brad72 Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Trying to find any help in how to set the bios up so that it will run this DDR2-1000 at the correct speed. I have set all the timings and voltages to the correct timings but can't find anywhere to set the speed to 1000 If anyone has this same mobo or has had similar problems any suggestions would be greatly appreciated... See specs below.... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614023-asus-m2n32-sli-deluxe-how-to-set-bios/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
brad72 Posted January 17, 2008 Author Share Posted January 17, 2008 Think I have it figured out sort of.... :wacko: right now I appear to be running stable after running several benchmarks and super pi and some prime... along with normal gaming..... I am at 3195mhz 1.34v (highest setting I tried so far until I get new HSF) memory is 523mhz with fsb/6 5-5-5-15 2.0v (have not tried different timings as of yet) so now my memory is over the DDR2 1000 which I was trying to reach earlier... Not sure if there is away just to change the setting in the bios to raise the memory to run at its standard default of DDR2 1000 and not ddr2 800....Only settings in bios I have are DDR2 400/533/667/800...I hope but doubt they will do an updated bios just to increase the stepping in memory as it is getting faster and faster.... Right now I am on the stock HSF and I am running idle at 41c with only an external exhaust fan running at the back of the machine until my new quieter fans come in tomorrow.... Does anyone have a chart or link to share that gives safe temperatures for this CPU? AMD AM2 5200+ 65w I saw it reach about 52c while I was doing benchmarks tests and gaming but I do know that temp will drop after air flow returns with the new fans... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614023-asus-m2n32-sli-deluxe-how-to-set-bios/#findComment-589141629 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iam138 Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 brad72 said: Think I have it figured out sort of.... :wacko: right now I appear to be running stable after running several benchmarks and super pi and some prime... along with normal gaming..... I am at 3195mhz 1.34v (highest setting I tried so far until I get new HSF) memory is 523mhz with fsb/6 5-5-5-15 2.0v (have not tried different timings as of yet) so now my memory is over the DDR2 1000 which I was trying to reach earlier... Not sure if there is away just to change the setting in the bios to raise the memory to run at its standard default of DDR2 1000 and not ddr2 800....Only settings in bios I have are DDR2 400/533/667/800...I hope but doubt they will do an updated bios just to increase the stepping in memory as it is getting faster and faster.... Right now I am on the stock HSF and I am running idle at 41c with only an external exhaust fan running at the back of the machine until my new quieter fans come in tomorrow.... Does anyone have a chart or link to share that gives safe temperatures for this CPU? AMD AM2 5200+ 65w I saw it reach about 52c while I was doing benchmarks tests and gaming but I do know that temp will drop after air flow returns with the new fans... BIOS version 1503 should provide the settings you seek as it is an update to support socket AM2+ (Phenom) I would procede with caution though as I beleive some people were having problems with the HT link speed multiplier defaulting to 1x with this BIOS. Asus BIOS 1503 Product information for your CPU can be viewed here. X2 5200+ specs AMD Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614023-asus-m2n32-sli-deluxe-how-to-set-bios/#findComment-589143313 Share on other sites More sharing options...
brad72 Posted January 18, 2008 Author Share Posted January 18, 2008 Iam138 said: BIOS version 1503 should provide the settings you seek as it is an update to support socket AM2+ (Phenom) I would procede with caution though as I beleive some people were having problems with the HT link speed multiplier defaulting to 1x with this BIOS. Asus BIOS 1503Product information for your CPU can be viewed here. X2 5200+ specs AMD Thanks for the links.... Not sure what is going on with the Asus Probe II it is reading 42c most of the time then it will instantly jump to say 49-53c then back down....This was happening a lot at first now it is pretty much stablized around 40-42c idle still a little on the warm side for my liking...as I came off my old system Opteron 165 OC @ 2.75 and ran much cooler at 29-31c........ This motherboard is running @ 37c which appears to be pretty normal. Any idea on the CPU? I used just the stock HSF with the thermal pad it came with. Tempted to pull it out clean it of and AS5 it....but I have used stock hsf before with thermal pads and never ran this warm right out of the box.... I took the OCing off and back at stock speeds and CPU 1.25v........ Granted also I have all fans hooked up to motherboard plugs none are on their own power... Think it would help to plug them straight into their own power? This is how my fans are set up and the RPM and CFM they are running...If you see something I should do say swap out the exhaust with the front intake I might do so if people think it would benefit the air flow and cooling... Front of case intake Scythe S-FLEX SFF21E 120mm Case Fan 49cfm @1200rpm 20.1dba 120mm Side of case intake SILVERSTONE FN82 80mm Case Fan 36.89cfm @ 2100rpm 26dba 80mm Rear exhaust EVERCOOL SFF-12 120mm Case Fan 80cfm @ 2000rpm <25dba 120mm Not including the stock PSU 120mm fan for exhaust as well.... Only down fall with the 80cfm is it is the loudest of them all but most of that is the fact it is blowing the air out the holes in the back and that is what is actually causing the noise not the fan itself.... I don't think it really matters about which fan is in front or back but if I am wrong please let me know...Just trying to get the temps down even lower than what they are now.... and YES I am going to be looking also for a better aftermarket HSF but have read where some people are having problems find units that will fit this board and not conflict with the heatpipe cooling that is on the board..... So suggestions on the HSF as well as if I should move my fans around would be greatly appreciated... I know this thing is going to be easy to OC as I have had it to 3.2ghz so far with only increasing the fsb and lowering the HTT leaving the DDR2 setting on 800, Locked all the other settings and left CPU Voltage on auto but at 3.2ghz it went up to 1.34 which I still don't think is that high... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614023-asus-m2n32-sli-deluxe-how-to-set-bios/#findComment-589143799 Share on other sites More sharing options...
brad72 Posted January 18, 2008 Author Share Posted January 18, 2008 Wondering if anyone knows how to boost the fan on the heatsink as it normally runs around 3000rpm but it is rated 3000-6000rpm. I have looked through the bios and only notice I can change the q-fan in bios from optimal/quiet/performance, or disabled.... I have tried all settings but nothing seems to change the rpms... Any ideas? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614023-asus-m2n32-sli-deluxe-how-to-set-bios/#findComment-589144232 Share on other sites More sharing options...
brad72 Posted January 18, 2008 Author Share Posted January 18, 2008 I found out why my CPU temps were changing the way they were...had something still running in background on boot-up... :blush: I do think I am safer than I thought I was as I just played crysis on higher settings for about an hour with the pc-probe II cpu temp (all other closed) on top and never saw it get above 48c...still think I could get better overall temps with a better HSF....Think I am going to swap out the stock HSF that came with my old Opteron 165 (with 4 heatpipes) and see how it does tomorrow.... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614023-asus-m2n32-sli-deluxe-how-to-set-bios/#findComment-589144438 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iam138 Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 One thing I feel I should mention is that I doubt you are stable at those speeds/specs. The reasons I say this is game play is one thing but true stability is quite another. Why is stability important? B/c one day you don't want a BSOD that results in loss of data. I recommend running Orthos Stress Pirme for @ least 6hours on Blended or Small FFT to determine your true stability. Another thing is Asus Probe is not a good indication of core temps. For a AMD CPU I recommend Core Temp 0.96.1 as it is much more accurate than Speedfan (total crap for AMD) or Asus probe. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614023-asus-m2n32-sli-deluxe-how-to-set-bios/#findComment-589144505 Share on other sites More sharing options...
brad72 Posted January 18, 2008 Author Share Posted January 18, 2008 Is Orthos better than Prime95? I have been running Prime95 stress test now going on 8 hours now and not slowing down this machine at all....as I sit here and type this Temps are still not going above 51c. I took the OC back up to where I had it until I was concerned about the heat but after gaming and the temps did not rise much decided to put it back to the OC settings....still running strong..I have be away from my computer most of the day today but I will continue running Prime and see just how long it runs before crapping out... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614023-asus-m2n32-sli-deluxe-how-to-set-bios/#findComment-589145162 Share on other sites More sharing options...
brad72 Posted January 19, 2008 Author Share Posted January 19, 2008 Prime95 was still going until about an hour ago when I shut it down ran for just over 16 1/2 hours.... :woot: at 3.2ghz so to that seems pretty stable... Still wondering though if Orthos test does different or more deep stress testing?... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614023-asus-m2n32-sli-deluxe-how-to-set-bios/#findComment-589146428 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iam138 Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 brad72 said: Prime95 was still going until about an hour ago when I shut it down ran for just over 16 1/2 hours.... :woot: at 3.2ghz so to that seems pretty stable...Still wondering though if Orthos test does different or more deep stress testing?... It does indeed sound pretty stable! Orthos does the same thing as Prime95 just in a niftier package, as long as testing with 2 instances or Prime95 (one for each core) or using the latest version that test's both cores it's just as good as Orthos really. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614023-asus-m2n32-sli-deluxe-how-to-set-bios/#findComment-589146451 Share on other sites More sharing options...
