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Posted:12/15/2006 12:29:00 AM |
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Bought three P5N32-E Sli mainboards for testing . What a lot of junk . After exhaustive testing , various ram , powersupplies , etc , only managed to get one going with Corsair XMS2 6400 ram , but forget any overclocking . The other two did not even want to install windows xp pro , during load , after 1st reboot .....black screen and nothing further .
Updated bios , made no difference . I cant believe Asus can release such a piece of junk . Definately not going to sell these boards in my shop . Asus get your act together and fix it !!!
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Posted:12/15/2006 3:04:00 AM |
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The 680i chipset is very particular with memory. Its always best to check the memory manufacurer to see which modules have been tested with that motherboard.
I wouldn't blame ASUS for your situation...
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Posted:12/15/2006 4:39:00 AM |
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| I am blaming ASUS for this Poor motherboard .....because all the ram I used was QVL , namely Corsair XMS2 6400C4 , the C4PRO and Dominators . I did my research prior to purchasing the boards . The stupid boards dont even work properly at stock speed , forget overclocking . I have never experienced any such issues with the 965 and 975 chipset boards . Why dont you buy this board and see for yourself .......before defending Asus .
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Posted:12/15/2006 4:52:00 AM |
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It'll arrive in a few days. I'll get back with ya on that.
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Posted:12/16/2006 10:24:00 AM |
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I have one. It works just fine on Corsair 6400C4,thank you.
So far Ive overclocked my e6700 to 3Ghz with minor FSB corrections.
I think you just got some bad boards.
RMA them and try again before blaming ASUS.
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Posted:12/16/2006 9:18:00 PM |
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| I also got onw and run without problem with my Super Talent DDR800 CL4 1 GbRam
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Posted:12/17/2006 12:31:00 AM |
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Hi.
Sorry to hear about the frustrating problems. You are clearly a experienced user so I'm not sure my observations will be of much help but here they are for all who may be having similar problems.
I have this motherboard. It works fine with XMS2 and XMS2 C4 (6400). It booted up flawlessly first time with 2 BFG 8800 GTX, Bios 0405. I made sure that I had a 1 KW PSU to be on the safe side.
I have had no problems with the board but it has been a bit of an education working towards the present state of overclocking (E6700) to 2.93 GHz. I have it on manual overclocking right now, with default system clocks, FSB is unlinked and set to 1172 for FSB and 845 for FSB (QDR). FSB ratio is on Auto. I also found it useful to go with SLI Mem disabled for now. I have also found that enabling Linkboost with current configuration causes problems (freezing and the occasional BSD. I have used 3DMARK 2006 triangle subset as a troubleshooting tool since I've noticed that transtion problems in this subset have gone together with the frame freezing etc. I also noted an adverse effect of GPU Ex so I have that disabled. In the overclocked state, I have had problems getting the Corsair XMS2 C4 to run at 4-4-4-12-2T so I have it stable at 5-5-5-18-2T. This set up gives me a stable set up with a 3DMark 2006 of >12900, so I'm quite happy. I'll be doing some further stepwise testing.
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Posted:12/17/2006 11:45:00 AM |
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I've been reading... it seems there are some bad boards being sent out. I would post the links but I didn't save them.
So better luck after you RMA them! If you go the advanced shipment route you should have them sooner than later!
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Posted:12/18/2006 10:27:00 AM |
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Right now, 680i users are, for the most part, having terrible sata corruption errors. There was probably nothing wrong with those components you replaced.
Evga released a test beta bios to owners of its boards. We, alas, have not gotten even a confirmation of any problems.
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