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Old 21st April, 2004, 04:10 PM
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nf3150 with working agp/pci lock!!!
This thread from another forum is actaully about OCZ EB memory but its what the guy from OCZ testing dept says that is interesting:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sho...eadid=17210682

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The board in the benches is an AOpen Ak89Max NF3 150.It has fully working agp and PCI lock but lacks in the vcore and vdimm dept.Vdimm is 2.8max so I may have to apply the soldering iron to this one

Upto now it seems the gigabyte, shuttle and Aopen are the only boards to have the lock working.I can tell you NF3 250 is easier for the manufactuers to apply the lock to and the new MSI already has a bios to 300fsb and hits it VERY easy.I will be working with many manufacturers to get 300+fsb bios files and Vdimm t at least 3V.

DDR1 has a lot more life in it yet..trust me
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Old 23rd April, 2004, 11:07 AM
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300mhz sounds good!
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Old 23rd April, 2004, 11:25 AM
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300mhz sounds good!

better than that.this is a reply when i asked him about this motherboard by email.

Paul the bios used on the AK89 is posted on the AOpen site. It took a lot of hard work to get the bios engineers to get it right but as you see 347fsb is the outcome ;-)


AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Old 23rd April, 2004, 01:45 PM
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okay where is this board available? in UK
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unfortunately DABS.com.
maybe they have imorived as i havent bought off them since the 1st geforce gfx card cos customer service stank!!
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unfortunately DABS.com.
maybe they have imorived as i havent bought off them since the 1st geforce gfx card cos customer service stank!!
I use them all the time, for buying stuff work work they are very good as far as im concerned, my on board sound died yesterday and I requested an RMA this morning received it already......
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I use them all the time, for buying stuff work work they are very good as far as im concerned, my on board sound died yesterday and I requested an RMA this morning received it already......

cool must have got better.the question is to spend £100 or wait 2-3 weeks and get an MSI K8N NEO NF3 250 with 2 sata raid arrays(no bottleneck!!!).awesome looking board.

google the reviews.
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mmmm im going to have to return my current board so could be without again for a while, dont use sata anyway never had any good experience with it.
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I haven't bothered with SATA. Built a new A64 system with a mate, the SATA drive went down for no apparent reason after a week. It's fine now.

I just going to stick with WD IDE drives for now.
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ive found from personal experience i cant overclock anywhere near as much as with ide drives, my current system was corrupting windows at 215fsb with ide im at 230 quite happy...
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ive found from personal experience i cant overclock anywhere near as much as with ide drives, my current system was corrupting windows at 215fsb with ide im at 230 quite happy...

yes of course but only because SATA(which on nf3 150) run off the PCI bus and are more sensitive to o/c. On the nf3 250 SATA without bottleneck, not running off PCI and anyway locked PCI/AGP.
i can assure you OS, games etc load extremely quicker with 2 raptors in raid0 over IDE drives any day of the week.I just moved to 2 raptors and all i can say is you dont know what you're missing guys!
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yes of course but only because SATA(which on nf3 150) run off the PCI bus and are more sensitive to o/c. On the nf3 250 SATA without bottleneck, not running off PCI and anyway locked PCI/AGP.
i can assure you OS, games etc load extremely quicker with 2 raptors in raid0 over IDE drives any day of the week.I just moved to 2 raptors and all i can say is you dont know what you're missing guys!

About 350gb of storage space your absolutely right i know about the raptors being fast just couldnt bring myself to go from a 250gb hdd to a 76gb (not that I normally use more than that anyway)
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About 350gb of storage space your absolutely right i know about the raptors being fast just couldnt bring myself to go from a 250gb hdd to a 76gb (not that I normally use more than that anyway)
what you talking about?i still have another 200gb+160gb as IDE for storage.
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what you talking about?i still have another 200gb+160gb as IDE for storage.
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however those damn cables are so annoying i mean how easy to knock off, i will try some soon
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The SATA cable? I couldn't believe how loose they are, I thought the connector must be broken at first. What's that all about?
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The SATA cable? I couldn't believe how loose they are, I thought the connector must be broken at first. What's that all about?
I know i mean us modders and oc'ers are known to poke inside the case once and a while the slightest knock took one of mine off
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The SATA cable? I couldn't believe how loose they are, I thought the connector must be broken at first. What's that all about?

yeah.fault lies with the manufacturers of board and drives though not cables.
the connectors on the back of the raptors allow the cables to lock into place quite tightly.nothing like the connectors in SATA maxtors or any motherboard i have.

come on mobo techs, get it right with nf3 250.we want fittings that keep the cables tight.
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raptors are the way to go
have to say the speed difference with setting up raptors in raid 0 is the way to go, have had mine running a week now fast as, i did have windows xp 64 bit running but was have problems with drivers ati to name but a few, i have a 256mb 9600 xt and couldn't get drivers to work, so i am back to the 32 bit version, and it is still fast i did however download the ati drivers from omaga and they are well smart www.omagacorner.com only third party driver programmers supported by ati.

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have to say the speed difference with setting up raptors in raid 0 is the way to go, have had mine running a week now fast as, i did have windows xp 64 bit running but was have problems with drivers ati to name but a few, i have a 256mb 9600 xt and couldn't get drivers to work, so i am back to the 32 bit version, and it is still fast i did however download the ati drivers from omaga and they are well smart www.omagacorner.com only third party driver programmers supported by ati.
yep it is lightning fast.btw i think you mean omega drivers at www.omegacorner.com
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