Asus 780i is total pantS?

Robert

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My sister's BF has just bought the following:

Q6600
Toughpower 1KW
Asus P5N-T
Another 8800GTX for SLI
Corsair 6400 2*2gb

Basically it locks in the bios, locks trying to install windows. The RAM is fine and he has tried numerous things.

We read the Asus support forums and it is full of people having issues with this board :(
 
He has tried everything at stock etc. Some guy has actually posted on the Asus forums saying that he could only get it to work by overclocking.

It seems as though they do not like the Q6600.
 
He is using Corsair 6400 ram, which is hardly cheapo.

And I'm sorry but that's a pathetic excuse if I heard one.
 
Rroff said:
Stupid thing is making a motherboard that doesn't like mainstream memory...
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From a top manufacturer like Corsair. The fact is RAM is dirt cheap now.

By your silly logic - we shouldn't be putting £300 graphics cards in to £100 motherboards...but oh wait they work fine.
 
Smirnoff said:
£180 Motherboard
£400 2x GTX
£170 Q6600
£170 1k power supply
£40 ram...
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What the hell are you comparing a Qtec to corsair RAM for?

Oh it isn't £40 and why should he need any higher speed? He wants 3.2ghz = 400*8.

So please explain why it won't work other than your bull **** comments about it being cheap. The ram is fine and should be fine...so what the hell is the problem? Have you seen the prices of ram? OMGZ THE REAPER IS CHEAP SO DON'T USE IT!!!!!!!1111111111
 
It isn't my PC mate so your point is void and you are wrong. We have tried other types of ram e.g. geil. We know people with Corsair working. Again..look reaper is cheap so surely that won't work, by your logic at least :D

The board's going back anyway and I think he'll get the
Asus P5N32-E SLi

And any ram? What the hell? We where talking about Corsair XMS ram - which is very decent stuff.
 
Smirnoff said:
I take it hes running the 0602 bios thats fixed a lot of isues with this board, If he has then just swap the ram for another brand that works. Its not the wisest move downgrading to the now dead 680i platform.
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They are basically the same boards? The only major difference could be the power design and PCI-E 2.0 (which isn't native anyway).

He has tried other RAM and the 0602 bios. He has got as far as running 3dmark but prime or games just crash straight away.
 
helmutcheese said:
No they are not.

The 780 has a NEW Northbridge and a REVISION of the same Southbridge, then an ADDITIONAL PCI 2.0 Bridge Chip.
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hardwaresecrets said:
nForce 780i is in fact a propelled version of 680i: they both use the same north bridge chip. The only difference between the two is that 780i uses a small nForce 200 bridge chip to allow PCI Express 2.0. The communication between nForce 780i and nForce 200 is done thru an overclocked PCI Express 1.0 path. Then nForce 200 makes the connection with the three x16 PCI Express slots available. Two of them are 2.0 and one of them is 1.0. All three slots work at x16 rate when SLI mode is enabled, which is great.
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Anandtech said:
Since 780i is 680i with an added chip to support PCI 2.0 and two more x16 PCIe ports, it looked for a while as if NVIDIA might actually skip the 780i launch and wait until the DDR3 generation for a new chipset launch. Refinements for Penryn compatibility were completed and NVIDIA worked with Intel for Penryn family (Yorkfield quad-core and Wolfdale dual-core) compatibility certification.
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So....
 
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The point I'm making is that Corsair XMS2 is not crap RAM.

RAM price is relative to the market...it's flooded with DDR 2 ALL of it is cheap. My 4gb was £200 not so long ago, then it went to £90.

I can't be bothered going on, but I think he's going the 680i route. It isn't slow (at all) and just because it's the older chipset does NOT mean it is bad. He can't afford this downtime so he needs a stable chipset and cannot be sending boards back and forth.
 
Mate as I've said - the stuff isn't mine. Yes he installed windows with 2gb and then installed the other stick afterwards.

THe problem now is the system (well, he had this problem at the start) won't work unless overclocked. It will freeze in the bios, reboot, freeze in windows etc etc.

The furthest he's got is 30 seconds in Prime. Crysis locks fairly instantly as well.
 
Update:

Well he has the new bios on and it still won't post at stock. However, he overclocked it and put in some voltages etc and it is now running prime and has been for the last 20 minutes. Previously it would lock at around 30 secs, with the record being 1-2 minutes.

He doesn't know what to do as there are now two factors:

1) He bought the stuff to overclock.

2) It should really work at stock settings.
 
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