Asus Core 2 Duo board out!

[Toocoolforanickname]

NEWEGG!

 

[angry_ducky]

LINK!

 

[chuckshissle]

What!?

 

[capnbfg]

I'm not seeing it:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=ENE&N=2010200280+50001315+1070509908&Subcategory=280&description=&srchInDesc=&minPrice=&maxPrice=

Did you mean see Core Duo and think Core 2 Duo by mistake?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131007

 

[Toocoolforanickname]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131025


I BOUGHT ONE

 

[FITCamaro]

Only $260 huh?

 

[Toocoolforanickname]

Yea, but that what you gotta pay for the newest stuff on the block . Also, I bought it like 5 hours ago and it was 234.99 , they boosted up the price probably cuz of demand

 

[capnbfg]

Ha, I stand corrected. I forgot that 975X would support Core 2 (mainly because I never even gave that chipset any thought; I plan on getting a Radeon Xpress 3200 system), and newegg didn't list it as such.

Asus website to the rescue:
http://usa.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=248&model=1198&modelmenu=1

 

[TheMaster]

sweet... although i don't plan on paying more than 150 bucks for a mobo.

 

[Toocoolforanickname]

Dang! Sold out in 1 day :X

 

[symbi0nt]

http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=40HY&CategorySelectedId=11143&PageMode=1&NavigationKey=11143,50626,356410000,4294959071,4294959072,4294957129,379730000

Is that it?

 

[CptCpu]

I think i will wait till the launch of the 965 with core 2. The board is nice but it cost alittle to much for me.

 

[FITCamaro]

DO MAKE ME WAIT ANOTHER WHOLE YEAR, PLEEEEEASE!!

Ok.

 

[conroe]

I got mine for 234.99.

I wanted a P5B ($150?) or the Deluxe version, but orderd this on impulse. I don't need many of it's features, but if you did the price is really not too bad. It's loaded.

 

[conroe]

Asus is the best, forget the rest.

 

[pengwin]

Asus is the best, forget the rest.

I dont like ASUS. ASUS + AMD = bad combo, dunno about ASUS and intel.


anyways im goin witht he Intel 975xbx "Bad Axe" mobo. best 975x mobo. 10 bucks cheaper.

 

[conroe]

Every Intel mobo I have had is Asus. I had two P5P800. Now I just have a P5P800SE (I hate the Vdroop.) Bet this one is the KILLER.

 

[gman01]

A word of warning to the wise:

In the past, some ASUS User Manuals
failed to document certain on-board
controllers adequately; and, even though
we notified upper management in Taiwan,
the manuals were not updated with the
necessary changes.

In general, it's easiest to install Windows
with all on-board controllers turned OFF
in the BIOS. And, PATA optical drives
are mostly routine, whereas SATA optical
drives continue to have problems with
Windows Setup. Fry's Electronics stopped
carrying Plextor's SATA DVD burner,
for this reason.

Then, after Windows is installed and running AOK,
re-boot, switch a given controller ON, and
Plug-n-Play should detect it, activating
the sequence to load the driver.

What the ASUS User Manuals have been
omitting is the F6 requirement for certain
options like AHCI on the main SATA ports.
AHCI is the Intel option for 300 MB/second
but NO RAID on Intel's ICH7R (I/O controller
hub on i955X and i975X chipsets).

Fortunately, the ASUS User Manuals do
adequately describe how to load Windows
onto an Intel RAID using Intel's Matrix
Storage Manager.

Similarly, if you want to install Windows on a
hard drive wired to a different on-board controller,
and the Windows Setup CD does NOT have
the proper driver, then F6 to the rescue
(but this is NOT documented). Browse the
Support CD (or read the User Manual documentation
which describes the driver options on that CD).

For this latter option to work, however,
you'll need to create a driver diskette
by inserting the Support CD into a
working Widows machine: Windows Setup
needs to read the driver from a floppy disk,
because the target drive is not even formatted
yet at that point in the Windows Setup sequence.

Same is true of the Intel Matrix Storage Manager,
but those directions are adequately documented
in the faulty User Manuals that we examined.


Summary: some ASUS on-board controllers require
a driver diskette to be prepared first, and then
the F6 sequence, for Windows Setup to work.


Sincerely yours,
/s/ Paul Andrew Mitchell
Webmaster, Supreme Law Library
http://www.supremelaw.org/

translation: asus stinks!!!! Buy at your own risk!!!!

 

[TheMaster]

Asus has voltage problems...

My old P4C800(865 chipset) and my new p4gpl-x (915) both overvolt my northy to 1.6 v.. even if i change it to 1.4.

Other than that the mobos work fine... still i'd expect better from asus.