Abit IX38 Quad GT - Living Review II

[supershanks]

No worries can understand your wish for a bios given the circumstances.

[SteedaYo]

Well with that program you advised and with core temp as well, i have enough monitoring on the cpu to be safe. Core temp and real temp are pretty off from one another as well (which i thought was interesting) but haven't calibrated real temp yet, I got distracted by prime95. And because I am a sap I am now working to find another prime number lol!!!!

[supershanks]

coretemp & realtemp should give pretty well the same results, check that they are using the same tjmax.
if you want some info on what tjmax is there's a bit here Reading the CPU Temp Values

[SteedaYo]

Ever come across any mods to help cool the PMW any better? I have a fan right on it, but it is still my weak link they get hot so fast I can not got over 3.8ghz.

[supershanks]

No not really, options are fan , after market cooling thermalright or enzotech, or waterblock. In rising order of cost
I stopped at fan.

[SteedaYo]

More problems to announce... like you really didn't see that coming.

This mobo is sooo close to being a display on our independence day celebration. I just want to blow it up now. sad thing is it would be a decent board if it had support.
I have 2 hard drives one running vista 32 and the other 64 (still havent figured out how to have them both running at same time though)
On the 64 bit When SP2 came out SP2 would not install correctly and i would have to do a system restore to get it to even boot. The 32 bit has SP2 and is running fine. The error I got after installing SP2 is Multiprocessor_config_Not_Supported.
I tried reflashing Bios but 13 and 14 do not work, even though V13 is supossed to support my chip.

You both were right all along, just get rid of the board, but now I have a Q9550 and Dominator DDR2 ram that I do not know if I should keep or sell and build a DDR3 system.

I just found this link about someone else having the same problem but with a different mobo
Vista SP2 - Multiprocessor configuration not supported - [H]ard|Forum

[supershanks]

depends what you want to do. If you want to minimise cost & reuse your ddr2 there are some decent boards Gigabyte GA-EP45-EXTREME or DFI Lanparty UT P45-T2RS are decent.

[SteedaYo]

The gigabit looks to be a rather nice board, and it would help push me the direction of water cooling. but I can not help but think I would be wasting my money investing into older tech (775 and DDR2), but on the same token DDR3 and I7 boards are expensive. I will be getting a I7 920 here soon though, I was just going to resell it.

[supershanks]

every major mobo manufacturer has ddr3 versions of X48 & P45 chipsets.
The gigabyte equivalent is Gigabyte GA-EP45T-EXTREME, the T on gigabyte name code denotes DDR3. There's also the Gigabyte GA X48T DQ6, but it doesn't have the bios options of the p45 boards.
DFI aslo has the DFI UT P45-T3RS

[SteedaYo]

I just ordered a I7 920 with vista ultimate for $129, $153 after taxes. This was through the Intel retail edge program, I was just going to sell it and make a few bucks but since I need to buy a mobo anyways I am going to sell my nearly new Q9550, Dominator ram, and the current mobo.
I had a couple dollars come my way, and if I can sell all my stuff the switch shouldn't be too expensive.
Thinking of getting the Foxconn bloodrage, have heard a few good things about it.