Basic Features: ULi AP9507A (M1695/M1567)

 ULi AP9507A (M1695/M1567)
CPU Interface Socket 939 Athlon 64
Chipset ULi M1695 Northbridge - ULi M1567 Southbridge
BUS Speeds 200MHz to 400MHz in 1MHz Increments
PCIe Speeds 75-125MHz in 1MHz Increments
PCI/AGP Fixed at 33/66
Core Voltage Startup, 0.825V to 1.55V in 0.025V increments
CPU Clock Multiplier Startup, 4x-25x in 1X increments
HyperTransport Frequency 1000MHz (1GHz)
HyperTransport Multiplier 200, 400, 600, 800, 1000
DRAM Voltage NO Adjustments
HyperTransport Voltage NO Adjustments
Memory Slots Four 184-pin DDR DIMM Slots
Dual-Channel Configuration
Regular Unbuffered Memory to 4GB Total
Expansion Slots 1 PCIe x16 (or 2 PCIe x8)
1 AGP 8X
2 PCIe x1
2 PCI Slots
Onboard SATA/RAID 2 SATA Drives by ULi M1567 (RAID 0, 1, JBOD)
Onboard IDE/IDE RAID Two Standard ATA133/100/66 (4 drives)
Onboard USB 2.0/IEEE-1394 8 USB 2.0 ports supported by ULi M1567
No Firewire (Optional)
Onboard LAN 10/100 Ethernet by Realtek PNY
(Gigabit LAN Optional)
Onboard Audio AC '97 2.3 6-Channel by Realtek ALC655
BIOS Revision Award OC50624A (6/24/2005)

The ULi Award BIOS provides a wide range of BIOS control options, particularly considering that this is a Reference Board used to qualify a chipset. The wide 200 to 400 range for CPU clock was a pleasant surprise, but it is somewhat academic with no memory voltage controls present in the BIOS.


The included vCore adjustments and PCIe speed adjustments were also a nice addition, although the range to just 1.55V is very limited for Clawhammer processors, which are 1.50V at default.


Since the ULi implementation of AGP is real AGP and not derived, the AGP adjustments will look familiar to AGP owners.


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Reference Boards are designed for qualification and not for production. It would therefore be a mistake to dwell on the Reference Board layout, except to say that Reference Boards often influence layout of production boards. IDE, SATA, video slots and bottom edge headers all work fine where they are located. However, we hope that production boards will take a different approach to the location of the 24-pin ATX power connector. Located in about the center of the board between the CPU and rear IO ports, there is really no good way to route the heavy cable. In the center of the board, you have to be careful not to interfere with air flow or operation of the CPU and memory.

The location of the floppy connector at the bottom of the board will be a long reach for floppy users. Many buyers don't care about floppies any more, but if you still use them, the bottom of the board is an inconvenient and hard-to-reach location.

ULi M1695 Chipset Overclocking: ULi M1695/M1567
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  • stmok - Thursday, July 14, 2005 - link

    Try that...Does that work?
    [url]http://www.ocworkbench.com/ocwbcgi/newspro/viewnew...[/url]
  • stmok - Thursday, July 14, 2005 - link


    Check it out...ASRock's 939Dual-SATA2
    [url]http://www.ocworkbench.com/ocwbcgi/newspro/viewnew...[/url

    Supports AGP, PCI-Express, and a CPU Upgrade feature (Supports Socket M2).
  • Manzelle - Thursday, July 14, 2005 - link

    #39 - Ditto.
  • saiku - Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - link

    aha, I can now stop thinking about what I'll get on Ebay for my 6800GT AGP card. Awesome !
  • karlreading - Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - link

    number 34 - ur so silly.
    i run a amd system and a p4 system. believe me, my pentium 4 is far less stable and BSOD's way more thsan my AMD system.
    so there!
    Karlos!
  • Avalon - Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - link

    #34 - "Underdog CPU on underdog chipset manufactured by underdog mobo maker. This sounds like nice BSOD generator for me.
    Blank"

    Since when were Gigabyte and Abit underdog board makers? They've been around for a while. Anyway, Anand said he had no problems at all with his reference board, so why would you believe that just because the board would be in your hands that it would suddenly become unstable? Afraid it's the AMD? Think again. In fact, while you're doing that, enjoy your Prescott throttling and causing your computer to shut down. You must save tons of money on your electric bill in the winter.
  • PhoneZ - Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - link

    #25 "I'd want to know what the drivers are like and no matter how good this chipset is, I doubt it's driver support will be as good as the nVidia."

    Have you seen how bad the nVidia nForce support has been?
    Checkout the nVidia mobo forum:
    http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?s=a549406b86b65...

    The Firewall has never worked, the nVRAID while versatile has numerous quirks (Randomly degraded arrays and lock ups with NCQ/TCQ enabled), the nForce3 has compatibility problems with nVidia video cards. Also with some new nForce4 boards the current driver version doesnt have audio support so your forced to use the realtek one on the CD, which sucks.

    The nForce 4 has been out for quite some time now, and the problems people are having seem to go un-addressed. I have and Nforce4 SLI board and they can be run stable but you have to disable features that are potential selling features of the chipset.
  • Furen - Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - link

    wow val, stop fanning the flames ^^
  • val - Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - link

    Underdog CPU on underdog chipset manufactured by underdog mobo maker. This sounds like nice BSOD generator for me.
  • Megatomic - Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - link

    Oh yeah, this is what I've been hoping for. With one of these boards I can go SD core or X2 and continue to use my 6800GT AGP8X card. Oh happy day! :D

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