"ASUS P5Q Deluxe discussion".

[Leeghoofd]

Is anyone running this board with only Samsung F1 drives?

I had 4 die on me from which 2 connected to the P5Q Dlx ( all same manufacture date ) and will never ever buy these again... sequential read errors, freeze probs and corrupt MBR's...reminds me of the bad IBM batches a few decades back It could be one of ya hard drives acting up... Are they the terrabyte variant ?

a capacitor comes in contact with the right side of the heatpipe of this cooler.
What would be your suggestion for a passive cooler solution on the southbridge of a P5Q Deluxe? Did somebody try a Zalman NB-47J on this mobo?

Can't you orientate it to a different angle ?

nope system crashed

You cannot set subtimings from another person mate, each ram kit, mobo is different...

I'm building a P5Q Deluxe system now with the TRUE Black heatsink.. Noticed that if I orientate the heatsink such that the fan attached on the heatsink blows towards the rear exhaust, the edge of the heatsink comes in contact with the northbridge heatsink.

Can you take a picture of that issue, I had the normal Ultra 120 and the eXtreme on my mobo without an issue... there was enough clearance

[newtom]

Can't you orientate it to a different angle ?

Using a HR05-IFX there is no other orientation possible, 'cause I have a very long GFX card (a Radeon 4870 X2) with a full cover waterblock on that, and a secondary VGA in the lowest PCI-Ex slot for a third monitor (running in 4x mode, but it doesn't matter).
Looking from above the top edge of the southbridge is side-by-side at the bottom edge of the VGA block...

Mumid:
Since the end of November I have two 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ drives in Raid0 on the ICH10R controller, had no problems with them so far...

[Mumid]

I had 4 die on me from which 2 connected to the P5Q Dlx ( all same manufacture date ) and will never ever buy these again... sequential read errors, freeze probs and corrupt MBR's...reminds me of the bad IBM batches a few decades back It could be one of ya hard drives acting up... Are they the terrabyte variant ?

I am using my 320GB F1 to boot from. None of the hard drives are showing any corruption problems to be honest.