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turtletrax
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I bought the A8R32-MVP after it got great reviews (albeit after the first round of sites complaining about the intial bios) on the internet, and I had high hopes for it. It had only bee out for a couple of weeks but I needed a new board and wanted something that would clock well.
I took it home and got sweet clocks from it with my TCCD running at default settings. Then tried to get the mem tied down and thats when I realized what a piece of junk it was. The worst bios setup I had ever seen. Not only did the bios suck, it didnt even set what you wanted to appy. I would just "override" your setting and appy its own idea of what it thought was right. After several weeks of wasted time I finally got semi decent clocks out of both the RAM and CPU, and low and behold the board would squeal like a stuck pig.
There was also these stupid baby steps you would have to take adjusting the HTT and voltage. Dont do more than 20 Mhz at a time and reboot, turn off power, prey to the east wait a minute, then tunr back on, pour chicken blood on your desk. Got so sickening
Pissed to the max I tried to get my 2x1G Muskin Redlines running good with it. They were better but I needed 259Mhz out of the RAM to get my CPU to where it would go on my Ultra-D. No luck, unstable as hell.
After two months of wasted life, I decide to RMA the damn thing because allot of people reported the first boards to suck. Well after a three week turn around Asus sends me the same board back stating there is nothing wrong with it.
Well Asus, I gotta tell you. After a guy spends waayyy to much time dealing with your bunk making sure it isnt just him, then you take three weeks to ship it back and tell him he is stupid and the board it fine, doenst sit well with me. I guess I have to ship my RAM with it and hold your GD hand and teach you guys how to test shit.
Worst episode EVER!!!. Rest assured I will be registering my disgust over the internet!!!
Also you would think that Asus would spend ten bucks and get some more bandwidth on thier download sections of the website. On a 10Mbit line I am getting a wopping 8Kb/s. I tried all thier locations too.
I took it home and got sweet clocks from it with my TCCD running at default settings. Then tried to get the mem tied down and thats when I realized what a piece of junk it was. The worst bios setup I had ever seen. Not only did the bios suck, it didnt even set what you wanted to appy. I would just "override" your setting and appy its own idea of what it thought was right. After several weeks of wasted time I finally got semi decent clocks out of both the RAM and CPU, and low and behold the board would squeal like a stuck pig.
There was also these stupid baby steps you would have to take adjusting the HTT and voltage. Dont do more than 20 Mhz at a time and reboot, turn off power, prey to the east wait a minute, then tunr back on, pour chicken blood on your desk. Got so sickening
Pissed to the max I tried to get my 2x1G Muskin Redlines running good with it. They were better but I needed 259Mhz out of the RAM to get my CPU to where it would go on my Ultra-D. No luck, unstable as hell.
After two months of wasted life, I decide to RMA the damn thing because allot of people reported the first boards to suck. Well after a three week turn around Asus sends me the same board back stating there is nothing wrong with it.
Well Asus, I gotta tell you. After a guy spends waayyy to much time dealing with your bunk making sure it isnt just him, then you take three weeks to ship it back and tell him he is stupid and the board it fine, doenst sit well with me. I guess I have to ship my RAM with it and hold your GD hand and teach you guys how to test shit.
Worst episode EVER!!!. Rest assured I will be registering my disgust over the internet!!!
Also you would think that Asus would spend ten bucks and get some more bandwidth on thier download sections of the website. On a 10Mbit line I am getting a wopping 8Kb/s. I tried all thier locations too.
manufacturers dont guarantee any sort of overclock, they just guarantee it will work at stock settings.
