Asus P5N-T Worst MB ever ?

PCZ

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I would like to nominate this *urd as the worst MB ever made by a top tier manafacturer.

I've just wasted 2 days trying to get this pile of carp running properly.
Enough is enough i've just snapped the MB in 2 and thrown it in the bin.
 
What problems are you having?

I had heard ( after buying mine ) that its a bad board but so far mines been rock solid. Im on Bios 1001
 
Its the worst board i ever owned also, i sent mine back rather than snapping it in half but i suppose the latter would have made me feel better.
 
It's supposed to be an enthusiasts board.
Comes dressed up for the part sporting all that copper.

Basically though it does not work above 1333 FSB properly.
Only way to keep it stable is running stock clock speeds, you can do that on
a budget MB :)

I am used to using NV chipsets, having a couple of 680's and a 650 around the house so though it would behave similarly, it doesn't.
It has got to be the worst implementation of an NV chipset ever.

I tried several sets of RAM in it as it is supposed to be picky, but that didn't help either.
Thing just isn't made right and wont clock for *hit.

All i asked it to do was run an e6750 at 8x400, hardly a tall order.
Tried a wolfie and a quad in it as well, result was the same 1333 is all i could get stable.

Another thing it does is pretend to run at high FSB speeds but it's really running stock.
Bios screen comes up and shows overclocked speeds but it's really running default speeds.
This happens after it fails to restart and you have to power cycle to get it going again. [a frequent occurence]
This is easy to spot though as it always runs the ram at 800 regardless of any divider settings.

It's hard to imagine the pain a newb would have had with it.
 
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The highest i can get my E6750 to run at is 375Mhz, like yours 8x400 wont work even tho i know the cpu will do 3.4Ghz. There are a lot of overclocking options in the bios and i could do with knoing what the stock northbridge and southbridge temps are before i knock them up anymore as its on auto at the moment

Having said that if id paid top whack for the board i might think differently but for the £58 i paid for it im quite happy, its certainly no worse than the 650i board i used in the past.
 
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PCZ said:
I've just wasted 2 days trying to get this pile of carp running properly.
Enough is enough i've just snapped the MB in 2 and thrown it in the bin

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U L T I M A T E - F A I L ! :o

PCZ, firstly I do sympathize with you to some extent, PC hardware can frustrate the hell out of you when it doesn't play nice, I have a good friend (Big Dave) who nearly threw his PC out his 3rd floor window when it wouldn't work as he expected! :D

You may need to consider paying someone to build your systems in the future as it seems you don't have the right temperament to deal with hardware issues :(
 
Big Wayne
I build lots of systems and have many of my own.

This MB was quite honestly the worst piece of kit ever to come my way.
I broke it to stop myself going back to it at a later date trying to make it work properly.

Selling it to someone else didn't seem fair.

Fortunately i didn't pay full price for it.
If i had though most likely i would have been on to the shop to swap it.
 
HAHAHAHA!

Seriously though, I agree with everyone here. The 680 and 780 (and I'd imagine 650) are "play your cards right" chipsets. Overall stability is critically dependant on other components in your system, specifically the CPU and memory, not on whether they are faulty, but simply on what they are, they should all work, but they don't :rolleyes:. In my experience, the 680 slowly killed memory that, by default, required a voltage of 2.2 or greater, even when active cooling was used!!!!

I can't deem Nvidia guilty beyond reasonable doubt here, as Micron went through an extremely dodgy period with their D9GMH chips, many of which seem to have perished on Intel boards under similar circumstances, though the 680 really did appear to make it into an art, I lost 4 pairs of DDR2 without once running outside the manufacturer's spec.

As far as running Quad core CPUs, both chipsets were a bit of a joke, stable overclocking was nigh on impossible.

The 780 was supposed to support Yorkfield CPUs out of the box, though I could only ever achieve full stability when the multiplier was forced to x11 with the FSB at 1066, and this was at stock speed!!!!:rolleyes: The PCI-E 1.1-to-2.0 bridge chip (the result of a desperate rush by Nvidia) ran hotter than the sun and on some boards was integrated just below the top PCI-E slot, meaning that if a large video card was installed - a likely scenario - it was trapped directly behind that card's heat sink with absolutely no room for the heat to disperse. The Northbridge too was stupidly hot, often topping 90 degrees despite abundant airflow.

Essentially, the only good things I've heard are from those running dual core CPUs with low voltage, high latency memory (nearly always 2 sticks as opposed to four) and numerous atypical BIOS tweaks.

For the record, it took me 2x Striker Extremes, 2x Striker 2 Formulas and one P5N-T Deluxe to find all this out the hard way.

Thanks for a good laugh:D.
 
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I don't normally break boards in 2 honest :)
Actually it was rather unsatisfactuary as it broke without a struggle. :D
 
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