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More info?)
Chris,
I built a new box back in February and have had no trouble at all with
this mobo:
Asus p4s800d-e
P4 2.8C
1G Kingston 3200DDR
Antec SLK3700 - 350W SmartPower, 120mm exhaust fan (cool & quiet!)
eVGA geforceFX 5600 Ultra w/vivo
Plextor 708A (the only glitch - wouldn't burn to DVD+RW, but replaced
NQA)
WD 1600JD SE IDE
WE 400JD IDE
DV encoding, gaming, etc - solid as a rock. Stock cooling fine.
Haven't felt compelled to OC... yet.
Good luck!
Beth
chrish@easynet.co.uk (ChrisH) wrote in message news:<drdlc0hf4v3s97pjpjlgfg54dhhi4tkrml@4ax.com>...
> On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 23:33:39 GMT, "DaveW" <none@zero.org> wrote:
>
> >Do NOT use it. SIS is known inside the industry to stand for "Stability Is
> >Secondary." Buy an Asus board with an Intel chipset and you will find it
> >much more stable.
>
> Thanks for the input, but I think I'll give it a try. I figure if it
> proves to be unstable it's an easy job to swap it out - provided it
> doesn't fry other components I don't lose anything. I had budgeted for
> a new MB anyway but using this board might save me a few $$.
>
> What I was really looking for was experience of users, whether they
> managed to OC it successfully or whether there are any gotchas (I
> know about the onboard sound). I propose to use this box for heavy
> number crunching instead of tying down my desktop machine. Things like
> video encoding, and mp3 conversions - and maybe SETI when it's not
> doing that. It will not be used for games so no fancy graphics card
> will be used. Mostly it will be left switched on all the time, I'll
> send it files to process over the network (using remote desktop). As
> it will be working hard I guess a better cpu cooler than the stock
> item might be an idea. You can see that stability is important so if
> it can't hack it then it goes.
>
> ChrisH