Recent content by cactusdog

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    ASUS what lies beneath

    Ye i dont think you can single out any company. I RMA'd a Gigabyte board that took 2 months. All of them seem to have a slow rma process and i think they do it on purpose. I mean, if you have a minor issue with your board but you know you will have to wait 2 months, most people will live with...
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    ATTENTION ASUS

    They have addressed this SM issue on the P6T and the P6T deluxe "P6T 0502 Bios/P6T deluxe Bios 1403" "Fix system may not able to resume from S3 if Base Clock is set over 170MHz" The P6T has had 5 bioses and the P6T deluxe has had 8 bioses. The V2 has only 2 but remember the V2 was...
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    ATTENTION ASUS

    Infrequent bios updates could mean their boards are already stable right? I mean if they need to release heaps of bios updates then obviously there must be problems. You dont mention what your "issues" are but if infrequent bios updates is the biggest problem then it cant be too bad. If...
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    ATTENTION ASUS

    All of it really. I just went there to see which part was worse and got a "server too busy" message in the download section. If it does work it takes ages to load a page, and download speeds for drivers are slooow.
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    ATTENTION ASUS

    Im very happy with ASUS hardware, i have purchased many Asus boards and they have always been reliable for me. They just need to fix their website.
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    ATTENTION ASUS

    For the love of god and the sake of humanity please fix your website. Either fix the system or get more bandwidth because the site is virtually unusable most of the time. Many other big IT companies can do it so why cant ASUS?? Its really not good enough and has been a problem for a long...
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    Need help with motherboard for ati4870 hd

    Ashish, I would try and get a newer board if u can. Like the P5Q range. P5Q or deluxe, Or even the P5E or P5E deluxe should be cheaper than those WS baords and have plenty or ports for everything. BTW, Australia will win in the cricket. (LOL)
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    Solid caps.

    Most people dont try to overclock the bejesus out of server boards like they do desktop boards.
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    Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3L, Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3P and GA-EP45-DS3R. EDIT: Also, I hate unstable boards and boot issues...

    Gigabyte have a comparison chart where it tells what each board has or doesnt have. http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Pro...ID=2843,2844,2841,2842 They are very similar. the DS3 doesnt have raid. DS3P has a heat pipe cooling, and there are a different number of PCI/PCI-e slots otherwise very...
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    ***Unofficial Gigabyte X38 / EX38 Chipset Thread***

    I had a DQ6 and a TRUE. You have 2 choices fitting the TRUE , i tried it both ways and cooling was about the same. First option is to remove the Crazy cool off the back of the board and install the True backplate. second option is leave the crazycool on and buy some small nuts and washers...
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    Can't decide on a Gigabyte board

    Ya go with a P45. Either the Gigabyte or P5Q from Asus.
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    X38-DQ6(DDR2-1066 version) Question

    I had a DQ6 and the board rarely went over 40 celcius (with overclocking), that seems high. Like Toadeater said some boards had poor contact (no contact) between the chipset and heatsink so maybe check it out.
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    Motherboard with PCI2.0 or DDR2 1066 memory

    OMG get a P5E (X38) or a P5E Deluxe (X48) instead of a DQ6, trust me, been there done that.
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    Is Motherboard's FSB backward compatible with old FSB CPU's?

    Thats not true. Most (800Mhz fsb) P4's are compatible with P35-P45, but its true the OP's 533Mhz cpu will not be. That CPU is a socket 478 and wont work at all. You need to check exactly what CPU you have..533 no 800 yes so you need to find out. You will have a problem with the memory also.
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    Asus P5k VDroop Pencil Mod

    wow....that must be a error somewhere. Do you have the latest cpuz 1.4.6? If there is one it will be here: http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...howthread.php?t=189437 The guy on the first page says theres virtually no vdroop...