GA-K8NF-9 bios tweaking help. Money for yoU!

vumpler · 02-25-2005, 10:09 PM

Hey guys I have the GA-K8NF-9.

My screenshots of the bios are below. I need help setting it up tweaked wise. If someone could message me on one of the following messengers it may be easier. You can post if you would like but in real time i think it would be better. I will then post what settings I put everything at after we talk. Also if you have paypal I could send a small prize to the first to help! The reason fo the urgency is because I play Counter Strike Source and am in cal and need every ounce out of this (whatever you want to call it) that i built lol. We have a huge match sunday and i need it running a little better if possible. So please message me! Thanks

AIM: jason1nk
ICQ: 52662946
MSN: jason1nk@hotmail.com
Xfire: vumpler

urgency would be great guys!

Nubius · 02-26-2005, 03:14 AM

Your only real way to squeeze performance out of it would be overclocking, which you can't really tell someone how to do. You can give them the basics, and there's a sticky at the top that describes all about it.

And 4W4K3 should hopefully read this thread, and if he does, he should post that AMD64 article his friend wrote about AMD64 OC'ing

vumpler · 02-26-2005, 12:37 PM

thats not entirely true. You can set ram timings etc. Also how much improvment would i see out of a sata drive with 8.5sec seek time?

Nubius · 02-26-2005, 05:26 PM

You cant just 'set the RAM timings' man, it requires overclocking for faster RAM, and generally the timings that are on the RAM as is, is about their limits and trying to tighten them up will simply cause instabilities.

Your current timings are 2.5-3-3-7 and it it looks like you don't have any high performance RAM or anything so tightening up those timings will more than likely cause more problems than speeding it up. If it did remain stable it wouldn't be an increase you'd notice.

As far as the SATA drive goes, the seek times are based on how fast information travels between the drive and the motherboard, and how fist the disk spins so there's no setting where you can simply change that because it's hardware limitations.

As I said, overclocking is the only way.

xteam02001 · 02-26-2005, 05:34 PM

you might want to set your ram at 200mhz

Nubius · 02-26-2005, 06:01 PM

Yeah if you have PC3200 memory, the memclock needs to be at 200, not 166, that's probably why it's running at 2.5-3-3-7 timings and I assume it'll go to 3-3-3-8 when you turn it up to 200

vumpler · 02-26-2005, 06:50 PM

Thanks for the reply

well as far as the sata drive goes i wasn't asking to speed it up lol I was asking if by getting a sata drive with 8.5 seek time 7200 with an 8mb buffer i would see anywhere near a significant increase in performance? In that meaning 15-25% which can be noticed.. If not I guess I'll just buy a new mobo and more ram I guess

What should I buy?

nforce4 flavor only

DJ-CHRIS · 02-26-2005, 07:30 PM

Your system is fine, the largest increase in peformance you could get is from raising your bus from 200 to as high as it will go, and getting another graphic card

Silent Nemesis · 02-26-2005, 09:57 PM

I recommend HyperX, from Kingston.

vumpler · 02-26-2005, 11:30 PM

Ok so I'm looking at the HyperX ram and what do you think I should get? I'm hoping to not spend over $250 for a gig of ram. Also my ram clock ill set to 200mhz for now to suffice.

And my bus speed going as high as I can entails what exactly?

You guys rock me

02-25-2005, 10:09 PM	#1 (permalink)
vumpler Newb Techie Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 42	GA-K8NF-9 bios tweaking help. Money for yoU! Hey guys I have the GA-K8NF-9. My screenshots of the bios are below. I need help setting it up tweaked wise. If someone could message me on one of the following messengers it may be easier. You can post if you would like but in real time i think it would be better. I will then post what settings I put everything at after we talk. Also if you have paypal I could send a small prize to the first to help! The reason fo the urgency is because I play Counter Strike Source and am in cal and need every ounce out of this (whatever you want to call it) that i built lol. We have a huge match sunday and i need it running a little better if possible. So please message me! Thanks AIM: jason1nk ICQ: 52662946 MSN: jason1nk@hotmail.com Xfire: vumpler urgency would be great guys! __________________ GA-K8NF-9 6800GT PCI-E Athlon_64_3500+ Antec_True_Blue_480_PSU Maxtor_300GB_8MB_7200RPM 2x512_pc3200 (winbond moduled) RazerDiamondback Mouse (Best Ever)

