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ANyone get a P4SDX yet?

Mine came yesterday. First new pc in a long time where everything worked the first time. I imagine most of the credit goes to the motherboard. It was formatting drives when I left for work.

I mean WORKED. No arcane bios manipulation, no juggling of io boards to make sure things weren't sharing IRQs, etc. Only thing I did between powering it on and installing winxp was disabling floppy drive, changing boot device order, and turning off power saving. I'm gonna go with the onboard sound for now, see how good/bad it is. If it really blows, I've got a hercules game theater I can transplant from one of my other boxes. Things stay solid, I think I'm probably gonna stick with Asus from now on ( I used to be Mr. Abit for the loooongest time ).

p4sdx
p4 3.06
2 sticks 512MB PC3200 crucial(samsung)
AIW 9700 pro
2 IBM 180GB 180GXP drives
Plextor 48/24/48
Enermax 465P-VE(FC)
Coolermaster ATC-201sx

Only 2 fan headers on the mobo, one for cpu, one for chassis. Stock fan on p4 is *noisy*.
Coolermaster case has been updated quite a bit, almost entirely for the good. I've got an original ATC-201 to compare.

I probably should've waited for the deluxe version of the board, but I just couldn't. I'll wait and see if the WD SATA performance data holds true, and if the RAID features on the deluxe board perform good as well, before moving to the deluxe version.
 
I have one, it's great. If you wanna do some hardcore overclocking though, go for MSI or Gigabyte...this board only goes to 166mhz FSB and has no AGP/PCI lock. Why Asus did this is beyond me, but if you're only planning on doing a little o/c just for the heck of it, or if you're planning on running at stock speeds, the board is fast, stable, and very nice, overall.

The C.P.R function is nice, too. If ya push the board a bit too hard from an o/c you don't have to reset the BIOS, but simply power down your computer and then turn it back on.. whatever you messed up in the BIOS goes back to default and you're all good to go. This has prolly been in Asus boards forever but I just thought it was cool as hell 🙂

edit: Just read down the page a bit. I don't know of any issues popping up yet, aside from the lack of an AGP/PCI lock, but that's a manufacturing issue. Not sure if it'll get fixed or not...I sure hope so :frown:
 
Either Asus forgot to put it in the BIOS or someone in marketing made a boo boo, cuz it's not there.. nobody who has the board, including reviewers, can find it. 🙁
 
Nah, neither the deulxe or regular editions have an AGP/PCI lock. That's why the majority of people are going for MSI or Gigabyte. If you don't overclock much, it's not a big issue though.

I'm using some OCZ PC3200 by the way, which I have overclocked to 450mhz. This board seems to like DDR400 memory just fine. If you get some RAM with Winbond chips chances are you'll be just fine running at dual channel PC3200 speeds.
 
After installing latest catalyst drivers, had to back agp down to 4x, or card would lock machine up after a few minutes playing dark age of camelot.

What is the best procedure for installing vid drivers on a sis chipset mobo?

What I'm doing now is this:

1. Remove old driver, any and all bits possible.
2. Install new driver
3. Install sis agp driver
4. Re-install directx.
 
I just got this board,no agp/pci lock but it performs much faster than the epox 4g4a+ it replaced.
Sisoft Sandra memory benches about 20% faster than the epox!
 
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