I'm looking at getting the Abit KN9, to go with an AMD X2 5600 and 2X1GB
PC6400 memory (Patriot Extreme Performance or Corsair C4).
Any know issues with the KN9?

On Thu, 10 May 2007 17:34:00 +0000, Frodo wrote:

> I'm looking at getting the Abit KN9, to go with an AMD X2 5600 and 2X1GB
> PC6400 memory (Patriot Extreme Performance or Corsair C4).
> Any know issues with the KN9?

I have the nForce4 and the nForce570 versions of the KN9.

In order to run your RAM at 400, you will need to raise the DDR2 voltage
from 1.8 -> 2.0+, perhaps as high as 2.2.
Reset the bios (to force the RAM to 333). On the first boot (it should
post fine), hit "Load Optimal Defaults", set the time, then raise the DDR2
voltage. When you reboot, the RAM should detect as 400Mhz. If it doesn't
then raise the setting.

Before you install an OS, check stability in Memtest86 v1.70
http://www.memtest.org

I've run this MB in WinXPsp2, OpenSuSE 10.2, and CentOS 5.0

The hardware Virtualization support works great in Xen.

The CPU fan header has 4 pins. If you want fan speed throttling, then move
the cpu fan over to the adjacent SysFan header and do the setup in the
HardWare Monitor bios section.

--
Mark

"Frodo" <> wrote in message
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> I'm looking at getting the Abit KN9, to go with an AMD X2 5600 and 2X1GB
> PC6400 memory (Patriot Extreme Performance or Corsair C4).
> Any know issues with the KN9?

For the last decde or so, I've only used ASUS board. When building the
latest box, there were no acceptable ASUS boards available, so I bought a
KN9-SLi. I will not go back to ASUS any time soon. This board was easy to
install, easy to set up, easy to OC, and has given me no issues other than
the memory glitch that Mark Pryor (below) refers to.

It's a good board. Have fun with it.

I have an Abit KN9 SLI with X2 6000+ processor. I heeded recomendations to
flash bios to version 1.8 before loading windows and have not had a single
issue to date. It is a wonderful motherboard for Windows XP SP2 or Vista
(which I have both XP and Vista dual boot on).
The only known issues are with the Brisbane CPU chip not reading temps
properly but supposed fix is to put bios Version 2.0 on it. The 5600+ and
6000+ are Windsor CPU chips of which work just fine. Be sure and download
the AMD Dual Core Optimizer from AMD website for the X2 chips (for Vista or
XP) and Microsoft Hotfix from Microsoft website (if using XP).

"Frodo" <> wrote in message
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> I'm looking at getting the Abit KN9, to go with an AMD X2 5600 and 2X1GB
> PC6400 memory (Patriot Extreme Performance or Corsair C4).
> Any know issues with the KN9?
>