Asus M2a-vm

W1zzard · 02-27-2007, 10:41 PM

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Wile E · 03-02-2007, 03:39 PM

Excellent in depth review, Wiz.

Decent little board. Hopefully ASUS will add memory timing in a future bios revision. That would make this a killer budget board for sff or htpc setups.

Kasparz · 03-02-2007, 05:48 PM

W1zzard, can we see some benchmarks done with IGP? Hopefully some 3dmark03 or 05, because 01 is too cpu dependant.

dmce · 03-02-2007, 05:52 PM

Can any comments be made on HD (both 720p and 1080p) playback. I wouldnt imagine that CPU would be of much use in that area but this ability is a crucial factor for a HDMI equipped board surely?

unsmart · 03-05-2007, 11:24 PM

I would like to see this teamed up with a high end audio chip. Those are some rather disappointing benches even for a budget chipset, should at least be higher in media benches. Wonder if it's set to 2T timing in bios?

cclim033 · 10-22-2007, 12:40 PM

Can anyone give an advice why my board show low GPU clock=57.28 Mhz instead of the right clock which suppose to be 400Mhz.I'm using GPU-Z.exe & ATITool 0.26 to check it out and the result is the same. My friend brought Biostar board with same AMD 690G, but it show the right 400Mhz.Pls pls help me to rectify it................Thank you

cc

greenbackz · 12-31-2007, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by cclim033

Can anyone give an advice why my board show low GPU clock=57.28 Mhz instead of the right clock which suppose to be 400Mhz.I'm using GPU-Z.exe & ATITool 0.26 to check it out and the result is the same. My friend brought Biostar board with same AMD 690G, but it show the right 400Mhz.Pls pls help me to rectify it................Thank you

cc

I am having this exact same problem.. atitool used to work fine and clock was good (400 like it shoulda been) but for some reason its like 57mhz and i can't even bring it back up to 400... even in everest it shows that its 57mhz... anyone else having this same problem?

shivnats · 01-30-2008, 05:05 PM

yeah same here....ati tool is showing 57 mhz! please can somebody advice me on this problem , as i am not able to overclock the damn chipset.

02-27-2007, 10:41 PM	#1
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10-22-2007, 12:40 PM	#6
cclim033 Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1 (0.00/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	M2A-VM with low GPU clock ? Can anyone give an advice why my board show low GPU clock=57.28 Mhz instead of the right clock which suppose to be 400Mhz.I'm using GPU-Z.exe & ATITool 0.26 to check it out and the result is the same. My friend brought Biostar board with same AMD 690G, but it show the right 400Mhz.Pls pls help me to rectify it................Thank you cc Last edited by cclim033; 10-23-2007 at 01:15 PM.

03-02-2007, 05:48 PM	#3
Kasparz Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 265 (0.19/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	W1zzard, can we see some benchmarks done with IGP? Hopefully some 3dmark03 or 05, because 01 is too cpu dependant.

03-02-2007, 05:52 PM	#4
dmce Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 33 (0.03/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Can any comments be made on HD (both 720p and 1080p) playback. I wouldnt imagine that CPU would be of much use in that area but this ability is a crucial factor for a HDMI equipped board surely?

03-05-2007, 11:24 PM	#5
unsmart Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 328 (0.24/day) Thanks: 13 Thanked 29 Times in 29 Posts	I would like to see this teamed up with a high end audio chip. Those are some rather disappointing benches even for a budget chipset, should at least be higher in media benches. Wonder if it's set to 2T timing in bios?

01-30-2008, 05:05 PM	#8
shivnats Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1 (0.00/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	yeah same here....ati tool is showing 57 mhz! please can somebody advice me on this problem , as i am not able to overclock the damn chipset.

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