- Joined
- Dec 24, 2001
- Location
- Austin, TX
I got my Gigabyte GA-8IK1100 875P canterwood today and just installed it. Typing this post on it now.
Current rig is this:
P4 2.66 533 bus
GA-8IK1100
1 Gig Corsair 3200LL
9700 Pro
Audigy
IBM 40Gig 8MB drive
First impression when I was installing it was that it has A LOT of features. More than I would use.
The floppy connectors are really in a bad location. Close to the edge of the board where my Harddrive cage is. Was tough to get the floppy and IDE cables hooked up. If you go Serial, probably be a lot less hassle with this. I have no RAID running though, but I only planned to run this one hard drive right now.
After I got it all installed, it started with no problems at all. I even used the corsair from the start and everything booted just fine. I did have a minor problem with the IDE devices, but that was because I had two master on one channel. I got it fixed now.
The board came with everything. Motherboard CD has drivers for all the components and everything so far is installing with no problems. I am downloading the windows updates right now.
As far as overclocking goes:
Previously on my EPOX 4G4A I was able to get to a FSB of 150.
Lets just say, I installed windows at 160 or 3.2 gigs and have no errors at all. Motherboard reports temps at about 46 load. I can live with that.
RAM is running at auto or SPD I think. I am going to push it higher when I get more stuff installed.
Also, not sure if this is a normal gigabyte thing, but the RAM has to be in Channel 1 and 4 for dual channel DDR.
So far, I LOVE this board. Will report back more info after I get more installed.
Current rig is this:
P4 2.66 533 bus
GA-8IK1100
1 Gig Corsair 3200LL
9700 Pro
Audigy
IBM 40Gig 8MB drive
First impression when I was installing it was that it has A LOT of features. More than I would use.
The floppy connectors are really in a bad location. Close to the edge of the board where my Harddrive cage is. Was tough to get the floppy and IDE cables hooked up. If you go Serial, probably be a lot less hassle with this. I have no RAID running though, but I only planned to run this one hard drive right now.
After I got it all installed, it started with no problems at all. I even used the corsair from the start and everything booted just fine. I did have a minor problem with the IDE devices, but that was because I had two master on one channel. I got it fixed now.
The board came with everything. Motherboard CD has drivers for all the components and everything so far is installing with no problems. I am downloading the windows updates right now.
As far as overclocking goes:
Previously on my EPOX 4G4A I was able to get to a FSB of 150.
Lets just say, I installed windows at 160 or 3.2 gigs and have no errors at all. Motherboard reports temps at about 46 load. I can live with that.
RAM is running at auto or SPD I think. I am going to push it higher when I get more stuff installed.
Also, not sure if this is a normal gigabyte thing, but the RAM has to be in Channel 1 and 4 for dual channel DDR.
So far, I LOVE this board. Will report back more info after I get more installed.
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