My Dual Harper - Asus Z7S WS living review *56K warning*

[jcool]

And another one bites the dust. Just returned home to find my Fileserver down. Reboot --> no effect, power on/off - no signal. Great. Haven't put the diag card in but I don't need to.It#s gonna say FF

Yay, so that's the 3rd or so dead board. This one lasted around 9 months, was running 420*9 with the X5450's undervolted to ~1,15V load Vcore. Extra fans on all the VRMs and mobo chips, CPU temps were at or below 50 while crunching, mobo below 45, rams below 55 at all times.

So yeah, we now know it's not a cooling issue

[neveroffline]

Doode that sucks.

So yeah, I'm still running my Z7s (2nd one) after all the headaches I went through. Then you all yelled at me about my cooling and horrible temps. I'm sure I deserved that.

My temps got better over time, but I still hit 80c+ under load. Stability has been great. I rebooted for the first time in a long time simply to update to Windows 7.

I haven't even tried to OC her. After my first board (documented here) and the terror of the FF etc, I was happy to have her running.

What I took out of this, I think, is that a lot of these boards are very sensitive and might not work out of the lab so to say - up to spec.

I'm just happy mine has hung on this long. But yeah, you can put me down for 1 at least (sent it back a few days later after posting here).

And another one bites the dust. Just returned home to find my Fileserver down. Reboot --> no effect, power on/off - no signal. Great. Haven't put the diag card in but I don't need to.It#s gonna say FF

Yay, so that's the 3rd or so dead board. This one lasted around 9 months, was running 420*9 with the X5450's undervolted to ~1,15V load Vcore. Extra fans on all the VRMs and mobo chips, CPU temps were at or below 50 while crunching, mobo below 45, rams below 55 at all times.

So yeah, we now know it's not a cooling issue