Asus A8R-MVP Crossfire - anyone having problems?

I'm thinking of getting this board with a X1900 XT; are the issues a few people have had been sorted now? The reviews all seem to think it's a top board :)
 
Mine is running fine now ... won't go past 255fsb, but as thats beyond its specs its not a real complaint ;)
Pretty certain that reviewers got cherry picked boards though ...
 
Is that 1:1 255? or can the HTT go further?

I need the board to run at 300 HTT (in a divider so ram is 220-250 region) as my Opteron is running at 3.0GHz (10x300) :o
 
No that was with a divider, my ram wont do much above 220 :)
If you are looking for 300, I wouldn't count on this board doing it .... you may get lucky .. but I dont think the retail boards clock anywere near the review samples.
 
Gonna try the 402 bios on mine today, see if I can get it stable....

have disabled USB2 (1.1 only via bios) and its been a lot more stable since then.... well it hasnt crashed at all, but it makes sticking movies on my ipod a bit slow, lol...

:D
 
Hi Dr Who,
How did you get on with your bios reflash?, have now got my system relatively stable and dont know whether to try a bios upgrade, but saying that i might not bother as some German websites have the RD580 listed for preorder some hopefully OC will get them in soon....
ASUS 90-M9B1T0-G0EAY
ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe Socket939 ATX HT2000 ATI Radeon xPress3200 CrossFire RD580
 
Hi Bios flash went no issues, downloaded and flashed from file rather than update from internet..

System is perfectly stable now I have disabled USB2.0 in the bios... no issues whatsoever, q4 runs awesome in uber detail, same with B&W2 maxed out...

As soon as I enable USB2.0, massive lockups etc...

Gonna stick with syncing my Ipod via my laptop, as its the only USB2.0 device I have, and I can always add my main pc mp3 folders to Itunes via a network drive if need be...

Well impressed with the speed of this thing, but cant benchmark as 3dmark keeps exiting randomly....

The whole pc just feels fast and lag free

Will deffo look at the RD580 stuff once OcUK have them in....

:D
 
Might be worth upgrading the bios, just loathe doing it, always seem to be hit and miss when upgrading these things, and as Asus update does not even recognise the mainboard with the additional power connection and crossfire enabled, need to unplug and remove stuff in an already packed out case...
 
Yeah tell me about it, I wired my HDD and Power LED's back to front last night, only just had the courage to re-enter the case to correct them and wire up the extra case fan....

Was worth it tho as it dropped case/mb temp by 3 degrees...

Try disabling the USB2.0 in the bios, ie USB1.1 only and see if that helps, made a huge difference to mine..

:D
 
a warning with the latest 402 bios

asus keep taking it down and rposting it , it has also disapeared from the ftp site

the fud has it it is faulty but asus will not admit it somthing to do with IRQ conflicts and vaoltage instablity
 
lordedmond said:
a warning with the latest 402 bios

asus keep taking it down and rposting it , it has also disapeared from the ftp site

the fud has it it is faulty but asus will not admit it somthing to do with IRQ conflicts and vaoltage instablity
Click to expand...

They better take the 390 down as well then, as thats exactly what I had with 390

:eek:
 
well mine is cooking now since I have disabled usb2

no crashes, rock stable, 9200 3dmarks in 3dmark06...

:D
 
decisions decisions :)

I'm in no rush, so I'll probably wait until the NV 7900 & new ATI chipset have come out and see whats what :p
 
Hi,

I have the ASUS a8r-mvp board.

It was fine until I connected a saitek usb hub to it. After this the board wouldn't boot with the hub on, and if I tried to connect the hub after booting give it ten minutes and the machine would freeze.

I've tried reducing the usb speed in the bios but this wasn't a cure.

I think I've fixed it by connecting all my usb peripherals directly to the board rather than going through the hub. Been ok for almost ten hours like this now.

Fingers crossed!
 
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Yeah i have this card in the my newly built system, it is really good..... when the system is running, however it is a pain to boot it up, often it wont boot, everything powers up but it doesnt POST. When it does boot up tho its awesome
 
Hi,

I had this board, the voltage is all over the place even at idle. Even without overvoltage switched on in bios, it varies vetween 1.39 and 1.48v (that's just when under no load), bottom line is this, you can get this board to work stable if you're not going to overclock. Even then there's a mixed bag of issues. If you're overclocking forget it, just doesn't like it. Worst thing is asus know they have messed up but aren't really concerned about correcting anything becuse it's a hardware issue, no bios flash can solve such a problem. The problem is to do with the regulators used, and perhaps even some layout issues. I think I will stay reserved when the new asus rd580 comes out.


Thanks
Raja
 
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