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"Brent Huiberts" <joytravis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I contacted Gigabyte concerning my inability to run nTune on my GA-K8NXP-9,
>and they sent me the same BIOS that Richard posted earlier. However, their
>words don't exactly fill me with confidence:
> "Please try to use this latest Beta version BIOS and see whether it will
> help." Has anybody out there used this BIOS, and if they had a problem
> with nTune, did it resolve the problem?
>
> Brent
F5i has issues, for one thing there is an issue with overclocking. I have an
FX-53 and i drop the HTT to 4x and raise the CPU clock from 200 - 216 =
2.6Ghz.
The issue is with the CPU voltage and the lack of a voltage lock. When i
raised the CPU to 216 the voltage increased to 1.65v!!!
And i had the CPU voltage set to "default" in BIOS. It should have kept the
CPU running at the standard 1.5v but it didn't. Only way around this is to
manually set the voltage to 1.5v in BIOS.
Some nice things have been added, the CPU multi has been expanded. Before
you only had 12x - 13x -14x etc. options. Now you have 12.5x -13.5x etc.
The NV RAID IDE BIOS has been updated to 4.81, same as Asus are offering in
there BIOS updates. Also the Sil3114 BIOS has also been updated, version
5.1....something, i don't use Sil myself.
F5i is dated April 4th 2005, sadly there is no option to add a 3.5x HTT -
4.5x HTT, yet 1.5x and 2.5x HTT are there, why?
All these observations were email to Gigabyte and hopefully they will take
things onboard. New options have been added to Robust Graphics
Booster...what seems like a feature to overclock the GPU/memory of graphics
cards within BIOS.
But overall the F5i BIOS are good, stable...just somethings need to be fixed
and added.
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