5, 2007, 10:24 PM

I would like to see this teamed up with a high end audio chip. Those are some rather disappointing benches even for a budget chipset, should at least be higher in media benches. Wonder if it's set to 2T timing in bios?

cclim033 · Oct 22, 2007, 11:40 AM

Can anyone give an advice why my board show low GPU clock=57.28 Mhz instead of the right clock which suppose to be 400Mhz.I'm using GPU-Z.exe & ATITool 0.26 to check it out and the result is the same. My friend brought Biostar board with same AMD 690G, but it show the right 400Mhz.Pls pls help me to rectify it................Thank you

cc

greenbackz · Dec 31, 2007, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by cclim033

Can anyone give an advice why my board show low GPU clock=57.28 Mhz instead of the right clock which suppose to be 400Mhz.I'm using GPU-Z.exe & ATITool 0.26 to check it out and the result is the same. My friend brought Biostar board with same AMD 690G, but it show the right 400Mhz.Pls pls help me to rectify it................Thank you

cc

I am having this exact same problem.. atitool used to work fine and clock was good (400 like it shoulda been) but for some reason its like 57mhz and i can't even bring it back up to 400... even in everest it shows that its 57mhz... anyone else having this same problem?

shivnats · Jan 30, 2008, 04:05 PM

yeah same here....ati tool is showing 57 mhz! please can somebody advice me on this problem , as i am not able to overclock the damn chipset.

Feb 27, 2007, 09:41 PM	#1
W1zzard Administrator Join Date: May 2004 Location: Stuttgart, Germany Posts: 12,284 (4.19/day) Thanks: 155 Thanked 8,147 Times in 2,503 Posts System Specs	Asus M2a-vm To read this review go to: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/M2A-VM/ Last edited by W1zzard; Mar 22, 2007 at 11:17 AM.

Processor:	Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.4 GHz
Motherboard:	ASUS P8Z68-V Pro
Memory:	3x 2048 MB Mushkin DDR3
Video Card:	ASUS GeForce GTX 670 Direct CU II TOP
Hard Disk:	OCZ Agility 2 128 GB, WD6400AAKS 640 GB, WD15EADS 1.5 TB
Optical Drive:	BenQ DW1640
CRT/LCD Model:	Dell 2001FP 20.1" TFT, 1600x1200 + 19" 1280x1024
Case:	NZXT H2
Sound Card:	On-board Realtek HD
PSU:	Kingwin Absolute Platinum 550 W
Software:	Windows 7 64-bit

Mar 2, 2007, 02:39 PM	#2
Wile E Power User Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Western PA (Pittsburgh suburbs) Posts: 17,966 (8.71/day) Thanks: 436 Thanked 3,760 Times in 3,085 Posts System Specs	Excellent in depth review, Wiz. Decent little board. Hopefully ASUS will add memory timing in a future bios revision. That would make this a killer budget board for sff or htpc setups. __________________ Visit Ashentech “What the hell did you expect? Leave Vista under the pillow and the OS fairy would make it Win7?” -El Fiendo “And Bring Mailman back god damnit, he is the Eric Cartman of TPU” -MRCL

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Motherboard:	Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 BIOS F12
Cooling:	MCR-320, DDC-1 pump w/Bitspower res top (1/2" fittings), Koolance CPU-360
Memory:	3x2GB Mushkin Redlines 1600Mhz 6-8-6-24
Video Card:	Evga GTX 580
Hard Disk:	Seagate 7200.10 320GB x2 RAID0; 2 x Samsung F2 1.5TB; 1 x F1 1TB; 1 x F4 2TB
Optical Drive:	LG WH10LS30K 10X Blu-ray Burner
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Sound Card:	Auzentech X-Fi Forte into Onkyo SR606 and Polk TSi200's + RM6750
PSU:	ENERMAX Galaxy EVO EGX1250EWT 1250W
Software:	Win7 Ultimate N x64

Oct 22, 2007, 11:40 AM	#6
cclim033 Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1 (0.00/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	M2A-VM with low GPU clock ? Can anyone give an advice why my board show low GPU clock=57.28 Mhz instead of the right clock which suppose to be 400Mhz.I'm using GPU-Z.exe & ATITool 0.26 to check it out and the result is the same. My friend brought Biostar board with same AMD 690G, but it show the right 400Mhz.Pls pls help me to rectify it................Thank you cc Last edited by cclim033; Oct 23, 2007 at 12:15 PM.

Mar 2, 2007, 04:48 PM	#3
Kasparz Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 265 (0.12/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	W1zzard, can we see some benchmarks done with IGP? Hopefully some 3dmark03 or 05, because 01 is too cpu dependant.

Mar 2, 2007, 04:52 PM	#4
dmce Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 33 (0.02/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Can any comments be made on HD (both 720p and 1080p) playback. I wouldnt imagine that CPU would be of much use in that area but this ability is a crucial factor for a HDMI equipped board surely?

Mar 5, 2007, 10:24 PM	#5
unsmart Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 397 (0.18/day) Thanks: 16 Thanked 38 Times in 37 Posts	I would like to see this teamed up with a high end audio chip. Those are some rather disappointing benches even for a budget chipset, should at least be higher in media benches. Wonder if it's set to 2T timing in bios?

Jan 30, 2008, 04:05 PM	#8
shivnats Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1 (0.00/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	yeah same here....ati tool is showing 57 mhz! please can somebody advice me on this problem , as i am not able to overclock the damn chipset.

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