get the UD3R it does great with quads.
get the UD3R it does great with quads.
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I wondered why bother to rma an Asus P5Q, not worth the trouble, especially with experiences like that!
Since you want a simple but reliable non-Asus P45 board, I was also going to suggest looking at Gigabyte's P45 boards, as radaja has just mentioned. As well as the EP45-UD3R that he suggested, there are the UD3L, UD3P, and the DS4P versions, best to compare prices and availability in your area.
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Thats a good point... MOSFETs actually degrade and eventually fail when used in extremely cold temperatures.
Oh BTW, my experience with Asus RMA has been nothing short of fantastic. I got on Advance RMA on my old Rampage Formula, they sent me a new one with 3-day shipping while I still had the dead one and once I got it, I sent back my defective one.
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Gigabyte over Asus anyday. No one comes close to Gigabytes quality.
agreed, it was shown not too long ago that asus dont use japaneese capacitors, they were found out to be using cheap chineese capacitors that explode.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/asu...oard,5348.html
why would anyone buy an asus board after all this information was made public about them a long time ago?
insted of asus trying to disprove that thier boards are cheap they try and sue http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?op...=7505&Itemid=1
funny stuff.
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Gigabyte EP45-UD3P all the way.
And that sucks man, I know about ASUS' crappy service. I had to RMA my P5Q-Deluxe a few months ago. The RMA process took a month. I was livid. When I got the notification that the board was on its way back to me, I called them to ask what was wrong with it. The lady I talked to said there'd be an invoice in the box and that'd tell me what was wrong. When I got the board there was no such invoice. I never called back to follow up...if they weren't going to tell me the first time they wouldn't tell me the second time, especially after the board was in my hands again. Their work was done For all I know, they waved a wooden stick over the board chanting "la la la la" and sent it back to me. The jostling during shipping out there probably did more to fix it than they did.
The whole reason I bought the P5Q-Deluxe this time was because I saw the screenshots of people who had next to zero vDroop with a 65nm quad, which impressed me coming from a G33M-DS2R from Gigabyte which had terrible vDroop (not their fault, the board wasn't designed to OC a Q6700). And I had a great experience with two separate M2N-SLI Deluxe boards - mine was great and a friend's survived two different electrical problems...once from being shorted against the motherboard tray of his case because the idiot didn't use standoffs, and a second time when his house was hit by lightning and he didn't have it on a surge protector. The board lived, he traded it to me, and I sold it to another friend for cheap who's using it now and hasn't had a single BSoD or crash (though he's not an overclocker and that particular board has never been OCed to my knowledge). And because the M2N-SLI Deluxe was so well-built I never had to deal with ASUS' customer service. Recently that opinion has changed.
The next time I buy ASUS you can rest assured there will be a gun to my head.
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