brad72 Posted January 19, 2008 Author Share Posted January 19, 2008 I have now swapped out heatsinks and fan....from the stock one that came with the 5200+ to the stock one that came with my opty 165 with 4 heatpipes... I have dropped -5c now running at 37-38c idle and also my motherboard temps have also dropped too by -5c...now running at 32-33c.... What if any difference would I see with an aftermarket HSF??? The reason I ask the last question is that I know the 4 heatpipe stock HSF is very close and better performance to some of after market units you can buy... Any aftermarket units that can work in the Asus M2N32-sli deluxe that might out perform the stock 4 pipe? Please on suggest HSF units that will work this board as I have heard people having problems getting some units to work with this board can be a total pain if not impossible as the heatpipe cooling on the motherboard can get in the way of some of the larger units... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614023-asus-m2n32-sli-deluxe-how-to-set-bios/#findComment-589146657 Share on other sites More sharing options...
brad72 Posted January 19, 2008 Author Share Posted January 19, 2008 Ok I wanted to throw up several screen shots real quick to show just some of the settings and such as you can see Prime is running in the background again this time (about 6 hours during this test so far). I lowered from 3.2ghz backed off to 3.0ghz only difference I did was took the multiplier down from 12 to 11. I was also curious about the HTT so I just kicked it back up to x5 and so it is running at 1375 or 2750 :D I also took the cpu voltage off of auto and set them to 1.30v which is .05 increase over stock... So far can't complain about this set-up having had 2 successful OC's 1st at 3.2ghz and now backed it down to 3.0ghz... Also wanted to say I put the memory on a divider now as well was running well over specs at DDR2 1000 (in bios had to set it to ddr2 1066...but now at DDR2 800) I am trying to see just how high I can go with just the CPU and HTT then once I error out I will lower the HTT and find out if it is stable again...Then I will start increasing the memory until I find my highest OVERCLOCK which is stable for both the CPU and MEMORY.... Here are the pics... Might want to add incase someone sees my temps it is going between 51-55c which I feel comfortable with the system temps as they instantly drop back down to upper 30's when I shut down dual prime...Still would like to find a better HSF unit that might keep it around 50c or better under load which would make me feel even better.... :yes: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614023-asus-m2n32-sli-deluxe-how-to-set-bios/#findComment-589146916 Share on other sites More sharing options...
brad72 Posted January 19, 2008 Author Share Posted January 19, 2008 Still stable at 3.1ghz 282x11 @ 1.32v 41-42c idle/55c 100% load HTT is 1410 282x5 Just how high does this go? I thought it was limited to closer to 1000 Also once the memory starts reaching the DDR2 1200 range CPU-Z goes blank in the: Frequency: (blank) FSB/DRAM: (blank) yet all the timings are correct.....why might this be does CPU-Z not go that high for the memory? took the DDR2 setting back up to 1066 setting in bios @ 2.0v dual prime 95 or 2 hours still running still running strong.... everything I have thrown at his so far has not given me 1 blue screen or any faults in prime....either I have a heck of a CPU and memory or something is not registering right......hope it is the CPU/Ram.... Also in Vista scoring I am now at 5.5 cpu and 5.9 for everything else....before at stock settings I was 5.1 cpu and 5.9 for everything else... Stepping on CPU just if anyone is wondering are ADO5200IAA6CZ CCB8F 0727RPMW 1724004670646 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614023-asus-m2n32-sli-deluxe-how-to-set-bios/#findComment-589147787 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iam138 Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 In answer too you HT link speed question the old 1000 or lower only applies to socket 939 many AM2 boards/chipsets/CPUs can handle speeds of up too 1500 no problem. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614023-asus-m2n32-sli-deluxe-how-to-set-bios/#findComment-589148727 Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinmax Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 where in the bios do you find the HT link? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614023-asus-m2n32-sli-deluxe-how-to-set-bios/#findComment-589160322 Share on other sites More sharing options...
brad72 Posted January 27, 2008 Author Share Posted January 27, 2008 twinmax said: where in the bios do you find the HT link? Under advanced>>>Chipset CPU<-> HT Speed Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614023-asus-m2n32-sli-deluxe-how-to-set-bios/#findComment-589165280 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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