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Aug 07, 2010
Use of GT 240 for Dedicated Physx
There is quite a bit of controversy over nVidia 'Physx' technology. ATI and seemingly many people that have never used it call it a hoax and claim that it purposely hinders performance. Upon installation of my Galaxy GT 240 as a dedicated Physx card, along with my GTX260 192 core I did notice a difference in many games. The framerate in my current setup changed, but did not get higher. The particle effects and particulate smoke increased in abundance and smoothness. Eye candy that I had not previously seem in titles appeared and ran smoothly. The max framerate change was no more than -5 fps average on titles that I get 100+ fps averages and still stayed over 50 fps for minimums. My next step is to also install a second GTX260 in SLI with the GT240 running in the third slot on my M3N-HT mobo for dedicated Physx. I'm not sure if 8600+/9600+
series cards will perform the extra work that appears with a dedicated Physx card as fast, nor as smoothly with a smaller GPU for the graphical end, but this setup works well to enhance the appearance of most games.
May 12, 2017
Works like a charm
Ignition works as intended. After wrestling the old tamper resistant bolt out to get the faulty ignition off, hooked into wire harnesses and fired my best up without a hitch. The replacement bolt is the only weak point in the set, as it sheared before tightening completely, and felt of a lighter grade of metal. Suggest finding a regular bolt with a lock washer of the same size and thread pitch of installation of f the ignition after you manage to get the old one out.
Aug 05, 2010
Excellent board, takes a little to get it running.
This board has the best to offer of any AM2+ board for nVidia Graphics users. The grandest problem I ran into was no retail goodies. My processor wouldn't work out of the package, switching ram and taking out my GTX 260. Luckily my bro had an old sempron 140 lying around, and I was able to get to the bios screen. Steps needed to get this board going :
-Install only one stick of ram, your CPU, and any hard drives or optical drives you will be using (AM2 prefered to at least get it running, am2+ or am3 after bios is updated to the latest version)
-Connect to on-board video (not a GPU)
-Download the newest M3N-HT bios and audio drivers available on the Asus site and put on a cd or usb thumb drive(one that came with mobo was still outdated aside from seller's claim)
-Boot and enter bios ('Delete' key for noobs) and arrow over to 'Tools' and then
'EZ Flash 2' and run.
-Select the drive you placed the bios on (CD or Thumb) and locate it on the drive (1306 was latest when I installed).
At this point after bios is done re-writing, you can shut it down and install everything else. You will need to go to nVidia site for the nForce and GPU drivers. Should be ready to roll like a beast after a few install restarts.
A side note for SLI performance: In a review I read, you equipment determines your performance bottleneck. This board is as close to wide open as you can get on an AM2+ platform with PCI express 16 2.0. The AM2+ platform offers up to 10GB/s HT, although only 5.2GB/s of actual use is ever provided by AM2+ CPUs. PCIe16 2.0 offers up to 5GB/s bandwidth at full x16 mode, and half at x8 mode. When running 2 cards in SLI at x16 mode there is a theoretical use of 10 GB/s bandwidth. With three cards in SLI mode, all three run at x8 speed for a total of 7.5GB/s bandwidth use. Although the cards never use all of that bandwidth, it is there for use. In comparison, AM2 CPUs only reach 2GB/s of bandwidth, and PCIe16 1.0 slots and cards can only reach 2GB/s at full x16 mode. In other words, don't bother using SLI on a board with an AM2 CPU, use an AM2+. And in the AM2+'s case, don't expect it to push 2 fermi cards in SLI nearly as well as 3 GTX 200 series cards in tri-SLI. I would suggest 2 GTX 200 series cards in SLI with a 3rd card (8600+, 9600+, or GT 220+) as a dedicated physx card to take some strain off of the other two GPUs and your wallet.