Asus A8R-MVP Crossfire - anyone having problems?

alanramsey

alanramsey

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I have just ordered this mobo, comments here on OC seem positive. Then I found a forum on the Asus website where there are loads of complaints about it, so I thought I'd ask if anyone is having issues?
 
Hi, i have this board, it is supposed to be the best of the crossfire boards but tbh it is poor and would recommend waiting to the RD580's are released, if your overclocking forget it.....saw the flaming on the Asus site as well after having several issues setting it up and wanted some answers. will bin it when new chipset released.
 
No buddy, just go to the Asus website, problems are rife. apparently they have a life expectancy of about two weeks under normal setup before dieing, the RD580 is supposed to be out in Feb but as you know these things can slip, do you plan to run crossfire?
 
Not sure, probably not as I cant really afford it, but I thought it'd be nice to have the option, besides they seemed to be quite well equipped boards, feature wise...
 
They have the basics, i suffer from only 1 in 3 boot success with this board, this is with crossfire enabled, a single X1900XT or a 7800GT from girlfriends pc on normal settings with no overclocking(the 16 lane enabler board for the pcie slot is only good for scraping ice off your windscreen when plugged in), the raid 0 performance is poor, Asus update does not work, the onboard sound is bad. i am only keeping it because i flogged previous kit to pay towards this board and graphics cards.
i have seen other people recommend this board on these forums perhaps they were lucky but general concensus on the old interweb is this board generally bites the big one.
 
Not too chuffed with mine either ... several little problems, avoid If I were you.

You could try the Abit or MSI crossfire boards with the same Uli/RD480 combo ...

Wouldn't agree with poor raid 0 performance on the latest drivers from asus site it feels as quick as my NF4, and OB is sound pretty decent. its just the overall stability that seems to be the issue.

I did have boot issues, but I re-flashed the bios and thats seems sorted now.
 
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Hi there

I can only but recommend this board after building Spie's new FX60 Crossfire X1900 PC with one in Mr. Spie is yet to have an issue. Its never crashed and is extremely fast. :)
 
Gibbo said:
Hi there

I can only but recommend this board after building Spie's new FX60 Crossfire X1900 PC with one in Mr. Spie is yet to have an issue. Its never crashed and is extremely fast. :)
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Which Bios and Uli drivers did you use Gibbo, and did you use OB sound or something else ?
 
I've just taken delivery of one of these boards. What 2gb ram kit would be best to go with it?

I'm using a 3800+ and a 850 XT PE.
 
Stock or overclocking treebeard ?

If you are not overclocking, IMO you needn't buy expensive ram, corsair OCZ or Geil value will do the job nicely.

Mine is running on OCZ value.
 
poor board.

I've got one and the RAM usually fails to run at DDR400 speeds when more than 1 stick is in. Although flashing the BIOS a second time with the same version seems to have sorted this for now.

Stability is quite poor.

I get quite regular pagefault errors (my ram is fine in other systems). Asus update is flakey. Performance is quite good but generally the board isnt worth the cash.

Wait for the RD580 based boards...
 
I ordered one of these last week as well. Sad to say it has not worked yet. It actually booted once for about 10 seconds before going dead... literally dead.

I was going to wait for an RMA but decided to just get a refund and buy another mobo, maybe the MSI or even a Sapphire... oh well...

Reminds me a little of the initial problems the legacy free Abit boards used to have, theething problems in my opinion, we are just guinea pigs. Asus will sort out the problems eventually with bios and driver updates or board revisions, if you care to wait that is.... :rolleyes:
 
Thats it then, definately waiting for the the RD580 then, gona give this board a wide berth, doesn't sound too good lol, probably an understatement at that. :eek: :(
 
Whats up with your DFI board Loadsa ?

I have just found the bios thats reported to be the one used in the reviews ... so if my board gives me anymore probs I will try that ... ATM its behaving fine :confused:
 
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Whats up with your DFI board Loadsa ?

I have just found the bios thats reported to be the one used in the reviews ... so if my board gives me anymore probs I will try that ... ATM its behaving fine :confused:
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E-Mailed you m8. :)
 
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Which Bios and Uli drivers did you use Gibbo, and did you use OB sound or something else ?
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BIOS was the latest of the site and don't think I bothered with installing any of the drivers.

The specification of the system is the same as Ultima Extreme Crossfire on OcUK and like I say its not had a single issue yet at all. :)
 
At the risk of tempting fate, now on bios 402 (seems ok after a second flash), Uli drivers 1.0.5.2a and sound drivers 5.10.02.4151 (basically the all latest on asus site) with cat 6.1.

Out of interest which slot did you put the X-fi in ?
I have an audigy 2 sitting around, but atm the OB hasn't given me any reason to chuck it in ;)
 
Shes up and stable now, not sure why the first couple of days were giving me issues, but thankfully all seems well now :)
 
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