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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Decent board, some posting issues though, 24 Feb 2008
When I first got this board I was unbelievably excited and couldn't wait to get everything all set up (I was upgrading from a pretty basic ECS mobo) and get clocking. However this was thwarted by a complete lack of a post, didn't even get as far as BIOS, no input signal to my monitor, no post screen, no BIOS and therefore no hope of getting an OS installed and sorted.
Or so I thought, after reading a lot of forums with unhelpful suggestions from people without even half a clue, I eventually found someone who knew what they were talking about who suggested some more advanced troubleshooting, ie pulling everything apart from the CPU+heatsink out and plugging in one component at a time (memory, graphics card, etc) and attempting a boot in each configuration and then trying them in combinations and with each I got an error sound from my mobo speaker saying that the appropriate bit of hardware is missing. Which is further than I had got before.
I then started trialling boots with my hard-disk plugged in, fine, then my DVD drive, fine, plugged in my floppy drive onto the board - no post, no boot, no speaker sound. It would seem, bizarre though it may sound, that my floppy drive of all things was what was stopping my board from working - unplugged it booted fine, got to BIOS to set up the voltages for my memory, selected DVD drive as default boot drive above HDD and installed my OS easy-peasy!
Since then no problems at all really, highly overclockable board with good stability and features. It is based on the 680i chipset, with all of the features of a 680i (such as two PCI-E x16 lanes for SLI, one at x8, and support for 1333FSB processors) but actually has a 650i Northbridge chipset and a 570 for the Southbridge. This may sound disappointing but don't be put off, it still has those lovely 680i features but without the instability issues of the 680i.
Overall, pretty good tbh.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
No need for a lengthy review THIS BOARD IS AMONGST THE BEST, 29 Jun 2008
This board is the choice of many serious gamers for the one reason it has everything you need in a high end Motherboard.
It will accept all current AMD and Intel chips,dual graphics with Pci Express capability and so much more.
Read all the current reviews from the many pages, it is a board that willnot disappoint no matter what computer system you have.
It even has the capability of allowing 8Gb of system memory,which in computer terms is right there at the top.
Read more about this board and you will realise it is well priced for what you are given.
Its the board i use in my dual 8800 Gtx with a 6700 quad Core.
It will also remain a board that will allow future upgrades when new technology arrives.
Donot take my word for it READ ALL THE REVIEWS you will be convinced.
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