Originally Posted By: Onmo'Eegusee
Originally Posted By: OVERK1LL
That's odd, I've never had an issue with their Intel-based boards. I have on the other hand, had issues with Gigabyte, MSI and ECS.
ABIT and Tyan have both been solid too.
ASUS puts a lot of effort into their overclocking stuff. My Maximus Formula was phenomenal in that regard, and so is my current board, a P7P55D-E with an i5.
BTW, your 5-series spanks my Crossfire'd 4890's in the Windows Performance Index
All my previous boards were AMD. Except for the Pentium 4 machine, but I got that chip free so I was just buying a board to go with it..
The 5870 is overclocked to to 900/1300, so that helps a bit.
You wont believe the bad luck I had this morning. I woke up to the highpoint screaming because on of the drives in my array dropped out. I bought these Seagates back when they were new. Well, I didnt find out until after I bought them, but they are junk. I have 5 of these 7200.11 drives and this is number 3 to die. Well, the drive in my old P4 machine is the same model as the four in my array. I already copied everything I need from it, so I hot-swapped it in and went back to sleep while it rebuilt. Good to go for now.
I also just rearranged some fans, and added a second one to the cpu cooler in a push-pull config. Dropped about 5C off full load.
Ahhh, AMD. Were any of these dead ASUS boards VIA based by chance? Any of the "off-brand" chipsets were and still are very much a [censored] as to whether they are reliable or a nightmare. I find the manufacturer of the board has very little bearing on this. Been using and selling Intel-based boards commercially for 12 years now and every time I end up with a problematic VIA, SiS, ALI...etc based board on my bench it just reaffirms why I chose, and continue to choose to go that route for my own systems and the workstations and servers (as well as the odd gaming rig for friends/associates) I build for my clients.
And yes, those Seagate drives are known to be tragic, though don't feel too bad, I've had similar (albeit not quite as bad) luck with the (expensive) WD REII drives. Every one I RMA comes back as an REIII
I've got two Seagate 1TB drives in this box right now, but they are in RAID1, so I'll never obtain the same level of performance as you are getting.
How are you liking the 5-series card for gaming?