Testing / comparing : Intel D975XBX2 / Asus P5B DX ***56K WARNING***

[jmpage2]

Anyone have a problem where the bios takes awhile to post? All of a sudden its just taking awhile to post, it sits at the bar from load and waits awhile to show the Intel screen. Any ideas?

Mine does that too. I think it started to do it after I disabled watchdog.

As far as the heatsink retention mechanism orientation goes on the 9700, I did flip it around to vertical and my temps are 1C lower, although maybe the ambient temp drifted a little bit.

PS, I don't recommend going vertical with the retention bracket on the 9700, it's a serious pain to install, I had to take the power supply out to do it.

[argylesocks]

Mine does that too. I think it started to do it after I disabled watchdog.

As far as the heatsink retention mechanism orientation goes on the 9700, I did flip it around to vertical and my temps are 1C lower, although maybe the ambient temp drifted a little bit.

PS, I don't recommend going vertical with the retention bracket on the 9700, it's a serious pain to install, I had to take the power supply out to do it.

hmmm. i just re-read the instructions again and i guess i did it worng

thats what i get for installing a heatsink at 1am, right? oh well, i aint changing it now... that thing was a pain to install (the wrong way)!!

sorry to have pointed you in the wrong direction.