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Just want to follow up on this issue... I ended up picking up a new board (same model) at Fry's and it works perfectly fine so it does seem that the original one did in fact go bad on me. Not sure what the heck happened that caused it but I'm happy now that I have a working one.

Well I'm not ready to give up on ASUS yet. This doesn't just seem to be "nuance". It seems like hardware failure. It refuses to POST no matter what I do. I'm going to buy a new one locally and get that working if possible. Of course, if that fails then I can guess there's actually some other...

I have a P8P67 Pro that was working just fine but seems to have died on me. It won't POST anymore and I really have no idea why.

I did clear the CMOS actually, forgot to mention it. I'll add that to the original post. I didn't do the battery removal thing but that typically isn't necessary. I already updated the BIOS to the latest non-beta version (1003) last night and it was working fine with it.

So I got the last of the parts for my new build, including the ASUS P8P67 Pro. I built everything up and booted and did all the normal stuff, installing Windows and setting up drivers. Aside from a stupid issue with my DVD drive not wanting to read the ASUS driver CD, everything went pretty...

That max value is the max value that the hardware can store. It says nothing about what the processor itself is intended to handle in normal operation.

Still slightly cheaper to buy both from TigerDirect with 2-day shipping for me, since I pay tax at newegg.

Yes, flash your BIOS and take up some customer rep's time at the manufacturer so you can disable a helpful feature that doesn't negatively impact performance all for your peace of mind that your processor can wastefully do nothing really really fast. Sounds like a solid plan! :)

I had a similar, though not quite so colorful experience at the Microcenter in Tustin, CA. I ordered online the night before. I woke up to find the order cancelled e-mail. I went to the store, arriving about 15 minutes after opening. It seemed like none of the employees really knew what the hell...

I wasn't planning on splitting the SSD. I'm more concerned with the 1TB HDD I have.

Well my windows will be on an SSD. Do you gain any objective benefit from splitting up like that, or is just a personal organization preference?

So I'm getting ready to build my new system. I have a 1TB HDD in it and I'm wondering how to partition it. Typically, I just create one partition and go with that. I was wondering though if there's some benefit of splitting up partition while lacking any other specific need to do so.

OK then, mystery solved. Some RMA worker really effed up taking this in as a return and letting it go out to be resold. That, or some warehouse worker is getting frisky with the merchandise and managed a nice little upgrade for himself. I hope they have records that can let them catch the...

Their Tcase is around 75, which is the temp at which they start throttling back. Their max is something like 98 or 99, at which point they probably shut down for safety.

Actually the 2600K has a better IGP than the 2600. It's just that the P67 chipset boards (which allow overcloking the processor) don't support IGP. H67 supports IGP and IGP overclocking, but not processor overclocking. It's really wacky what they've done.

So, I'm working on a new system build, and the video card I chose was an EVGA GeForce GTX 470 Superclocked. So, in searching for the best price, I found a nice deal at Overstock.com ($251 or so shipped). It was the last one in stock, so I ordered it. Well, it arrived today... sorta. I opened...

Are you saying he ignored your own in-store pickup ticket and rang it up as a normal in-store purchase, or that he stole someone else's in-store pickup and sold it to you? Because if its the latter that's BS.

No really novel information there, but it's probably useful to see it all in one place for people new to the whole SB thing.

I'm not sure if Ivy Bridge will be all LGA 2011 or not... I wouldn't count on full forward compatibility unless someone else here has more/better info.

I assume lapping would void any warranties or ability to return the chip right? Probably best to make sure it's working right before undertaking this endeavor. However, those results are pretty interesting...

Well Skynet was developed by Cyberdyne systems... hmm...

I would think that doing a test at 800x600 would be a terrible test anyway since it's so easy for decent hardware. I would think that the fact that not much power is needed to run at that resolution would mean not much power would be applied, and you would fail to really see what the hardware...

At that resolution, it sounds like gpu bottlenecking to me...

Both Fry's near me are sold out (each store only got 5). Anyway, at that price with tax, it's cheaper to go with TigerDirect. I ended up ordering from TD. If MC gets more in stock before my order ships I can always cancel it and buy locally.

Well you might want to address specific questions to the appropriate forums, or perhaps post this whole thing in the general hardware forum. There are a number of P67 ASUS boards. In increasing order of cost/features: LE, plain, PRO, EVO, DELUXE. There's also micro-ATX versions of a couple of...

The rush is my current computer is busted and I'm dealing with an old dell laptop for my computing needs, and I've been looking forward to this build for a good while. Missing out on the CPU today means I won't be able to build tomorrow night when the rest of my parts arrive. I've come to...

Yes, I'm PST. It seems the reservation system isn't hooked into a real-time inventory count. I guess people flooded the site with reservations for the Tustin store and even getting in there 10 mins after 9pm wasn't good enough. Missing out on the processor is disappointing but the thing that's...

One of the trade-offs of the DMI architecture is less bandwidth for stuff like this. It's the QPI architecture that excels at this kind of thing, and for that you're going to have to wait until LGA 2011

So, after reserving a chip last night at MC and having my reservation cancelled, and now after driving all over the place trying in vain to find a store with the chips in stock, I have to now figure out how to proceed. The way I see it, I have two choices. I can order now from TigerDirect...

Was that at the Tustin MC? If so then I have a bone to pick with them. I reserved mine at about 9:10 PM last night, but had my reservation cancelled this morning.

I got an email that my reservation was cancelled this morning. I got to the store about 15 mins after it opened. There was a line of people and all of the 2500's and 2600's (Ks included) were sold out. I'm pretty pissed off right now.

Interestingly enough when I go to the item page it says out of stock, but when I do an add to cart, it shows 8 in stock still... kind of odd.

The MicroCenter website is taking reservations for in-store pickup of the processor now. Got mine reserved! Yay! The MC in Orange/Tustin had 8 in stock (2600K) when I reserved...

New Sandy Bridge chips are up at Newegg now! 329.99 for 2600k 299.99 for 2600 Even Fry's has the 2600k for cheaper and of course there's the MC deal... but for those of you who can't get to those, have at it! :) Looks like Tiger Direct as the same prices.

Newegg currently doesn't offer will call service but I did get an e-mail from them recently saying that they're considering offering a will-call service for customers who live near their distribution centers and that they were guaging interest in such a thing.

Ah well... no skin off my nose. I wasn't really interested in the IGP anyway, though it is nice to have a backup in case you have vid card problems.

How are you going to OC a chip with a locked multiplier and with the base clock basically un-overclockable beyond a MHz or two?

The personal experience of one individual is insufficient to claim a particular phenomenon is "rare".

You can use it, just not while overclocking. I guess the idea is that people who want the best integrated graphics (the 2600K has a better IGP than the other SKUs) don't care about overclocking, and the people who overclock aren't going to use integrated graphics.

And you're basing that assessment on...