Quote Originally Posted by Roger_D25 View Post
Your the first person who has had similar problems, thanks for posting dMITIj! At this point I have narrowed the problem down to my graphics card. The reason I think this is because I've tried 2x other graphics cards (eVGA 8800GT and XFX 8800GTX) and I tried 1x other PSU (Antec TPQ 850w) and I couldn't reproduce the problem with any of that hardware, they all worked just fine! Besides testing that other hareware I also did many other things to try figureing out the issue with no luck.

With that said I contacted eVGA and talked with them about my problem and the testing I did. They agreed to RMA the card and my new replacment was shipped out yesterday (same day I contacted them) via cross-shipping and should arrive later this afternoon! Granted I paid for the privledge but it certainly beats waiting 2+ weeks with no card (this is why I love eVGA, their customer service has always been 110%)!

Now despite my graphics card issue this board is awesome! Like many it took me many reboots to get the BIOS somewhat figured out and to get my system stable at stock settings. I soon became comfortable with the BIOS (after lots of testing and lots of reading, thanks for Raja's article/review over at Anandtech) and realized the potential of this board! Despite my limited time with the board I'm already able to run considerably tighter timings (sub-timings as well) with less voltage and same speeds as I could with my 680i! This alone lowered my 32M SuperPI times well over 1min at 3.6Ghz, I was blown away! Granted this has lots to do with a new chipset but still over 1min is nothing to laugh at!

I don't think I'm anyway near the upper limits of this board yet and now that my semester is over I'll have the time to really push it!
Hello Roger.

yestaday i trid the 8800GTS on a frinde's computer (EVGA 680i) whit a 500w PSU and 5 fans, and there were no problems at all, today ill get another mobo (Gigabyte GA X38 DQ6) to see if there is any problems running my setup, ill get back asap