Any DFI Socket 754 Mobo's out there that support E6 semprons out of th

[cmay119]

Hi all, as the title asks, are there? I'm making my girlfriend a computer for xmas, and I'd like to know if any DFI or any s754 mobo on the market supports the E6 semprons? What I don't wan't to do, is get the board and cpu and the thing doesn't boot up. Then I have to strip my uncles computer for the 3200+ C0 Clawhammer, just to flash the bios upto a date that will support it. I guess it's just laziness, but you have to admit that is kind of a hassle to do. If not though, then that's what I will do. Thanks for any input you guys have for me.

[CPDMF]

NF3 250GB does for sure. Just sold my Sempron rig a few day ago but it booted up fine with an older bios.

[smolt]

yeap NF3 250gb UT is still #1 its will see the dog next door when you boot it up :nod:

[learners permit]

:nod:

[cmay119]

hey thanks for the help guys. Looks like I'll be purchasing a 3rd 250Gb very shortly here than. For full support I'll need to flash to 6/23 beta correct? That won't be so bad, that bios now seems to handle my Newark a lot better than the 5/04 official did. Once again thanks for the help guys.

[learners permit]

Could you elaborate on that bios comparison 6/23 vs 5/4.

[cmay119]

Terrible random reboots, and overall instability after a while with the 5/04. Also, I was seeing the "Detecting IDE RAID Array" screen A LOT with the 5/04. Usually a CMOS clear would stop the occurance for about a week, than it would return. Note that I did manually set every timing in the bios for memory to what I found to be my best settings for stability. Finally, I decided to update to the 6/23 again and give it a whirl, set up my memory timings the same way as I had them on the 5/04 and my results have been great ever since. No more RAID Detect screens, nor random reboots. The random reboots were happening even at stock clocks, I checked my temps and they were fine. I'm now running at 2760MHz on the 9/10 divider so my memory is at 197MHz 2-2-2-5 timings with 2.8v DRAM Voltage. Until I upgrade to 2GB of memory this seems to be my sweet spot.

 

If you're not having any issues with the 5/04, than I wouldn't switch. But it was my last resort before considering something hardware related. Hope that helps you, bud.

 

BTW thanks for the info about the Sempy. I've ordered and the board and processor should be here by wednesday.

[Isamu77]

where can u get the 6/23 bios

[Hefner]

It's on TMODs bios cd.

 

http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22031

[Isamu77]

Thanks mate

[fant0mkid1412]

Terrible random reboots, and overall instability after a while with the 5/04. Also, I was seeing the "Detecting IDE RAID Array" screen A LOT with the 5/04.

 

do u have SATA drives installed on sata1&2?

cuz my board wont boot if i have my SATA drives in those, i have to use sata3&4

 

and one more thing.. what do u mean by "support E6 semprons out of the box"

i know mine supports it.. but it shows unknown clawhammer family something something

[cmay119]

No, I have my SATA on Slot 3 so if I go over 240FSB I don't get data corruption.

 

The E6 semprons are the newer semprons that are 64-bit / 90nm technology. Older semprons for the S754 were 130nm and 32-bit. What I meant was, would the old shipping bios from 3rd quarter 2004 be able to recognize the processor. It's absolutely fine that the board doesn't recognize the processor correctly, I was just worried that the computer would fail to post because it couldn't recognize it at all. Meaning I would have to swap in the old 3200+ C0 that I purchased 2 summers ago, just to flash to a bios to a date that actually does support them...