Had this board running on my system for a couple of months now, and have had no problems at all. Initially before i bought it i was concerned about the fitting of the CPU fan as it looked extremley close to the chipset fan, But the CPU fan went in with room to spare. Other connections are well thought out and allow room for air to get round them. The documentation is easy to follow and explained clearly, all the connectors for the board (SATA/IDE, USB, Firewire..etc) are in with the motherboard.
But if your computer case came without mounting screws you'll need to buy the paper washers/screws and motherboard jackscrews to fit the board to the case.
I dont have any regrets getting this board.
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Great board for both overclockers and gamers, FSB speeds are insane if you know what you're doing, but requires voltmods if you seriously want to overclock your processor, only 4 phase power so the vdroop is horrendous.
The jumpers are a bit fiddly when enabling both PCI-E slots for crossfire, asus boards switch automatically without the need for jumpers, but at this price i can't grumble.
The board layout is really good from the view of cable management, keeps everything really tidy, my only wish is they had put a fan on the northbridge to keep it a little cooler.
I ran into a compatibility problem with this board, my Compro Videomate E800 wouldn't work, it was detected in windows but the drivers would't ... Read More:
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All worked first hand as expected. I am using this for a media centre type of computer. I installed a Core 2 Duo E8600 CPU trying to minimise energy avoiding to lose performance, some silent fans, resulting in a very low noise box suitable for the living room (under TV).
I am running Kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) with KDE 4.1 and all the mythtv goodies and two tv cards. The machine is very stable, running 24 hrs, recording and playing flawlessly. Also used it to watch DVDs, streaming music to my Sounbridge, etc.
I was worried that the chipset was not supported by the Linux kernel, but those kernels guys sorted out quickly. I had nothing special to do. The nvidia video driver was also automatically detected and setup. Not ... Read More:
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All worked first hand as expected. I am using this for a media centre type of computer. I installed a Core 2 Duo E8600 CPU trying to minimise energy avoiding to lose performance, some silent fans, resulting in a very low noise box suitable for the living room (under TV).
I am running Kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) with KDE 4.1 and all the mythtv goodies and two tv cards. The machine is very stable, running 24 hrs, recording and playing flawlessly. Also used it to watch DVDs, streaming music to my Sounbridge, etc.
I was worried that the chipset was not supported by the Linux kernel, but those kernels guys sorted out quickly. I had nothing special to do. The nvidia video driver was also automatically detected and setup. Not ... Read More:
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All worked first hand as expected. I am using this for a media centre type of computer. I installed a Core 2 Duo E8600 CPU trying to minimise energy avoiding to lose performance, some silent fans, resulting in a very low noise box suitable for the living room (under TV).
I am running Kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) with KDE 4.1 and all the mythtv goodies and two tv cards. The machine is very stable, running 24 hrs, recording and playing flawlessly. Also used it to watch DVDs, streaming music to my Sounbridge, etc.
I was worried that the chipset was not supported by the Linux kernel, but those kernels guys sorted out quickly. I had nothing special to do. The nvidia video driver was also automatically detected and setup. Not ... Read More:
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