Why I Sold my Crosshair II

[soundood]

yep, tonight i sold my Crosshair II Mobo, after a little deliberation, i thought about my upgrade path, i am going for a nvidia 295 sometime soon, so wont need an SLI enabled Mobo.

so before i started fitting it i thought i would sell it and get another mobo. as the quest for Sli Nvidia chipset was no more, i had a look around to see what was on offer, but to be honest, after a quik convo i had with chew* the other day in a post, i knew what board it would be

i also wanted something 'new' and 'exciting' with some 'features' and so on,

anyways to the point, after reading some reviews and my convo with chew* (and also the benches they have been brinngin us all)

i have went with the ASUS M4A79 Deluxe it arrives on wedensday morning

http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1...64&modelmenu=1

all i need is some time to get it together and bench my now few week old 940 properly.

some random pics and a link (to pad the post out...lol)

[chew*]

I think you will enjoy it, Pay close attention to ram settings and take your time with them in memtest. Once dialed in it will be a solid performer.

The gigabyte is nice bang for buck but I immediately knew this board had more potential just playing with it for a few hours.

I really need to get off my butt fire it back up and start tweaking it but for now i'm taking a break for a couple days then I will fix the mounting issues, slap a TRUE on it and see what its reall made of.

[cdawall]

i doubt you will see much higher clocks vs the crosshair II

[soundood]

I agree, i dont think i will see much differance to the crosshair II, in terms of clocks, i might get a little maybe 100 mhz, i just like the board itself, it seems to have a couple of new features, that might be useful.

also i like the fact this board is just out, the crosshair has been around for a while now. and i have also been reading about some ram issues.

i am an OCZ fan all the way, i had some crucial for a while, but they failed me, i RMA'd them for more OCZ, i have had never had a problem with them.

but i was reading that the crosshair was having some hassle with them

thats all by the by, this board will have 2 x 2 gig of 1066 OCZ Platinum and a Phenom 940

i cant wait

[Lathode]

Their should be an "official" M4A79 thread. I first found this forum because of the Abit IP35 Pro thread that had tons of info, it would be cool to have a similar M4A79 thread. I'm also curious if other people are having the same issue as I am. I set my vcore on this board to 1.325, the HW monitor shows ~1.37 and PC Probe shows ~1.40v.

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Asus M4A79 Deluxe
AMD Phenom II 940 Black Edition
4GB Corsair Dominator 1066
Sapphire Toxic 4870 1GB
(2) WD Black 640GB RAID0
Lite-On 22x DVD-RW
Antec Solo / Corsair 650TX

[chew*]

Their should be an "official" M4A79 thread. I first found this form because of the Abit IP35 Pro thread that had tons of info, it would be cool to have a similar M4A79 thread. I'm also curious if other people are having the same issue as I am. I set my vcore on this board to 1.325, the HW monitor shows ~1.37 and PC Probe shows ~1.40v.

I already started a thread ,I'm a very busy person though, I will get to it asap

[soundood]

I already started a thread ,I'm a very busy person though, I will get to it asap

yeah thats more of a personal review thread, i think he means an official thread for posting problems and such, sharing bios settings and so on.

might be an idea to start one, you know name it

'Official M4A79 deluxe thread'

[Ket]

Might want to cancel and reorder your board, I found it for £157 inc. delivery Its not much difference, but its a few pints down the pub after a stressful day of OCing

[soundood]

Might want to cancel and reorder your board, I found it for £157 inc. delivery Its not much difference, but its a few pints down the pub after a stressful day of OCing

i actually have it for £157 inc delivery, i opted for the AM delivery, at an extra £6, i need to go to work in the afternoon wedensday, so i had to make sure it came AM

but thanks for the find, have you used them before?

[Ket]

I have. Very fast delivery and all was in order.

[chew*]

yeah thats more of a personal review thread, i think he means an official thread for posting problems and such, sharing bios settings and so on.

might be an idea to start one, you know name it

'Official M4A79 deluxe thread'

Yah I hate thread titles like that, I find a lot of misinformation in threads like that as well. I planned on sharing settings, problems, workarounds although I probably won't find everyday use quirks, least not at this point in time.

[N19h7m4r3]

Sounds great guys, also Chew* what do you mean dial those ram settings.

I just got my M4A79 Deluxe and my Mushkin ram is on the fritz, giving out over 29k errors before it even reaches 10% in Memtest.

Either my ram is beyond hope or my motherboard is doing this?

[Macadamia]

soundood how much did you sell that for?

Oh and congrats on the M4A, the tank of AMD mobos.

[soundood]

hey thanks

the tank of AMD Mobo's lol, well i sold my crosshair for £150, i bought it for £166, so lost £16 on the deal.

it was brand new in the box, only opened to have a look, the thing is i didnt need the sound card either, i have a SB X-Fi here with front panel.

nightmare, i think he means you got to be specific about those ram timings, across the board, and not gor for any auto options (although auto will be god for 800 mhz say, once into 1066+ well thats a differant story

[MrMojoZ]

See, I knew you'd end up with an AMD motherboard.

[Nedjo]

See, I knew you'd end up with an AMD motherboard.

the next step is overclocking via AOD 3.0 :p

[Raiderman]

A HD4890 would fit nicely in that board

[N19h7m4r3]

hey thanks

the tank of AMD Mobo's lol, well i sold my crosshair for £150, i bought it for £166, so lost £16 on the deal.

it was brand new in the box, only opened to have a look, the thing is i didnt need the sound card either, i have a SB X-Fi here with front panel.

nightmare, i think he means you got to be specific about those ram timings, across the board, and not gor for any auto options (although auto will be god for 800 mhz say, once into 1066+ well thats a differant story

I was messing around with timings volts everything, but the ram wont let me do anything.

Got some cheap 2GB 2x1GB corsair 800 and my system is stable running and actually working.

I'll see what I can clock the system too with these.

[Zeus]

You will love the board, it's very solid and easy to use. (bios)

[chew*]

Sounds great guys, also Chew* what do you mean dial those ram settings.

I just got my M4A79 Deluxe and my Mushkin ram is on the fritz, giving out over 29k errors before it even reaches 10% in Memtest.

Either my ram is beyond hope or my motherboard is doing this?

Try playing with the advance dps settings

try advance + 300dps.

[soundood]

See, I knew you'd end up with an AMD motherboard.

Ok i got an AMD board, but i did have a crosshair, you made your predictions during the Phenom I era, new chip, new rules as they say

the next step is overclocking via AOD 3.0 :p

talking about that, where are you macci? I need a new version of AOD to tear apart

A HD4890 would fit nicely in that board

dont you start !!!!!


well it got here this morning, i havent done a thing yet as i need to work this afternoon, but i expect i will get on a bench of it tonight !

heres a couple of shots box/whats in the box.

[informal]

Oh my she's a beauty . Good (clocking) luck !

[soundood]

quik update,

after having a look at the PWM cooling section i thought that it rang a bell, it looks very familiar to my old skt 939 ASUS Sli board, i new i had the old fan somewhere, (we keep everything ehh? missus hates it) so i dug it out,

and low and behold, fits like a glove, even has the two grooves on the heatsink to 'lock' the fan to it



just a clean up on it and its good to go, ohh and a cable, since i chopped it off

[Zeus]

The fan fits nice but i just can't stand the whining noise it makes.

[soundood]

ohh i forgot about that, that slightly high pitched noise?


mmmmmmmmm, might not after all i will test and see