Quote Originally Posted by aiya_au View Post
You should have done some research before you posted. Its not the board thats the problem, its the bios. people that run PC8500 ram (not PC6400 like you are running) with ANY bios can't run it stable at stock settings. we can't POST, get BSOD's inside windows etc etc.

whats the point of spending all this money getting high performance ram when it needs to be clocked down just to be stable. this problem has been around for ages and ASUS havn't done anything to fix it. The ram problem only exists for bios' after 0207 (i think), so people with older cpu's are fine, but if you have later cpu's that need a later bios to recognise it and you have PC8500 ram, then your out of luck until ASUS decides to fix it
I suffer from this daily. And I've made so manny posts about it. I have a couple of G.Skill PC8500 kits and a Corsair PC10000 kit, all of which after a crash and the bios resets need to be removed and the PC will only boot of a OCZ PC6400 kit I have. It's gotta be the most anoying thing as it happens 2 or 3 times a day sometimes.

And almost no dividers work for me ( same for my mate), if I'm 425FSB+ I can only boot on the 400 strap which gives me a whole 2 dividers to chose from. Honestly I can't wait till I move away from this board.

Quote Originally Posted by godsfist View Post
Bah bloody crazy cool has to be dismantled for a decent cooler and the only other difference is triple bios versus quad bios.. save yourself a few bucks and some fiddling about
Well this is my 1st Asus board, all the others have always been Gigabyte. Crazy cool dismanatling isn't a problem, I had to do it on a P965-DQ6 I had.