Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 24th August 2006

I had a little down time while my internet was changed to the new one. All back up and running again now and i'm still heading for greenness.

My little graph isn't looking too bad, i had constant production before the outage and hopefully it will go up again later on and i'll exceed that 400 mark.
edit: I could always devise a cunning system for reducing the text size the further down the lists people are - that way everyone gets a mention but it won't take up so much room that people get fed up of scrolling
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Sounds good. Have a different size for different stomps, say size 1 for 1 and 2, size 2 for 3 -5 etc. You would need to have a logrithmic type scale as more people have fewer stomps generally, so text size 1 might cover only 1 - 2 stomps and text size 3 might cover anything from 10- 30 or something like that.
 
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Urh... p5wdh :(

wouldnt touch that thing with a pole unless i got it for free, seen so many problems with it, its not exactly bad either, its just the bios and vdroop suck but asus dont want to do anything about them

Anyway, enjoy your new rig, well deserved. :)
 
lay-z-boy said:
Urh... p5wdh :(

wouldnt touch that thing with a pole unless i got it for free, seen so many problems with it, its not exactly bad either, its just the bios and vdroop suck but asus dont want to do anything about them
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Thats normal asus.
I have an (deep breath) a8n sli deluxe and a8n 32 sli deluxe and neither have the q-fan control thats in their feature list because asus never finished the bios for either of them and never will.
It took at least 9 bios's and 3 months iirc before the a8n sli deluxe even worked i.e booted from a sata drive.
Why i bought another asus god knows, i suppose the features were too tempting but if i can help it it will be the last one i buy.
My cheap foxconn on the htpc came with better fan control than both the asus's put together and cost a 3rd of the price.

Don't get me started on the tech support... they don't speak english for a start, secondly they don't really know what a motherboard is.

Ohh and i found this on my A8n32 sli deluxe:
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Would you spend £150 on a board made by someone who can't spell floppy? I did twice and i won't do it a 3rd time if i can help it!
 
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I couldn't have got a dfi because they all had noisy chipset fans. I wanted to get an Abit but they were in the midst of their financial crisis at the time and their boards weren't up to much.
 
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I couldn't have got a dfi because they all had noisy chipset fans. I wanted to get an Abit but they were in the midst of their financial crisis at the time and their boards weren't up to much.
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DFI Chipset fans are fine :confused:

Besides, cost less than a tenner to get either a passive cooler or an active cooler such as from Evercool.

SiriusB
 
anecdote does not equal data. Ive been using Asus boards for years and have never had a problem. Ive seen people on this board that have had problems with DFI boards but that doesnt mean they are crap by any means, ditto Asus.
 
I think its fair to say asus very rarely release a board with a working bios, and certainly not a perfected one. Thats not specific to any board, as i say i've had two with that problem. Their boards are great when they finally work but the bios situation leaves a lot to be desired.

And as for the dfi chipset fans, its almost impossible to get an alternative chipset cooler on sli boards because there usually isn't room. The fans are too noisy on their own.
 
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I think its fair to say asus very rarely release a board with a working bios, and certainly not a perfected one. Thats not specific to any board, as i say i've had two with that problem. Their boards are great when they finally work but the bios situation leaves a lot to be desired.
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I have to agree with that. I used to only buy MSI, but for various reasons I switched to asus. I've had four boards from asus and every one has had problems with the bios and still do even with the latest releases, which come out once in a blue moon.
 
I just remembered i have an asus board :p

p5wd2-e prem, has loads of problems;

passive heatsinks are retarded

insane vdroop (untill i modded it)

cant boot over 240fsb without weird boot problem - when you restart it powers down for a second or two then powers up

secondary ide/sata controller is gheyed up

8 pin power connector overlaps mounting hole, cpu power or screwed down mobo, your choice :rolleyes:

but when you get it stable it stays stable and works :)

Unlike dfi where i have to tweak my memory month in month out and depending on room temp to keep stable.
 
Asus > DFI. I've used several Asus boards, and along with MSI, I think theyre the best choice for a reliable system (especially when not overclocking).
 
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