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Brutalfate

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Hi there, I recently had to replace my old mobo (Gigabyte Ga-8IPE775), I bought the Asrock 4coredual VSTA.. (t'was cheap and all i needed for my older system..)

However, the RAM I'm using in it, 2x 1GB Kingston DDRII 667 (PC 5300), runs at 533Mhz oposed to 667Mhz.

Any Ideas whats up? Also has anyone else had any experience with this board?

Oh, and whats the dealio with the Pci-E lane supporting 16x Cards, but only running at 4x? Would that mean the AGP 8x lane would be effectively faster?


All help appreciated... Thanks.
 
Brutalfate said:
Hi there, I recently had to replace my old mobo (Gigabyte Ga-8IPE775), I bought the Asrock 4coredual VSTA.. (t'was cheap and all i needed for my older system..)

However, the RAM I'm using in it, 2x 1GB Kingston DDRII 667 (PC 5300), runs at 533Mhz oposed to 667Mhz.

Any Ideas whats up? Also has anyone else had any experience with this board?
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Board only supports up to 533mhz. Meaning you could probably tighten the timings on the ram and get it to perform a little better.

Brutalfate said:
Oh, and whats the dealio with the Pci-E lane supporting 16x Cards, but only running at 4x? Would that mean the AGP 8x lane would be effectively faster?


All help appreciated... Thanks.
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I would say the 16x@4x bandwith only cuts performance down I would say 5-7%, not really much to justify using an AGP card over PCI-e.

Hope I helped you. :toast:
 
yep jrracinfan right it a combo board it only runs DDR 400 and DDR2 533Mhz most combo board only could run the 1st DDR2 that got released
 
Ahhh Lame!

I thought the VSTA version could run dual channel DDRII 667...

Thats what the manual is telling me anyway. :(

Thanks for your help guys. Appreciated.
 
your board can run DDR2 667 looking at Asrock web site have you tried a bios update try useing cpuz to see what speed its really running at
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pci-e has more advantages on boards like that.i ran aquamark with same card on asrock dual vsta and gigabyte ga 965p ds3 and difference was marginal.i was going to get a q6600 for my old dual vsta board and then i realised it couldn`t handle the quad cores.now i`m just going to economise with e2160 or celeron 440.
 
Just did a Bios update, everything looks all good now..

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thanks for all your help.





also.... i was thinking of upgrading my gfx card, so it would be worth getting a Pci-e card? any recomendations?
 
yer its worth switching to PCI-e are you thinking of buy a new board?
 
i wanna keep this board, atleast for now.


If i were to upgrade to pci-e... I have no clue what card to get.. I do do quite a bit of gaming... (Bf2, bf2142, stalker,Rainbowsix vegas).. I guess I dont want to spend too much either. DX10 capable might be nice..
 
so you want a new AGP card? that will play most new games on high?
 
i'd probably get a pci-e card, my board supports both agp and pci-e.

Atleast then, when i do get a new mb, I'll already have a pci-e card, and wont still be stuck with agp. Plus, pci-e is usually cheaper now days, isnt it?
 
how much would you spend on a Pci-e card?
 
I wouldnt really want to spend much more that $200.. reakon that could get me anything decent?
 
for 200 bucks man you have 2 options really...

if you have a generic type psu and want dx10 then I would go for either a 2600xt or 8600gt.

If you have a slightly better psu then I would go for either a x1950pro or 7900gs.

The latter 2 card perform better in games and will play all games atm really well but don't have dx10.

imo I would probably save that little extra and grab a 320mb 8800gts.... It would be the best upgrade for your money....

http://www.ozdirect.com.au/product_info.html?products_id=6577

the other option would be to buy a 8600gt/2600xt now and then buy another one when you opgrade your mb, so you would have either crossfire or sli
 
hmmmm.. my psu (atrix 650t) does 40A max in 12v.. 3.3v at 3.31v and the 5v at 5.08..

thats all i know about it really.
 
you should be fine your PSU is more than enough to power either one of those card my mate has a 430w and has np running 8800GTS
 
yeah you should be ok with that one bro... I would probably either go for a X1950pro/7900gs or save a little for a 8800gts 320mb.


msy.com.au

have some pretty cheap vcards, check them out. Their order process isn't the fastest but they do have really competitive prices...
 
Alright sweet.

yeah. msy is great. I get heaps of my stuff from them, i live close to there auburn branch too, I might go there this weekend.
 
Brutalfate said:
Hi there, I recently had to replace my old mobo (Gigabyte Ga-8IPE775), I bought the Asrock 4coredual VSTA.. (t'was cheap and all i needed for my older system..)

However, the RAM I'm using in it, 2x 1GB Kingston DDRII 667 (PC 5300), runs at 533Mhz oposed to 667Mhz. I guess we should update his bios too.

Any Ideas whats up? Also has anyone else had any experience with this board?

Oh, and whats the dealio with the Pci-E lane supporting 16x Cards, but only running at 4x? Would that mean the AGP 8x lane would be effectively faster?


All help appreciated... Thanks.
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I've got a friend with this board, he has 800MHz ram.

Yes the board only supports 400/533 ram. Yes, 4x PCI-E can be limiting, but its under 2% until you get to midrange (by my standards) cards like the 1950pro and the 7800gt

Only cardsl like the 8800 series will really suffer on a 4x slot, as the 8800GTX loses maybe 3% on an 8x slot and ~10% on a 4x slot. (again its not much, but it IS a loss)

Also to be noted is that you have EPP ram, which only runs full speed on Nvidia Nforce 6 SLI boards. You should keep that in mind
 
he hasn't got EPP ram you can't get EPP ram in DD2 667 lol
im guess he has Kingston value ram
 
yeah yeah, Kingston Value Ram. :) haha. Sorry. I should have mentioned that.
 
thats some good ram i got a good oc to 900Mhz from 667Mhz when i was useing my Kingston Value Ram so what type of video card you think of getting?
 
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