Why I might not go with Asus motherboards again.

[trog100]

"Three times you say??? Do you think that there might be another problem, not just the mobo?? Maybe the PSU"

it would only take two to convince me the problem was elsewhere.. he he he..

trog

 

[hexadecimal]

My asus wont let me go to 400 ether, it will not let me get full CPU speed so its all UNDERCLOCKED, and I have to put my FSB to 166 to even get it to BOOT and RESTART without RESETTING the BIOS! Now that's screwy!

I went through 3 amd athlon xp processors and the third time was the charm but don't hold your breath about it ether. I know someone who has had 4 DOA DFI mobos took him the 5th time to get one that would even bother to get windows xp installed! (I wouldnt be THAT pateint with a brand! He was very patient!)

 

[mBardos]

I have the same issue with K8V-X mobo and 2 PC3200 DDR400 512 MB memory sticks. I tried them alone (so only one at the time in the slot) and they work at 200 MHz Memory Clock. But if I put them both in, the mobo switches to 166 Memory Clock !!

The only difference I could spot between the 2 sticks is that my original has CL 2.0 but the upgrade one is 2.5 CL. I should of checked this, now is too late...

I had to up the FSB to 212 (so the memories run now on 353 MHz) to regain some performance!

Anybody finds a solution, please, post it here or mail me...

 

[Silverel]

most of asus "-x" boards only support 2 banks of ddr 3200, but 4 banks of 2700. and 6-8 of 2100 or lower. There really isn't much of a solution.

 

[Edito]

im using the P5N32-E Sli and im loving never had problems with Asus Boards...

 

[Steevo]

and im quite pleased with my neo4 platinium MSI, its an issue of tastes and needs,

if the makers idea of a bios or a motherboard dosnt fit yours, dont buy

Other than the chipset fan replacement multiple times, necessitating the need for t a total board removal, and after they pay the cost of the chipset fans and freight, they could have just let me buy my Theralright cooler. But no. Limiting the memory voltage, and not allowing control of more timings to tweak a system fully.

I would give my MSI 3/5 but the recent Gigabytes and Abit boards I have built on are much higher quality than the Asus I have tried for performance boards.

 

[imperialreign]

Odd . . . I've been using ASUS boards for well over a decade, and have never had any major problems with any of them. Granted, I've stuck mostly to upper mid-range and high-end boards . . .

Only ASUS board I ever RMAed was my P5W-DH, and that was due to faulty temp sensors right out of the box. The one they sent me back worked, and was a solid, reliable board - go figure, the fualty one was made in Taiwan, the dependable board was made in China.

I have no idea what y'all talking about with their socket 775 boards, I've had two that have given me no issues whatsoever.

"Three times you say??? Do you think that there might be another problem, not just the mobo?? Maybe the PSU"

it would only take two to convince me the problem was elsewhere.. he he he..

trog

I agree

 

[Nitro-Max]

Its hard to get somthing perfect maybe in design on paper but in actual running with countless hardware versions and vendors maybe its just a bad design they have given up on. Software cannot always fix badly designed hardware even asus get it wrong.

 

[exodusprime1337]

wow i loved watching the timeline of this tread as people posted. 2006,06, 06, 06, 06, 08, 08. someone revived and oldy.

 

[Nitro-Max]

mBardos lol wasnt me