Offical Thread ASUS P5E3 DELUXE/WiFi-AP Problems, Workarounds, BIOS info.

[noneed4me2]

This board has been ultra stable for me. So stable I am bored. Itt crunches through my games and converts video files and other tasks without a skip. Still haven't messed with the wifi, probably should to make sure it works. Haven't had a need to really push it so I just let it run at FSB333 and 3ghz with my Q6600. Compared with my old A8R32mvp Deluxe there really isn't much difference in speed in everyday tasks. Of course it smokes my games on my 21" LCD and my HD2900xt runs fine. Temps are great, even when I ran it at FSB420@3.4ghz, but being this is sorta my dream build I am taking baby steps, plus there really isn't much need for insane clocks. I don't need raid at the moment but I want to run a raid 0 config just to see how well it performs, or maybe raid 5.

Future upgrades: Better video card something PCI/e 2.0, almost surely ATI. Storage wise I am going to add as I can afford. If I can throw 100 bucks a month at it I will try for another matching 500gb drive or 2 (or 3!). I will save for a Raptor 150gb for the OS's, or 2 74gb models and dedicate each drive to a particular OS. Getting ready to install Vista Home Premium (sp1 version) 64bit and Ubuntu 8.04 on their own partitions, will update with any issues. The newest Ubuntu kernel can install wothin windows but I always prefer to leave them in their own partitioned space. Its always saved me in the past, especially with Vista on 2 other 170 Opteron builds. Both started BSOD for unknown reason then one magically started working again without me doing anything (WTF!). With so many users (four kids ages 10, 6, 4, 3) and the various software they purposely or accidently install makes Vista go crazy, it really isn't as forgiving as XP pro so I mainly run it for the kids games and DX10. I played with it for about year and said forget it XP just works so I will stay with it for now.

The newest beta of Firefox blows away IE7. I didn't realize how IE7 was so slow even with decent hardware. Pages load real fast and the interface is intuitive. It has become my primary browser for now. Well thanx for all the great info and if anyone can report what exact issues they are having with bios 1209 I would appreciate. I want to try and duplicate the issue to see if its hardware related.