Stuff ASUS : Enough is enough

jas72 said:
I power down one evening next morning I power up and the bios is back to default settings.
Click to expand...

Sure thats not simply the battery?

---

What was so good about SoundStorm?

Erm, ok, well at the time, the only options we had was Creative SoundBlaster Live! - Audigy was not around at the time. And when the SoundStorm came out it had both a warm sound to it, plus it was able to handle much more than any other onboard sound solution was able to.

It also depended on the Music you listened to as well... For rock music, the soundStorm was brilliant, but for trance/Dance stuff, not so much.

I know that the speaker setup used also played a big part too.

The NF7S sounded fantastic on my Altec Lansing 251 Speakers and playing back some Anthrax... Well, it was better than sex.

Only other option I had at the time was SoundBlaster & Cambridge soundworks speakers and these were made for each other but when compared directly to the SS, I found the sound too clinical and quite harsh.

So, for me, the SoundStorm was definitely a better solution than SoundBlaster, and nothing that I had on any of my Mobos even came close enough to bother trying.
 
FatRakoon said:
Sure thats not simply the battery?

---

What was so good about SoundStorm?

Erm, ok, well at the time, the only options we had was Creative SoundBlaster Live! - Audigy was not around at the time. And when the SoundStorm came out it had both a warm sound to it, plus it was able to handle much more than any other onboard sound solution was able to.

It also depended on the Music you listened to as well... For rock music, the soundStorm was brilliant, but for trance/Dance stuff, not so much.

I know that the speaker setup used also played a big part too.

The NF7S sounded fantastic on my Altec Lansing 251 Speakers and playing back some Anthrax... Well, it was better than sex.

Only other option I had at the time was SoundBlaster & Cambridge soundworks speakers and these were made for each other but when compared directly to the SS, I found the sound too clinical and quite harsh.

So, for me, the SoundStorm was definitely a better solution than SoundBlaster, and nothing that I had on any of my Mobos even came close enough to bother trying.
Click to expand...
another nice thing about soundstorm was that it had a realtime surround sound encoder, allowing you to play games in surround sound with an amp connected digitally over toslink or spdif :)
 
soundstorm used exactly the same DACs as every other budget motherboard out there at the time. ie, its analogue outputs were rubbish. I have absolutely no idea why it got the praise that it did.

this:
another nice thing about soundstorm was that it had a realtime surround sound encoder
Click to expand...

aka D.I.C.E ( i mentioned it earlier) was great in that it allowed a good level if quality that was, at that time, unheard of from inboard audio, but it was flawed in so many areas - the crossover was badly implementated, there was a pitch shift when using it, stereo separation issues when using it ect ect. This is just from memory of testing my nf7-s and an asus a7n8x deluxe using multiple drivers.

The following that it still has is just bonkers. DDLive is what D.I.C.E should have been, and DTS interactive is better still. Yes at the time it was unmatched as far as onboard went, but that time has long since passed.
 
Last edited:
I think you are being unfair JM

No one is saying the SS is still the kind of the hill.

No one is saying that when it came out there was nothing to touch it either, not onboard options anyway.

what I say is simply that when it came out, it was finally an onboard option that could give some stand alone cards a good run for its money.

And it could.

When it came out, there was no better onboard option and to compare onboard Audio with stand alone cards in my opinion is just stupid, but even so, you had to spend a few quid to get better.

What was so bad about SoundStorm then?

Its certinaly not going to stir my cup of tea these days, but at the time it was a great solution that worked very well.
 
Back in the Duron & early Athlon days I had some bad experiences with Asus mobo's and stayed away from them, but my last board was an Asus M3a32, and my new one arriving today is an Asus M4A78-HTPC. The M3 board has been superb and I'm looking forward to sticking the M4 in to my new setup. Until now I've never been mobo maker fanboy, but that may be changing... :o
MikeHunt79 said:
Socket A nforce 2 boards kicked ass... but it seems it all went downhill with nforce 3, no more soundstorm! :(
Click to expand...

I had a lot of love for my old Epox nforce 2 board, but never stayed with nVidia aftwards... Dunno why.
 
I only ever had one NF3 Board and that was the DFI LanParty GB250 UT

I say only one but I had thios board twice, so only one model.

No, hang on... I also had an ECS that I stuffed a Tampon 3100 into.

God that was a crap board... Died all of sudden one day when it was only a few months old, but could I find the warranty?

That was an NF3 Mobo too!

Im thinking really seriously now... I love NForce boards, and NOTHING can change my mind on that... However... I have to look at my own experiences, and while I still have a few NF4 Boards and I still love them to bits, my 2 main PCs are intel 965 Chipset, and AMD 780

Both I am in love with and both are NOT NForce

I have spent a small fortune building up a SLI system only to find that by teh time I finish it, a single card has come out at half the price but twice the speed of the 2 SLI setup, rendering the whole idea useless and yet, why do I bother?

Sod it.
 
jas72 said:
After 18 months my ASUS P5Q PRO board has decided to do bios reset every too weeks for no reason what so ever. I power down one evening next morning I power up and the bios is back to default settings.
It's intermittent I can change the bios and it lasts for couple of weeks then it does it again.

I have too little time to read loads of Win 7 diagnostics sadly so i'm just putting up with it until i can afford new bits...
Click to expand...

I must say this very much sounds like a battery problem, on this very MB i use now it started to do the same as your problem last year. I did put up with it for a bit, cos the battery was under the vid card and i couldn't be assed to take my vid card out to get at the battery, but sometime after a month or so my video card died on me, so i changed it since i was changing the vid card anyway, since the new battery is now in place no problems.
 
I'm looking for a new Asus board as I've always used them and not had a problem, has anyone had any experience with the NF 980a chipset? Or more specifically on the Asus M4N82 Deluxe?
 
Fatboyuk2 said:
msi very good bords for me never had a prolelem with them
Click to expand...

No, to be fair, I have still some of their boards and I too have never had a problem with them.

They only lack in some BIOS options, but I have kind of given up in overclocking now, so the BIOS option list isnt THAT important to me anymore, so... I might give them a look for my next 775 board.

I got an E6600 and a 940 Pentium D spare that need rehoming.
 
doh i got a UD3P from MM and it blew a phase unit on my first boot...my DFI set on fire, now i have my first ever Asus P45 Deluxe on its way to me today.

time will tell.
 
I love my Gigabyte mobo (EP45-DS3) and will stick by them as I know they get it right pretty much all the time however I do like other ASUS products; my V226H monitor I picked up around a year ago now is lovely, and was a cracking price to boot! Only downside to it is that the warranty sticker has rubbed off as it is placed near the cable management hole so the movement of the cable has rubbed the sticker off :(
 
I'm using a low-end Asus board (M2N68-AM+) with an Nvidia chipset.

Not going to break any overclocking records, but I'm not doing that as I need a 100% stable system at the moment.


*awaits flaming*
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom