Quote Originally Posted by mav2000 View Post
Well, so is it true that the CH V is getting flack for the less than impressive benchmarks...and the power draw?...tell me thats not true......I already dropped a bit on the board and now that BD power consumption is soooo very awesome, I would like to atleast know that the board is fine.
See, I dropped $230 of my own cash on the board to get ready for BD.
Mind you I am a 16 year old with no job so no income. I do things here and there for person X and person Y and make a negligible amount of money every once in a blue moon.

Problems with my situation:
My parents agreed a month ago to cover BD, however my dad is dumb and didn't realize he needed new brakes for his car. He let them go 65k miles.
$500 spent later, I don't have money for BD. I won't have money for BD for a month or more, and to be honest with performance and power consumption looking the way they are I really don't give a right now if I have the cash for it or not.

However I already have the board and I doubt anyone will buy it. Most of the hardcore AMD guys that actually want a BD chip already have their boards. I'm not intending to sell my board for $120 just to get it out of my hands.

These BIOSes are turned toward BD, and not optimized at all for Thuban/Deneb. You actually lose 2-3% with this board compared to 890FX.

I bought the board for FX. Now I can't/don't want FX. I didn't realize FX would be such a failure in single threads.

As far as the board being fine other than being totally inefficient with Thuban/Deneb performance wise? Of course it's fine. I love my board other than the fact that my system is now slower than it was before and I am down $230.