arswihart, My experience since installing SATA drives at home and at work has been that boot times are considerably faster. Part of that might be that they are clean installs as well and faster system (was using Athlon XP at 2500 Mhz on nForce 2 chipset). The drives I used as boot drives before...
Thank you for clarifying voltage.
I like the motherboard a lot. Very well thought out. I have never had a board that was so overclock friendly. I'm pretty impressed with the winchester core as well. The only issue I have with board is floppy at bottom but a lot of people do that these days...
Newegg has all Winchesters except the 3500+ listed as 1.5v. They have 3500+ listed as 1.4v.
I went out on AMD's site and could not find an answer. I will post on their forums to try to resolve.
SrGuapo, yes your winchester is undervolted. I imagine most the people here have 1.34 - 1.36...
arswihart, I was aware that there was some undervolting but I figured it had been resolved in bios update. I did up voltage to 1.4 and then 1.5 before returning motherboard and cpu.
I'm still unclear what voltage a 3200+ winchester is rated at. Newegg has it listed as 1.5 volts.
Thanks.
I spent about 1 1/2 hours troubleshooting on phone with a tech support guy from Corsair last night. There is something wrong with memory controller on CPU or motherboard. I'm returning both today and getting new ones. Corsair is also replacing my dimms. Corsair's support is amazing...great...
I would go for the following. I just built a machine with these basics and was amazed at how fast it runs for the money:
Epox EP-8KDA3I $65 (nForce 3 250)
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-123-225&depa=0
Athlon 64 2800+ retail $120 (only $30 more than equivalent...
Thank you for the information, I very much appreciate you looking up that info.
I don't know where that leaves me. It seems that Corsair was liberal in there rating. I imagine that they tested it at cas 2.5 at 200 with AMD CPUs and that is why they classified it as such. This probably does...
Thank you for the reply arswihart! Did you buy your memory as a matched set? Would you happen to know details of the chips of your memory?
My Corsair XMS 3200C2 memory (2 dimms) detail is as follows:
v 2.2
no brand but chip has what looks like globe with W on it.
W942508CH-6
03165I...
I have installed a A64 3200+ (939 winchester) in a EpOX 9NDA3+ motherboard. It is a great board and CPU but seems very finicky when it comes to memory. I know that the Athlon 64s are more touchy on memory. I can not run 2 dimms, the system only sees one stick. The machine will not boot if I try...
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