I am looking for a good cheap motherboard with a nforce3 chipset, i saw the chaintech vnf3, but im not sure if its any good. If any one has any suggestions to a cheap mobo, help me out. I am getting a 6800gt, AMD 64 3200+ and 2 (512) corsair memory. Thank you.
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Cheap Nforce 3 MOBO socket 754
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Read this review:
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2063
Says the VNF3-250 is a great board... it's $60 cheaper than the DFI Lanparty!
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2063
Says the VNF3-250 is a great board... it's $60 cheaper than the DFI Lanparty!
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Chaintech VNF3-250 is a great board.
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that Anandtech review says they overclocked it to 275MHz. Is that average or do you guys think that board was exceptional?
Hi everyone,
I recently also purchased this board and a Sempron 3100, and it shipped with the 09/07/2004 Version 3 BIOS flash. I am running it with 2-512MB PC3200 DRAM modules, an Nvidia FX 5900 Ultra, on Windows XP.
I have noticed two things:
1- I can bump up the FSB to 250 with no problem, 100% stable. Once I go to 251, XP will blue screen once it reaches the login screen. Back it down, and its stable again. I'm thinking this is because of my memory speed/OC limitation. In the BIOS I tried to set the Memory Max speed to 100, 133, and 166 all met with the same result. Also, my HT transport multiplier is currently set to 3
2- If I back the FSB back down to 200, and try to adjust the "Hammer FID control" to something other than Auto, on reboot I get a nice black screen and have to clear my CMOS to get it to boot back up.
neither Heat nor power seem to be a problem as the CPU temp is a constant 41C and the voltage is 1.5 to the core.
By Adjusting the FSB to 250 I am able to reach 2.25 Ghz, but I'd like to see it a little closer to the 2.5 others are able to get out of this chip. I am wondering how others are approaching OC'ing this Board/CPU, am I missing something?
I recently also purchased this board and a Sempron 3100, and it shipped with the 09/07/2004 Version 3 BIOS flash. I am running it with 2-512MB PC3200 DRAM modules, an Nvidia FX 5900 Ultra, on Windows XP.
I have noticed two things:
1- I can bump up the FSB to 250 with no problem, 100% stable. Once I go to 251, XP will blue screen once it reaches the login screen. Back it down, and its stable again. I'm thinking this is because of my memory speed/OC limitation. In the BIOS I tried to set the Memory Max speed to 100, 133, and 166 all met with the same result. Also, my HT transport multiplier is currently set to 3
2- If I back the FSB back down to 200, and try to adjust the "Hammer FID control" to something other than Auto, on reboot I get a nice black screen and have to clear my CMOS to get it to boot back up.
neither Heat nor power seem to be a problem as the CPU temp is a constant 41C and the voltage is 1.5 to the core.
By Adjusting the FSB to 250 I am able to reach 2.25 Ghz, but I'd like to see it a little closer to the 2.5 others are able to get out of this chip. I am wondering how others are approaching OC'ing this Board/CPU, am I missing something?
