Not sure on what you're basing your conclusion about "small minority." All we have to go on are (yes numerous) reports on this and other boards. We have no idea how many boards have been sold. We do know that the sample of people on the various boards will almost always be the ones with more...
There are actually a number of people (who have posted on asusboards.com, here, and ocworkbench) who are stable at default/auto settings using 166 (or 333 or 2700) CL2 memory. I don't know what the %'s are because those who post on such boards are obviously more likely to have problems (and...
ToBeMe:
I don't think it's clear that there is a new revision - just people misinterpreting the WCPUID results. Could be wrong - but I've read through the relevant thread over at asusboards.com and well I don't see any clear evidence and Asus support has denied there is one.
It comes with 2 serial cables. But those will only work with a serial hard drive which I don't think there are any released yet - or at least very few.
There are adapters which allow regular IDE hard drives to plug into the serial connector - but the board doesn't include the adapters.
Posting a little late, but I am using 2 sticks of the Corsair XMS2700 overclocked to 185MHz (from 166), along with the FSB pushed up to 149MHz (putting my 2.53 P4 up over 2.8) in my Asus P4S8X. And it is rock stable (it's run many hours of various stability testing/burn-in/benchmark programs...
Well I selected "recommend" since I have one and it's working great. Search for my posts for a full listing of my setup. But, given the reports of problems, you would obviously be risking getting a board that either is inherently defective or simply won't work with certain components. So then...
I have Corsair 2700 and am able to run stable at both 166 (which is the default) and an overclocked 185 (which is the speed available when I overclock the FSB to 149). So some people may be having problems, but the board is certainly able to run some memory at 166 and higher (at least some...
Someone should probably tell Asus since the "Quick Setup Guide" says to install the memory, CPU and drive cables before putting the board in the case. That'll teach me to follow directions. :)
I was lucky at least, but I wonder if maybe some of the problems people are having relate to...
FodderMan:
I have similar vcore readings (using Asus probe), but no random rebooting (other than a few in the first few days when I was installing a lot of software). So not sure if that's the problem ???
Not sure the steps you are taking, but try this:
Put your hard drive as the only drive on the Primary IDE channel. Boot into Windows. Remove the various Promise hardware drivers in Windows hardware properties and reboot to make sure there gone. Reboot again and ...
Go into BIOS and make...
Well the other main advantage is the AGP 8X. That may be useful once someone other than crappy ATI releases an 8X video card.
Oh and the 648 based boards have a better northbridge/southbridge connection (significantly increasing throughput). So that will (probably) help general performance...
Well I've played around with some overclocking and here are my results.
I can get the CPU External Frequency up to 149MHz at 1.7volts. That's with my 2.53GHz P4, so it ends up at 2.83GHz. The memory frequency is then bumped to 186 and I have the voltage set to 2.6. I left the memory timings...
Well, in case anyone cares, I figured out how to get my only hard drive running using the Promise ATA-133 controller (after having it set up with WinXP on the Primary IDE connection). It's a bit of a pain.
Simply changing the plug from the Primary IDE connector to the ATA-133 connector...
Anyone tried to hook up a single (non-RAIDed) hard drive to the Promise ATA-133 connection (instead of the primary or secondary IDE channels)? The manual is a little unclear on using it for something other than a RAID array. This is what it says:
Any thoughts? I'll eventually just try and...
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