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Am wondering if this new board has any major issues ?

4 things I want to know :

1. Any cold boot issues
2. Is it fussy with memory at 1600mhz
3. Does the top PCI-e slot accomodate an Asus Xonar or Essence
(wondering if the base of the Xtreme Phase heatsink will interfere with the
bottom edge of the soundcard)
4. Any instability at stock

thanks
 
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Flanno said:
Am wondering if this new board has any major issues ?

4 things I want to know :

1. Any cold boot issues
2. Is it fussy with memory at 1600mhz
3. Does the top PCI-e slot accomodate an Asus Xonar or Essence
(wondering if the base of the Xtreme Phase heatsink will interfere with the
bottom edge of the soundcard)
4. Any instability at stock

thanks
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Hey,

1. No cold boot issues to date from initial tests.
2. Running some Kingston HyperX @ 1600 Mhz without issues
3. The heatsink sits below a Xonar by around 5mm.
4. None to comment on at the moment, if I find any I'll shout :)
 
Excellent. I think I will be ordering one soon unless the Rampage III is going to make an appearance very soon. My EVGA has just snuffed it and not bothered waiting for it to come back from RMA.

One last thing, is the board i7 980X ready out of the box ?
 
Yes, all of the current ASUS X58 motherboards support the upcoming processors.

You might have to do a BIOS flash (I'd recommend it) but with EzFlash it should be easy :)
 
Just ordered mine.

I hope it wil run my 12gb gksill trident (6x2gb) at its rated speed/timings.

My Asus Rampage II extreme which was one of the boards G.skill qualified this memory on was able to do 1600mhz with CAS 6-7-6-18 timings, 1.6v, with 6 of these dimms. That was with no overclocking of the CPU. Everything at stock.
 
Also purchased this build for my new build.
Currently running an i7-930 @3.8ghz, 1.216v core (H50 with two akasa apaches in push/pull connected via a splitter to the 4pin pwm CPU_FAN header) with 12 GB of patriot. Also ran stable at 4ghz (at 4.2 ghz temps started to hit around the 85 mark), but the fans started to ramp up then so I dropped it down to 3.8. I like my pc's nice and quiet.
Only issue I have with this board is that regardless of whatever is set in q-fan/speedfan, any PWM fan that is connected to the 4-pin CHA1_FAN header on the board runs at 100% speed. Has anyone else encountered this?
I opened a ticket with Asus, they seemed to think it was a h/ware issue and I should contact my retailer (overclockers.co.uk) to see about an RMA.
Things is I've just got everything running good now apart from that one annoyance and in the past I've had issues with Asus and it's fan control that ended up resolved via a bios update, so understandably am reluctant to pull everything apart again.
 
I have one of these boards for a new build for a relative, I havent bought the cpu yet. Thinking about getting the 930 but will the board post on its release bios with that chip installed?
 
Lynndinky said:
I have one of these boards for a new build for a relative, I havent bought the cpu yet. Thinking about getting the 930 but will the board post on its release bios with that chip installed?
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Had no problem booting with mine. Think it shipped with 40x. I used asus ez-flash utility to upgrade to 703 from a usb key the first time I booted it.
It seems a very well put together board. Good layout, ample expansion slots and a crazy amount of options in the bios for all the finetuning you could possibly want.
The 6GB sata is kind of pointless, the intel IC10CHR controller is faster than the marvel 6GB controller in the testing I've done so far.
The only gripe I have with it at the moment, is the aforementioned fan header. If you get the chance can you check and see if your motherboard can change the speed of a pwm fan connected to the 4-pin CHA1_FAN header (using either the bios q-fan function or something like speedfan), or if it stays at 100% speed regardless?

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Just to add, it ran 12 GB of the Patriot kit from here at stock settings (1600mhz, 9-9-9-24), no fiddling around required. I might try and see if I can tighten the timings in the future, either that or undervolt, however I am pretty happy with the speed (and the lack of noise) for the moment.
 
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I wouldnt think thered be to many problems with this board, its basically a p6t deluxe with usb 3 and sata 6gbps, not many devices to take advantage of theese features, and the p6t boards are well established now.
 
No problems with cold boot.
Running with Kingston HyperX @ 2000MHz
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium - Fatal1ty Champion in PCI-e slot
No instability whatsoever, Intel Core i7 930 @ 3.60Ghz without trying.
Bios 0703 loaded in a few minutes during build using EZ Flash.
Crucial C300 256GB SSD with Windows 7 on Marvell SATA 3 controller.

The board is what you expect, a Rolls-Royce model, highly recommended.
 
I have one of these boards for a new build for a relative, I havent bought the cpu yet. Thinking about getting the 930 but will the board post on its release bios with that chip installed?
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i got this motherboard last week and core i7 930 and it did not post i had to put in my core i7 950 to flash the bios it could have been i had some older stock from overclockers!
it is a very good motherboard but the only thing that lets it down is that has only two usb headers!
 
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Geek. said:
it is a very good motherboard but the only thing that lets it down is that has only two usb headers!
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That still gives you 10 USB ports in total, 6 from the back panel and 2 each from the headers. Do you really need any more. :)
 
Grummkol said:
Things is I've just got everything running good now apart from that one annoyance and in the past I've had issues with Asus and it's fan control that ended up resolved via a bios update, so understandably am reluctant to pull everything apart again.
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CHA_FAN1 is 4 pin but does not support PWM. Check the manual. The CPU header has a PWM line, the CHA_FAN1 header does not. So if running multiple fans off his header via the Akasa extension cable or even directly they will run at 100%. However if you plug 1 fan in (or 2 with a y-splitter), you will be able to use the Asus fan control utility to set the fan mode to turbo, quiet, etc... Not PWM control but control none the less.
 
No issues what-so-ever. Shipped with 604 bios (from OCUK), flashed to 703 using Asus LiveUpdate. 4ghz easy with i7 930 with Patriot 1600.
 
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CHA_FAN1 is 4 pin but does not support PWM. Check the manual. The CPU header has a PWM line, the CHA_FAN1 header does not. So if running multiple fans off his header via the Akasa extension cable or even directly they will run at 100%. However if you plug 1 fan in (or 2 with a y-splitter), you will be able to use the Asus fan control utility to set the fan mode to turbo, quiet, etc... Not PWM control but control none the less.
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Arse :(


Anyone want to buy some noiseblocker fans? ;)


[edit] See what you mean, whereas the cpu_fan pins are PWM, FAN in, power, ground, the cha_fan is +5v, FAN in, power, ground. I always thought 4pin fans were PWM so saw the extra 4pin header on the board and ordered a pair of pwm fans. Seems a bit silly (and rather misleading) to have two 4 pin fan headers on the board where only one is PWM.
 
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