I have an asus a8n32-sli!

**bigjohns97** · 11-08-2005, 07:32 AM

Time to go out and get one of those dual core opty's.

**jetjaguar** · 11-08-2005, 07:33 AM

man this is scary all these new boards killing cpus .. first the crossfire dfi and not the asus

**Psyche911** · 11-08-2005, 05:09 PM

Well, I've been scavanging for info on the BT fitting it, thanks for clearing that up. Looks like it had at least a 1/4" of clearance too. I bet it'll cool that "StackCool" sink very well.

Sorry to hear about the CPU. Makes me a little worried as I really find this board appealing.

**Otaking71** · 11-08-2005, 05:22 PM

i think my a8n32 is now defective. it's now taken a second processor..at completely stock.

my distributor is going to verify this with me tomorrow morning. he's got another board already waiting for me.

i popped in a second 3200+ into my a8n-e...verified it was fine....loaded it into the a8n32 with a cleared cmos....got into the cmos and saved and exit...dead proc.

I've honestly had an EXTREMELY bad streak of luck lately. I think it's just a bum board, we'll see what happens.

I did notice there's a new bios on asus' site last night. i'll flash it first thing on the new board (to not take any chances and report back)

**Otaking71** · 11-08-2005, 05:24 PM

a few more things...

yes..the board and proc run VERY cool on this board.

the top side of the board is black..the bottomside is blue.

we'll see if i have better luck with the next board...it's honestly probably just my bad luck.

(you'd swear somebody has put a curse/voodoo doll of me if you've known what's been going on with me)

**Otaking71** · 11-08-2005, 05:36 PM

I've actually built computers for 9 years now. I've to date killed 1 proc to overclocking prior to this board. The second proc I put in was stock.

**AeroSquid** · 11-08-2005, 06:35 PM

it's scary

**situman** · 11-08-2005, 06:36 PM

scary!

**calcal** · 11-08-2005, 06:53 PM

where did you get the board so early?

**IvanAndreevich** · 11-08-2005, 07:16 PM

Overclocking the chip doesn't really increase the chances of it frying as long as your cooling is decent and you don't do crazy voltage (which the ASUS board can't do at all). Don't blame overclocking for it.

The board might be screwed, though.

**Supertim0r** · 11-08-2005, 07:17 PM

is it as good as the DFI ?

**calcal** · 11-08-2005, 07:27 PM

better

**da-key** · 11-08-2005, 07:34 PM

**trza2k** · 11-08-2005, 07:41 PM

Originally Posted by calcal

better

Bit early to be saying that. (ive got an expert and a8n32 on order anyway to test)

**situman** · 11-08-2005, 07:41 PM

good price at xpcgear.com but its a pre-order. Anyone ordered from them? How are they to work with?

**xenolith** · 11-08-2005, 08:38 PM

Another Crossfire board that's killing CPUs?

Now something's not right.

**Supertim0r** · 11-08-2005, 08:42 PM

Originally Posted by xenolith

Another Crossfire board that's killing CPUs?

Now something's not right.

it's nf4

**xenolith** · 11-08-2005, 08:59 PM

Oh yeah, sorry. These new "deluxe" and "expert" NF4 boards coming out the same time as Crossfire has got my head spinning.

**Otaking71** · 11-09-2005, 12:06 AM

I can tell you it is at least on par with the dfi nf4 prior to this bugging out. I have very good contacts with certain distributors, I happened to pull a favor which is how I got the board so early and cheap. The a8n-e could not get the proc to 2550 prime stable..the dfi nf4 could do just over 2.6ghz (not much past it...2.62 would never pass)..as did the a8n32..which is the last speed i tried was 2.61 which is par. I can tell you the dfi never managed to boot into windows at 2.7..the a8n32 DID.

**cpuz** · 11-09-2005, 02:22 AM

>Otaking
This clockgen should work on the C51 : http://www.cpuid.com/download/ClockGen.zip
Please let me know ! :-)
Thanks

**Otaking71** · 11-09-2005, 02:25 AM

i will try it later today after i go swap the boards.

**shiznit93** · 11-09-2005, 06:56 AM

wtf is goin on? i was about to put my dfi up for sale to get this asus and now its killed 2 cpu's already? i think im gonna wait til the next revision so they can get the kinks out (and maybe change that retarded slot layout).

**situman** · 11-09-2005, 07:17 AM

you seem to be pretty calm for someone that just had TWO cpus die on you.

**Otaking71** · 11-09-2005, 08:29 AM

I knew what I was getting into getting something that early. And my distributor has always taken very good care of me, so I'm not really terribly worried.

**situman** · 11-09-2005, 09:42 AM

have you swapped yet?

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