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OPB killed two more CPUs on the Expert - I managed to kill an Expert board but no other casualty on my end ( besides a stick of mushkin redline 512mb ram previously...)
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SOmeone can add a vote one more bad vote on Expert for me....and 4 for OPB - lol
Got another expert up and runnign for about 2 weeks with no issues at all :)
Yes it´s quite normal that just about all that finds their way will post about their problems whereas for people it´s running fine for they will post more when it get messed up...
But still the problem is not that there is problems but the severity of them. My Expert died and took my CPU/RAM and what not with it is not something I like to hear...
It´s to much of that really. For me it needs to be stable 2 years at least not two weeks...
Now I know there is a big chance I will get a expert that runs fine for two years but still...
And I do know I can get issues with any mainboard on the market but I have never ever had it happen that a mainboard has killed any of my hardware before...
But apart from that how many here have gotten stable. Not experts that can make insane overclocking and run some benchies but I meen stable 24/7 gaming computer with good overclock?
My DFI Lanparty Nforce 3 250 GB was never that. My Shuttle AN50R was but how is the Expert doing in comparison?
so - i borrowed from my friend mushkin redline UTT 2x512. looks nice.Quote:
Originally Posted by bullit
260x10 2-2-2-5 3.4v (bios setting 3,48) and its rock stable with tight subtimings.
sisoft sandra bandwith ~6900. is it ok? everest lattency ~39ns with auto/auto drive strenghts, 36ns with 7/4. seems that working drive strenghts for UTT on expert is 6-7/1-4
rdx200 died and took my 3700 with it so the mobo went for rma and when it came back my x800gto2 has stopped working so as soon as sapphire give me an rma no thats off too. im not too sure i want to put my fx57 in it now as i cant afford to lose that and dfi dont seem to care that the board kills other hardware.
Thats bad news Cossey, sorry to hear. What bios version were you using?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cossey
the original one, i had one of the first batch of boards the cpu died within the first half an hour of using the board. im going to try it again with the latest bios and my old 3200 winchester and a pci gfx card then try and sort out whats happened with the gto2.
its a shame because on paper the board is miles better than my current neo2 but in reality its worse than useless.
RDX is a good board. My FX-57 gained 30 Mhz running on this board, now running @ 3.68Ghz vs. Ultra-D @ 3.65Ghz
Lol,Quote:
Originally Posted by G H Z
You gained 30mhz and I lost mhz with my 57's on the RDX-200. :)
Some odd reason it does not like any of my FX 55 or 57 San diego 90nm cpus,
beyond an certain point.
So, I ended up buying an 55 ClawHammer for this board to continue my
crossfire venture. Funny thing is, first 55 ClawHammer I come across
and its an 0442 GPMW :slobber: .
Just picked up the Expert after a tossup between that and the RDX.
I'm quite happy with this board... came back to DFI as it is currently the best available choice right now. I previously owned two DFI Ultra-D's that BOTH failed on me, so I was quite weary about purchasing another DFI board...
First Ultra-D: Incompatible with any PSU but an old AOpen (Fortron) 300W 20 pin PSU (with adapter). Somehow I managed to get it working once (I never power off unless doing a hardware change) with my X2, VX and Seasonic S12-500... turned off to install a HDD once and it never POSTed with anything besides the AOpen.
Second Ultra-D: Refused to boot after two days and took my Audigy 2ZS along with it.
After hearing so much praise about the Expert from someone with a very similar setup to mine, I bit the bullet and bought one last night. The only other boards I somewhat considering were the A8N32 and A8R-MVP... but people have said the vCore flux was wild (one of my main concerns for stable overclock).
My MSI K8N Neo4 Plat wasn't letting me push my X2 and 2x1024 D43 much past stock at all with voltage and tweaks, but the Expert works quite well.
Currently dual Priming: 10 x 260, 1.40 vCore in BIOS, Zalman 7000A HSF. 217 3-3-3-8-1T @ 2.75 vCore. When I left for work it was 5 hours and counting. Stock BIOS (11/02)
Hopefully it can match (or even surpass) my old Venice at 9 x 300.
After some thorough testing tonight with some 270+ Mhz BH-5 I'm starting to dislike this board :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Dynasty
It runs the GSkill awsome but I can't get this thing to run LL memory for crap.
Do you have the BH5 int he yellow slots?.... BH5 seems to like the yellow slots a bit better,,, more voltage,,, people says TCCD go into the orange slots,,,,Quote:
Originally Posted by G H Z
Sounds like most of those whose expert's and rdx's have died are using phase cooling. Condensation issue?
About to test my luck again in the next upcoming week, my RDX200 is inbound to Kansas after Newegg RMA replacement. Maybe I can get 3ghz stable :)
i had my 148 to 3ghz 273x11 6hrs prime . i was also higher than what i had achieved on my nf4 board. but maybe because i had to go through a whole nother learning curve with it
Try some 4000 VX or Redline. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by G H Z
Both my 4000 VX & XP 4000 Redline run better on my RDX,
then my BH-5/6 rams.
i get a better oc out of my rdx than may nf4 so it seems . alot easier to setup aswell then the early nf4's ( bought my ultra-d first week) . so far im happy
any rdx200 owners notice that thier mb's do the mem count on boot up and reset everytime unlike other mb's? now im not seeing a selection in the bios to stop this so im wanting to know if this is normal cause its kinda a pain in the arse...
peace perc,
well i havent really see that but i feel , may be my own pysch feelings that it takes longer to boot with the logo than w/o .
im not using the logo boot so maybe thats why i notice the mem count cause i can actualy see whats going on instead of looking at the logo. i looked all over the bios i cant find anything that will make it stop counting the memory every dammed time it boots? this cant be right...
peace perc,
maybe a quick post option or something?
running @ 280htt, prime stable for more than 24h, but 32m superPi can't pass...
CAn I change my vote to "Freaking Expert never been really stable, burned a PSU, not quite compatible with Seasonic, and now killed a San Diego 3700 after disabling SLi on the driver settings."
I am not a happy customer. Thank God for my little P3 laptop.
My second RDX is back.. churring away with my E6 San Diego as I type. :D
There are some people in serious denial over this issue on another forum <sigh>. And still the failures keep rolling in...