Abit KN9 series, good board?

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.

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Mark