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£250 to spend on cpu

Big.Wayne said:
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"£250 to spend on cpu"
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Gotta say that's big bucks in this harsh financial climate! :o

I reckon wait for the price cuts to kick in proper and also for the new stepping Wolfdales to arrive. I reckon you could buy a nice cpu *and* a nice motherboard for that money! :cool:
 
i know:D , but asus bios'es need at least a year to function as they are supposed to .

seriously the board maybe a bit old but with the rampage bios its really nice imho.

besides the psychological factor it has all the new goodies , pcie 2.0 , Xfire support at full speed , great cooling system, separate sound card on pcie , 8 phase power, 2 phase power for memory slots and a great layout . what more can you ask?
 
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I was very tempted to buy the ASUS P5E (x38) last december as it was pretty new and very shiny. I suppose the main thing that put me off was that a lot of reviews stated the board used more wattage than normal and the chipset ran quite hot.

Any truth in these claims? I don't suppose you measure the wattage but how is the chipset temps? the P5E chipset heatsink is mentally huge!

I don't think I've seen an INTEL chipset superseded so quickly before (X38 to X48) and is a bit annoying. Any idea why they did that? :confused:
 
the x48 are cherrypicked x38's , well thats what Hipro5 says in the greek forums...:D

in the early days of p5e the bios were so awful i had to send it back and get am abit (ip35pro). last week i bought another one for my E8400 and 0604 bios had corrected everything the early bioses suffered from(such as the incorrect voltages you mention.) . then i flashe dit to rampage and it got even better.

SO i fully recommend this board , its cheap and can be flashed to a better board.

Its like a 9500pro flashed to 9700pro , oh and the bios is fully reversible so worries for the guarantee
 
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Big.Wayne said:
More Off Topic ramblings . . .

I was very tempted to buy the ASUS P5E (x38) last december as it was pretty new and very shiny. I suppose the main thing that put me off was that a lot of reviews stated the board used more wattage than normal and the chipset ran quite hot.

Any truth in these claims? I don't suppose you measure the wattage but how is the chipset temps? the P5E chipset heatsink is mentally huge!

I don't think I've seen an INTEL chipset superseded so quickly before (X38 to X48) and is a bit annoying. Any idea why they did that? :confused:
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With 1.49v through the NB and 525fsb my mobo temps did not go above 40c with stock cooling....
 
erm.....4 months or so I think. I got it mainly for PCI-E 2.0 and crossfire....then discovered crossfire setups heat my room up in a few minutes when gaming and they were expensive and now I'm a single card man...so when the P5Q came out it was a 65nm chipset, PCI-E 2.0, potential superhi fsbs, and a new toy so I went for it.
 
thanks for the replys , i thought the price cuts had allready happened ! and the new chip that someone mentioned somewere in this thread does anyone no when it is out .
 
yup seen some screen shot over at XS of the Asus Maximus II Formula Benching at 600+ FSB on stock cooling dual core and at 500FSB+ quad

Edit: Also you should keep in mind the BIOS on these boards is pretty new to should only get better tbh
 
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