CUSL2 Boards may not be as good as reviews say they are

[Nightstalker]

I have a shiny new CUSL2 board that will not boot at 133/133/33, and from what I'm seeing on the ASUS web sight, I'm not alone. I took two P3 550E cpu's that ran @ 733mhz in two different ABIT VT6X4 boards at 1.65 core volts, and tried both of them in the CUSL2 board. they would not even post at 1.9 volts. I have had my Diamond TNT2 Ultra video card running at 40mhz plus, and the Mushkin High Quality PC133 Cas2 128 meg memory stick has run at over 133mhz with no problem. The Sound Blaster Live Value card has never given me any problems in the above systems before either. This system has a single Diamond Max PLUS 30 gig hard drive, a 48X CD-Rom, a 8X DVD-Rom, and two PCI network cards. Any ideas why this highly rated and "STABLE" board is such a flake? Any ideas? Anyone? "MY" recommendation is DO NOT BUY THIS BOARD if you want to run a 133mhz FSB and 133mhz memory bus. At least until they fix it. And the argument that overclocking is luck doesn't work here, since both CPU's ran just fine in TWO different motherboards.

 

[novafire]

Running fine at FSB 148Mhz and Memory at 148Mhz.

 

[Noid]

Are you trying the 2 2 2 5/7 setting?

I'm OCd to 980 @ 133.133.33 140.140.35
2.2.2.5/9 setting

 

[HD2GO]

What's the fuss. Just continue to run your P3 550E on your ABIT boards! I have found the CUSL2 is easy to get good overclock result and is very stable.

 

[Bartman39]

Try a P3 700e @ 1099mhz 1.80 or 1Ghz 1.65
CUSL2 1001.a


This was with a chip that would only run 980mhz 1.80 on an Abit BE6 II Just as some CPU`s are better at overclocking so are some boards...

Luck does have a lot to do with it...!

 

[AgGolfer]

I had a BE6 board with an Abit Slocket!! and could not get my chip past 868. 1000Mhz is the highest I have tried to overclock and it did it the first try.

 

[DO97]

Make sure you are running 1001.A or higher BIOS. I believe that your issue was specificall addressed in the 1001.A revision.

dave

 

[Vegito]

Thats weird, mine works fine.. oced or not oced.. maybe you should switch that board it.. some board doesn't oc-ed as well as other..