Currently my system is an E4300, 2 gigs of Kingston Value RAM, An 8800GTS, and the Gigabyte motherboard.
This motherboard clearly has an FSB hole at right around 370-400 MHZ FSB. For most people that doesn't matter because they're using the E6300 or whatever, but for E4300 OCers this presents a serious problem. This thing also is having pretty awful cold-boot issues, and there'll be some infuriating "won't post at 360 but will post at 370 FSB with everything else being equal" problems. Also on several occasions the computer has locked up while in the BIOS screen.
An RMA seems pointless because it seems a lot of people are having problems OCing the E4300 on this board, and when it's in spec it seems to run fine anyway. What I'm wondering is if the kind of issues people are reporting are the kind of thing that'll be fixed by another BIOS revision, or is this board just not going to ever work well with this processor? I'm not really savvy enough to know what kinds of things can be solved by BIOS updates and what's just bad hardware, in other words.
And yes, I'm sure some people are having no problems OCing their E4300 on this board. A lot of people are, though, and far more than E6300-6400 people. I don't think it's a crummy OCing processor because it's currently running totally stable at 3.4 GHZ for me, but as soon as I leave my computer off for an hour I'm gonna end up fighting with it for a day trying to get it to post at that speed again.
This motherboard clearly has an FSB hole at right around 370-400 MHZ FSB. For most people that doesn't matter because they're using the E6300 or whatever, but for E4300 OCers this presents a serious problem. This thing also is having pretty awful cold-boot issues, and there'll be some infuriating "won't post at 360 but will post at 370 FSB with everything else being equal" problems. Also on several occasions the computer has locked up while in the BIOS screen.
An RMA seems pointless because it seems a lot of people are having problems OCing the E4300 on this board, and when it's in spec it seems to run fine anyway. What I'm wondering is if the kind of issues people are reporting are the kind of thing that'll be fixed by another BIOS revision, or is this board just not going to ever work well with this processor? I'm not really savvy enough to know what kinds of things can be solved by BIOS updates and what's just bad hardware, in other words.
And yes, I'm sure some people are having no problems OCing their E4300 on this board. A lot of people are, though, and far more than E6300-6400 people. I don't think it's a crummy OCing processor because it's currently running totally stable at 3.4 GHZ for me, but as soon as I leave my computer off for an hour I'm gonna end up fighting with it for a day trying to get it to post at that speed again.
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