General Hardware Question

mast3r · 23 Nov 2011 at 14:52

Hey all,
Its coming up to a year (in Jan) that i have had my original P8P67 Pro and i am still able to RMA it for a replacement/refund, my question is, what do i replace it with?
Another P8P67 Pro? or should i pay a bit more and upgrade it?
I have braided all my cables to the color of the board so i would like to stick with it if possible but if not... its not the end of the world.

Also, i have 8GB of Vengeance RAM at the minute along with a 2600k and SLi 570's, is it worth my adding another 8GB of ram?

Thanks all.

A bit of a build log can be seen here:
http://lan.epcclan.co.uk/index.php/EPC-Hardware/Martin---Shadow-2011-Build?page=3

Admiral Huddy · 23 Nov 2011 at 14:55

Straight replacement. The system you have is a decent high end system..

You should be able to swap out the motherboard without disconnecting the Water Cooling which is tricky but is achievable as this is what i did when my old mother board popped. This means you won't have to reinstall Windows either. You can then sell the RMA board on return.

I don't see the point of adding another 8GB of RAM unless your into some serious video encoding. What makes you think you need more RAM?

mast3r · 23 Nov 2011 at 14:57

When you say Sell the RMA Board on return, what do you mean? i assume ill have to send my current board back?

mast3r · 23 Nov 2011 at 15:07

I dont really do anything on my PC, eBay use and a few hours of gaming each week.

Admiral Huddy · 23 Nov 2011 at 15:15

I mean buy a new or working second hand replacement now and RMA the board at the same time. What it's returned, sell it which will then refund your replacement outlay. The benefit is that you won't have to wait for the replacement which could take a number of weeks.

mast3r said:
I dont really do anything on my PC, eBay use and a few hours of gaming each week.

Certainly not worth an additional 8GB of memory.

mast3r · 23 Nov 2011 at 15:21

Oh, i see what you mean, wont be a problem waiting... i have about 10 PCs at home, make a change to use one of them!!
(i host 2 LANs a year, and all the guys that come from abroad use my spare PC's... Dead money if i am honest)

mast3r · 23 Nov 2011 at 16:34

Thanks for the heads up mate.

Reaper 392 · 23 Nov 2011 at 16:51

perhaps you could get the Asus P8Z68-V gen3. it looks to have the same colour scheme, but gives you the Z68 stuff, and gen3 PCIe lanes (even in crossfire/SLI)

mast3r · 1 Dec 2011 at 12:27

Hey guys, i have just called E-B (Competitor) to enquire about returning my non-faulty P8P67 Pro under the recall and i was told that i can not return it now as the recall was only for 6 months... please tell me that this is wrong...?

They tell me that there was an announcement on their website that said that anyone who bought the board before Feb 2011 were able to return the board for a Replacement of a Refund within 6 months.

I never saw this and i can clearly remember that i had spoken to someone there who told me that i can do this anytime within 12 months.

Whos at fault here guys?