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[Bosco]

Tonight Greg takes a look at ECS's A970M-A Deluxe Motherboard.

 

Read his review here:

 

http://www.overclock...ews/ecs_a970ma/

[d6bmg]

ECS and their wired color scheme... pfff!

[MissAFanBoy]

please help me with this motherboard, i have serious throttling issues on it on my
AMD FX4130
i don't know how to disable apm,
my system specs are
PSU acteck blazar 750watts
Kingston hyperx 1600mhz 8gb
AMD FX-4130 @3.8ghz
gtx 660 nvidia Asus 2GB OC edition (non ti)
ECS A970M-A Deluxe
SSD ADATA S510
Windows 7 64bits ultimate
please help i have this problema and i just bought my computer

cpu throtles dowwn to 1.4ghz (x7 multiplier) for no reason!! and temperaturas are OK!! havent ever go over 40C° what is going on? help!

PS I have read your full review and closer look , and you guys mention you could manage to turn off all cpu power saving and throttling issues

"For the testing, all turbo, low power states, and any CPU throttling features have been disabled so as not to have any effect on the performance or the possibility of skewing the results."
 

Edited by MissAFanBoy, 04 May 2013 - 12:47 AM.

[MissAFanBoy]

please help

[ohldboy]

The 8 pin power connector seems it would be easy with a bottom mounted power supply case. I know I've had to run cable over the motherboard or use extensions on some more traditional layouts.

It does seem it would crowd the SATA and Header plug area though.

[MissAFanBoy]

The 8 pin power connector seems it would be easy with a bottom mounted power supply case. I know I've had to run cable over the motherboard or use extensions on some more traditional layouts.

It does seem it would crowd the SATA and Header plug area though.

do you have throttling issues ? what CPU are you using on this motherboard?

[Prunes]

Is the throttling permanent? Else it's just a power saving feature, and the speed should ramp up when needed. If it's permanent, you should be able to disable all the power saving features in the BIOS. I don't know this brand well enough to guide you, but it should be pretty straight forward.

[MissAFanBoy]

Thanks for your answer Prunes , No the throttling isn't permanent, and trust me there's no way yo turn the throttle off as far as i know but here is my motherboard manual
http://download.ecsu...V1.0 manual.pdf
wich one should i turn off?

here are some screenshots too (please click on the image to see the image on original resolution and click on magnifier )
THROTTLING on game... neverwinter dungeon and dragons
temperatures on cpu are FINE, tmpin2 seems to be hot, but afaik there is nothing to do with the cpu throttle (?)

 

Non-throttle after closing down the game (not really happens when i close it down, usually always happens at random times)

and some screenshots of cpu z and hardware monitor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited by MissAFanBoy, 05 May 2013 - 01:27 AM.

[Prunes]

I don't know what tmpin2 is, but it seems quite high. We need someone else's opinion on that. 

If you want to try and remove the throttling options, you should go to your BIOS and disable: Cool and Quiet (C&Q), Core Performance Boost, and Enhanced Halt. Look at page 37 in the manual. Those are the ones I know could be the cause. I've never really used AMD, so I'm not too good at the various names. But give it a try.

[MissAFanBoy]

yeah i would also like that someone else could help me in this, anyway i turned off core performance, c6 state and cool and quiet.. trottling still appears

[Waco]

Is there a setting for APM or anything like that? I assume you've updated to the newest BIOS too?

[MissAFanBoy]

Is there a setting for APM or anything like that? I assume you've updated to the newest BIOS too?

There's no setting called APM on the whole BIOS and yes i did flash to the newest bios too, here are some screenshots of the bios settings, there are some I do not understand like VSSlamtime and Slam time Mode perhaps it could be one of those options? anyway I click on those options and some weird menú comes up on VSSlamtime there are some values from 10us up to 500us and AUTO, and in Slam time Mode comes from mode 0 to mode 3, and auto

 

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forgot to say thanks for contribuite with your answers!

Edited by MissAFanBoy, 05 May 2013 - 04:03 PM.