02-26-2005, 12:37 PM	#3 (permalink)
vumpler Newb Techie Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 42	thats not entirely true. You can set ram timings etc. Also how much improvment would i see out of a sata drive with 8.5sec seek time? __________________ GA-K8NF-9 6800GT PCI-E Athlon_64_3500+ Antec_True_Blue_480_PSU Maxtor_300GB_8MB_7200RPM 2x512_pc3200 (winbond moduled) RazerDiamondback Mouse (Best Ever)

02-26-2005, 05:34 PM	#5 (permalink)
xteam02001 Super Techie Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 296	you might want to set your ram at 200mhz __________________ AMD Athlon 64 3200+ \"Venice\" ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 2GB OCZ Platinum DDR400 eVGA 256mb 6800GT ANTEC 430watt TruePower 2.0 WD 160GB 8MB cache HDD NEC 16x Dual Layer DVD+/-RW

02-26-2005, 06:50 PM	#7 (permalink)
vumpler Newb Techie Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 42	Thanks for the reply well as far as the sata drive goes i wasn't asking to speed it up lol I was asking if by getting a sata drive with 8.5 seek time 7200 with an 8mb buffer i would see anywhere near a significant increase in performance? In that meaning 15-25% which can be noticed.. If not I guess I'll just buy a new mobo and more ram I guess What should I buy? nforce4 flavor only __________________ GA-K8NF-9 6800GT PCI-E Athlon_64_3500+ Antec_True_Blue_480_PSU Maxtor_300GB_8MB_7200RPM 2x512_pc3200 (winbond moduled) RazerDiamondback Mouse (Best Ever)

02-26-2005, 11:30 PM	#10 (permalink)
vumpler Newb Techie Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 42	Ok so I'm looking at the HyperX ram and what do you think I should get? I'm hoping to not spend over $250 for a gig of ram. Also my ram clock ill set to 200mhz for now to suffice. And my bus speed going as high as I can entails what exactly? You guys rock me __________________ GA-K8NF-9 6800GT PCI-E Athlon_64_3500+ Antec_True_Blue_480_PSU Maxtor_300GB_8MB_7200RPM 2x512_pc3200 (winbond moduled) RazerDiamondback Mouse (Best Ever)

02-26-2005, 03:14 AM	#2 (permalink)
Nubius Banned Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 11,659	Your only real way to squeeze performance out of it would be overclocking, which you can't really tell someone how to do. You can give them the basics, and there's a sticky at the top that describes all about it. And 4W4K3 should hopefully read this thread, and if he does, he should post that AMD64 article his friend wrote about AMD64 OC'ing

02-26-2005, 05:26 PM	#4 (permalink)
Nubius Banned Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 11,659	You cant just 'set the RAM timings' man, it requires overclocking for faster RAM, and generally the timings that are on the RAM as is, is about their limits and trying to tighten them up will simply cause instabilities. Your current timings are 2.5-3-3-7 and it it looks like you don't have any high performance RAM or anything so tightening up those timings will more than likely cause more problems than speeding it up. If it did remain stable it wouldn't be an increase you'd notice. As far as the SATA drive goes, the seek times are based on how fast information travels between the drive and the motherboard, and how fist the disk spins so there's no setting where you can simply change that because it's hardware limitations. As I said, overclocking is the only way.

02-26-2005, 06:01 PM	#6 (permalink)
Nubius Banned Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 11,659	Yeah if you have PC3200 memory, the memclock needs to be at 200, not 166, that's probably why it's running at 2.5-3-3-7 timings and I assume it'll go to 3-3-3-8 when you turn it up to 200

02-26-2005, 07:30 PM	#8 (permalink)
DJ-CHRIS Lord Techie Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 8,053	Your system is fine, the largest increase in peformance you could get is from raising your bus from 200 to as high as it will go, and getting another graphic card

02-26-2005, 09:57 PM	#9 (permalink)
Silent Nemesis Newb Techie Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 25	I recommend HyperX, from Kingston.

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